Pepperdine University Athletics

HONORS & AWARDS:
All-WCC First Team Singles — 2024, 2025
All-WCC First Team Doubles — 2025
All-WCC Second Team Doubles — 2024
2024 ITA Southwest Region Rookie of the Year
2024 WCC Freshman of the Year
WCC Singles Player of the Week — 3/5/24, 4/23/24, 3/18/25
WCC Doubles Team of the Week — 2/27/24, 3/25/24
WCC All-Academic Honorable Mention — 2025
WCC Commissioner's Honor Roll (Bronze) — 2024
Preseason ITA Top-10 Freshman — 2024

BY THE NUMBERS:
Career-high singles ranking: 19 (4/8/25)
Career-high doubles ranking: 43 (11/15/23 with Maxi Homberg)
Longest singles win streak: 6 (2/27/25 - present)
Longest doubles win streak: 8 (4/6-5/3/24 with Pietro Fellin)

PEPPERDINE 2024-25: Had his best season to date by earning All-WCC First Team honors in singles and doubles ... Went 14-8 in singles and 7-5 in doubles during dual matches ... Played at the top singles and doubles positions all year long ... His 14 wins ranked second on the team and his 12 matches against ranked opponents led the team ... Was the only player to beat reigning 2024 NCAA Singles Champion Michael Zheng of Columbia in straight sets ... Achieved his career-high singles ranking of 19th on April 8 after winning eight consecutive matches ... Earned the WCC Singles Player of the Week award after going 2-0 at the UTR Sports Collegiate Championships at the BNP Paribas Open ... Picked up his first top-50 win of the season with a three-set victory over No. 49 Rudy Quan to help Pepperdine beat UCLA ... In doubles, paired up with his younger brother Hugh Winter to go 5-5 ... Won the WCC Doubles Team of the Week award after clinching the doubles point against Columbia's 35th-ranked team in the nation ... Earned WCC All-Academic Honorable Mention honors.

PEPPERDINE 2023-24: Met lofty preseason expectations to become the 2024 ITA Southwest Region Rookie of the Year, 2024 WCC Freshman of the Year, a WCC First Team Singles selection and a WCC Second Team Doubles honoree in his true freshman season ... Became the second player under head coach Adam Schaechterle to earn an NCAA Singles Championship berth ... Was a top-60 singles player all season and ended the year ranked #55 in the ITA polls ... Held down the top spot in Pepperdine's singles lineup as a true freshman and posted an 18-16 overall record — mostly against nationally ranked singles players ... Won his first collegiate singles match 6-4, 6-4 over #31 Gavin Young of Michigan (9/22) ... Picked up his first top-15 win with a 6-0, 6-4 victory over #12 Ronnie Hohmann III of Michigan State (1/29) ... Beat eventual All-American Pablo Masjuan of UC Santa Barbara 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 for his second top-20 win, which earned him his first WCC Singles Player of the Week award ... Picked up another ranked win with a 7-5, 6-1 victory over #81 Christian Lerby of Santa Clara (4/7) ... Clinched Pepperdine's 4-3 win over Pacific in the regular-season finale with a 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-1 victory over Peter Alam, which gave him WCC Singles Player of the Week honors (4/23) ... In doubles, was the ITA Southwest Regional doubles runner-up with Maxi Homberg in the fall ... Fell to the eventual ITA National Fall Championship doubles runners-up Codie and Connor Van Schalkwyk of Old Dominion ... With Pietro Fellin in the spring, won their last eight doubles matches while playing at the third position ... Beat #57 Raphael Perot and Tiago Pires of #11 Texas A&M 6-3 (2/25) ...Earned his first-career WCC Doubles Team of the Week award after going 2-0 against teams from Texas A&M and Vanderbilt (2/27) ... Clinched the doubles point in the NCAA Tournament with a 6-3 win over Auburn's Billy Blaydes and Nicholas Heng (5/4).

NATIONAL TEAM: Earned a spot on Australia's 2020 Junior Davis Cup Team ... Selected to the Australian U14 team in 2018 ... Helped Australia finish ninth in the world in the 2018 World Junior Teams Finals.

JUNIORS: Has a career high ATP singles ranking of 663 and a career high ATP doubles ranking of 340 ... Defeated Gilles Simon, a two-time Grand Slam quarterfinalist and the former No. 6 player in the world, 6-3, 1-6, 6-3 in the first round of the 2022 Australian Open qualifying ... Won his first pro singles title at the 2022 M25 Traralgon ... In doubles, won the 2023 M15 Tacarigua, the M25 Calabasas Men's Pro Tennis Championship and the 2022 M15 Fighting Illini Open in Champaign, Ill.

CLUB: Played for the Glenlea Tennis Club, where he helped the team win a state league championship title.

HIGH SCHOOL: Graduated from Immanuel College, located in Novar Gardens, Adelaide, South Australia, in 2022 ... Went undefeated in five years of prep school varsity tennis. 

PERSONAL: Son of Rebecca and Shane Winter ... Has one sibling, Hugh ... Plans on majoring in finance or economics ... Career goal is to become a professional tennis player ... Chose Pepperdine because "I believe it is the best place for me to continue my goals to become a professional tennis player, whilst furthering my education. I also have immense trust in the coaching staff and the relationships they build with their players whilst developing them for professional tennis. I was also inspired by the faculty and athletic staff on my official visit."

FAVORITES: Enjoys playing and watching other sports and reading outside of tennis ... Favorites include Alex de Minaur (pro tennis player), Dak Prescott and Brooks Koepka (pro athletes), the Adelaide Crows and Dallas Cowboys (pro sports teams), The Big Short (book), Kingsman: The Secret Service (movie), Suits (TV show), Will Smith (musical artist), and the NFL and AFL (sports other than tennis).