Men's Tennis at San Francisco on Saturday

 

Santa Clara (8-10, 3-3 WCC) at San Francisco (11-9, 3-3 WCC)

 

vs. San Francisco

When: Saturday, April 16 at 2 p.m.
Where: Golden Gate Park (San Francisco)

  

NOTES

• Santa Clara travels to San Francisco to face the Dons on Saturday at *2 p.m.  *Note, first serve time change from 4 p.m. to 2 p.m. 
• The Broncos closed out the home schedule with a 4-0 loss to Cal Poly on Wednesday.  
• SCU finished the year 7-3 at home.  They are 0-6 in true road contests and 1-1 in neutral site matches.  
• The remaining three matches are all on the road against West Coast Conference opponents.  
• On March 29 Guillaume Dalmasso was named WCC Singles Player of the Week after he moved atop the singles lineup and posted a 2-0 record with wins over SMC's James Watt and Pacific's Aleska Mardjonovic.  His match against Yale's Michael Sun went unfinished, the first unfinished match he has had all season.  
• Dalmasso tops the team with 23 singles wins this season and a 11-4 dual match record.  He has won 15 of his last 19 matches.
• Dalmasso and Arthur Neuhaus each have three conference wins in singles.  
• Mann Shah and James Bell leads with 10 doubles victories on the year with eight wins coming during the spring. 
• 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.
• 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 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.