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Men's Tennis

NCAA Tournament Begins with Mississippi State

- No. 18 Stanford is 17-5 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 first round battle with No. 35 Mississippi State. Monmouth and the host Crimson make up the remainder of the regional.
- Stanford holds a 3-0 record all-time against the Bulldogs, with the last meeting coming in 1998. The Cardinal is 9-1 all-time against Harvard and has never faced Monmouth in program history. The Cardinal is 5-0 against Mississippi State (2-0) and Harvard (3-0) in NCAA Tournament games, with all five wins coming during the path to a national championship.
- The Cardinal is 111-25 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 20-6 overall record this season, including a 10-4 mark in dual action. Fery went 9-4 against Pac-12 opponents and has eight wins against ranked foes as a sophomore.
- Stanford has four singles players ranked this week, Fery (11), 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 co-leads the team with 20 singles wins, including a team-best 15 in dual action, while Aryan Chaudhary is close behind in third with 19 wins. Seven players have at least 10 wins, and seven have at least six dual triumphs.
- The pair of Fery and Rotsaert holds a 20-6 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 distin