ATLANTA (SMU) – No. 31 SMU Men's Tennis is set to visit No. 47 Georgia Tech on Thursday before heading to No. 34 Clemson on Saturday.
The Mustangs' match at Georgia Tech will begin at 3 pm CT and Saturday's match against Clemson will start at 11 am CT.
SMU will feature the current top-ranked singles player,
Trevor Svajda. He was named No. 1 singles player by the ITA for the fourth time this season on March 31.
Last Time Out
- The Mustangs are coming off a 1-1 home ACC weekend.
- SMU swept Louisville 4-0 on Sunday after falling to No. 18 Notre Dame 4-2 on Friday.
Matchups And History
- SMU trails the series against Georgia Tech 2-1. The Yellow Jackets won the two teams' previous meeting 4-3 at home last season.
- Junior Krish Arora played for Georgia Tech last season.
- This will be SMU's first trip to Atlanta.
- SMU and Clemson are tied at 5-5 in their all-time series. The Tigers won 4-2 in Dallas last season.
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.
Numbers To The Mustangs
- The Mustangs sit at No. 31 in the ITA team rankings on March 31.
- Trevor Svajda remains the No. 1 singles ranking this week.
Servin' Svajda
- Trevor Svajda is the top-ranked singles player in college tennis. This is his fourth week as the No. 1-ranked singles player this season.
- He is 18-1 in singles play this spring and have only dropped six sets out of the 48 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.
- 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.
Ranked Players This Weekend
- Trevor Svajda is the current top-ranked singles player in the nation.
- Clemson's Romain Gales (No. 43) and Viktor Markov (No. 54) are the two other ranked singles players this weekend.
- Clemson has two ranked doubles pairs.