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Men's Tennis

Card Faces Quakers to Open NCAA Tournament

No. 18 Stanford travels to Texas A&M for the first two rounds of the NCAA Championship

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  • The postseason continues for No. 18 Stanford men's tennis, as it travels to College Station, Texas to open the NCAA Championships. Stanford will face No. 40 Penn in the first round on Friday, May 1 at 8 a.m. PT, and with a win, would take on host 11-seed No. 10 Texas A&M or Wagner on Saturday, May 2 at 2 p.m. PT.
  • The Cardinal is making its 18th consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance, and 46th all-time. Each of the past three times Stanford went on the road in the regional rounds of the NCAA Championship it advanced, 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 nine seasons, while no other program has more than two (Mississippi State) over that stretch. Stanford also won its regional in 2025 at home at Arrillaga Tennis Center-Taube Pavilion en route to reaching the NCAA semifinals.
  • Stanford enters the weekend with a 17-8 overall record and 9-4 mark in the ACC, tying for third place in the conference standings. Stanford split four of its six ACC weekends with two home sweeps, in addition to a road victory at California. The Cardinal swept then-No. 36 SMU and Boston College March 13-14 before opening the brand new Arrillaga Tennis Center with 4-3 wins over then-No. 3 Wake Forest and No. 23 NC State. The Cardinal boasts 11 ranked wins this season, including five in the top-25.
  • Alex Razeghi and Alex Chang garnered All-ACC accolades, with Razeghi landing on the second team in both singles and doubles, with Chang selected in doubles.
  • The Cardinal enters the match ranked No. 18 in the country in the April 21 ITA computer rankings, dropping from a season-high No. 3 in the Jan. 28 rankings, which was the program's highest ranking since March 27, 2018. Alex Razeghi (No. 54) and Hudson Rivera (No. 77) were ranked in the updated singles rankings while the duo of Alex Chang and Razeghi slots in at No. 20 after previously reaching a season best mark of No. 6 on March 17.
  • Alex Razeghi leads the team with 20 singles wins this season, including a 17-1 mark in dual play and five match clinches, while five players have reached double figure wins: Leach (15), Chang (15), Rivera (13) and Godsick (10). The tandem of Chang and Razeghi paces the Cardinal with 17 doubles wins while the duo and Godsick and Rivera has posted seven. Chang and Razeghi also reached the round of 16 at the NCAA Doubles Championship in November.
  • The meeting will be the first in program history against the Quakers, with Stanford holding a 19-2 all-time record against Ivy League teams. Stanford is 5-1 all-time against Texas A&M, last meeting in 2023, and it has never faced Wagner.
  • Jagger Leach was named ACC Rookie of the Week on April 7 for the third time this season for his performance in the wins over Wake Forest and NC State. Leach clinched both matches in dramatic, three-set fashion at the Arrillaga Tennis Center.
  • After a strong performance at the ITA National Team Indoor Championships, Alex Chang and Alex Razeghi were crowned the ACC Doubles Team of the Week on Feb. 19. The duo went 3-0 in doubles at the ITA National Team Indoor Championships with two wins over top-10 teams. Additionally, they were named to the ITA National Team Indoor Championships All-Tournament Team at No. 1 Doubles.
  • Entering ITAs, Stanford swept a pair of ranked opponents in No. 14 UCLA (4-2) and No. 22 USC (4-1). The prior week, Stanford hosted ITA Kickoff Weekend from Jan. 23-24, defeating Utah (4-1) and Rice (4-0) to advance to the ITA National Team Indoor Championships. Stanford added a 4-3 win over a top-25 Arizona State squad at ITAs.
  • 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.
  • 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 earned grand slam wins, including second round Australian Open appearances in 2026 from Basavareddy and Fery. Boyer has reached the second round of the US Open and the Australian Open, while Fery also 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 209-87 record with a national ranking and a berth in the NCAA Championships in each of his seasons at the helm.