HONOLULU (SMU) – SMU Men's Tennis is set to begin its 2025 spring campaign at Hawaii, Monday.

The spring season will mark the Mustangs' inaugural Atlantic Coast Conference season.

SPRING OF 2025

• Of the 29 matches on the coming spring slate, 16 are against foes who finished in the ITA top 75 rankings last spring, eight of which were in the top 20. It also includes defending national champion and Metroplex rival TCU.
• Of the 13 ACC teams SMU will face this spring, 12 finished in the top 75 last season.

FALL OF 2024

• The Mustangs recorded a total of 48 individual wins in the fall of 2024.
• Trevor Svajda (singles) earned an automatic bid into the NCAA Individual Championships in the fall of 2024 after making the semifinal round of the ITA Sectional Championships.
• Svajda advanced to round 32 of the tournament for the second consecutive time.

SETTING THE SCENE

• SMU reached the NCAA Tournament for the third consecutive season under Head Coach Grant Chen in the spring of 2024.
• The Mustangs went 17-11 in the 2024 spring season, including a 13-2 home mark and a 5-2 record versus American Athletic Conference opponents.
• Trevor Svajda (singles), Adam Neff (singles/doubles), and Huntley Allen (doubles) earned AAC All-Conference Honors. Svajda competed in the NCAA Singles Individual Championships, with Neff and Allen playing in the Doubles Championships.
• Trevor Svajda was named the AAC Freshman of the Year, voted on by conference coaches.
• The Mustangs defeated three ranked opponents (No. 57 Cornell, No. 34 Middle Tennessee, No. 27 Memphis).

SERVIN' SVAJDA

• Sophmore Trevor Svajda joined SMU as the No. 1 tennis recruit in the nation.
• Svajda was ranked no. 19 at the start of the 2024 fall season and ended the season ranked 48th.
• He earned an automatic qualifier to the NCAA Individual Championship after reaching the semifinal round of the ITA Sectional Championship with a win over Nebraska's Calvin Meuller in the quarterfinals.
• Svajda earned AAC All-Conference honors (singles) and was named the AAC Freshman of the Year in 2024.
• Svajda has a 16-7 record in his freshman season with the Mustangs.
• Svajda earned five singles wins over ranked opponents last season (No. 17, No. 29, No. 35, No. 68, No. 107).

2024 DALLAS OPEN

• Five Mustangs - Adam Neff, Trevor Svajda, Jerry Barton, Julian Steinhausen and Huntley Allen - competed in the 2024 Dallas Open.
• Neff headlined the tournament's College Night as a singles main draw wild card against Jordan Thompson.
• Allen and Steinhausen went three sets in their main draw doubles match against Ben Shelton and Emilio Nava.
• Both Svajda and Barton competed as wild cards in the singles qualifying rounds.

LAST YEAR'S GAUNTLET

• The Mustangs faced 10 ranked teams in the 2024 regular season.
• SMU defeated No. 57 Cornell (5-2), No. 34 Middle Tennessee (4-1), and swept No. 27 Memphis (4-0).
• Four of SMU's ranked opponents were spotted inside the top 15 (No. 2 TCU, No. 7 USC, No. 12 San Diego, No. 14 Texas A&M).

FRESH FACES

• SMU added four freshmen; Xavier Calvelo, Georgi Georgiev, Noah McDonald and Ofek Shimanov to its 2024-25 roster.
• Calvelo and McDonald competed as a Mustang in the fall, while Georgiev and Shimanov joined SMU in December and will debut in the blue and red at Hawaii.
• Along with the first-years, the Mustangs added Wake Forest junior transfer Vikas Deo to their roster for this season.