University of Nevada Athletics

2022 Mountain West Regular Season Champion
2022 Mountain West Tournament Champion
NCAA Tournament First Round (2022)
2022 Mountain West Coach of the Year

Sylvain Malroux embarks on his 11th season as the Head Coach of the Nevada Men's Tennis program in 2025-26, and his 16th season in Reno overall.

The Wolf Pack went 13-10 and reached the Mountain West semifinal under Malroux's watch in 2024-25. With the campaign being the first in which the NCAA hosted its singles and doubles championships in the fall, Malroux presided over history being made as senior Youssef Kadiri became the first Wolf Pack player to qualify for the NCAA Singles Championship.

Kadiri earned the first All-Mountain West Singles nod of his career, and paired with Lucas Hammond to be named to the conference's doubles list. Under Malroux's tutelage, the Kadiri-Hammond team went 22-6 on the year, while Kadiri went 27-11 in singles action, all at the No. 1 spot.

Malroux's 2023-24 Pack squad faced huge competition throughout the season, sending four players to the ITA All-American Championships, appearing in the ITA Kick-off, and facing seven ranked opponents. The Wolf Pack earned key wins at home over a pestering San Diego State squad and Silver State rivals UNLV, winning both duals, 4-2 and 4-3, respectively. Malroux coached Matheo Coupu to his third All-Mountain West Singles Team nod. Coupu and his partner Kadiri received their first All-Mountain West doubles honors of their careers, finishing the season 10-7, with a 3-2 record in conference and a 9-3 record in top-flight play.

In the 2022-23 season, the Wolf Pack finished 11-8, including a 4-2 conference record. Despite a tough non-conference schedule, including three ranked opponents, Malroux's squad managed a winning record with key wins over New Mexico State, 4-0, and 4-0 victory over Boise State in the regular season. Nevada made the semifinal of the Mountain West tournament, but ultimately lost 4-3 to Boise State.

Nevada went 19-8 overall, and swept the Mountain West regular season and tournament titles, going 5-1 in conference play before claiming the tournament crown, and the automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament, with a 4-3 win over New Mexico. At the NCAA Tournament, the Pack battled gamely at No. 13 USC, coming within two points of picking up the doubles point, and a 1-0 advantage, before falling.

Under Malroux's tutelage, the Pack had four players earn All-Mountain West honors in 2022. Singles players Coupu and Juan Batalla, at No. 1 and No. 2 in the Pack lineup, respectively, were each named to the All-Mountain West Team in singles, while the tandem of Satchel Benn and Loris Zisswiller earned All-Mountain West recognition in doubles.

This followed two COVID-19-affected seasons (2019-21) in which the Pack went a combined 14-17, with the 2019-20 campaign being called off in March 2020.

The 2018-19 team went 11-11 and had two members of the squad earn All-Mountain West honors. Julien Evrard was a repeat selection earning All-MW honors in singles and doubles.  Kostya Nesterenko was an All-MW doubles player competing with Evrard. Delmas N’Tcha, Daniel Dudockin, Radionov Matvey and Nesterenko were all named the MW academic team.  Dudockin, Matvey and Nesterenko were also MW Scholar Athletes.
 
In the 2017-18 season, Malroux’s team earned a total of 15 wins, including three in conference play. The 15 wins were the most for a Wolf Pack men’s team since 1986. Most notable was a pair of All-Mountain West honors for a pair of sophomores Evrard and Nesterenko. The duo finished with a combined 19 wins, the second-most by a tandem in Nevada history. 

During the 2016-17 season, The Wolf Pack made it to the MW Championship as the No. 8 seed after going 3-4 in conference play. By the end of the season, Malroux had two freshmen playing in the top two singles spots, with Nesterenko being named to the All-Mountain West team.

In 2015, Malroux’s team had six players earn All-Mountain West academic honors, and three were named scholar athletes. 
    
Malroux was the Nevada women’s tennis head coach from 2006-11. He then left to coach the San José State Spartan’s women’s team from 2011-15 before returning to coach the Wolf Pack men’s tennis team in 2015-16.

All four of his SJSU teams posted winning marks with the 2013 squad winning the Western Athletic Conference Championship and finished the year ranked 63 by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association. The 2013 WAC Championship team was the first SJSU team to appear in the NCAA Tournament and tied the school record with 19 wins. Six Spartans earned All-WAC honors including Klaudia Boczova being named the WAC Player of the Year. 

The 2015 Spartan squad went 14-7 and was ranked as high as 53 by the ITA before ending the year ranked 73. The team went 6-0 at home and defeated two ranked opponents in Hawai`i and San Diego State. Sybille Gauvain and Marie Klocker received All-Mountain West singles honors and Klocker teamed with Gaelle Rey to receive All-MW doubles recognition. 

While at Nevada his 2009 women’s squad ended the year ranked 65 by the ITA and the 2007 squad was 66 at the end of the year. Eight Pack players earned first-team All-WAC honors and nine garnered second-team recognition during his time as the women's coach. Two players were named WAC Freshman of the Year and 34 earned academic All-WAC honors. 

Five of his six Wolf Pack teams posted winning records with the 2006 and 2007 teams winning 14 matches. The 2010 team placed second at the WAC Championship. The 2008, 2009 and 2011 Pack women's teams placed third at the WAC Championship while the 2006 and 2007 squads tied for third. 

Malroux began his coaching career as an assistant coach at Clemson University in 2001 and was named the ITA Division I Southeast Region Assistant Coach of the Year in 2003 and 2004. In his four seasons the Tigers competed in NCAA Championship each year and advanced to the Final Four in 2004 and 2005. Clemson was ranked in the top 20 in the final ITA rankings in 2003 (No. 19), 2004 (No. 5) and 2005 (No. 10). 

Malroux is from Aurillac, France and he and his wife, Adrienne have two sons Lohan and Milo.