Nico Godsick & Samir BanerjeeNico Godsick & Samir Banerjee
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Men's Tennis

Banerjee, Godsick Set for NCAA Individual Championships

Banerjee will play singles while Godsick and Banerjee pair up in doubles.

  • The Cardinal wraps up its fall collegiate schedule at the NCAA Singles & Doubles Championships, hosted in Waco, Texas from Nov. 19-24 on Baylor's campus. Stanford has two student-athletes in the field for the NCAA Championships: Samir Banerjee (singles and doubles) and Nico Godsick (doubles).
  • Banerjee, ranked No. 23 by the ITA, will face off with preseason No. 1 player Ozan Baris (Michigan State) in the round of 64 on Tuesday, Nov. 19 at 11:30 a.m. PT. The 32nd-ranked tandem of Banerjee and Godsick will face Auburn's duo of Blaydes and Nolan on Wednesday, Nov. 20 at a time to be determined. 
  • Stanford has five singles players in the ITA preseason rankings: Samir Banerjee (#23), Henry von der Schulenburg (#32), Kyle Kang (#66), Max Basing (#73) and Nico Godsick (#125).
  • The Cardinal has three ranked doubles pairs: Samir Banerjee/Nico Godsick (#32), Max Basing/Alex Razeghi (#50) and Kyle Kang/Harsh Hemang Parikh (#76)
  • The Cardinal opened the season at the ITA All-American Championships, where Samir Banerjee punched his ticket to the NCAA Singles Championship. The junior from New York advanced to the quarterfinals with three wins, including two over top-25 competition and one over a top-five foe. Together with Nico Godsick, Banerjee punched his ticket to the NCAA Doubles Championships at the ITA Northwest Regional Championships in Seattle.
  • Stanford went 19-7 in 2023-24, including the program's first Pac-12 Championship since winning the outright title in 2021. The program advanced to the NCAA Super Regionals for the third straight season, and sixth in the last eight. Additionally, the Cardinal advanced to the Super Regionals on the road for the third straight year, previously beating Harvard in 2022 and Columbia in 2023. The Cardinal has reached the Supers stage on the road in four of the last eight seasons, while no other program has more than one over that stretch.
  • Nishesh Basavareddy was named the 2024 Pac-12 Singles Player of the Year, becoming Stanford's 21st winner of the honor and the second in a row after Arthur Fery won in 2023. An All-Pac-12 first team honoree, Basavareddy joined five teammates with all-conference accolades: Samir Banerjee (first team), Max Basing (second team), Kyle Kang (second team), Neel Rajesh (second team) and Nico Godsick (honorable mention).
  • Basavareddy also earned national accolades, as he was an ITA All-American for the second consecutive season as well as a second team CSC Academic All-American.
  • Stanford added three players to last season's roster in Harvard transfer Henry von der Schulenburg, who was a three-time All-Ivy League first team selection, freshman Alex Razeghi, who was the No. 3 recruit in the country and recently participated in the main doubles draw at the US Open, and redshirt freshman Nathan Barki, who cracked the ATP top-1,000 prior to joining the program.
  • Paul Goldstein is in his 11th season as the Taube Family Director of Men's Tennis. Goldstein’s teams have posted a 166-73 record with a national ranking and a berth in the NCAA Championships in each of his seasons at the helm.