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Men's Tennis

Pac-12 Play Begins

- No. 10 Stanford is 9-2 on the season, including five ranked wins and a perfect 6-0 record at Taube Family Tennis Center.
- The contest with the Utes opens Pac-12 play, with Stanford looking for a second straight title. Stanford is 37-2 all-time over Utah.
- Arthur Fery is the nation's No. 2 ranked singles player, and became Stanford's first No. 1 ranked player in over 10 years earlier this spring. He holds a 17-2 overall record this season, including a 7-0 mark in dual action. Fery is 7-0 against Pac-12 opponents and 7-2 against ranked foes as a sophomore. Stanford has five singles players ranked this week: Fery (2), Max Basing (59) and Alexandre Rotsaert (97), Axel Geller (102) and Aryan Chaudhary (123); and two doubles teams: Fery/Rotsaert (7) and Fery/Geller (32).
- Aryan Chaudhary ranks second on the team 16 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 19-5 record together.
- Axel Geller stands just one victory 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.