CARY, N.C. (SMU) – No. 7 seed SMU Men's Tennis is set to face No. 10 seed California in the second round of the ACC Championships at Cary Tennis Park in Cary, N.C., on Thursday.

The match is scheduled for 11:30 am CT, following the second-round match between Duke and Miami.

The Mustangs earned the No. 7 seed in the tournament after finishing the regular season with an 8-5 ACC record.

Last Time Out

• The Mustangs swept Boston College 4-0 on senior day to close the regular season.
• SMU ended its second season in the ACC with a 19-10 record and an 8-5 conference record.
• The Mustangs have two top-25 wins, including a top-10 win at No. 8 Baylor this season.

Matchups And History

• SMU won 4-3 at Cal in the regular season.
• The Mustangs won the doubles point before Trevor Svajda, Alex Finkelstein and Georgi Georgiev clinched the match by winning their singles matches.
• SMU trails the all-time series against Cal 6-11.
• The last time SMU played Cal at a neutral site was in 2010 when the Bears won 7-0.

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. 34 in the ITA team rankings on April 14.
• Trevor Svajda was named the No. 2-ranked singles player in the ITA rankings this week.

Servin' Svajda

• Trevor Svajda is 21-2 in singles play this spring and have only dropped nine sets out of the 56 he has played.
• He has nine ranked singles wins this spring. He defeated Rice's No. 54  Petro Kuzmenok, 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, Duke's Pedro Rodenas 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 eight players ranked players ranked in the final ITA Fall Singles rankings.
• He has wins over South Carolina's No. 56 Sean Daryabeigi, 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, Illinois'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 no. 2-ranked singles player in the nation.

Visitor Information

• Tickets to the tournament are available here.