Third Seeded Men's Tennis to Face Saint Mary's in WCC Tournament

Men's Tennis

Posted: Apr 26, 2023

WCC Tennis Tournament Central

THE TEAMS

Sixth-seeded Saint Mary's (5-13, 4-5 WCC) vs third-seeded Santa Clara (15-9, 6-3 WCC)

MATCH INFO

vs. Saint Mary's

When: Thursday, April 27 at 1 p.m. PT

Where: Aztec Tennis Complex, San Diego State University

Live Stats: Live Scoring

Video: Live Stream

NOTES

Santa Clara is seeded third in the West Coast Conference Tennis Tournament and will play sixth-seed Saint Mary's on Thursday at 1 p.m. PT.
Refer to the WCC Tenns Tournament Central page for information throughout the tournament.
The winner of the Broncos and the Gaels match will play second-seed Pepperdine on Friday at 1:30 p.m. PT.
During the regular season, Saint Mary's topped Santa Clara 4-3 in Moraga coming back from a 3-1 deficit.
SCU closed out the regular season at home last weekend with a split against Pepperdine and LMU to secure the third seed.
Three Broncos were named All-WCC on Wednesday. Christian Lerby was named second team singles, Arthur Neuhaus was named honorable mention singles, and Neuhaus along with Guillaume Dalmasso were named second team doubles.
Prior to Sunday's match against LMU, five Broncos seniors - Nick Cmager, Santiago Hinojosa, Neuhaus, Jack Pulliam and Mann Shah - were ecognized in a pre-match ceremony.
Santa Clara enters the WCC Tournament having won four of their last five matches overall.
SCU is 6-6 away from home including 1-0 in neutral site matches. Saint Mary's is 1-10 in away contests.
Lerby was ranked No. 117 in the ITA Division I Men's National Singles Rankings two weeks ago.
Lerby tops the team with 14 singles wins in dual matches against just two losses.
Dalmasso, Neuhaus and Shah leads the team in doubles wins in dual matches with 13.
Santa Clara was picked to finish fourth in the West Coast Conference in the WCC preseason poll.
The eight-player squad is comprised entirely of upperclassmen. Graduate Students (4): Santiago Hinojosa, Christian Lerby, Arthur Neuhaus and Jack Pulliam; Seniors (3): Nick Cmager, Matthew Rodriguez and Mann Shah; Junior (1): Guillaume Dalmasso.
In the fall, Hinojosa led the team with eight singles wins while Pulliam had the most doubles wins with seven.
The Broncos hired a new assistant coach, Edson Ortiz last May.

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.
- Santa Clara returns six players (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.