IRVINE, Calif.--University of Hawai'i men's tennis player Simão Telo Alves earned the season's first Big West men's tennis Player of the Week award on Wednesday. It is the first weekly conference honor of his career.

Alves, a junior from Lisboa, Portugal, led the Rainbow Warriors in their season opening Hawai'i Invitational tournament against players from BYU and California. Alves won all three of his singles matches plus a doubles match in the three-day tournament. Alves swept BYU's Dominik Jakovljevic, 6-3, 6-2 to start the season. He followed by holding off BYU's Brigham Andrus in two sets which ended in a tie-breaker, 6-2, 7-6 (3). On the final day of the tourney, Alves defeated BYU's Matheus Ferreira Leite, in a three set marathon which ended in a third set, super-tie-breaker, 7-6 (6), 4-6, (10-8). In doubles, Alves won one of three matches. He and partner Karl Collins knocked off California's duo of Lucas Magnaudet and
Michael Wright, 8-4.

Alves is the first BWC Player of the Week awardee for 2022. The last time a UH men's tennis player earned the weekly honor, was last year when Andre Ilagan earned his fourth career on April 7, 2021. Alves is the 10th Rainbow Warrior to earn the BWC weekly honor, which brings the program total to 17 in 10 seasons.