STANFORD, Calif. (SMU) – SMU Men's Tennis will resume its Atlantic Coast Conference campaign at No. 24 Stanford on Friday before heading to Berkeley to face No. 56 Cal on Sunday.

The Mustangs' match at Stanford will begin at 8:30 pm CT, while the match against the Golden Bears will start at 2 pm CT.

SMU is coming off a historic win at Waco when they took down No. 8 Baylor 4-2.

No Bear Zone

• The Mustangs are coming off a historic win at No. 8 Baylor.
• The win marks SMU's first win over Baylor since 2001. It is the team's first win at Waco since 1996.
• Defeating No. 8 Baylor also marks SMU's highest-ranked win since the team defeated No. 4 TCU in 2001.
• Highest-ranked win under Head Coach Grant Chen.

Servin' Svajda

• Trevor Svajda is ranked No. 2 in the ITA singles rankings as of March 3.
• He is 13-1 in singles play this spring and have only dropped two sets.
• Svajda earned a wild card qualifiers invite to the ATP1000 Indian Wells Open earlier this week.
• He became the first Mustang to win an ATP 1000-level match since Richey Reneberg in 1999.
• He has five singles wins against ranked opponents. He defeated Baylor's No. 12 Devin Badenhorst, Ohio State's No. 13 Aidan Kim and Florida's No. 54 Adhitya Ganesan.
• Svajda has been named Player of the Week twice this season (Feb. 3 and Feb. 17).
• In the fall, Svajda defeated seven players ranked players ranked in the final ITA Fall Singles rankings.
• He has wins over Texas A&M's No. 112 Khololwam Montsi, Baylor's No. 17 Connor Henry Van Scharlkwyk, Florida's No. 31 Jeremy Jin, Auburn's No. 40 Amirkhamza Nasridinov, Illlinois's No. 10 Kenta Miyoshi, Mississippi State's No. 13 Petar Jovanovic and NC State's No. 9 Martin Borisiouk.
• Became the first Mustang to reach the championship match since Richey Reneberg in 1986. He fell in the final match 4-6, 6-1, 2-6 to defending champion Michael Zheng after defeating NC State's Martin Borisiouk 6-2, 6-0 in the semifinal round of the tournament. Svajda defeated Mississippi State's Petar Johanovic 6-3, 6-2 in the quarterfinals to become the first Mustang to reach the semifinals—also the first Mustang since Reneberg in 1986.

Matchups And Scout

• SMU is 0-4 against Stanford and 5-11 against Cal.
• The then No. 9 Stanford won 4-2 in Dallas last season.
• The Mustangs fell 4-2 to No. 10 Cal at home last season.
• SMU defeated the Golden Bears 5-2 in 2024.

Ranked Players This Weekend

• Trevor Svajda is the current second-ranked singles player in the nation. Alex Finkelstein is the other ranked SMU singles player at No. 107.
• Stanford's Hudson Rivera is ranked No. 58 and Alex Chang is the No. 113-ranked singles player in the nation. There are three ranked Cardinal pairs with Alex Chang and Alexander Razeghi at No. 12.
• Cal's Timofey Stepanov and Tiago Silva are ranked No. 70 in doubles.

Three New POTWs

• Three Mustangs earned their first ACC Player of the Week honors this season.
• Trevor Svajda is a two-time ACC player of the week honoree (Feb. 13 & 17).
• Jerry Barton (Jan. 13) and Georgi Georgiev (March 10) earned their first weekly honors.

SMU At The ITA Indoors

• The Mustangs came out of their 2026 ITA National Team Indoor Championship campaign with a 1-2 record.
• SMU earned a win over No. 22 Arizona State last weekend. The win was SMU's first ITA National Team Indoor Championship match win since 2000 and its highest-ranked win since 2023.
• They fell short to No. 2 Ohio State 4-3 in a tiebreaker on the deciding singles match.
• Trevor Svajda was 3-0 in singles play during the tournament without dropping a single set. He defeated two ranked opponents.
• Svajda and Alex Finkelstein earned their first ranked win as a doubles pair.

New Faces

• SMU welcomed three transfers prior to the fall season.
• Krish Arora came to the Hilltop after spending two years at Georgia Tech. The incoming junior posted a 29-24 singles record as a Yellow Jacket. Arora was ranked as high as No. 19 in the ITA doubles rankings with Clement. Notably, he competed in the 2024 US Junior US Open.
• Matthew Faraci hails from Manakin Sabot, Virginia. Faraci is a two-time VISAA Player of the Year and was named All-Metro Richmond Player of the Year this past season. He was undefeated in his two final high school seasons.
• Alex Finkelstein joined the Mustangs after three years at Brown. Prior to Brown, the Raynham, Massachusetts, native played his freshman year at Columbia. Played as Brown's No. 1 singles player, posting an overall record of 17-10 and a 15-8 record in dual match play. He is ranked No. 123 in the final ITA singles rankings and was ranked as high as No. 115 on April 15. Ended the season as the No. 6 Singles performer in the New England Region by the ITA.

First Wins At Smu

• Krish Arora won his first doubles match for SMU over Mississippi State's Niccolo Baroni / Ma Martinez Serran (6-3). Arora was paired with Georgi Georgiev for the first time.
• Arora won his first dual match singles match with SMU against Lamar (7(8)-6, 2-6, 10-3).
• Alex Finkelstein won his first singles match in a dual setting against Lamar's Fabian Anthin.
• Meethre Barot grabbed his first win in doubles play against Lamar (6-3).