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Men's Tennis

On To Ojai for Pac-12 Championships

- No. 16 Stanford is 16-4 on the season, including a perfect 10-0 record at Taube Family Tennis Center. The Cardinal enters the week as the Pac-12's third seed.
- The Cardinal opens with sixth-seeded Arizona State, ranked 57th by the ITA< with the Cardinal holding a 57-5 all-time mark against Arizona State. Stanford defeated the Sun Devils earlier this season in Tempe, 4-1.
- Arthur Fery is the nation's No. 11 ranked singles player, and became Stanford's first No. 1 ranked player in more than a decade earlier this spring. He holds a 20-6 overall record this season, including a 10-4 mark in dual action. Fery is 8-4 against Pac-12 opponents and has eight wins against ranked foes as a sophomore. Stanford has four singles players ranked this week, Fery (11), Max Basing (53), Alexandre Rotsaert (73) and Axel Geller (125), and three doubles teams: Fery/Rotsaert (19), Fery/Geller (59) and Geller/Kopczynski (76). Six different singles players have been ranked at one point this season.
- Aryan Chaudhary and Max Basing rank second on the team 19 singles wins apiece, with Basing leading the squad with 14 dual wins. Eight athletes have at least three dual wins, while seven have six or more. Sangeet Sridhar (11) and Fery (10) join Basing with double figure dual victories.
- The pair of Fery and Rotsaert holds a 19-5 record together, and also reached the championship match at ITAs this fall. Stanford holds a combined doubles mark of 62-39.
- Axel Geller became the 40th singles player in program history to reach 40 dual singles wins on March 11 against Utah. He's now 33rd all-time in dual wins with 44.
- 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 returned as All-Pac-12 selections from a year ago, while Geller also earned CoSIDA Academic All-America distinction.