Two Matches This Weekend to Close Out Regular for Men's Tennis

Santa Clara (9-10, 4-3 WCC) at No. 24 *Pepperdine (14-6, 6-1 WCC)

Santa Clara (9-10, 4-3 WCC) at **LMU (6-15, 1-6 WCC)

*Plays San Francisco on Friday before facing Santa Clara

**Plays San Francisco on Saturday before facing Santa Clara

 

vs. Pepperdine

When: Saturday, April 23 at 2 p.m.
Where: Ralphs-Straus Tennis Center (Malibu, California)

Live Stats: PlaySight
Video: Live Stream

 

  

NOTES

• Santa Clara closes out West Coast Conference play with a pair of weekend games in Southern California.  The Broncos face Pepperdine on Saturday and LMU on Sunday.  
• The Broncos have a 4-3 conference record and sit in sole position of fifth place in the league standings.  The top-six teams qualify for the WCC Championships (April 28-30).  
• SCU is coming off a 4-1 win at San Francisco in a midweek contest on Wednesday.  It was the first true road win of the spring.   
• SCU finished the year 7-3 at home.  They are 1-6 in true road contests and 1-1 in neutral site matches.   
• 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 24 singles wins this season and a 12-4 dual match record.  
• Dalmasso and Arthur Neuhaus each have four conference wins in singles to lead the team. 
• 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.