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Men's Tennis

Weekend Continues with Wildcats

  • Stanford is off to a 5-3 start (2-0 Pac-12) on the season, with wins over Santa Clara, Saint Mary's, Utah, UC Davis and Arizona State. The opening win over the Broncos came after 374 days between events.
  • Arthur Fery outlasted Makey Rakotomalala 5-7, 6-4, 7-6 (2) at the No. 2 spot to decide the match, producing his team-best seventh win of the season and first career clincher.
  • Fery leads the team with seven singles wins, while Timothy Sah has totaled four. 11 athletes have at least one victory. Four tandems have a pair of doubles wins, while individually Fery, Alexandre Rotsaert, Neel Rajesh and Sah have multiple wins each.
  • Stanford returned its entire roster from a year ago, and added the top recruiting class in the country: Tristan Boyer (Altadena, CA), Aryan Chaudhary (Santa Clara, CA), Arthur Fery (Wimbledon, UK) and Alex Lee (Oak Brook, IL).
  • Five singles players were ranked in the opening poll from the ITA: Alex Rotsaert (No. 3), Axel Geller (No. 20), Sangeet Sridhar (No. 75), Arthur Fery (No. 94) and Tristan Boyer (No. 119). Additionally, the pair of Geller and Neel Rajesh was slotted in as the 11th-ranked doubles pair to start the year. The team was ranked No. 5 as a team to start the spring season. Fery is ranked No. 95 in the most recent rankings.
  • Paul Goldstein has established himself among Stanford’s elite men’s tennis coaches in the program’s rich history. In six-plus seasons as the Cardinal mentor, Goldstein’s teams have posted a 106-46 record with a national ranking and a berth in the NCAA Championships in each of his first five seasons.
  • Stanford is 72-2 all-time against Arizona.