- No. 5 Stanford hosts the first and second rounds of the NCAA Tournament at Arrillaga Tennis Center-Taube Pavilion, welcoming No. 25 Pepperdine, No. 34 Alabama and No. 62 New Mexico for the Stanford regional. The Cardinal will face New Mexico in the opening round while the Waves will take on the Crimson Tide.
- Round of 64 action begins on Friday, May 2 at 10 a.m. with Alabama vs. Pepperdine, while Stanford and New Mexico face off at 1 p.m. The winners will play in the round of 32 on Saturday, May 3 at noon.
- The No. 4 national seed is the Cardinal’s highest since 2018, when it was also the No. 4 seed and hosted the first and second rounds. Stanford is hosting for the first time since 2019, but it has advanced to the Super Regionals on the road in each of the last three tournaments after winning regionals at Harvard (2022), Columbia (2023) and Oklahoma (2024). The Cardinal has reached the Supers stage on the road in four of the last eight seasons, while no other program has more than one over that stretch.
- The Cardinal is coming off of its first ACC Championship, defeating No. 17 Florida State, No. 19 Duke and No. 6 Virginia to raise the conference trophy in its first attempt. Max Basing clinched all three matches for the Cardinal and was named the ACC Championships Most Valuable Player.
- The championship is the first for Stanford since winning the Pac-12 regular season title in 2024. The program joined women’s gymnastics as ACC champions during the 2024-25 academic year.
- Stanford is 22-5 (10-3 ACC) this spring, finishing third in the ACC regular season and including a run to the semifinals of the ITA National Team Indoor Championships. The Cardinal downed Columbia and UCF en route to its first semifinal since 2018, and earned ACC wins with home sweeps of Florida State and Miami, Notre Dame and Louisville and Duke and North Carolina, as well as road wins at Virginia Tech, SMU and Boston College. Stanford capped conference play on April 12 with a 4-2 win over then-No. 9 California in the Big Slam, giving the Cardinal five consecutive Big Slam wins and victories in 12 of the last 13 against its archrival.
- The 22 wins are the most for the Cardinal since 2018, while a 23rd win would represent its most since winning 25 in 2003.
- Samir Banerjee and Max Basing earned All-ACC accolades, with Banerjee placed on the first team and Basing on the third. Banerjee earned his third consecutive first team nod (twice in Pac-12) while Basing earned his fourth all-conference selection (once All-Pac-12 first team, twice on second team).
- Nico Godsick and Hudson Rivera were named the ACC Doubles Team of the Week after their top performances against Duke and North Carolina on April 8. Helping Stanford to its fourth and fifth consecutive 4-0 shutouts, the duo is the fourth to win ACC weekly honors this year: Banerjee/von der Schulenburg (Feb. 4), Banerjee (Feb. 18), Godsick/von der Schulenburg (Feb. 18). Additionally, the pair of Banerjee and Alex Razeghi were named to the ITA National Team Indoor Championships all-tournament team at No. 2 doubles.
- Stanford enters the weekend at No. 5 in the ITA rankings, and it has been in the top-10 for each of the last 11 weeks. Samir Banerjee enters the weekend ranked No. 7 in singles, marking a career-best ranking for the junior in singles, while Henry von der Schulenburg and Max Basing check in at No. 71 and No. 98, respectively. Stanford has three doubles tandems ranked this week: Banerjee/Alex Razeghi (#50), Kyle Kang/von der Schulenburg (#76) and Nico Godsick/Hudson Rivera (#78).
- Henry von der Schulenburg paces the Cardinal with 19 singles wins, while five student-athletes have at least 13. Samir Banerjee has 13, including 10 at No. 1 singles and 10 wins over ranked opponents. Alex Razeghi and von der Schulenburg co-lead the program with 15 wins in dual action, while the program is a combined 80-28 to open dual play in singles. The doubles pair of Banerjee and Godsick leads the Cardinal with eight total wins, while the three ranked pairs each have at least four dual wins each.
- Basing continues to rise in the Cardinal record books, becoming the 30th player in program history to reach 50 career dual wins in singles. With 53 career dual wins, Basing currently ranks 27th on Stanford's all-time list, tied with Tom Fawcett '18.
- The Cardinal has excelled this spring, including back-to-back wins away from home at ITA Kickoff Weekend and an LA road sweep of UCLA and USC. After a 4-0 sweep of Oregon in Norman, Oklahoma, Stanford took out the No. 8 Sooners on their home court, 4-1, to qualify for ITA Indoors. The LA sweep was the first for Stanford since 2021-22 and the first road sweep since 2008-09.
- The Cardinal opened the fall season at the ITA All-American Championships, where Samir Banerjee punched his ticket to the NCAA Singles Championship. The junior from New York advanced to the quarterfinals with three wins, including two over top-25 competition and one over a top-five foe. Together with Nico Godsick, Banerjee punched his ticket to the NCAA Doubles Championships at the ITA Northwest Regional Championships in Seattle.
- Stanford went 19-7 in 2023-24, including the program's first Pac-12 Championship since winning the outright title in 2021. The program advanced to the NCAA Super Regionals for the third straight season, and sixth in the last eight. Additionally, the Cardinal advanced to the Super Regionals on the road for the third straight year, previously beating Harvard in 2022 and Columbia in 2023. The Cardinal has reached the Supers stage on the road in four of the last eight seasons, while no other program has more than one over that stretch.
- The Cardinal has had success on the professional level, notably with Nishesh Basavareddy, Tristan Boyer and Arthur Fery in recent years. All three have appeared in a grand slam, with Basavareddy taking a set off of Novak Djokovic at the Australian Open on Jan. 12. Boyer reached the second round of the Australian Open, defeating Federico Coria, while Fery reached the third round in doubles at Wimbledon in 2024. Stanford's current student-athletes have also seen widespread success in ITF Futures and ATP Challenger tournaments.
- Stanford added four players to last season's roster in Harvard transfer Henry von der Schulenburg, who was a three-time All-Ivy League first team selection, freshman Alex Razeghi, who was the No. 3 recruit in the country and participated in the main doubles draw at the 2024 US Open, and redshirt freshman Nathan Barki, who cracked the ATP top-1,000 in doubles prior to joining the program, and redshirt freshman Luke Tusher.
- Paul Goldstein is in his 11th season as the Taube Family Director of Men's Tennis. Goldstein’s teams have posted a 188-78 record with a national ranking and a berth in the NCAA Championships in each of his seasons at the helm.
