- The eighth-ranked Cardinal continues its inaugural ACC slate. The Cardinal faces No. 63 Virginia Tech on Friday, March 21 at 1 p.m. PT and No. 6 Virginia on Sunday, March 23 at 12 p.m.
- Stanford is 12-4 (4-2 ACC) this spring, including a run to the semifinals of the ITA National Team Indoor Championships. The Cardinal downed Columbia and UCF en route to its first semifinal since 2018, and earned its first ACC wins with home sweeps of Florida State and Miami and Notre Dame and Louisville.
- The Cardinal is 1-0 all-time against Virginia Tech, meeting in 2016 on Columbia's campus during ITA Kickoff Weekend, and 0-7 against Virginia, last squaring off in 2021 in the NCAA round of 32.
- The Cardinal has excelled this spring, starting with a 7-0 blitzing of Saint Mary's, back-to-back wins away from home at ITA Kickoff Weekend and an LA road sweep of UCLA and USC. After a 4-0 sweep of Oregon in Norman, Oklahoma, Stanford took out the No. 8 Sooners on their home court, 4-1, to qualify for ITA Indoors. The LA sweep was the first for Stanford since 2021-22 and the first road sweep since 2008-09.
- Stanford enters the weekend at No. 8 in the ITA rankings, and it has been in the top-10 for each of the last five weeks. Samir Banerjee enters the weekend ranked No. 11 in singles, while Max Basing and Henry von der Schulenburg check in at No. 76 and No. 78, respectively. Stanford has three doubles tandems ranked this week: Banerjee/Alex Razeghi (#43), Banerjee/von der Schulenburg (#61) and Banerjee/Nico Godsick (#73).
- Stanford had five singles players in the ITA preseason rankings: Samir Banerjee (#23), Henry von der Schulenburg (#32), Kyle Kang (#66), Max Basing (#73) and Nico Godsick (#125), and three ranked doubles pairs: Samir Banerjee/Nico Godsick (#32), Max Basing/Alex Razeghi (#50) and Kyle Kang/Harsh Hemang Parikh (#76).
- Henry von der Schulenburg paces the Cardinal with 12 singles wins, while Samir Banerjee is close behind with 11, and Max Basing and Alex Razeghi have 10. Razeghi's 10 wins lead the program in dual action, while the program is a combined 45-19 to open dual play in singles. The doubles pair of Banerjee and Godsick leads the Cardinal with eight total wins, while the pair of Banerjee and Razeghi have five dual wins.
- 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 reached the second round of the Australian Open, defeating Federico Coria, 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 four 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 in doubles prior to joining the program, and redshirt freshman Luke Tusher.
- Paul Goldstein is in his 11th season as the Taube Family Director of Men's Tennis. Goldstein’s teams have posted a 178-77 record with a national ranking and a berth in the NCAA Championships in each of his seasons at the helm.
