Thai-Son Kwiatkowski

Coming out of high school, he was the nation's top recruit.^[3] Kwiatkowski was on three national championship teams during his time at Virginia. As a sophomore, he tied the school's single season wins record, going 44-8 during the season. On September 11, 2016, Kwiatkowski won the American Collegiate Invitational, which earned him a wild card into the qualifying tournament for the 2017 US Open.^[4] After his senior season, he was named first-team all-ACC.^[5] Kwiatkowski won the singles title at the 2017 NCAA Men's Singles Championship, defeating William Blumberg in the final.^[6]

Other notable college achievements:^[7]

• 2018 NCAA Top 10 Award winner
• ACC Men's Tennis Scholar-Athlete of the Year (second straight year)
• Was also named the Virginia Athletic Department's Scholar Athlete of the Year for the second straight year
• Singles All-American, his third time earning the honor
• All-ACC First Team, his fourth all-conference honor but his first time being voted to the first team
• ITA Atlantic Region Senior Player of the Year
• NCAA All-Tournament Team at No. 2 Doubles
• ITA Indoors All-Tournament Team (No. 2 Singles and No. 2 Doubles)
• ITA Scholar-Athlete
• Repeated as the VaSID State Player of the Year
• Four-time member of the All-ACC Academic Team
• ACC Player of the Week (April 18)

After winning the NCAA singles championship, Kwiatkowski was awarded a wildcard into the main draw of the 2017 US Open.^[1] He faced the 23rd seed Mischa Zverev in the first round, losing in five sets.^[8][9]

He won his maiden Challenger title in Newport Beach in 2020.^[10]He was also awarded a wildcard into the main draw of the 2020 US Open,^[11] where he lost in the first round to Kwon Soon-woo in four sets.

Thai-Son's parents are Wendi Le and Tim Kwiatkowski. He has a younger brother named Liem-Son. His parents are both University of Virginia alumni. Kwiatkowski is of Vietnamese and Polish descent.^[12] Kwiatkowski majored in commerce.^[3]

On 23 February 2021, Thai-Son Kwiatkowski successfully obtained Vietnamese citizenship in order to play for Vietnam's national tennis team in upcoming tournaments.^[13] He immediately became the most accomplished tennis player to represent Vietnam after he obtained the citizenship and planned to represent the country in international competition.^[14] He is playing for Hung Thinh – Ho Chi Minh City team since October 2019.^[15]

Thai-Son is not the first foreign-born tennis player to be recruited by a Vietnamese domestic tennis team. Daniel Nguyen a Vietnamese American tennis player is playing for the Hai Dang - Tay Ninh team and obtained Vietnamese citizenship in 2019.^[16][17]

Singles: 9 (8 titles, 1 runner-up)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Dec 2016	Puerto Rico F1, Mayagüez	Futures	Hard	Alexios Halebian	6–1, 6–4
Win	2–0	Oct 2017	USA F33, Houston	Futures	Hard	Sebastian Korda	6–2, 6–2
Win	3–0	May 2018	Singapore F1, Singapore	Futures	Hard	Soichiro Moritani	6–2, 6–2
Win	4–0	Jun 2018	Canada F3, Calgary	Futures	Hard	Paul Oosterbaan	6–4, 6–3
Win	5–0	Feb 2020	Newport Beach, USA	Challenger	Hard	Daniel Elahi Galán	6–4, 6–1
Win	6–0	Apr 2023	M15 Sunrise, USA	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Tristan McCormick	6–4, 7–6(7–5)
Loss	6–1	Oct 2023	M15 Las Vegas, USA	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Bernard Tomic	1–6, 6–4, 2–6
Win	7–1	Mar 2024	M25 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Nick Hardt	6–4, 6–4
Win	8–1	Mar 2024	M25 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Andrés Andrade	6–4, 7–6(7–3)

Doubles: 14 (5 titles, 9 runner-ups)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Jun 2016	USA F17, Charlottesville	Futures	Hard	Mac Styslinger	Greg Jones José Statham	6–4, 6–1
Win	2–0	Jun 2016	USA F18, Winston-Salem	Futures	Hard	Jared Hiltzik	Austin Smith Dennis Uspensky	6–4, 6–2
Loss	2–1	Aug 2016	Finland F1, Kaarina	Futures	Clay	José Statham	Herkko Pöllänen Mikael Torpegaard	7–6(7–4), 3–6, [6–10]
Loss	2–2	Dec 2016	Puerto Rico F1, Mayagüez	Futures	Hard	Quinton Vega	Nebojša Perić Ilija Vučić	1–6, 3–6
Win	3–2	Mar 2017	France F5, Toulouse	Futures	Hard (i)	Fabien Reboul	Niels Desein Yannick Jankovits	6–3, 7–6(7–4)
Loss	3–3	Jun 2017	USA F20, Rochester	Futures	Clay	Luca Corinteli	Hugo Di Feo Mikael Torpegaard	6–7(5–7), 4–6
Loss	3–4	Oct 2017	USA F33, Houston	Futures	Hard	Austin Krajicek	Aron Hiltzik Dennis Nevolo	6–7(3–7), 3–6
Loss	3–5	Dec 2017	Mexico F7, Metepec	Futures	Hard	John Paul Fruttero	Gonzalo Escobar Manuel Sánchez	3–6, 3–6
Win	4–5	Jul 2018	Canada F4, Kelowna	Futures	Hard	Julian Bradley	Charlie Emhardt Samuel Shropshire	7–6(7–5), 7–5
Loss	4–6	Apr 2019	Tallahassee, USA	Challenger	Clay	Noah Rubin	Roberto Maytín Fernando Romboli	2–6, 6–4, [7–10]
Loss	4–7	Jul 2019	Winnetka, USA	Challenger	Hard	Christopher Eubanks	JC Aragone Bradley Klahn	5–7, 4–6
Win	5–7	Mar 2020	Indian Wells, USA	Challenger	Hard	Denis Kudla	Sebastian Korda Mitchell Krueger	6–3, 2–6, [10–6]
Loss	5–8	Oct 2023	Charlottesville, USA	Challenger	Hard (i)	Denis Kudla	John-Patrick Smith Sem Verbeek	6–3, 3–6, [5–10]
Loss	5–9	Jan 2024	Indian Wells, USA	Challenger	Hard	Alex Lawson	Ryan Seggerman Patrik Trhac	2–6, 6–7(3–7)

• Thai-Son Kwiatkowski at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Thai-Son Kwiatkowski at the International Tennis Federation
• Virginia Cavaliers bio