{"id":70929,"date":"2025-08-15T19:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T19:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/70929\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T19:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T19:19:08","slug":"chen-announces-fall-2025-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/70929\/","title":{"rendered":"Chen Announces Fall 2025 Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     <a href=\"https:\/\/smumustangs.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/schedule\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fall Schedule<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DALLAS (SMU) \u2014\u00a0SMU Men&#8217;s Tennis Head Coach <a href=\"https:\/\/smumustangs.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/coaches\/grant-chen\/6437\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6437\" target=\"_blank\">Grant Chen<\/a> announces his team&#8217;s schedule for the fall of 2025 on Friday.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Mustangs will play in 10 regular season tournaments, leading up to the NCAA Individual Championships on Nov. 18-23. This year&#8217;s NCAA Individual Championships will be held in Orlando, Florida.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;We are hungry and motivated to start off a brand-new collegiate tennis season. We grew and learned so much last season in our inaugural year in the ACC,&#8221; said Chen.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;The NCAA individual Championships last fall have allowed us to understand the new fall format. We have a great balance of tournaments and a much more experienced team.&#8221;<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSMU will open the season at the Waco Fall Kickoff at Baylor on Sep. 12-14.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nStyslinger\/Altec Tennis Complex is set to host the annual Ralston\/Neufeld Coaches Challenge from Oct. 30 to Nov. 2.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Mustangs&#8217; road to the 2025 NCAA Individual Championships will begin at the ITA All-American Championships (Sep. 20-28) in Tulsa, Oklahoma. They will compete for ten singles and four doubles qualifying spots for the NCAA Championships in the tournament.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nA second opportunity to qualify for the NCAA Individual Championships will be at the ITA Texas Regional Championships hosted by Texas A&amp;M, Oct. 15-21. Twenty-six singles and 13 doubles NCAA Championships qualifiers will be named at the Regional Championships.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe ITA Sectional Championships, scheduled for Nov. 6-9, is the final NCAA qualifying opportunity for the Mustangs. The ITA Sectionals will have 24 singles and 12 doubles spots for the NCAA Individual Championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; Fall Schedule DALLAS (SMU) \u2014\u00a0SMU Men&#8217;s Tennis Head Coach Grant Chen announces his team&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-70929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}