FAIRFIELD, CT – Rider University men's tennis student-athletes Matteus Froberg Dahlin and Nathan Slattery both advanced to the singles quarterfinals of the MAAC Masters Tournament on Friday.

The No. 3 seed in the tournament, Froberg Dahlin enjoyed an opening-round bye before defeating Sacred Heart's Martin Macias, 6-3, 7-6 (1). Froberg Dahlin will face Fairfield's Kostas Kollias, who knocked off sixth-seeded Alexi Roy of Mount St. Mary's, in Saturday's quarterfinals.

Slattery needed a pair of victories to advance to the quarters. He coasted to a 6-1, 6-3, victory over Ludolph Wiggett of Merrimack to open play, before earning a 6-1, 1-6, 10-7, victory over fifth-seeded Elias Hoxha. Slattery will face fourth-seeded Sviatoslav Koliadynskyi of Siena in Saturday's quarterfinals.

Heath Paul Waters also competed Friday, but fell in the opening round to Siena's Bruno Varella, 6-1, 1-6, 10-2.

The 2025 MAAC Masters Tournament resumes tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. with the quarterfinals and semifinals of the singles bracket and the first round and quarterfinals of the doubles bracket. All competition for the remainder of the tournament will take place at Quinnipiac Athletic & Recreation Center in Hamden, Connecticut.

The 2025 MAAC Masters Tournament is a singles and doubles single-elimination tournament per gender, that will be held on Friday, October 3 through Sunday, October 5, 2025, at Quinnipiac Athletic & Recreation Center in Hamden, Connecticut and at Walsh Athletic Center Tennis Courts in Fairfield, Connecticut. Quinnipiac University will serve as the host of the tournament for the second straight year and Fairfield University for the first. For all information regarding the 2025 MAAC Masters Tournament, please visit maacsports.com/masters.