Anthony Pero

Aristotelis Thanos

/ Men's Tennis

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Anthony Pero/Reed Crocker vs. Ball State

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Height:
5-10
Weight:
null
Class:
Fifth Year
Hometown:
Brooklyn, Mich.
High School:
Cabrini

2023 (Fifth Year): ITA All-Academic ... CSC Academic All-District ... Big Ten All-Academic and Big Ten Distinguished Scholar ... Totaled an 18-16 overall record in doubles play, earning the third-most doubles wins on the team ... Earned a 7-3 record at No. 1 doubles during the spring season ... Won five-straight doubles matches with Reed Crocker to start the spring season ... Won 11 overall singles matches in 2022-23 and six of his first eight matches in the fall.

2022 (Senior): Earned a 12-10 overall record in singles play in 2021-22 … Went 8-4 in duals … Earned a 2-1 mark at No. 1 singles and was 3-3 at No. 6 … Earned a pair of wins at No. 5 singles and one victory at No. 3 … Went 7-4 in doubles play with Luke Baylis, 2-3 during the regular season … With Baylis, earned a 1-1 mark at No. 2 doubles and went 1-2 at the No. 3 court ... Academic All-Big Ten.

2020-21 (Junior): Played in 12 singles matches and made two doubles appearances … Earned one singles win, in the No. 4 spot … Played in two doubles matches with Luke Baylis and John Carlin … Academic All-Big Ten.

2019-20 (Sophomore): Tied for the team-lead with 10 overall wins in singles on the season ... Competed mainly in flight two of singles, grabbing three wins ... Knocked off No. 124-ranked Kennosuke Nouchi of Western Michigan in three sets on Feb. 7 ... Began the season with two-straight wins over Cole Shouts of Toledo and Stijn Slump of Middle Tennessee ... Defeated Jorge Sedeno of Niagara on Jan. 25 in East Lansing ... Went 1-9 in doubles with John Carlin on court one.

Fall: Competed in four fall tournaments where he went 6-5 in singles ... Opened the season 3-1 at the Farnsworth Ivy-Plus Invite in Princeton on Sept. 20-22 ... Collected singles wins at both the MSU Invite and Midwest Regional in Columbus .. Finished the fall slate with four doubles wins with John Carlin and Carson Gates.

2018-19 (Freshman): Went 9-15 in singles during his first season at Michigan State ... Played in every position except for No. 1 singles ... Was 7-2 at No. 6 singles.

Prior to MSU: Attended Cologne International School in Köln, Germany for two years and played tennis under coach Primin Hänle ... Played club tennis at TTC Brauweiler ... Participant at ITF Futures Tournaments.

PERSONAL: Anthony Pero ... Son of Diane and Tony Pero ... Born December 1,1999 ... Mechanical engineering major at Michigan State.