HOUSTON (SMU) – No. 31 SMU Men's Tennis is set to take on No. 50 Rice in Houston, Texas, on Wednesday.

The match will begin at 5:30 pm CT at the George R Brown Tennis Center.

This match will be SMU's final non-conference regular season match of the season.

Last Time Out

• The Mustangs are coming off a 1-1 road ACC weekend.
• SMU won at No. 47 Georgia Tech 4-2 on Thursday before falling at No. 34 Clemson 4-2 on Saturday.

Matchups And History

• SMU is leading the series against Rice 26-16.
• The previous meeting between the two teams was in 2024 when the Mustangs won 4-1 in Keller, Texas.

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 19-2 in singles play this spring and have only dropped nine sets out of the 54 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 In This Match

• Trevor Svajda is the no. 2-ranked singles player in the nation.
• Rice's Petro Kuzmenok is ranked No. 54 in singles. Kuzmenok and Santiago Navarro are ranked No. 47 in the doubles rankings.