AUSTIN, Texas (SMU) – No. 32 SMU Men's Tennis is set to take on No. 37 Princeton in the first round of the NCAA Championship in Austin, Texas, on Friday.

The match will begin at 10 am CT at the Texas Tennis Center. It will be relocated to the indoor courts at Weller Tennis Center in the event of inclement weather.

This will be SMU's fourth NCAA tournament appearance in the past five years.

NCAA Championship Return

• The Mustangs were selected to take on No. 37 Princeton at No. 2 overall seed Texas following their 19-10 regular season campaign.
• SMU returns to the tournament for the fourth time in the last five years. In 2024, the Mustangs fell to Stanford in the first round of the tournament in Norman, Oklahoma.
• On the other side of the Texas regional bracket is Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, facing the Longhorns.
• The last time SMU played an NCAA Championship match in Austin, Texas, was in 2022 against LSU. Assistant coach Kent Hunter was a player on that LSU team.

Matchups And History

• SMU has won its two meetings against Princeton.
• The two teams' first meeting was in the first round of the 1977 NCAA Championship when the Mustangs won 7-2.
• SMU defeated the Tigers 5-2 at home in 1995.

Last Time Out

• The Mustangs fell 5-0 to Cal in the second round of the ACC Championship in Cary, N.C., on April 17.
• SMU closed its regular season with a 19-10 record. Two top-25 wins highlighted the Mustangs regular season campaign.

ACC Players Of The Week

• SMU 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. 32 in the ITA team rankings on April 30.
• Trevor Svajda was named the No. 2-ranked singles player in the ITA rankings this week. Svajda is ranked No. 54 in the doubles ranking with Jerry Barton.

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.
• Svajda has 32 singles wins through fall and spring, fourth all-time in single-season singles wins.
• He has nine ranked singles wins this spring. He defeated TCU's No. 6 Duncan Chan, Mississippi State's No. 54 Benito Sanchez Martinez, 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 Match

• Trevor Svajda is the no. 2-ranked singles player in the nation. Svajda is ranked No. 54 with Jerry Barton in doubles.
• Princeton's Paul Inchauspe is the No. 6th ranked singles player in the nation. Inchauspe is ranked No. 27 with Landon Ardilla in doubles.