Posted: Apr 07, 2022
THE TEAMS
Saturday: BYU (*8-7, 1-2) at Santa Clara (7-8, 2-2 WCC)
Sunday: San Diego (**15-2, 4-0) at Santa Clara (7-8, 2-2 WCC)
*Plays San Francisco on Friday before facing Santa Clara.
**Plays San Francisco on Saturday before facing Santa Clara.
MATCH INFO
vs. BYU
When: Saturday, April 9 at 11 a.m.
Where: Degheri Tennis Center (Santa Clara, Calif.)
Where: Degheri Tennis Center (Santa Clara, Calif.)
Live Stats: StatBroadcast
Video: Live Stream
vs. San Diego
When: Sunday, April 10 at 1 p.m.
Where: Degheri Tennis Center (Santa Clara, Calif.)
Where: Degheri Tennis Center (Santa Clara, Calif.)
Live Stats: StatBroadcast
Video: Live Stream
NOTES
- Santa Clara returns home for a pair of West Coast Conference matches against BYU and San Diego this weekend.
- The Broncos went 0-2 last week losing both WCC matches on the road at Portland and Gonzaga.
- The Broncos are 6-1 at home this season but are 0-6 on the road 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 22 singles wins this season and a 10-3 dual match record. He has won 14 of his last 17 matches.
- Mann Shah 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 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.
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