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Men's Tennis

Chang, Razeghi Head to Berkeley for ITA Sectionals

The ITA Sectional Championships mark the final opportunity to qualify for the NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships.

Event Coverage

  • Stanford men's tennis continues its 2025-26 campaign with the ITA Sectional Championships, hosted by California at the Hallman Tennis Complex. The action begins on Thursday, Nov. 6 and continues through Sunday, Nov. 9.
  • Stanford will have two players in action: Alex Chang and Alex Razeghi. Singles and doubles action for both players gets underway on Thursday, with draws yet to be released.
  • 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.
  • Alex Chang led the way at the ITA Regional Championships for the Cardinal, going 3-1 and reaching the quarterfinals. Alex Razeghi went 2-1 in singles, advancing to the round of 16, while Chang and Razeghi's doubles tandem went 3-1 and reached the semifinals. Luke Tusher and Mark Krupkin also picked up their first career wins in the tournament.
  • Chang leads the team with five singles wins this fall, while Godsick, Krupkin and Razeghi have two apiece. The doubles pairs of Chang and Razeghi and Nico Godsick and Hudson Rivera each have three victories this season.
  • 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.