Friday, April 4
Winston-Salem, N.C.
2:30 pm CT
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SMU (13-15, 1-9 ACC) at No. 1 Wake Forest (28-0, 10-0 ACC)
Winston-Salem, N.C. | Wake Forest Tennis Center
Friday, April 4 – 2:30 p.m. CT
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SMU (13-15, 1-9 ACC) at No. 4 NC State (18-4, 10-0 ACC)
Raleigh, N.C. | J.W. Isenhour Tennis Center
Sunday, April 6 – 11 a.m. CT
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DALLAS (SMU) – SMU Men's Tennis will travel to No. 1 Wake Forest before visiting No. 4 NC State to resume ACC play on Friday and Sunday.
SMU vs No. 1 WAKE FOREST
SMU (13-15, 1-9 ACC) at No. 1 Wake Forest (28-0, 10-0 ACC)
Winston-Salem, N.C. | Wake Forest Tennis Center
Friday, April 4 – 2:30 p.m. CT
Live Results | Watch Live | SMU Notes
SMU (13-15, 1-9 ACC) at No. 4 NC State (18-4, 10-0 ACC)
Raleigh, N.C. | J.W. Isenhour Tennis Center
Sunday, April 6 – 11 a.m. CT
Live Results | Watch Live | SMU Notes
DALLAS (SMU) – SMU Men's Tennis will travel to No. 1 Wake Forest before visiting No. 4 NC State to resume ACC play on Friday and Sunday.
SMU vs No. 1 WAKE FOREST
- The No. 1-seeded Wake Forest won the ITA National Indoor Championships at Styslinger / Altec Tennis Complex in February. SMU lost 4-0 to the Demon Deacons in the first round of the tournament on Feb. 14.
- Prior to their meeting this season, SMU and Wake Forest's previous meeting was in 1999, where SMU won 4-1 at a neutral site.
- Wake Forest is the only undefeated team in the nation and has been ranked first in the ITA since February 20. They are tied for first in the ACC standings with a 10-0 conference record.
- Three Demon Deacons are ranked in the latest ITA singles rankings. DK Suresh is the seventh-ranked player in the nation, Stefan Doscanic is ranked No. 17 while Ioannis Xilas was ranked No. 90.
- In doubles, Wake Forest has five doubles pairs ranked.
- The Mustangs and Wolfpack's first and only meeting was in Dallas on 1998 where NC State won 4-3.
- NC State was ranked No. 4 in the latest ITA rankings. They are tied for first in the ACC standings with a 10-0 conference record.
- NC State has three players ranked in the latest ITA singles rankings. Braden Shick (No. 29), Martin Borisiouk (No. 37), and Luca Staeheli (No. 74) were ranked on April 1.
- Two Pack pairs were ranked in the latest ITA doubles rankings. Braden Shick and Fons Van Sambeek were ranked No. 7, while Luca Staeheli and Jules Leroux were ranked No. 11.
- Stanford took the head start by winning the doubles point. Henry Schulenburg and Kyle Kang defeated No. 76 Georgi Georgiev and Ofek Shimanov (6-1) before the Cardinal's Nico Godsick and Hudson Rivera defeated Maks Silagy and Jerry Barton (6-1) to win the first point.
- The visitors extended their lead to 2-0 in singles play; Cloud dropped his match on court five to Godsick (6-2, 6-1).
- Stanford's No. 76 Max Basing won the visitors' third point by defeating Barton (6-3, 6-2) on court two.
- Xavier Calvelo forced a third set against Rivera, but the latter clinched the match for Stanford on court six (6-3, 3-6, 6-1).
- SMU took the early lead in a close doubles battle. The no. 76-ranked SMU pair of Georgi Georgiev and Ofek Shimanov won a dominant 6-2 match against Cal's Carl Emil Overbeck and Alex Chang to grab the first win of the day.
- Vikas Deo and Xavier Calvelo fell to the Bears' Mikey Wright and Lechno-Wasiutynski (6-3), but the Mustangs bounced back as Trevor Svajda and Louis Cloud (45) clinched the doubles point by defeating Cal's Theo Dean and Derrick Chen (6-3).
- At the start of singles play, Svajda defeated No. 9-ranked Overbeck (6-1, 6-1) to make it 2-0 for the Mustangs. Svajda's win is his highest-ranked singles win in his collegiate career.
- Calvelo dropped his match to Lechno-Wasiutynski (6-1, 6-3) on court six before Cal's Chen tied the match with a 6-2, 6-4 win over Cloud on court five.
- The visitors took the 3-2 lead as No. 37-ranked Dean defeated Shimanov (7-6(5), 6-2) on court three.
- Timofey Stepanov clinched the match for Cal with a 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 win over Georgiev on court four.
- SMU took the doubles points as Barton and Maks Silagy won against Giritharan D and Eddy Shteyn (6-0) on court two of doubles, followed by No. 45-ranked Svajda and Cloud clinching the point with a 6-4 win against Benjamin Dubois / Travis Rafferty on court one.
- In singles, Calvelo extended the lead for the Mustangs to 2-0 with a 6-1, 6-0 win over Shteyn. Deo grabbed another point for the Mustangs with a 6-0, 6-1 victory over Matheus Zanelloto on court six.
- Georgiev clinched the match at 4-0 for SMU on court two with a 6-1, 6-2 win against Giritharan D.
- SMU and UT Dallas played out the remaining singles matches, and the Mustangs won all three matches.
- SMU was ranked No. 64 in the latest ITA Team Rankings.
- Trevor Svajda moved up to No. 56 in the singles rankings.
- Svajda and Cloud were ranked No. 44 as a doubles pair.
- Svajda was ranked No. 53 in the current ITA singles rankings.
- He has five wins over ranked opponents this season.
- Most recently defeating the No. 9-ranked Carl Emil Overbeck from California.
- He made the quarterfinal round of the San Diego Open last weekend to earn a qualifier wild card to the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells. He fell in the first round of the Indian Wells Open.
- Sophomore 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.
- Svajda defeated No. 77 ranked Azuma Visaya in the first flight singles on the Mustangs' season-opener at Hawaii.
- 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).
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