Men's Tennis at ITA Northwest Regionals in Berkeley This Week

• Santa Clara will compete at the ITA Northwest Regional Championships this week.
• Players will compete for singles and doubles titles and for spots in the upcoming ITA Northwest Super Regional Championships (Oct. 21-24 at Stanford) and for qualification to the ITA National Fall Championships (Nov. 2-6, San Diego). 
• Guillaume Dalmasso and Arthur Neuhaus have already qualified directly into the Super Regionals but the rest of the squad will be competing this week at the regionals in Berkeley, California.   
• Last week, the Broncos opened the fall season at two tournament - the ITA All-American Championships and the UC Davis Aggies Invitiational - with a split squad. 
• At the ITA All-American Championships in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Guillaume Dalmasso and Arthur Neuhaus played in both the singles and doubles draws. 
  • In singles, both Dalmasso and Neuhaus won their first two matches before losing in the round of 64.
  • In doubles, the Bronco duo won their first round match but fell in the round of 32.  
• At the Aggie Invitational, five Broncos - Nick Cmager, Santiago Hinojosa, Jack Pulliam, Matthew Rodriguez and Mann Shah - competed.  
  • Over the course of the five day tournament, the Broncos picked up 11 singles and five doubles victories.  
• 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.