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Men's Tennis

Set for Supers

- No. 18 Stanford is 19-5 on the season, including a perfect 10-0 record at Taube Family Tennis Center. 
- Stanford earned a bid to its 14th consecutive NCAA Tournament, traveling to 14th seeded Harvard for a pair of victories to advance to the Super Regional. The Cardinal dispatched Mississippi State, 4-0, and the host Crimson, 4-3, to set up the meeting with #3 Baylor.
- Stanford holds a 2-11 record all-time against the Bears, with the last meeting coming in 2018. The Cardinal has won each of the last two matchups, a 4-2 win in 2018 in Seattle and a 4-2 win in 2012 in Charlottesville, Virginia. The Cardinal moved to 3-0 against Mississippi State and 4-0 against Harvard in NCAA Tournament games last weekend, with all five wins prior to this season coming during the path to a national championship.
- Tennis ONE will broadcast the match on Friday, with special guest, and Stanford Hall of Famer, Patrick McEnroe joining the broadcast.
- The Cardinal is 113-25 all-time in the NCAA Tournament, making its 42nd appearance this season. The Cardinal has won 17 team NCAA titles. 
- Four student-athletes earned All-Pac-12 accolades: Arthur Fery (first team), Max Basing (second team), Axel Geller (honorable mention) and Alexandre Rotsaert (honorable mention). Fery was also drawn to the NCAA singles bracket, while the duo of Fery and Rotsaert will compete in the NCAA doubles bracket at the conclusion of the team competition.
- Arthur Fery is the nation's No. 15 ranked singles player, and became Stanford's first No. 1 ranked player in more than a decade earlier this spring. He holds a 21-6 overall record this season, including an 11-4 mark in dual action. Fery went 9-4 against Pac-12 opponents and has nine wins against ranked foes as a sophomore.
- Stanford has four singles players ranked this week, Fery (15), Alexandre Rotsaert (78), Max Basing (80) and Axel Geller (112), and three doubles teams: Fery/Rotsaert (25), Geller/Kopczynski (41) and Fery/Geller (62). Six different singles players have been ranked at one point this season.
- Max Basing leads the team with 22 singles wins, including a team-best 17 in dual action, while Aryan Chaudhary is close behind in third, behind Fery's 21, with 19 wins. Seven players have at least 10 wins, and seven have at least seven dual triumphs.
- The pair of Fery and Rotsaert holds a 22-6 record together, and also reached the championship match at ITAs this fall. 
- 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 45.
- 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.