Game with the Gamecocks

- No. 8 Stanford is 7-0 on the season, including four ranked wins and a pair of 4-0 sweeps at the ITA Kickoff Weekend in Orlando. With wins over Tulane and then-No. 20 UCF at the end of January, Stanford qualified for the ITA Indoor Championships this weekend.
- Stanford was given the No. 6 seed in the draw, and will take on No. 13 South Carolina, the 11th seed, on Friday, Feb. 18 at 9 a.m. PT. The winner will take on the winner of third seed Tennessee and 14th seed Texas A&M, ranked second and 12th, respectively, by the ITA.
- Arthur Fery is the nation's No. 1 ranked singles player, and he holds a 15-2 overall record this season, including a 5-0 mark in dual action. Fery is 7-0 against Pac-12 opponents and 6-2 against ranked foes as a sophomore. Stanford has five singles players ranked this week: Fery (1), Alexandre Rotsaert (38), Max Basing (49), Axel Geller (74), Aryan Chaudhary (108); and two doubles teams: Fery/Rotsaert (6) and Basing/Sah (53).
- Aryan Chaudhary co-leads the team with 15 singles wins, while five athletes have at least three dual wins: Fery, Chaudhary, Basing, Geller and Sangeet Sridhar. The pair of Fery and Rotsaert also reached the championship match at ITAs, and hold a 15-4 record together.
- Stanford swept UC Davis and Cal last week, and is 5-0 at Taube Family Tennis Center this spring.
- The Cardinal last faced the Gamecocks in 2015, and is 4-1 all-time in the series. Against potential second round opponents, Stanford is 5-1 all-time over Tennessee and 3-1 against Texas A&M.
- Axel Geller stands just two victories shy of becoming the 40th singles player in program history to reach 40 dual singles wins.
- 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.