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Men's Tennis

Men's Tennis Readies for ACC Championships

No. 8 Stanford earned a double bye into Friday's quarterfinals.

  • No. 8 Stanford heads to its first ACC Championships in Cary, North Carolina, with Stanford beginning action on Friday, April 18 at 3 p.m. PT. The Cardinal earned a double bye into the quarterfinal round, and it will face one of No. 17 Florida State, No. 45 Georgia Tech or No. 59 Louisville.
  • Stanford is 19-5 (10-3 ACC) this spring, finishing third in the ACC and including a run to the semifinals of the ITA National Team Indoor Championships. The Cardinal downed Columbia and UCF en route to its first semifinal since 2018, and earned ACC wins with home sweeps of Florida State and Miami, Notre Dame and Louisville and Duke and North Carolina, as well as road wins at Virginia Tech, SMU and Boston College. Stanford capped conference play on April 12 with a 4-2 win over then-No. 9 California in the Big Slam, giving the Cardinal five consecutive Big Slam wins and victories in 12 of the last 13 against its archrival. 
  • A win would give Stanford its first 20-win season since 2018. The Cardinal has reached 19 wins for the third time in the last four seasons.
  • Nico Godsick and Hudson Rivera were named the ACC Doubles Team of the Week after their top performances against Duke and North Carolina on April 8. Helping Stanford to its fourth and fifth consecutive 4-0 shutouts, the duo is the fourth to win ACC weekly honors this year: Banerjee/von der Schulenburg (Feb. 4), Banerjee (Feb. 18), Godsick/von der Schulenburg (Feb. 18). Additionally, the pair of Banerjee and Alex Razeghi were named to the ITA National Team Indoor Championships all-tournament team at No. 2 doubles.
  • The Cardinal has excelled this spring, including back-to-back wins away from home at ITA Kickoff Weekend and an LA road sweep of UCLA and USC. After a 4-0 sweep of Oregon in Norman, Oklahoma, Stanford took out the No. 8 Sooners on their home court, 4-1, to qualify for ITA Indoors. The LA sweep was the first for Stanford since 2021-22 and the first road sweep since 2008-09.
  • Stanford enters the weekend at No. 8 in the ITA rankings, and it has been in the top-10 for each of the last nine weeks. Samir Banerjee enters the weekend ranked No. 9 in singles, marking a career-best ranking for the junior in singles, while Henry von der Schulenburg and Max Basing check in at No. 71 and No. 95, respectively. Stanford has three doubles tandems ranked this week: Banerjee/Alex Razeghi (#53), Banerjee/Nico Godsick (#83) and Banerjee/von der Schulenburg (#86).
  • Henry von der Schulenburg paces the Cardinal with 16 singles wins, while Nico Godsick has 14 and Max Basing and Alex Razeghi are close behind with 13. Samir Banerjee has 12, including nine at No. 1 singles and nine wins over ranked opponents. Razeghi's 13 wins lead the program in dual action, while the program is a combined 69-23 to open dual play in singles. The doubles pair of Banerjee and Godsick leads the Cardinal with eight total wins, while the pairs of Banerjee and Razeghi and Godsick and Rivera have five dual wins.
  • Basing continues to rise in the Cardinal record books, becoming the 30th player in program history to reach 50 career dual wins in singles.
  • The Cardinal opened the fall 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.
  • The Cardinal has had success on the professional level, notably with Nishesh Basavareddy, Tristan Boyer and Arthur Fery in recent years. All three have appeared in a grand slam, with Basavareddy taking a set off of Novak Djokovic at the Australian Open on Jan. 12. Boyer reached the second round of the Australian Open, defeating Federico Coria, while Fery reached the third round in doubles at Wimbledon in 2024. Stanford's current student-athletes have also seen widespread success in ITF Futures and ATP Challenger tournaments.
  • Stanford added four 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 participated in the main doubles draw at the 2024 US Open, and redshirt freshman Nathan Barki, who cracked the ATP top-1,000 in doubles prior to joining the program, and redshirt freshman Luke Tusher.
  • Paul Goldstein is in his 11th season as the Taube Family Director of Men's Tennis. Goldstein’s teams have posted a 185-78 record with a national ranking and a berth in the NCAA Championships in each of his seasons at the helm.