Men's Tennis Heads to Santa Barbara for Two Matches This Weekend

Santa Clara (4-3) at UC Santa Barbara (*7-4)

*Plays BYU on Friday before facing Santa Clara.

 

Santa Clara (4-3) vs. Florida Atlantic (**8-1) - neutral site match

**Plays UC Santa Barbara on Saturday before facing Santa Clara.

 

vs. UC Santa Barbara

When: Saturday, March 5 at 1 p.m.
Where: Arnhold Tennis Center (Santa Barbara, Calif.)

Video: Live Stream

 

vs. Florida Atlantic

NOTES

• Santa Clara travel to Santa Barbara, California to face UC Santa Barbara on Saturday and play Florida Atlantic in a neutral site match on Sunday.
• The Broncos are coming off a weekend split, beating UNLV 4-3 and falling to UC Irvine 4-1.  
• Senior Arthur Neuhaus had his first clincher with the match tied at 3-all against UNLV.  
• Guillaume Dalmasso had his 10-match singles win streak, including six in the spring season, broken against UC Irvine's Riccardo Roberto, losing in three sets.  Dalmasso is 18-5 overall in singles action this season.  
• Junior Mann Shah won two titles during the fall, the top-flight singles title at the UC Davis Aggie Invitational and the ITA Super Regionals consolation bracket singles title.
• Sophomore Guillaume Dalmasso was the singles runner-up at the ITA Northwest Regional Championship's main draw while junior Ryan Ali was the runner-up in the consolation bracket.
• Dalmasso tops the team with 12 singles wins while Shah and Neuhaus have nine each.
• Shah and James Bell led the fall with three doubles wins each.  
• Santa Clara returns seven players (Ryan Ali, Nick Cmager, Guillaume Dalmasso, Santiago Hinojosa, Arthur Neuhaus, Matthew Rodriguez and Mann Shah) from last season when it finished 8-7, 4-4 WCC, including victories in five of the last six matches in an abbreviated campaign composed of only the spring season.  The Broncos added one newcomer, James Bell, who transferred from Louisville.
• The Broncos finished No. 5 in the Spring 2021 Oracle Intercollegiate Tennis Association regional team rankings.  Shah finished top-20 in singles with Arthur Neuhaus ranked No. 5 in doubles.
• Last spring, Neuhaus was named All-WCC Second Team Doubles where he tied for the team lead (alongside Dominic Barretto) with six doubles victories and led the team with nine singles wins.  
• Shah earned his first conference honor when he finished the spring 7-8 including 3-7 at No. 1 and 4-1 at No. 2.  The sophomore from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India won three of his last four matches.
• Head coach Niall Angus is in his sixth year as the head coach. Entering the 2021-22 season, Angus owned a 58-41 career record and coached eight all-conference singles, seven all-conference doubles and nine conference all-academic honorees.