Pepperdine University Athletics

HONORS AND AWARDS
ITA All-American (Singles) — 2024
All-WCC Singles First Team — 2025
All-WCC Singles Honorable Mention — 2023
All-WCC Second Team Doubles — 2023, 2025
ITA West Sectionals Singles Champion — 2024
2024 Pacific Coast Men's Doubles Champion
WCC Singles Player of the Week — 2/27/24, 1/21/25
WCC Doubles Team of the Week — 3/11/25
CSC Academic All-District — 2025
ITA Scholar-Athlete — 2024
WCC Commissioner's Honor Roll (Silver) — 2024
WCC Commissioner's Honor Roll (Bronze) — 2023

BY THE NUMBERS
Career-high singles ranking: #36 (12/3/24)
Career-high doubles ranking: #43 (11/15/23)
Longest singles win streak: 8 (4/14/23-5/6/23)
Longest doubles win streak: 7 (with Edward Winter, 9/22-10/20/23)

PEPPERDINE 2024-25: Became an ITA All-American after reaching the NCAA Singles Round of 16 in fall 2024 ... Was an All-WCC First Team selection in singles and an All-WCC Second Team selection in doubles ... Had a 15-14 overall record ... Earned his spot in the NCAA Tournament by beating Nevada's Youssef Kadiri 6-3, 6-1 to win the ITA West Sectionals Singles Title at home ... Won four matches in the ITA West Sectionals Singles Tournament, including a three-set win over Arizona's Zoran Ludoski in the round of 16 and a straight-set win over UCLA's Emon van Loben Sels in the quarterfinals ... Made the WCC All-Academic Team.

PEPPERDINE 2023-24: Posted a 10-8 record in singles and a 16-10 record in doubles ... Played mostly at the fourth and fifth singles positions while playing at the top two spots in the doubles lineup primarily with Chris Papa ... With Papa, clinched the doubles point in the NCAA Tournament with a 6-1 win over Tyler Stice and William Nolan of Auburn (5/4) ... Also helped the Waves in the NCAA Tournament with a 6-4, 2-6, 6-2 victory over Raul Dobal at the fourth position ... Clinched both of Pepperdine's doubles points in the WCC Championships playing at the second position with Papa ... Clinched the doubles point with a 6-4 win over Oliver Tarvet and Stian Klaassen in the WCC Championships (4/28) ... In their first match together in over a month, clinched the doubles point against Pacific's Terence Das and Tommy Czaplinski in the WCC semifinals (4/27) ... With Papa, clinched the doubles point in Pepperdine's win at USC with a 7-6 (7) victory over Peter Makk and Lodewijk Weststrate (3/8) ... Earned his first career WCC Singles Player of the Week award after clinching Pepperdine's 4-3 win at #28 Vanderbilt ... Won his first singles match over a ranked opponent at the Hagedorn Hidden Dual with a 6-2, 2-6, 7-6 (2) victory over #72 Oskar Brostrum Poulsen of Baylor ... Earned a berth to the ITA National Fall Championships in doubles and was the ITA Southwest Regional runner-up with Edward Winter ... Reached the quarterfinals of the ITA National Fall Championships before falling to the eventual runner-ups Codie and Connor Van Schalkwyk of Old Dominion ... Won his first seven doubles matches of the fall season with Winter ... Also won the Pacific Coast Men's Doubles Championship title with Chris Papa.

PEPPERDINE 2022-23: Had a promising freshman season in which he was an All-WCC Honorable Mention selection in singles and an All-WCC Second-Team selection in doubles ... Posted a 24-9 overall record in singles and led the team with 24 wins ... Also went 22-10 in doubles play while playing primarily with Eero Vasa ... In his collegiate dual singles debut, beat Aadarsh Tripathi of UCLA 4-6, 6-4, 6-1, then went on to win his first three dual singles matches ... Had a 7-1 singles record against West Coast Conference competition ... Closed the regular-season by winning nine of his last 10 matches ... Clinched the match for Pepperdine in the WCC Championship match with a 6-2, 6-4 win over San Diego's Marvin Schaber ... Helped Pepperdine clinch the doubles point in the first round of the NCAA Tournament with a 6-2 win over UTSA's Sebastian Rodriguez and Tomas Pinho ... In his first NCAA Tournament singles match, defeated UTSA's Danijal Muminovic 6-4, 6-2 ... Earned a spot on the WCC Commissioner's Honor Roll.

JUNIORS: Career high ranking of #67 in ITF juniors worldwide … ATP high ranking of 1482 … Member of the German national team … Ranked second in all of Germany for his age group … Holds a top-50 ranking among all German men.
 
PERSONAL: Majoring in pre-business administration ... Son of Ulrike Homberg and Rolf Wilhelm Homberg … Has one brother, Moritz.
 
FAVORITES: Favorite professional athlete is Dominic Thiem .… Favorite book is the Harry Potter series … Favorite movie is also the Harry Potter series … Favorite TV show is Outer Banks … Favorite food is spaghetti … Favorite sport besides tennis is golf.
 
CHOSE PEPPERDINE BECAUSE: “When I visited last November, everything looked so familiar and I trusted the tennis coaches and the program.”