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Honors at Rice

• Conference USA Commissioner's Honor Roll  (2019, 2020,2021)
• Conference USA All-Academic Tennis Team (2019, 2021)
• Rice Honor Athlete 2020, (2021)
• ITA Scholar-Athlete (2020)
• C-USA Player of the Year (2019)
• All C-USA Singles (first team) 2019, 2020 (second team) 2018
• All C-USA Doubles (first team) 2018, 2019, 2021 (secpnd team) 2020
• C-USA Men's Tennis Athlete of the Week (3/20/19; 3/27/19; 4/17/19)
• NCAA Qualifier 2019 (Singles); 2021 (Doubles w/Conrad Russell)
• Oracle/ITA Final rankings: 
  • Doubles:  71st/Conrad Russell (2021); 48th/Eric Rutledge & 74th/Conrad Russell (2019)
  • Singles: 50th (2019)

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2020-21 (Senior)
Finished the season with a 5-9 mark in singles (all at the first line)… Posted an 8-6 mark in doubles with Conrad Russell as the duo moved into the top 65 in the final weeks of the season to earn a berth in the NCAA Doubles Championship… Downed LSU’s 90^th ranked Rafael Wagner / Ronald Hohmann for their lone win over a ranked opponent in the regular season. 

2019-20 (Junior)
Finished the dual season with a 4-4 record at the first line in singles while battling injuries early in the year…. All four singles losses came to players ranked in the final Oracle/ITA rankings, including three in the top 30 (#2 Yuya Ito, Texas; #28 Haddy Habib, Texas A&M; #30 Alistair Gray, TCU)… Qualified for the main draw of the ITA All-American… Combined with Conrad Russell to post a 5-2 mark at the first doubles line after making their debut on 2/11 vs. Texas A&M Corpus Christi… Top win was a 6-3 win at Texas over the Longhorns’ 9th ranked duo of Christian Sigsgaard and Yuya Ito to help the Owls their grab their first doubles point vs. the defending national champions in 16 years… Duo also downed Texas A&M’s first line duo of Juan Carlos Aguilar and Pierce Rollins.  Fall: Finished 3-3 in singles and 2-2 in doubles… Split a pair of matches at the Oracle Masters, defeating Andrew Ton of Navy (6-4, 6-0) before falling to #29 Gabriel Decamps of UCF (2-6, 2-6)… Reached the Round of 16 in singles at the ITA Texas Regional before withdrawing with an injury… Teamed with Eric Rutledge to reach the doubles quarterfinals at the Texas Regional… Saw his ITF singles ranking rise to a career-high of 572 thanks to reaching on semifinal and three quarterfinals in ITF World Tennis Tour events during the summer.

2018-19    (Sophomore)  
C-USA Men's Player of the Year, the first for Rice since Bruno Rosa (2010)...First team All-C-USA in singles and in doubles with both Eric Rutledge and Conrad Russell... First Rice qualifier in NCAA Men's Singles since Rosa in 2010 and dropped a 7-5, 6-3 decision to Matej Vocel.... Finished the dual season with a 17-5 record at the first line in singles, the second-most wins by an Owl at the top lineup spot since 1994… Ranked 44^th in singles as well as doubles (as of 5/1) ….  Three-time C-USA Male Tennis Athlete of the Week…  Won his last four matches against ranked opponents, including a win over then No. 4 Christian Sigsgaard of Texas and finished the regular season winning 10 of his last 11 overall… Won his last five tiebreak sets, four of them to close out wins over ranked opponents…  Duo combined to clinch six of the Owls 13 doubles points during the dual season… 4-0 against C-USA competition in singles and 3-2 in doubles, including a 7-6 win over Charlotte’s Luca Keist and Constandinos Christoforou to clinch the doubles point in the Owls opening match of the C-USA tournament.  

Fall: Finished with a 3-2 mark in singles and  teamed with Eric Rutledge to post a 4-2 doubles mark, highlighted by reaching the doubles final of the John Breaux Cajun Tennis Classic before  falling to Texas Tech’s Artem Kapshuk and Ilgiz Valiev in the final.

2018    (Freshman)  
Spring:  Joined the Owls in January and earned first team all-conference honors in doubles with Eric Rutledge as well as second team honors in singles ... Finished his first season strongly, winning six of his last singles decisions to finish 10-11, including an 8-8 mark at the second line ... Recorded the Owls only singles win over a ranked opponent when he downed #87 Ewan Moore of Tulane, 6-7(4), 6-3, 10-5 ... Clinched the Owls win over LSU with a three-set win over Gabor Csonka ... Finished 9-8 in doubles, including a 7-5 record with Rutledge (2-1 vs. C-USA teams) ... Duo clinched six of the eight doubles points the Owls captured in 2018.  

High School/Juniors
Played for Collegiate School in New York for three years... Team won the Ivy League Conference title in his junior year... Concentrated on junior tennis as a senior and rose to an ITF rank of 125 in November of 2017... Reached the semifinals in doubles at both the Eddie Herr and Orange Bowl ITF tournaments in the fall of 2017... and was ranked 30th nationally by Tennis Recruiting.net... Went 28-21 in ITF juniors singles in 2017 and 29-19 in doubles.  

Personal
Born: New York City... Father: Soumyo Sarkar... Chinyu Huang Sarkar... Graduate of Dwight Online Global... One sister

Singles	Tour	Dual	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6
2017-18	0-0	10-11	2-3	8-8
2018-19	4-3	17-5	17-5
2019-20	3-3	4-4	4-4
2020-21		5-9	5-9
2021-22		5-9	1-4	4-5
TOTAL	7-6	41-38	29-25	12-13

 

Doubles	Tour	Dual	#1	#2	#3
2017-18		9-8	8-8	1-0
2018-19	4-2	14-8	13-8		1-0
2019-20	2-2	6-3	6-3
2020-21	0-1	8-6	8-5	0-1
2021-22		9-10	9-10
TOTAL	6-5	46-35	44-34	1-1	1-0

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