Adam Stavrakas

Tim Zelikovsky

/ Men's Tennis

Photo by: Lianne Garrahan

Weight:
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Class:
Sophomore
Hometown:
Athens, Greece
High School:
St. Catherine's British School

CAREER RECORDS ENTERING 2025-26 (Rank on Bucknell Career Wins Charts):
Singles: 62-14 (T-10th)
Doubles: 48-26 (T-24th)
Total: 110-40 (18th)

2024-25 (Junior): Huge junior year, culminating in First Team All-Patriot League, Academic All-Patriot League, and Patriot League Tournament MVP honors ... three-time Patriot League Player of the Week ... finished the year 35-3 in singles and 27-9 in doubles, playing primarily in the No. 2 position in both ... the 35 singles wins were second-most in team history, three shy of Nick Bybel's record ... the 27 doubles wins were four away from Evan Zimmer's team record ... finished the spring on a 24-match winning streak in singles ... went 24-0 in dual matches, including a 5-0 mark at No. 1 and 19-0 at No. 2 ... in the fall, reached the final of the Patriot League qualifier for the ITA Conference Masters, where he dropped a three-set match to teammate and PL Player of the Year Amar Tahirovic ... beat Penn State's Charl Morgan in three sets in a January dual, then followed with a 6-1, 6-4 win over Army's Alan Ton to help the Bison snap a 34-match losing streak to the Black Knights ... won his match 6-0, 6-0 against Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, the No. 1 team in Division III ... defeated Navy's Nathan Nguyen twice, the second of which came in the Patriot League Tournament final, when the Bison beat the Midshipmen for the first time in 53 all-time meetings and claimed the PL title for the first time since 1991 ... won all three PL Tournament singles matches in straight sets and conceded more than one game in only one of the six sets ... in the NCAA Tournament at Virginia, dropped the first set but came back to win the second 6-3 against Keegan Rice ... they were level at 2-2 in the third when the match was clinched ... primary doubles partner was Oscar Bain ... the dual won four matches and advanced to the quarterfinals of the Pacific Coast Doubles Championship in La Jolla in February ... the wins came against Pomona Pitzer, UCLA, Ball State, and UC Davis.

2023-24 (Sophomore): Earned Second Team All-Patriot League honors after a terrific sophomore campaign ... also earned College Sports Communicators Academic All-District honors ... finished 22-10 in singles and 20-16 in doubles ... played No. 2 singles in the spring and went 15-7 in dual matches ... was dominant in the Patriot League Tournament, winning 6-1, 6-0 against Colgate and 6-0, 6-4 against Navy ... that came on the heels of a 6-0, 6-0 win over Lafayette in the final regular-season match ... clutch three-set win over Lehigh helped Bucknell clinch a tight win and secure the No. 3 seed for the Patriot League Tournament ... that led to a Patriot League Player of the Week citation ... in doubles, teamed with Oscar Bain to make a run to the Round of 16 in the main draw at the ITA Mid-Atlantic Regional ... also played with Bain throughout the dual campaign, mostly at No. 2 before sliding up to No. 1 late in the season ... member of Patriot League Academic Honor Roll.

2022-23 (Freshman): Appeared in one tournament in the fall, going 5-1 in singles at the ITA Regional at Charlottesville, Va. ... won his first five matches, four in straight sets, before falling to Alvaro Ariza of Virginia Tech.

Personal/Before Bucknell: Born Sept. 11, 2003 in Greece … son of Elpis and Apostolos Stavrakas … has a brother, Minos-Kimon Stavrakas, and a sister, Galatea Stavraka … brother was an all-conference tennis player at Ithaca College … Greek National Championship U18 singles and doubles champion … first place at 2021 Men's Master Tournament in Kavouri, Greece and runner-up at Folothi … 2021 all-tournament singles record of 30-4 … took first place in singles at ITF J5 in Sofia, Bulgaria and ITFJ4 in Ioannina, Greece … third place with Team Greece at the Summer Cups U18 ... majoring in economics.