SETTING THE SCENE
No. 5 Stanford travels to Waco, Texas, the finals site for the 2025 NCAA Tournament. The Cardinal defeated No. 62 New Mexico (4-0) and No. 25 Pepperdine (4-0) in the regional round and No. 13 South Carolina (4-0) in the super regionals, setting up a quarterfinal clash with No. 12 Mississippi State on Friday, May 16 at 11 a.m. PT. The winner will face No. 1 Wake Forest or No. 8 Columbia.
Stanford is making its first NCAA quarterfinals appearance since 2012 and is looking to reach the semifinals for the first time since 2003. The Cardinal boasts the second-most NCAA Championships all-time, with 17, trailing only USC’s 21. A national title would be the first for Stanford since 2000.
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 hosted for the first time since 2019, but it had 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.
Stanford is 2-0 this season in Waco, previously defeating then-No. 6 Columbia and then-No. 21 UCF at the ITA National Team Indoor Championships.
SERIAL NUMBERS
Stanford is 4-0 all-time against Mississippi State, meeting last in the round of 64 of the 2022 NCAA Tournament, hosted at Harvard. Stanford’s all-time records against the rest of the quarterfinalists are as follows, while the Cardinal is 3-4 against the finals field this season.
Columbia: 2-1 (last: W, 4-1 - 2025 – ITA National Team Indoors at Waco, Texas)
Wake Forest: 1-4 (last: L, 2-4 - 2025 – at Wake Forest)
Texas: 13-7 (last: L, 1-4 - 2024 – at Texas)
UCLA: 65-75 (last: W, 4-0 - 2025, at UCLA)
Virginia: 1-8 (last: W, 4-2 - 2025 – ACC Championships at Cary, N.C.)
TCU: 4-10 (last: L, 0-4 - 2025 – ITA National Team Indoors at Dallas, Texas)
AWARDS AND ACCOLADES
The Cardinal is coming off its first ACC Championship, in its first attempt, 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, and the fourth under head coach Paul Goldstein. The program joined women’s gymnastics as ACC champions during the 2024-25 academic year.
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.
RANKINGS REPORT
Stanford enters the weekend at No. 5 in the ITA rankings, and it has been in the top-10 for each of the last 13 weeks. Samir Banerjee enters the championships ranked No. 7 in singles, marking a career-best ranking for the junior, while Henry von der Schulenburg and Max Basing check in at No. 73 and No. 101, respectively. Stanford has three doubles tandems ranked this week: Kyle Kang/von der Schulenburg (#47), Samir Banerjee/Alex Razeghi (#48), and Nico Godsick/Hudson Rivera (#70).
SEASON REWIND
Stanford is 25-5 (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 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 25 total wins are the most for the Cardinal since 2003, when it also won 25 dual matches. A 26th win would be its most since 2000, when it won the NCAA title. An NCAA title would give Stanford 28 victories on the season, which would match the program record.
SINGLES & DOUBLES
Henry von der Schulenburg paces the Cardinal with 21 singles wins, while six student-athletes have at least 10. Samir Banerjee has 13, including 10 at No. 1 singles and 10 wins over ranked opponents. Alex Razeghi leads the program with 18 wins in dual action, while the program is a combined 89-28 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 seven dual wins.
Max 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 55 career dual wins, Basing currently ranks T-25th on Stanford’s all-time list with Bob Bryan.
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.
PRO CARD
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. The Cardinal has a long history of professional success, led by John McEnroe and Bob and Mike Bryan, among many others.
HEAD COACH PAUL GOLDSTEIN
Paul Goldstein is in his 11th season as the Taube Family Director of Men’s Tennis. Goldstein’s teams have posted a 190-78 record with a national ranking and a berth in the NCAA Championships in each of his seasons at the helm.
A Stanford Hall of Famer as a player, Goldstein led the Cardinal to a 104-6 overall record while becoming the first player in NCAA history to compete as a starting member of four consecutive national championship teams. He is a four-time All-American and was selected to the ITA College Tennis Hall of Fame in 2013.As a professional player, Goldstein was ranked in top-60 by ATP in playing career in both singles and doubles.