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Men's Tennis

Home vs. The Horned Frogs

  • After 374 days between events, Stanford opened the season at home on Friday, March 12 with a 6-1 win over Santa Clara. The Cardinal followed with an identical result March 17 against Saint Mary's.
  • Stanford fell in its first two road matches of the year, at UCLA (4-3) and at USC (7-0).
  • 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).
  • Fery leads the team with three singles wins, while 10 athletes have one victory. The doubles pairs of Fery & Timothy Sah and Neel Rajesh and Alexandre Rotsaert lead the way with 2-0 marks.
  • 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.
  • Axel Geller earned the clincher against Saint Mary's while Alexandre Rotsaert posted the first win of the year over a ranked opponent, dowining the Gaels No. 23 ranked player in three sets.
  • 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 103-45 record with a national ranking and a berth in the NCAA Championships in each of his first five seasons.
  • Stanford is 4-6 all-time against TCU.