Men's Tennis Opens Fall Season at Two Tournaments This Weekend

• Santa Clara opens the fall season at two tournaments, the Aggie Invitational hosted by UC Davis starting on Friday and the ITA All-American Championships starting Saturday in Tulsa, Oklahoma. 
• Five Broncos - Nick Cmager, Santiago Hinojosa, Jack Pulliam, Matthew Rodriguez and Mann Shah - will play at the Aggie Invitational.
  • Four 16-player singles draws and two 16-team doubles draws for the event. 
  • Shah won the top-flight singles title at the Aggie Invitational last season.  
• Two Broncos - Guillaume Dalmasso and Arthur Neuhaus - will play at the ITA All-American Championships. 
  • Both Dalmasso and Neuhaus will play in the singles pre-qualifying rounds starting Saturday. 
  • The Bronco duo will play the doubles qualifying rounds starting Monday.  
• The Broncos hired a new assistant coach, Edson Ortiz during the offseason. 

In 2021-22: 

• Santa Clara posted a 10-12 season in 2021-22 including 5-4 in the West Coast Conference to qualify for the league tournament for the fourth time in five years (missing only during 2019-20 COVID year).  
• The Broncos finished ranked No. 7 in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association regional team rankings with Guillaume Dalmasso and Arthur Neuhaus ranked top-20 in singles.
• Three Broncos garnered All-WCC honors: Arthur Neuhaus, Mann Shah and Guillaume Dalmasso.  
• The team was recognized by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association as an All-Academic team for the fourth-straight year and four Broncos were named ITA Scholar-Athletes.
• Dalmasso had a team best 24-11 overall singles record and a 12-4 dual match record.  
• Mann Shah led the team with 12 overall doubles victories and 10 dual match wins.  
• Shah won two titles last 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. 
• Santa Clara returns seven players (James Bell, Nick Cmager, Guillaume Dalmasso, Santiago Hinojosa, Arthur Neuhaus, Matthew Rodriguez and Mann Shah) from last season.  
• Head coach Niall Angus is in his seventh year as the head coach. Entering the 2021-22 season, Angus owned a 68-53 career record and coached 11 all-conference singles, 11 all-conference doubles and 16 conference all-academic honorees.