Second Team All-SEC (2024)
SEC All-Freshman (2023)
NCAA Doubles Championship Selection (2024-25)
ITA Southern Regional Doubles Champion (2024)
SEC Freshman of the Week (3/29/23)
ITA Scholar Athlete (2023)
First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll (2023)
As a Junior
Spring 2025: Recorded 25-15 overall singles record, 18-8 record in dual matches and 9-4 SEC record ... Played at the No. 2 and No. 3 singles positions ... Went 27-11 in doubles overall and 15-7 in dual matches primarily at the No. 1 position ... Went 13-6 in dual matches with partner Will Nolan exclusively at the No. 1 position ... Earned four ranked singles wins including over No. 74 Jaden Weekes of Kentucky ... Earned singles and doubles victory in team's upset over No. 18 Oklahoma ... Clinched team wins over Vanderbilt, Ole Miss, Arkansas, Tulane and Belmont in the NCAA Championship opening round
Fall 2024: Earned bid to NCAA Doubles Championship by winning ITA Southern Regional Championship with partner Will Nolan ... Posted 7-7 singles record and 12-4 doubles record ... Recorded highest ranked doubles win over No. 1 Petar Jovanovic and Benito Sanchez Martinez of Mississippi State in ITA Southern Regional finals with Nolan ... Posted six ranked doubles wins with Nolan including No. 18 Andrii Zimnokh and Zach Foster of Alabama ... Earned spot in the doubles main draw at the ITA All-American Championship from prequalifying round with Nolan ... Finished fall season with career-high doubles ranking of No. 15 with Nolan
As a Sophomore
Spring 2024: Named second team All-SEC ... Led team with a 28-10 overall singles record, 22-4 in dual matches and 10-1 in SEC matches … Recorded a 16-16 overall doubles record, 12-12 in dual matches and 3-7 in SEC matches ... played primarily at No. 2 doubles … Provided key singles victories in the Tigers' top-25 wins over No. 25 Florida, No. 16 South Carolina and No. 11 Texas A&M ... Clinched the team victory over LSU by defeating Rudy Ceccon 7-5, 7-5
Fall 2023: Recorded a 6-6 singles record and 4-4 doubles record ... Reached singles main draw round of 16 at the ITA Southern Regional Championships ... Earned ranked singles victory over No. 106 Anuj Watane of North Carolina 6-4, 6-2 ... Won respective doubles flight at the Wake Forest Invitational alongside partner Will Nolan
As a Freshman
Spring 2023: Joined team in January of 2023 ... Named to SEC All-Freshman team ... Received SEC Freshman of the Week honors on March 29 ... Posted a 14-7 overall singles record playing primarily at No. 6 ... Held a team-best 8-3 singles record against conference opponents ... Went 14-9 in doubles, mostly playing at No. 2 alongside partner Jan Galka
Prior to Auburn:
Highest Juniors national ranking of #3 in England ... Winner of multiple junior National Tour events in England ... U16 National Juniors Singles Champion in 2019 ... Winner of multiple junior doubles ITF titles ... Qualified for Junior Wimbledon in 2021
Personal:
Parents are Joanne and Chris Blaydes ... Brother, Freddy, also plays college tennis at the University of Georgia ... hometown is Windermere, England
Blaydes' Career Stats | |||||||||||||||
SINGLES | DOUBLES | ||||||||||||||
Year | Overall | Dual | SEC | No. 1 | No. 2 | No. 3 | No. 4 | No. 5 | No. 6 | Overall | Dual | SEC | No. 1 | No. 2 | No. 3 |
2022-23 | 14-7 | 14-7 | 8-3 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2-1 | 12-6 | 14-9 | 14-9 | 5-4 | 1-0 | 12-9 | 1-0 |
2023-24 | 28-10 | 22-4 | 10-1 | -- | 1-0 | 5-1 | 8-1 | 6-2 | 2-0 | 16-16 | 12-12 | 3-7 | 1-2 | 7-7 | 4-3 |
2024-25 | 25-15 | 18-8 | 9-4 | -- | 5-2 | 13-6 | -- | -- | -- | 27-11 | 15-7 | 5-5 | 13-6 | 2-1 | -- |
Career | 67-32 | 54-19 | 27-7 | -- | 6-2 | 18-7 | 8-1 | 8-3 | 14-6 | 57-36 | 41-28 | 13-16 | 15-8 | 21-17 | 5-3 |