TEMPE– Sun Devil Men’s Tennis is set in the Dallas bracket of ITA Indoor National Championships and will face No. 4 Stanford in the first round of Indoors on Friday, February 13, at 8 a.m. MST. SMU is the host school, and all matches will be played at the Altec Tennis Center.
The Sun Devils are guaranteed three matches in the tournament, and would face the winner of Ohio State/SMU on Saturday with a win over the Cardinal. A loss would drop the team to the consolation bracket.
Sun Devil notables (9-1)
- 2026 is the second time in three seasons that ASU has qualified for ITA Indoors after the team competed in New York City in 2024.
- The Sun Devils are the five seed of the Dallas draw.
- ASU has not won the doubles point in its last three matches, but is 7-3 on the year with the doubles point.
- ASU’s 9-0 start to the season was the best undefeated start to the season since the program’s reinstatement.
- Jelani Sarr and Niels Villard have both claimed Big 12 Weekly honors to open the first month of play.
- In neutral matches this season, ASU boasts a 3-0 record.
Previewing the Cardinal (6-1)
- Both ASU and Stanford have lost to Pepperdine on the road.
- Two players were ranked in the most recent ITA singles rankings: Hudson Rivera (#53) and Alex Chang (#80), and the Cardinal has two ranked doubles pairs: Chang/Alex Razeghi (#29) and Nico Godsick/Rivera (#40).
- Entering ITAs, Stanford swept a pair of ranked opponents in No. 14 UCLA (4-2) and No. 22 USC (4-1) but fell on the road to No. 24 Pepperdine, 4-0.
- Alex Chang leads the team with 10 singles wins this season and has clinched three of the six victories, while Razeghi ranks second with seven singles victories, and Jagger Leach has five.
- In 2024-25, Stanford went 26-6 overall en route to an ACC Championship in its first season in the conference.
- Stanford advanced to the national semifinals of the NCAA Championships and the ITA National Team Indoor Championships.
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