- No. 14 Stanford takes on Tulane to open the ITA Kickoff Weekend, with Stanford drafted to the regional in Orlando, hosted by UCF. The Cardinal and Green Wave square off on Saturday, Jan. 29, with the winner set to face Louisville or the host Knights.
- The Cardinal enters the weekend ranked 14th in the country, holding a 1-0 record after beating then-No. 22 Pepperdine, 5-2. Arthur Fery is the seventh ranked singles player in the country, and beat the No. 8 player from the Waves in the opener, while two doubles teams are ranked: Fery and Alexandre Rotsaert are slotted eighth, while the pair of Max Basing and Timothy Sah are 31st.
- Fery reached the championship game at the ITA Fall National Championship, and enters the week with an 11-2 overall mark. Classmate Aryan Chaudhary leads the team with 13 singles wins, including a straight-set triumph over Pepperdine, while eight athletes have at least three. The pair of Fery and Rotsaert also reached the championship match at ITAs, and hold a 13-2 record together.
- The Cardinal finished the 2020-21 season as Pac-12 champions in men's tennis for the first time since 2015, while the title was the program's first in outright fashion since 2003. The Cardinal went 11-6 on the season with a 6-1 mark in Pac-12 play, and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament in Charlottesville, Virginia.
- Arthur Fery and Axel Geller return as All-Pac-12 selections from a year ago, while Geller also earned CoSIDA Academic All-America distinction.