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Alberto Colas
- Height:
- 6-0
- Weight:
- 165
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Hometown:
- Zaragoza, Spain
- Prev School:
- Mississippi State
- Birthday:
- 5/19/20000
Career Totals
| Year | Overall Singles | Dual Singles | Overall Doubles | Dual Doubles |
| 2022-23 | 8-9 | 8-9 | 7-5 | 7-5 |
| 2023-24 | 13-5 | 13-5 | 12-6 | 12-6 |
| Total | 21-14 | 21-14 | 19-11 | 19-11 |
At FAU
Super Senior (2023-24)
- Did not play collegiate fall tournaments
- Opened the 2024 dual match season better than where he left off and picking up victories in court two doubles and court one singles over Georgia Southern, improving his winning streak to four
- Had a similar result with a doubles win and a court one singles win versus Louisiana
- Improved his streak to six with a court one shutout over Stetson and was a winner on doubles court two to open the season 3-0, 3-0
- Worked with Juan Martin Jalif to earn a 6-4 doubles win at William & Mary, but suffered his first loss on the year (singles or doubles) surrendering court one 6-3, 7-5
- Handed his first doubles loss of 2024, but was victorious and helped the Owls win versus Pennsylvania 7-6 (8-6), 7-6 (7-2)
- Neither match at No. 3 Virginia was not completed
- Worked with a new partner in doubles play which proved to be a winning combination with a 6-1 win at FGCU, the then captured court #1 6-3, 6-4
- Forced a tiebreaker in doubles play at 7-6 but saw Charlotte take the match, then played another tiebreaker in the first set versus Charlotte but ultimately fell 7-5 (7-1), 6-1
- Both matches at UCF ended before completion
- Did not finish doubles play at South Alabama, but contributed to the 4-0 win with a 6-4, 6-2 singles win
- Moved to court #1 doubles where he and Juan Martin Jalif won 6-3 and the then captured his singles match 6-2, 6-2
- He and Juan Martin Jalif blanked UTSA's #29 ranked doubles team, his singles match reached the third set and ended with the match already clinched
- Worked with Juan Martin Jalif to help the Owls secure a close doubles point and then captured his court #1 singles match 66-2, 6-1
- Was defeated by Oregon in both singles and doubles action
- Singles match versus UCSB was not completed and he fell in doubles play by a 6-3 score
- Captured court #2 doubles, but fell in ETSU singles play
- Was a straight-set winner, 7-6 (7-4), 6-4, versus Liberty and his doubles match was not completed
- Won his singles match in straight sets and his court #1 doubles match by a 7-5 score to contribute to the Owls win over Brown
- Breezed to a 6-1 doubles win on court #1 and then won his singles match over DePaul by a 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 score
- Began the three-match regular-season ending road swing with a loss in doubles and his singles match nto completed at 6-1, 6-7(7-5)
- Captured a three-set battle verus Delaware's court #1, but fell in doubles play
- Up 6-5 when doubles match was called and then fell in straight set to VCU, ranked No. 41 as a team
- Won singles court #1 over Charlotte at the AAC Championships by a 6-3, 6-3 score, while his singles match was unfinished
- Earned AAC All-Conference honors and is the first Owl to do so
- Joined the Owls in the fall of 2022
- Teamed with Alvaro Fernandez Horta; but the duo fell on court three to UC Santa Barbara before he took a three-set victory also on court three
- Moved to 2-0 on the year with a straight set singles victory over Rice, helping FAU take the 4-3 conference win, but fell in doubles play
- Doubles match had not concluded before FAU secured its first doubles point of 2023 and secured a straight-set win over USF contributing to the 4-0 victory
- He and Filip Krolo captured their doubles match, but he fell to FSU on court two to FSU
- At the 2023 ITA Kickoff Weekend event, host by Texas, he worked with Filip Krolo in doubles play, falling 6-3 and then fell in straight set's to Arizona's player, ranked No. 117 nationally
- In the same event versus Cal, he provided the Owls' lone point with a straight-set win, but his doubles match was not completed
- He and Hunter Robbins captured their Stetson doubles match 6-1 on court two, before dropping court four singles
- On Supper Bowl Sunday, he and Hunter Robbins fell in doubles pla and his match versus UM's 51st ranked player was nearing an FAU victory 6-4, 5-3 when called because the match had been clinched
- Road swing to Clemson and Vanderbilt proved tough going 0-3 in combined doubles and singles play
- Doubles play versus UTSA was unfinished and he fell in three sets on court two
- Playing alongside Alvaro Fernandez Horta for a 6-1 win over Wichita State and fell in three sets on singles court two
- Did not play versus UCF
- Captured court one 6-2, 6-1 versus UNC Wilmington and his Kennesaw match was unfinished
- Worked with Hunter Robbins to capture court three double versus South Alabama and then he captured No. 1 singles 6-0, 6-2
- He and Joao Graca defeated Georgia State 6-3 and he then fell on court one in singles play
- Worked on doubles court three to help the Owls secure a win and did the same on singles court two
- Breezed through the 2023 C-USA Championship quarterfinals with a 6-2 doubles victory over Charlotte, and working with Hunter Robbins, and then captured court one 6-1, 6-3
- He and Robbins were trailing 5-4 when the doubles point was decided in UTSA's favor, he then won his singles court one semifinal contest 6-3, 6-0
- Ended his singles season on a three-match winning streak, all on court one and was on a winning streak at season's end with two of his three doubles partners
Career
Singles Record: 46-35 // 30-21 dual // 12-13 SEC
Doubles Record: 33-41 // 22-20 dual // 16-13 SEC
Highest Singles Ranking: 92nd (9/7/21)
Highest Doubles Ranking: 47th (1/13/21)
Awards/Honors
SEC Freshman of the Week (3/11/20)
SEC Co-Newcomer of the Week (2/24/21)
Singles Record: 14-13 // 9-8 dual // 3-8 SEC
Doubles Record: 11-18 // 7-11 dual // 3-9 SEC
Highest National Singles Ranking: 92nd (9/7/21)
- Recorded four fall doubles wins with partner Carles Hernandez
- Downed Michigan’s duo of Nick Beaty/ Ryan Fu (6-4) at the MSU Bulldog Invitational
- Recorded a 6-3 win over Liberty’s pair of Rafael Marques Da Silva/ Josh Wilson
- The duo recorded a couple of wins at the ITA Southern Regional Championship against Southern Miss’ tandem (8-3), as well as Jacksonville State’s duo (8-3)
- In fall singles, beat Michigan’s Patorn Hanchalkul (6-1, 7-5) at the MSU Bulldog Invitational
- Recorded two more wins over Spenser Whitaker of Clemson (6-2, 6-7, 6-1), and Patrick Fletchall of Indiana (6-7(5), 6-3, 7-6(0)) at the Clemson Invite
- Beat Jacob Cadonau from Ole Miss with a score of 6-0, 6-2 at the Georgia Tech Invite
- In the Spring, posted a 9-8 dual match record playing two at No. 4 (-1-1), eight at No. 5 (5-3) and seven at No. 6 (3-4)
- Doubles play, saw Colas record a 7-11 mark
- Concluded the SEC season with a 5-6 mark and a doubles record of 4-7
Singles Record: 20-14 // 14-10 dual // 4-7 SEC
Doubles Record: 10-14 // 7-7 dual // 2-3 SEC
Highest Singles Ranking: 121st (5/17/21)
Highest Doubles Ranking: 47th (2/5/21)
Awards/Honors
SEC Co-Newcomer of the Week (2/24/21)
- Fall doubles, collected three wins during fall season with partner Gregor Ramskogler
- Downed Arkansas’s duo 8-0 in the LSU Invitational
- Knocked-off Tennessee’s tandem 9-8(2) during the Bulldog Showdown
- Recorded another win against Middle Tennessee State’s duo with a score of 7-5 at the Volunteer Showdown
- In fall singles, amassed a 6-4 record during the semester
- Beat Arkansas’s Melvin Manual 6-2, 6-7(4), 6-3 in the opening round of the Purple Draw at the LSU Invitational
- Downed LSU’s Ben Koch 6-2, 6-4
- Went 2-1 overall at the Bulldog Challenge, including a 6-1, 6-2 win over LSU’s Boris Kozlov, and a 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 win over Alabama’s Zhe Zhou
- Also recorded two wins at the Volunteer Showdown when downing Middle Tennessee’s Pavel Motl 6-1, 7-6(6) and South Carolina’s Raphael Lambling 6-2, 6-4
- Ended the fall with back-to-back wins.
- He split the majority of his spring playing time between the No. 3-4 position
- Bumped up to the No.2 spot on two occasions, winning both
- In doubles, played with Carles Hernandez (1-0), Giovanni Oradini (2-5), and Gregor Ramskogler (4-2) during the season
- Clinched two doubles points with Ramskogler
- In his debut at the No. 1 position in doubles, secured a 6-1 win over Jackson State’s duo of Richy Gamo/ Francisco Vargas with partner Oradini
- In singles, started the dual-match season on a nine-match winning streak
- This extended his dual-match winning streak, carried over from spring 2020 to a career-best 12 wins
- The streak includes three dual-match clinching wins over Tulane (7-5, 7-5 on Jan. 31), Jackson State (6-2, 6-0 on Feb. 7), and South Alabama (3-6, 6-2, 6-1 on Feb. 13)
- Collected four SEC dual-match victories with wins over LSU’s Tom Pisane, Alabama’s Gabriel Diaz Freire, Auburn’s Jan Galka, and Vanderbilt’s Marcus Ferriera
- Entered the NCAA Team Championships with a season-best singles ranking of No. 121.
Singles Record: 7-3 // 7-3 dual // 3-0 SEC
Doubles Record: 8-2 // 8-2 dual // 1-1 SEC
Highest Doubles Ranking: 75th (3/3/20)
Awards/Honors
SEC Freshman of the Week (3/11/20)
- Did not compete in the Fall
- Joined the team at the beginning of the season
- Opened the season at the No. 3 position but primarily played at the No. 5 position
- In doubles, spent most of the season at the No. 3 position with Gregor Ramskogler (8-2)
- Clinched three doubles points for the Bulldogs
- Went on a five-match winning-streak in doubles, which included his first SEC doubles dual-match victory over Arkansas’s duo of Josh Dominguez Alonso/ Melvin Manual
- In singles, amassed a dual-match record of 7-3
- Collected his first ranked victory with a 6-2, 6-0 win over Oklahoma’s 116th-ranked Jochen Bertsch during the ITA Kick-Off weekend
- Clinched the contest against Miami for the Bulldogs with a 6-0, 1-6, 6-3 win over Franco Ribero
- Went on a three-match winning streak, including a clincher against Arkansas’s Melvin Manual, before the season got canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Native of Zaragoza, Spain
- Born on May 19, 2000.
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