Posted: Apr 26, 2022
THE TEAMS
No. 5 seed Santa Clara (10-11, 5-4 WCC) vs. No. 4 seed Gonzaga (17-5, 6-3 WCC)
MATCH INFO
vs. Gonzaga
When: Thursday, April 28 at 10 a.m.
Where: Ojai Valley Athletic Club & Weil Academy (Ojai, California)
Where: Ojai Valley Athletic Club & Weil Academy (Ojai, California)
Video: YouTube
Live Stats: Live Scoring
NOTES
- Head coach Niall Angus is in his sixth year as the head coach. Angus owns a 68-52 career record and has coached eight all-conference singles, seven all-conference doubles and nine conference all-academic honorees.
- The 2018-19 squad finished No. 67 in the final Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) national rankings.
- The 2020-21 team finished No. 5 in the final ITA regional rankings.
- Angus has once again led the Broncos to a West Coast Conference Tournament berth in 2022 where they've made the tournament in each of the four seasons that it's been played while the head coach. The WCC Tournament was not held in 2019-20 and 2020-21 due to COVID.
- Angus has a 3-3 record in the WCC Tournament, leading the Broncos to the finals in 2018-19.
- Santa Clara finished the 2021-22 regular season with an overall record of 10-11 and 5-4 in the West Coast Conference to earn a fifth seed in the conference tournament.
- The Broncos face fourth seed Gonzaga (17-5, 6-3 WCC) on Thursday at 10 a.m. at the Ojai Valley Athletic Club.
- In the regular season match between the two schools, Gonzaga came up on top 4-0 in Spokane, Washington.
- The winner of the Santa Clara/Gonzaga match will face No. 1 seed San Diego on Friday, also at 10 a.m. at the Ojai Valley Athletic Club.
- Santa Clara was 3-8 on road matches this season including 1-1 in neutral site matches. Gonzaga was 6-5 on the road including 1-0 at a neutral site.
- The Broncos won two of their three matches last week including a come from behind 4-3 win at LMU on Sunday.
- The Bulldogs fell at Portland 4-1 in their last match.
- 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 12-6 dual match record.
- Arthur Neuhaus won a team-high five WCC singles matches.
- Mann Shah leads the team with 11 doubles victories on the year with nine of them coming during the spring.
- Shah and Neuhaus each have a team-high two conference doubles wins.
- 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.
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