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Men's Tennis

Stanford Set for ITA Regionals

The Cardinal will have six players in action this week in Stockton

Event Coverage

  • Stanford men's tennis continues its 2025-26 campaign with the ITA Northwest Regional Championships, hosted by Pacific at the Eve Zimmerman Tennis Center. The action begins on Thursday, Oct. 16 and continues through Tuesday, Oct. 21.
  • Stanford will have six players in action: Alex Chang, Nico Godsick, Mark Krupkin, Alex Razeghi, Hudson Rivera and Luke Tusher. Tusher and Krupkin open singles play in the qualifying phase on Thursday, while Chang, Godsick, Razeghi and Rivera are in the main draw on Friday, each as a seeded player. Doubles action begins on Friday as well, with Godsick teaming with Rivera, Chang with Razeghi and Krupkin with Tusher.
  • The 2025 fall slate began in San Francisco at Battle in the Bay, with Godsick and Rivera reaching the semifinals in doubles and the round of 16 in singles. Then, Stanford sent three athletes to the ITA All-American Championships, where Chang reached the main draw round of 32 and tallied two ranked wins, while Godsick added a singles win and the doubles tandem of Godsick and Rivera earned a top-10 ranked doubles victory.
  • Chang and Godsick lead the Cardinal with two singles wins apiece, while the duo of Godsick and Rivera pace the squad in doubles with three.
  • The Cardinal finished a remarkable season in 2024-25, going 26-6 overall while winning an ACC Championship in its first season in the conference and advancing to the national semifinals of the NCAA Championships and the ITA National Team Indoor Championships.
  • The Cardinal begins the campaign with four ranked players in singles: Alex Chang (41), Kyle Kang (76), Nico Godsick (86) and Alex Razeghi (119). The program has two ranked doubles teams: Alex Chang/Kyle Kang (14) and Nico Godsick/Hudson Rivera (16)
  • Stanford returns seven players from last season's roster, including ITA All-American Samir Banerjee and four additional players that won at last nine singles matches last season. The Cardinal added a trio of strong newcomers in Jagger Leach, the top-rated recruit in the country per Tennis Recruiting Network, five-star signee Mark Krupkin and California transfer Alex Chang, who was an All-Pac-12 second team honoree for the Golden Bears in 2024.
  • 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, 2025. Boyer has reached the second round of the US Open and the Australian Open, defeating Federico Coria, while Fery reached the second round in singles at Wimbledon in 2025, beating the world No. 20 player Alexei Popyrin, and 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, with the program earning 12 ITF futures championships in the summer of 2025, including eight titles from returning players.
  • Paul Goldstein is in his 12th season as the Taube Family Director of Men's Tennis. Goldstein’s teams have posted a 192-79 record with a national ranking and a berth in the NCAA Championships in each of his seasons at the helm.