DENVER – University of Denver men's tennis players Daniel Sancho Arbizu and Raffaello Papajcik once again hold national singles rankings in ITA Computerized Rankings, released by the ITA on Wednesday.
 
In the first singles rankings to be released during the spring dual season, Sancho Arbizu holds the No. 38 spot in the February 5 rankings while Papajcik sits at No. 69.
 
Sancho Arbizu is undefeated at No. 1 singles for DU so far this dual season and has not dropped a set through seven matches played. All six of his completed matches have been straight-sets victories for the Denver senior. In his only abandoned match, he won the first set in a tiebreak and had yet to begin the second set.
 
Papajcik moved up to Denver's No. 2 singles slot this year after spending much of the 2024 season playing at Nos. 5 and 6. He holds a 3-3 record so far in 2025 with two wins in straight sets and a third in a decisive set against Cal Poly as part of DU's 7-0 sweep last weekend. Of his three losses, one was in 10-point match tiebreak and another was deep into a third-set tiebreak.
 
Both players were ranked in the 2024 year-end ITA rankings following their runs to the NCAA Division I Singles Championships with Sancho Arbizu ranked No. 24 and Papajcik ranked No. 43.
 
Sancho Arbizu and Papajcik are the third pair of Denver singles players in the program's Division I history to appear in ITA national singles rankings in the same week and the first since Henry Craig and Diogo Rocha spent seven consecutive weeks together in the rankings in 2015.
 
The University of Denver men's tennis team begins a four-match road trip on Friday, February 7, with a trip to Oregon followed by a neutral-site match on Saturday, February 8, against UTSA.
 
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