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2018 Smu Men's Tennis Match Notes 2018 SMU MEN’S TENNIS MATCH NOTES Media Contact: Riley Neuheardt MATCH # [email protected] • (214) 232-3557 SMU (7-9, 0-1 AMERICAN) 2018 SCHEDULE/RESULTS 16 AT BNP PARIBAS OPEN COLLEGIATE TENNIS CHALLENGE DATE OPPONENT TIME (CT)/RESULT 2018 BNP PARIBAS OPEN • INDIAN WELLS, CALIFORNIA • MARCH 16-18 Jan. 12 ACU W, 4-0 Jan. 19 Harvard L, 4-3 The Mustangs will travel to Indian Wells, California, to compete at the BNP Paribas Open Collegiate Tennis Challenge by Oracle Jan. 21 at #8 Texas L, 4-0 for the second-straight year Friday, March 16, to Sunday, March 18. ITA Kickoff Weekend (Los Angeles, Calif.) Jan. 26 vs. UC Santa Barbara L, 4-0 Jan. 27 vs. Indiana L, 4-0 SMU will play at least two matches at the Collegiate Tennis Challenge, beginning with No. 26 Arizona State, the tournament’s Feb. 4 UT Permian Basin W, 7-0 top-seeded team, Friday at 10 a.m. CT/8 a.m. PT. Midwestern State W, 4-0 Feb. 9 Arkansas L, 6-1 The winner of the match advances to play the winner of Baylor vs. Tulsa on Saturday at 1 p.m. CT/11 a.m. PT. The consolation Feb. 11 #18 TCU L, 4-0 match is set for Saturday at 10 a.m. CT/8 a.m. PT. The championship match is scheduled for Sunday, March 18. Feb. 17 Incarnate Word W, 4-2 Arkansas - Pine Bluff W, 6-1 The Mustangs are joined by seven prominent programs in the men’s side of the tournament: Tulsa, BYU, No. 26 Arizona State, Feb. 25 at #10 Oklahoma State L, 4-0 March 4 #41 Memphis* L, 4-1 No. 39 California, Purdue, USF and No. 29 Baylor. March 12 Prairie View A&M W, 5-2 Prairie View A&M W, 7-0 Live scores for the tournament can be found on Tennis Ticker. March 14 Columbia L, 4-0 BNP Paribas Collegiate Challenge by Oracle (Indian Wells, Calif.) SCOUTING ARIZONA STATE March 16 #26 Arizona State 8 a.m. PT/10 a.m. CT The Sun Devils are continuing an impressive 8-5 campaign that has placed them at No. 26 in the Oracle/ITA Rankings. ASU March 17 TBD TBD has suffered losses only at the hands of ranked opponents, falling most recently in a tight 4-2 match vs. No. 4 Ohio State. March 24 UTSA 4:30 pm The Sun Devils have three ranked singles players: No. 51 Benjamin Hannestad, No. 61 Michael Geerts and No. 116 Makey March 27 Tulane* 5 pm March 30 USF* 1:30 pm Rakotomalala. April 6 Wichita State* 4:30 pm April 8 UTA 5 pm SERIES INFO April 13 Tulsa* 4:30 pm The Mustangs hold a 0-2 series record against the Sun Devils dating back to the first meeting in 1994. The teams have not April 15 Rice 4:30 pm matched up since 1996, when SMU was met with a 6-1 loss on the road. SMU and ASU have never met on a neutral site. April 19-22 American Athletic Conference Tournament (Dallas, Texas) SMU vs. Arizona State (0-2) May 11-13 NCAA Regionals Home: 0-0, Away: 0-2, Neutral: 0-0 May 17-28 NCAA Championship (Winson-Salem, N.C.) 2/27/94..............A.................L .................... 7-0 All dates and times (CT) are subject to chance, home matches are bold, 2/24/96..............A.................L .................... 6-1 * denotes American Athletic Conference match NEUFELD – ROAD TO 600 WINS SMU TENNIS COMPLEX Head Coach Carl Neufeld is already the winningest active head coach as SMU, but he is one win away from another impressive To ensure the future success of SMU’s historic tennis milestone. Neufeld sits at 599 career wins, with 418 at SMU. The veteran coach is in his 25th season with SMU and holds program, a new SMU Tennis Complex, Turpin Stadium & a .638 winning percentage on the Hilltop. Neufeld earned his 400th win at SMU when the Mustangs defeated then-No. 19 Brookshire Family Pavilion opened in 2015. The new com- Arkansas, 4-3, in Fayetteville, Arkansas on Jan. 20, 2017. plex is a preeminent, top-tier facility located prominently on the south side of Mockingbird Lane at the corner of North TAKING ON RANKED OPPONENTS Central Expressway, formerly the site of Mrs. Baird’s Bakery. The Mustangs have not shied away from tough competition in dual match season, having faced five Oracle/ITA nationally- ranked teams in 15 matches. SMU first traveled to No. 8 Texas, followed by a home match against No. 18 TCU, a road match at No. 10 Oklahoma State, and home matches vs. No. 41 Memphis and No. 9 Columbia. Since taking on Harvard and Arkansas, The new complex provides both indoor and outdoor courts both teams have appeared on the national rankings as well, with Arkansas listed at No. 50 on Feb. 20 and Harvard reaching as as well as a training center for student athletes and coach- low as No. 23. SMU will face at least one ranked team, No. 26 Arizona State, at the BNP Paribas Open Collegiate Challenge, es, ensuring that Mustang players can train year-round on followed by a home match against No. 34 Tulane on March 27. campus. In addition, patron accommodations optimize com- fort and viewing and include special guest amenities and LAST TIME OUT a club area, providing an enhanced spectator experience. Freshman Tomas Vaise took his match against his No. 38-ranked opponent to a third set, but SMU ultimately fell, 4-0, to No. 9 Columbia (9-2) Wednesday at the SMU Tennis Complex. Match-day parking for the SMU Tennis Complex is available on campus in the Binkley and Moody Parking The Mustangs drop to 7-9 for the season but still hold a 10-7 all-time record against the Lions. Centers. We ask that visitors not park in the residen- tial areas surrounding the facility or in Park Cities Plaza. MUSTANGS ALPHABETICAL ROSTER Player Height Class Hometown FOLLOW THE MUSTANGS Eladio Fabregas 6-4 FR Galicia, Spain SMU Men’s Tennis Blaise Fagan 6-2 FR St. Louis, Missouri Facebook........................................Facebook.com/MTennis Charles Nettlefold 6-0 RS SR Melbourne, Australia Twitter...........................................................@SMUTennisM Instagram.....................................................@SMUTennisM Gardiner Perotti 6-0 RS FR Dallas, Texas SMU Athletics Roberto Rosales 6-3 FR Puebla, Mexico Facebook..............................Facebook.com/SMUMustangs Rory Samuels 6-0 RS JR Savannah, Texas Twitter........................................................@SMUMustangs Michael Smith 6-3 FR Houston, Texas Instagram..................................................@SMU.Mustangs Tomas Vaise 6-3 FR Telsiai, Lithuania Jan-Simon Vrbsky 6-2 FR Darmstadt, Germany Led by No. 8 doubles pair Victor Pham and Jackie Tang, Columbia jumped to an early lead in doubles play. The duo defeated Jan-Simon Vrbsky and Tomas Vaise, 6-3, at the top spot. The Lions took a 1-0 lead with Adam Ambrozy/Michal Rolski’s 6-1 win QUICK FACTS against Charles Nettlefold/Roberto Rosales. Head Coach............Carl Neufeld (25th season) Vaise impressed in singles, picking up a first set victory over No. 38 Jackie Tang. The No. 2 singles match extended to a third set, Overall Record............599-341 (.637) but was left unfinished as the Lions clinched the match on other courts. Record at SMU.......... 418-237 (.638) No. 9 Victor Pham defeated Vrbsky, 6-1, 6-2, on court one, followed by Michael Smith’s 6-3, 6-0 loss on court four. The final Assistant Coach.......Ben Johnson (1st season) point was delivered by Austen Huang’s win over Rosales on court five. It was just the fifth loss of the season for both Vrbsky and 2018 Record..................................................7-9 Rosales. 2018 Conference Record..............................0-1 LOOKING AHEAD Team Conference Championships...................9 SMU returns to Dallas for a two-match homestand beginning with UTSA on Saturday, March 24, at 4:30 p.m. followed by No. 34 Under Neufeld..................................2 Tulane on Tuesday, March 27, at 5 p.m. All-America Honors........................................47 Under Neufeld................................11 2017-18Season SEASON statistics STATS Overall record: 7-9 • Conference: 0-1 • Region: 2-1 • Home: 7-5 • Away: 0-2 • Neutral: 0-2 ORACLE/ITA TOP-25 RANKINGS • vs National ranked: 0-4 • vs Regional ranked: 0-0 Week of March 13, 2018 vs Ranked SINGLES Overall Dual Tour Conf 1 2 3 4 5 6 Nat'l Reg'l Streak Last10 Rank School Previous Rank Eladio 7-4 5-3 2-1 0-0 --- --- --- 3-2 1-1 1-0 0-0 0-0 W 3 3-1 Fabregas 1 Wake Forest 1 Altus Karsten 2-1 0-0 2-1 0-0 --- --- --- --- --- --- 1-0 0-0 L 1 2-1 2 Stanford 3 Charles 3-7 3-7 0-0 0-1 --- 1-3 2-4 --- --- --- 0-1 0-0 W 1 3-4 Nettlefold 3 UCLA 4 Gardiner 3-10 3-6 0-4 0-0 --- --- --- --- 0-1 3-5 0-0 0-0 L 2 3-6 Perotti 4 Ohio State 2 Roberto 7-7 6-5 1-2 0-0 --- --- --- 0-2 5-2 1-1 0-1 0-0 L 1 5-2 Rosales 5 North Carolina 8 Rory Samuels 0-1 0-1 0-0 0-0 --- --- --- --- --- 0-1 0-0 0-0 L 1 0-1 6 Texas A&M 5 Michael Smith 2-4 2-4 0-0 0-1 --- --- 1-1 1-2 0-1 --- 0-0 0-0 L 1 2-4 7 Illinois 6 Tomas Vaise 7-4 7-4 0-0 0-1 2-0 2-2 3-2 --- --- --- 0-0 0-0 W 1 4-3 8 Michigan 7 Jan-Simon 11-7 8-5 3-2 0-1 6-5 2-0 --- --- --- --- 0-5 0-0 L 1 5-5 Vrbsky 9 Columbia 11 Totals 42-45 34-35 8-10 0-4 8-5 5-5 6-7 4-6 6-5 5-7 1-7 0-0 10 Texas 10 Percentage .483 .493 .444 .000 .615 .500 .462 .400 .545 .417 .125 .000 vs Ranked 11 USC 13 DOUBLES Overall Dual Tour Conf 1 2 3 Nat'l Reg'l Streak Last10 12 Florida 10 Altus Karsten/Jan-Simon Vrbsky 0-1 0-0 0-1 0-0 --- --- --- 0-0 0-0 L 1 0-1 13 Oklahoma 15 Charles Nettlefold/Roberto Rosales 5-7 5-7 0-0 1-0 --- 2-6 3-1 0-1 0-0 L 1 4-6 14 Georgia 21 Eladio Fabregas/Gardiner Perotti 4-5 4-5 0-0 0-1 1-0 0-3 3-2 0-0 0-0 W 1 4-5 Tomas Vaise/Jan-Simon Vrbsky 7-4 7-4 0-0 1-0 7-4 --- --- 0-3 0-0 L 1 7-3 15 Mississippi State 27 Roberto Rosales/Michael Smith 0-1 0-1 0-0 0-0 --- --- 0-1 0-0 0-0 L 1 0-1 16 North Carolina State 25 Gardiner Perotti/Michael Smith 1-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 --- --- 1-0 0-0 0-0 W 1 1-0 17 Duke 12 Charles Nettlefold/Jan-Simon Vrbsky 1-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 --- 1-0 --- 0-0 0-0 W 1 1-0 18 Notre Dame 19 Totals 18-18 18-17 0-1 2-1 8-4 3-9 7-4 0-4 0-0 19 Florida State 16 20 Vanderbilt 17 21 Kentucky 30 22 Dartmouth 18 23 Oklahoma State 14 24 Memphis 45 25 Harvard 23 Match #1 Match #2 Jan.
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