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Dylan Dietrich, the 2026 ACC Player of the Year, rallied from a third-set deficit to put away the final match of the day, lifting Virginia to the 2026 national title with a 4-3 win over second-ranked Texas on Sunday.
It was the second comeback win of the weekend for UVA (28-4), the #4 national seed, which had to rally to win the final three matches in Saturday’s semifinal win over top-ranked Wake Forest.
In Sunday’s national title matchup, Texas scored the doubles point, taking all three head-to-head matchups.
Keegan Rice, Jangjun Kim and Stiles Brockett posted straight-set wins in their singles matches to get the ‘Hoos to three points on the day.
Texas got wins for Lucas Marionneau (over Mans Dahlberg) and Oliver Ojakaar (over Andres Santamarta) to get the match to square.
Dietrich lost the first set in his match with Sebastian Gorzny by tiebreaker, then forced a third set with a 6-4 second-set win.
In the deciding set, Gorzny got an early break to go up 3-1, before Dietrich rallied to win four straight, then after dropping a game to Gorzny on serve, served the match out, getting the final point on a service winner when Gorzny returned a second serve into the net.