Axel Geller Season 2019-20

Career Accolades:

• Pac-12 Champion (2021)
• ITA All-America (2019)
• CoSIDA Academic All-America first team (2022)
• CoSIDA Academic All-America third team (2021)
• Four-time All-Pac-12 (first team 2019 and 2021, second team 2018, honorable mention 2022)
• Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year (2022)
• ITA Northwest Region Senior of the Year (2021)
• ITA Northwest Region Player to Watch (2019)
• CoSIDA Academic All-District First Team (2021, 2022)
• Five-time ITA Scholar Athlete (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)
• Three-time Pac-12 All-Academic Honor Roll (2020, 2021, 2022)

As a Graduate Student (2021-22):

• CoSIDA Academic All-America first team
• All-Pac-12 honorable mention
• CoSIDA Academic All-District
• Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year
• ITA Scholar-Athlete
• Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
• Tallied a 12-6 singles record, was 11-6 in dual action
• Went 12-8 in doubles play
• Ended the season ranked No. 34 in doubles and No. 82 in singles. Was ranked as high as 21st in doubles and 60th in singles, finished season as No. 4 player in the ITA Northwest Region and part of No. 5 doubles pair
• Posted an 8-3 mark in singles against Pac-12 opponents and a 6-5 mark against ranked foes
• Won his singles and doubles matches against Baylor in the NCAA Super Regionals, defeating the No. 36 singles player and the No. 3 doubles pair
• Helped Stanford to a 19-6 overall record and a berth in the NCAA Super Regionals

As a Senior (2020-21)

• Pac-12 Champion
• CoSIDA Academic All-America third team
• All-Pac-12 First Team
• ITA Northwest Region Senior of the Year
• CoSIDA Academic All-District First Team
• ITA Scholar-Athlete
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
• Ranked as high as No. 20 in singles and No. 11 in doubles with Neel Rajesh on Jan. 13. Ended season ranked No. 86 in singles and No. 55 in doubles, with Tomas Kopczynski.
• Went 6-6 on the season in singles and 8-5 in doubles
• Five singles wins against Pac-12 opponents, and a 3-6 mark against ranked foes
• Tallied one doubles win against a ranked pair

As a Junior (2019-20):

• Pac-12 All-Academic Honor Roll
• ITA Scholar-Athlete
• Ended season ranked No. 37 in singles, was ranked as high as No. 7 on the season.
• Finished year ranked No. 14 in doubles nationally alongside Neel Rajesh.
• Helped lead team to a No. 8 national ranking, and an 8-5 record before the cancellation of the season due to the COVID-19 global outbreak.
• Went 6-6 in singles play, including a 3-4 dual record at No. 1 singles. Had five wins over ranked opponents, and two wins over top-10 foes.
• Tallied top-10 wins over UCLA’s Hady Habib (No 10, Jan. 18) and Keegan Smith (No. 7, Feb. 1).
• Went 10-6 in doubles, and 8-5 next to Neel Rajesh. Had two wins over ranked pairs.

As a Sophomore (2018-19):

• ITA All-America
• ITA Northwest Region Player to Watch
• Finalist for national ITA Player to Watch
• All-Pac-12 first team
• ITA Scholar-Athlete
• Helped lead team to 12th-straight NCAA Tournament, and a No. 13 end of season national ranking.
• Posted a 17-8 singles record, including a 10-7 dual mark from the top position.
• Tallied a 14-9 doubles record, including a 13-7 mark alongside Alexandre Rotsaert.
• Ended the season ranked No. 15 nationally in singles, and No. 36 in doubles next to Rotsaert.
• Tallied top-five wins over No. 3 Giovanni Oradini (Mississippi State, Oct. 6) and No. 5 Thomas Laurent (Oregon, Jan. 27).
• Earned NCAA tournament invites in singles and doubles.
• Defeated Sebastian Korda (6-2, 4-6, 7-6) to win the Edwardsville Futures Tournament on Aug. 12 for first professional tournament title.

As a Freshman (2017-18):

• Second Team All-Pac-12
• ITA Scholar-Athlete
• Earned a berth in the NCAA Doubles Championship (defeated in first round)
• Ranked No. 86 in the final Oracle/ITA singles poll
• Ranked No. 30 with Tom Fawcett in the final Oracle/ITA doubles poll
• Finished with an 18-7 overall record
• Posted a 16-6 record in dual play, playing all his matches at No. 1 or No. 2
• Produced 18 wins in doubles action overall, playing with Tom Fawcett, Timothy Sah and David Wilczynski
• Recorded a 16-7 record in doubles playing with Tom Fawcett
• Defeated six nationally-ranked opponents, including No. 24 Johannes Schretter of Baylor (6-4, 6-3)
• Recorded three match clinchers, including two against California and one against Army
• Won his first eight dual matches, defeating six nationally-ranked opponents during that span
• Earned victories in two dual matches after dropping the first set (vs. Illinois and California)
• Won his first seven double matches playing with Tom Fawcett

Prior to Stanford

• Ranked as the No. 1 junior in the International Tennis Federation in the 2017 year-end rankings
• Won the 2017 Wimbledon Boys' Doubles Championship (playing with Hsu Yu-hsiou)
• Runner-up in the 2017 Wimbledon Junior Championship (lost to Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, 6-7(2), 3-6 in the championship match)
• Runner-up in the 2017 U.S. Open Junior Championship (lost to Wu Yibing, 4-6, 4-6, in the championship match)

Career Singles Record

Career Doubles Record