DALLAS (SMU) – No. 31 SMU Men's Tennis is set to host Boston College on its Senior Day on Saturday.
The match will begin at 12 pm CT at the Styslinger / Altec Tennis Complex. Senior day ceremonies will take place after doubles play.
Last Time Out
- The Mustangs defended the Turpin Cup by defeating Rice 4-1 in Houston on Wednesday.
Matchups And History
- SMU has only played Boston College once when they beat the Golden Eagles 4-0 in Boston 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 April 7.
- Trevor Svajda was named the No. 2-ranked singles player in the ITA rankings this week.
Servin' Svajda
- Trevor Svajda is 20-2 in singles play this spring and have only dropped nine sets out of the 54 he has played.
- He has eight singles wins against ranked opponents. He defeated Rice's No. 54 Petro Kuzmenok, Florida State's No. 121 Luis Felipe Miguel, Miami's No. 113 Antonio Prat, Baylor's No. 12 Devin Badenhorst, Duke's No. 103 Pedro Rodenas, Florida's No. 54 Adhithya Ganesan, Ohio State's No. 13 Aidan Kim and Mississippi State's No. 54 Benito Sanchez Martinez .
- 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
Parking Information
- Spectator parking is available at Meadows Garage.
