COLLEGE STATION, Texas \u2013 Keeping its season alive with a top-10 victory on the road, No. 18 Stanford men\u2019s tennis defeated 11th-seeded No. 10 Texas A&M, 4-2, in the second round of the NCAA Championship to advance to the NCAA Super Regionals. The Cardinal improves to 19-8 on the season.<\/p>\n
Stanford advances to its fifth consecutive NCAA Super Regional, four of which have come with regional wins on the road. Texas A&M joins Harvard (2022), Columbia (2023) and Oklahoma (2024) in dropping home regionals as a seeded team to the Cardinal over the past five seasons \u2013 no other program in college tennis has more than one road regional win over the five-year stretch.<\/p>\n
For the second straight battle to open the NCAA Championship Stanford had to come from behind after dropping the doubles point. Samir Banerjee<\/a> and Jagger Leach<\/a> fought to a 7-5 victory on court three, but Stanford was outlasted in the top two positions to give Texas A&M an early lead.<\/p>\n The momentum shifted Stanford\u2019s way in singles, with the Cardinal obtaining four first sets. Banerjee finished off an unblemished weekend in singles with a clinical 6-1, 6-1 victory on court two, his third victory in a row. Hudson Rivera<\/a> gave Stanford its first lead in the match at 2-1 with a 6-3, 6-3 victory on court four, giving the junior his 15th singles win of the season. Texas A&M responded with a win on court five to tie the match at 2-2.<\/p>\n After winning a 9-7 tiebreaker in his first set, Nico Godsick<\/a> earned a 6-3 second set victory to give Stanford an advantage it would not relinquish, with Godsick tallying his 12th win of the season.<\/p>\n Alex Razeghi<\/a> provided Stanford the clinching point, his sixth of the season, with his 21st victory of the season, 6-4, 7-5. Razeghi improved to 4-0 at No. 1 singles and 5-0 against ranked opponents, while the result was the highest-ranked win of his career.<\/p>\n Stanford improves to 6-1 all-time against Texas A&M and 123-29 all-time in the NCAA Championship.<\/p>\n The Cardinal will travel to sixth-seeded No. 2 TCU on Saturday, May 9 at 11 a.m. PT.<\/p>\n No. 18 Stanford 4, No. 10 Texas A&M 2<\/p>\n DOUBLES SINGLES
1) No. 2 Papamalamis\/Tokac (TAMU) d. No. 22 Chang\/Razeghi (STAN), 6-3
2) Montsi\/Frusina (TAMU) d. Godsick\/Rivera (STAN), 7-5
3) Banerjee\/Leach (STAN) d. Molder\/Skrobrarcek (TAMU), 7-5
Order of Finish: 1, 3, 2<\/p>\n
1) No. 57 Alex Razeghi<\/a> (STAN) d. No. 12 Theo Papamalamis (TAMU), 6-4, 7-5
2) Samir Banerjee<\/a> (STAN) d. No. 33 Kholo Montsi (TAMU), 6-1, 6-1
3) Nico Godsick<\/a> (STAN) d. No. 88 Alex Frusina (TAMU), 7-6 (7), 6-3
4) No. 81 Hudson Rivera<\/a> (STAN) d. Markus Molder (TAMU), 6-3, 6-3
5) Togan Tokac (TAMU) d. Jagger Leach<\/a> (STAN), 6-4, 6-4
6) Alex Chang<\/a> (STAN) led Lathan Skrobarcek (TAMU), 3-6, 6-3, 5-4 uf
Order of Finish: 2, 4, 5, 3, 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLLEGE STATION, Texas \u2013 Keeping its season alive with a top-10 victory on the road, No. 18 Stanford…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-645803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}