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Men's Tennis

Ranked Matchup Awaits

No. 17 Stanford travels to Dallas to face No. 2 TCU on the campus of SMU.

  • The 17th-ranked Cardinal continues the 2025 spring slate - its first ahead of an ACC campaign - against No. 2 TCU on Friday, Jan. 17 at 4 p.m. PT.
  • Stanford is 1-0 this spring after a 7-0 blitzing of Saint Mary's, including a pair of 6-0 doubles wins and six straight-set triumphs.
  • Stanford enters the spring at No. 17 in the ITA coaches' poll, while Samir Banerjee enters the spring ranked at No. 35 and the doubles pair of Banerjee and Nico Godsick are slotted No. 36.
  • Facing off for the 13th time in program history, Stanford is 4-8 all-time against TCU. Stanford was upended a year ago in Forth Worth, 5-2, and is looking for its first victory in the series since 2003.
  • The Cardinal was led by four wins this fall from von der Schulenburg, while Banerjee, Basing, Godsick and Kang had three apiece. The tandem of Banerjee and Godsick went 7-3 in the fall.
  • The Cardinal opened the fall season at the ITA All-American Championships, where Samir Banerjee punched his ticket to the NCAA Singles Championship. The junior from New York advanced to the quarterfinals with three wins, including two over top-25 competition and one over a top-five foe. Together with Nico Godsick, Banerjee punched his ticket to the NCAA Doubles Championships at the ITA Northwest Regional Championships in Seattle.
  • Stanford went 19-7 in 2023-24, including the program's first Pac-12 Championship since winning the outright title in 2021. The program advanced to the NCAA Super Regionals for the third straight season, and sixth in the last eight. Additionally, the Cardinal advanced to the Super Regionals on the road for the third straight year, previously beating Harvard in 2022 and Columbia in 2023. The Cardinal has reached the Supers stage on the road in four of the last eight seasons, while no other program has more than one over that stretch.
  • 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 Nikola Djokovic at the Australian Open on Jan. 12. Boyer opens his Australian Open on Jan. 13, while Fery reached 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.
  • Stanford added three players to last season's roster in Harvard transfer Henry von der Schulenburg, who was a three-time All-Ivy League first team selection, freshman Alex Razeghi, who was the No. 3 recruit in the country and participated in the main doubles draw at the 2024 US Open, and redshirt freshman Nathan Barki, who cracked the ATP top-1,000 prior to joining the program.
  • Paul Goldstein is in his 11th season as the Taube Family Director of Men's Tennis. Goldstein’s teams have posted a 167-73 record with a national ranking and a berth in the NCAA Championships in each of his seasons at the helm.