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Men's Tennis

Grumet Readies for NCAA Singles Championship

The NCAA Singles Championship begins on Tuesday, Nov. 17 in Athens, Georgia.

  • The NCAA Singles Championship begins on Tuesday, Nov. 17 in Athens, Georgia, and freshman Gus Grumet will represent the Cardinal in the 64-player bracket.  The singles bracket and match times have not yet been announced.
  • Gus Grumet was a co-champion of the ITA Northwest Regional Championships in October, punching his ticket to the NCAA Singles Championship. Grumet posted wins on five consecutive days to reach the tournament final in Seattle, before the championship match was canceled.
  • Grumet would secure an ITA All-America honor with two wins in Georgia, as the competitors in the round of 16 are guaranteed the award.
  • Stanford boasts 13 all-time NCAA Singles Champions, with Bradley Klahn’s 2010 title the most recent for the Cardinal. Along with Klahn, nine of Stanford’s 13 NCAA Singles Champions went on to be ranked in the ATP Top-100 during their careers: Sandy Mayer, John Whitlinger, Matt Mitchell, John McEnroe, Tim Mayotte, Dan Goldie, Jared Palmer and Alex O’Brien. Additionally, Bob Bryan won the NCAA Singles title in 1998, and he spent 439 weeks ranked No. 1 in the world in doubles.
  • The Cardinal has three singles players slotted in the preseason ITA rankings: Alex Razeghi (23), Hudson Rivera (56) and Kyle Kang (86). Additionally, two doubles pairs are ranked: Nathan Barki/Razeghi (10), Nico Godsick/Rivera (21).
  • In a 2025-26 season where Stanford opened one of the nation’s premier tennis facilities, Stanford went 19-9 overall, including a 9-4 mark in the ACC, and it reached the round of 16 in the NCAA Championship for the fifth consecutive season. Alex Razeghi was named to the All-ACC second team in singles and doubles, and honored as the ITA Northwest Region Player to Watch, as one of the most improved players in the country, going a team-leading 21-4 with an 18-2 dual mark last spring. Jagger Leach was named the ITA Northwest Region Rookie of the Year after going 16-9 during his freshman campaign, while Hudson Rivera provided 15 singles wins and Nico Godsick 12.
  • Overall, Stanford returns eight players from last season’s roster while adding a top-seven recruiting class nationally in blue chip talents Ronit Karki (#4 national recruit per Tennis Recruiting Network) and Gus Grumet (#17). In addition to Razeghi’s accolades from 2026, Kyle Kang (second team) and Nico Godsick (honorable mention) were All-Pac-12 selections in 2024. Stanford won the 2025 ACC Tournament in its first season in the conference.
  • The Cardinal has had success on the professional level, notably with Nishesh Basavareddy, Tristan Boyer and Arthur Fery in recent years. Fery captivated the tennis world at Wimbledon in June with a run to the semifinals, becoming the seventh Stanford players to reach the semifinals of Wimbledon and the first since John McEnroe in 1992. Fery, Basavareddy and Boyer have all earned grand slam wins, with Fery and Basavareddy entering the top-100 rankings in the world.
  • As of November, 2026, Stanford has four alumni in the ATP top-300: Fery (32, career-high 32), Basavareddy (127, career-high 99), Boyer (197, career-high 106) and Max Basing (275, career-high 219).
  • Paul Goldstein is in his 13th season as the Taube Family Director of Men's Tennis. Goldstein’s teams have posted a 211-88 record with a national ranking and a berth in the NCAA Championships in each of his seasons at the helm.