DALLAS (SMU) – No. 32 SMU Men's Tennis is set to host No. 18 Notre Dame on Friday before taking on No. 53 Louisville at Styslinger/Altec Tennis Complex this weekend.
The Mustangs' match against Notre Dame will begin at 5 pm CT and Sunday's match will start at noon.
SMU will feature current top-ranked singles player,
Trevor Svajda, who reclaimed his No. 1 ranking on March 17.
Friday's match against Notre Dame will feature a ceremonial first serve by Ron Rosas, a Dallas native and Notre Dame Men's Tennis alum, who lost all four limbs in a battle with pneumonia.
Last Time Out
- The Mustangs are coming off a 1-1 home ACC weekend.
- SMU defeated Florida State 4-1 on Sunday after falling short 4-3 against Miami last Friday. The Hurricanes won a tight tiebreaker clincher.
Matchups And History
- SMU trails its series against Notre Dame 3-8. The last time the Mustangs were matched against the Fighting Irish was in 2022, when UND won 4-3.
- The Mustangs' last win over Notre Dame was in 2005.
- SMU leads the series against Louisville 2-1. The last time the Mustangs faced the Cardinals was in the first round of the 2006 NCAA Championship when the Cardinals won 4-0.
No Bear Zone
- The Mustangs posted 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.
ACC Players Of The Week
- SMU has won five Player of the Week honors this season. Three Mustangs have earned the honors with Trevor Svajda having won three of the awards.
- Aside from Svajda, Jerry Barton and Georgi Georgiev have also earned ACC Player of the Week awards.
- Notre Dame features this week's ACC Doubles Players of the Week in Luis Llorens Saracho and Peter Nad who defeated Stanford's No. 6 Alex Chang and Alex Razeghi (6-2) and Cal's Alex Aney and Tiago Silva (6-4) last week.
Numbers To The Mustangs
- The Mustangs sit at No. 32 in the ITA team rankings on March 24.
- Trevor Svajda reclaimed the No. 1 singles ranking on March 17.
- Alex Finkelstein moved up to No. 102 in the singles ranking after.
Servin' Svajda
- Trevor Svajda is the top-ranked singles player in college tennis. This is his third week as the No. 1-ranked singles player this season.
- He is 17-1 in singles play this spring and has only dropped five sets out of the 44 he has played.
- He has seven singles wins against ranked opponents. He defeated Miami's No. 113 Antonio Prat, Florida State's No. 121 Luis Felipe Miguel, Baylor's No. 12 Devin Badenhorst, Ohio State's No. 13 Aidan Kim and Florida's No. 54 Adhitya Ganesan.
- 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.
- Svajda has been named Player of the Week three times this season (Feb. 3, Feb. 17 and March 10).
- In the fall, Svajda defeated seven players ranked players ranked in the final ITA Fall Singles rankings.
- 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.
Ranked Players This Weekend
- Trevor Svajda is the current top-ranked singles player in the nation. Alex Finkelstein is the other ranked SMU singles player at No. 102.
- Notre Dame's Sebastian Dominiko is ranked No. 13 and Perry Gregg is ranked No. 78 in the ITA singles rankings.
- Two Fighting Irish doubles pairs are ranked. Luis Llorens Saracho and Peter Nad are ranked No. 53 and Sebastian Dominiko and Peter Nad are ranked No. 55.
Parking Information
- Spectator parking is available at Meadows Garage.
