Alexander Mandma Season 2023-24

HONORS
Mountain West All-Tournament Team (2024)
Academic All-Mountain West (2023)

2023-24 SEASON (As a Junior)
Doubles – Competed in 33 matches including all 23 dual matches… Mostly played on the top court… Played with three different partners… Finished 15-12 overall with a 6-4 tournament record and a 9-8 record in dual matches… Played with Robin Parts 29 times… Won their first two matches in the ITA Southwest Regional Championships on Oct. 20, beating UC Santa Barbara’s Mrsic/Brown (8-7 (7-4) and Loyola Marymount’s Smiej/Padro (8-5)… Finished the fall with a 8-4 win over California’s Kim/Irwanto in the Kramer Collegiate Classic on Nov. 5… Won their first seven results of the spring, highlighted by a season-opening 7-5 win over Brigham Young’s No. 35-ranked Thayne/Fuchs… Also beat UC Irvine’s Park Zamora (6-4), Idaho’s Medica/Asenov (7-6 (8-6), UC Riverside’s Roth/Lamy (6-3), San Francisco’s Branchetti/Cortimiglia (6-2), Saint Mary’s’ Ramos Membrives/Jarry (6-2) and a Pacific Coast Doubles win over Suh/USC’s Lee (6-0, 6-1) … Defeated Tulane’s Bancila/Hoejimans (7-6 (8-6) on March 16… Had their conference win over UNLV’s Maksymchuk/Hirano (6-2) on April 18… In the Mountain West Championships Semifinals, took down Utah State’s Mico Fenollar/Zarkovic 6-4… Played three times with Chikaya Sato in the San Diego Veterans Tennis Classic, winning 6-2 against Boise State’s Toroman/Rietkerk (Oct. 14) and San Diego’s Kasday/Niranjan (Oct. 15) … Played with Bora Sengul on the second court against Loyola Marymount on Feb. 29.
 
Singles – Played 29 matches including 20 of 23 dual matches… Regularly played on the sixth court… Finished second on the team with 12 dual wins (12-4) and third with 16 overall wins (16-9)… Beat Kennesaw State’s Harvey Conway (1-6, 6-3, 6-1) at the ITA All-American Championships on Oct.1… Won two of his three matches in the San Diego Veterans Tennis Classic, taking down Boise State’s Kyvan Rietkerk (7-6 (10), 1-6, 6-3) on Oct. 14 and San Diego’s Christian Kuehne (6-1, 7-6 (7-1) on Oct. 15… Defeated Rithvik Krishna, of UC Irvine (6-4, 6-3), on Oct. 19 in the ITA Southwest Regional Championships… Rattled off consecutive wins to begin the season, beating Brigham Young’s TJ Wells (2-6, 6-1, 6-2) on Jan. 11 and Sacramento State’s Rudolfs Aksenoks (6-3, 6-4) on Jan. 19… Earned six straight wins between Feb. 24 and March 17, defeating San Francisco’s Roman Lafond (6-3, 3-6, 6-4), Loyola Marymount’s Max Wuelfing (6-4, 6-2), Gonzaga’s Tom Dunlop (6-1, 6-2), Arizona State’s Daniel Phillips (6-4, 6-2), Tulane’s Rafael de Alba (6-4, 6-2), and Texas Tech’s Takeyasu Sekiguchi (1-6, 6-4, 6-2)… Trounced Nick Vroman, of Air Force, (6-0, 6-1) on April 4… After beating UNLV’s Creed Skinner (6-4, 6-1) on April 18, won two straight matches in the Mountain West Championships to make the All-Tournament Team, defeating Nevada’s Gregoire Valente (6-2, 6-1) in the Quarterfinals and Utah State’s Philipp Rein (7-5, 6-4) in the Semifinals.
 
2022-23 SEASON (As a Sophomore)
Doubles – Competed in 26 matches including all 18 dual matches with four partners… One of two Aztecs to finish with winning records in all four categories: 14-7 overall, 8-5 dual, 6-2 tournament and 4-1 Mountain West… Tied with Bora Sengul for the team lead in dual wins (8) and conference wins (4)... Played 21 times with Bora Sengul, playing on the second court… Won seven of their first eight matches including a 2-0 record at the Silverado Invitational (Chang/Kim, California, 8-2, Sept. 23; Garpered/Kuraica, San Francisco, 8-5, Sept. 24), wins over San Francisco (Garpered/Hoffmann, 7-5, Jan. 21), Loyola Marymount (Pantino/Ranaivo, 6-3, Feb. 17) and UC Santa Barbara (Brown/Masjuan, 6-4, Mar. 2), and two wins in the Pacific Coast Doubles Championships (Teh/Tinoco, UC San Diego, 5-3, 4-1, Mar. 3; Lippitt/Miller, independent, 4-1, 4-2, Mar. 3)... Opened Mountain West play with consecutive wins over Boise State’s Haddouch/Moortgat (7-6 (12-12), Apr. 2) and UNLV’s Bailey/Rsovac (6-2, Apr. 6)... Won their final three decisions against Nevada’s Coupu/Kadiri Hassani (7-5, Apr. 16), Air Force’s Waldman/Vroman (6-4, Apr. 22) and Boise State’s Moortgat/Van Herzeele (7-6 (6), Mountain West Championships Quarterfinal, Apr. 26)... Teamed up with Johannes Seeman three times, beating Cal Poly’s Keyser/Crookston 8-4 in the ITA Southwest Regional Championships on Oct. 21… Paired once with Mathieu Josserand to beat UNLV’s Dabic/Bailey 8-4 in the Silverado Invitational on Sept. 25… Also played once with Eugenio Gonzalez Fitzmaurice.

Singles – Competed in 28 matches including all 18 dual matches at the third and fourth sports in the San Diego State lineup… One of just two players on SDSU to play in every dual match… Finished with a .500 or better record overall (10-10) and in tournament (5-4) and conference (3-2) play… Tied for first with three conference wins and tied for second with five dual wins and one of four Aztecs with ten or more wins overall… Started out with a 3-0 record at the Silverado Invitational with wins against San Francisco’s Luka Kalenic (6-0, 6-2, Sept. 23), UNLV’s Aaron Bailey (7-5, 6-3, Sept. 24) and California’s Alex Chang (6-3, 6-4, Sept. 25)... Won a match at each the ITA All-American Championships (Benjamin Ambrosio, Louisiana State, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, Oct. 2) and the ITA Southwest Regional Championships (Emin Torlic, Loyola Marymount, 7-6 (5), 6-3, Oct. 20)... Earned his first dual win over San Francisco’s Johan Garpered (6-3, 6-4, Jan. 21)... Won four of his final five decisions with victories against UNLV (Milos Dabic, 6-3, 6-1, Apr. 6), Utah State (Stijn Paardekooper, 1-6, 6-2, 6-0, Apr. 8), UC San Diego (Charles Qian, 6-1, 6-0, Apr. 15) and Air Force (Nick Vroman, 6-2, 7-6 (10), Apr. 22).

2021-22 SEASON (As a Freshman)
Doubles – Competed in 29 matches… Played ten matches with Johannes Seeman and the duo picked up one win in both the North Ranch Invitational (Fellin/Hadigian, Pepperdine, Sept. 26, 8-6) and the ITA Southwest Regional Championships (Tsorotiotis/Vedri, UC Santa Barbara, Oct. 22, 8-3)… Won in their first dual match aginst UC San Diego’s Ermert/Silberman (Feb. 2, 6-3)… Played eight times with Judson Blair… Picked up a trio of wins in four conference results by beating Acosta/Fenollar of Utah State (April 10, 6-2), Abdulsalam/Samaha of New Mexico (April 16, 6-1), and Dudockin/Batalia of Nevada (April 23, 7-5)…  Played in seven dual matches with Joe Tyler in the top doubles spot… Picked up victories in their first pair of matches against Gonzaga’s Hollingworth/Trkulja (Feb. 26, 6-3) and Pomona-Pitzer’s Comadena/Kelley (Feb. 26, 6-0)… Played with Victor Castro in the Larry Easley Memorial Classic and made it to the Finals by beating Brachman/Hoffman of Arizona State (Sept. 17, 8-4), Bulus/Dabic of UNLV (Sept. 18, 9-7), and Inno/Smith of Cal Poly (Sept. 18, 8-6).

Singles – Played primarily out of the fourth spot in the Aztecs’ lineup and finished with a record above .500 in both tournament (6-5) and Mountain West play (3-2)… Beat Milos Dabic of UNLV in the Larry Easley Memorial Classic (7-6 (4), 6-4) on Sept. 17… Won his lone match in the North Ranch Invitational against Nebraska’s Victor Moreno Lozano (Sept. 26, 6-0, 4-6, 6-4)… Picked up wins in his first two matches of the ITA All-American Championships against Salvan Chhabra of Abilene Christian (Oct. 2, 6-1, 6-1) and Tomas Reche of Incarnate Word (Oct. 2, 2-6, 6-2, 10-7)… Made it to the consolation quarterfinals in the ITA Southwest Regional Championships by beating Cal Poly’s Colter Smith (Oct. 22, 7-5, 7-6 (1)) and Pepperdine’s Corrado Summaria (Oct. 23, 7-5, 3-6, 10-3)… Started off dual play with back to back wins against Jett Cole of UC San Diego (Feb. 2, 6-2, 6-2) and Nikolas Tvedt of Portland (Feb. 5, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (3))… Beat Pomona-Pitzer’s Kush Patel (Feb. 26, 6-3, 6-2) and started off Mountain West competition with a victory over Air Force’s Arjun Kersten (Mar. 13, 6-4, 6-3)… Won three of his last four matches on the season by beating Caden Moortgat of Boise State (April 21, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (5), 6-1), Satchel Benn of Nevada (April 23, 6-3, 6-3), and Datchel Benn of Nevada (April 30, 6-1, 6-2).

PRIOR TO COLLEGE
Brings a wealth of international championship experience to San Diego State ... Earned a high junior ranking of No. 296 by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) in December 2018 after climbing to fourth in the U14 rankings by Tennis Europe for three consecutive weeks in the fall of 2016 ... Was also chosen as the top player in his age group for six years by the Estonian Tennis Association ... Captured eight ITF doubles titles in junior competition between 2017-19, including six in 2018 alone, while advancing to the semifinals in singles play four times during that span ... Emerged victorious at the 2019 J3 Istanbul Koza Woz Cup in Turkey, teaming with Latvia’s Karlis Ozolins to defeat the Russian duo of Igor Trunov and Vladislav Sveridenko in a tiebreaker, 6-1, 1-6, 10-6 ... Also joined forces with Ozolins to win a pair of G4 events in Latvia in 2018, capturing the Ventspils Open with a 6-3, 6-1 triumph over Sweden’s Liam Hedlund and Erik Grevelius ... The tandem also won the Riga Open on clay, defeating future Aztec teammates Johannes Seeman and Roni Rikkonen in another tiebreaker, 3-6, 6-3, 10-6 ... Combined with Sweden’s Mans Dahlberg to capture the 2018 Vierumäki Dunlop Junior Cup in Finland while pairing with Poland’s Makarey Adamek to take home the Preveza Cup championship in Greece earlier that year ... In singles competition, he advanced to the semifinals in four ITF tournaments in 2018, including the TATS Open (Finland), Siauliai Mayor’s Cup (Lithuania), Governor Cup (Russia) and Adazi Open (Latvia) ... Was a force to be reckoned with on the Tennis Europe circuit from 2013-17, winning 14 doubles championships while taking home six singles crowns ... Also advanced to the doubles finals in five other tournaments while appearing in two more title matches for singles ... Compiled a 131-65 overall singles record in Tennis Europe events to go with a 93-44 mark in doubles, according to the organization’s website ... Notched his final singles title on the Tennis Europe tour at the 2016 Jelgava Open in Latvia, where he routed Lithuania’s Matas Vasiliauskas for the Boys 16 championship, 6-0, 6-2 ... Earned his last Tennis Europe doubles crown in 2017, teaming with Poland’s Mikolaj Lorens to defeat Italy’s Mauro De Maio and Fausto Tabacco for the Boys 16 title, 6-1, 6-2, in Torelló, Spain ... Was a five-time national champion in Estonia from 2012-16 and claimed four doubles titles in his native country in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2020 ... He was additionally a mixed doubles champion in Estonia for both the U14 (2015) and U16 (2016) age groups and was a U18 Master’s winner in 2016 as well ... Prepped at Audentes Private School in his hometown of Tallinn, Estonia.

PERSONAL
Is majoring in European Studies.