No. 40 SMU Hosts No. 2 TCU For Match Of The Month | Thursday, 5 PM

SETTING THE SCENE
• No. 40 SMU hosts No. 2 TCU on Thursday at the Styslinger/Altec Tennis Complex for SMU's final home match of the season. Thursday's match is set for 5 p.m. (CT).
• SMU is 13-1 this season at home, including 4-0 against AAC opponents.
• SMU swept No. 27 Memphis (4-0) on Apr. 7, followed by a 6-1 win over UT Dallas.
• SMU's dual match with TCU will mark the Mustangs' 10th matchup with a ranked opponent this season.

KNOW THE FOE
• TCU (18-3) ranks No. 2 in the latest ITA team poll (Apr. 9).
• Five Horned Frogs - Jack Pinnington (8), Jake Fearnley (9), Lui Maxted (57), Pedro Vives (58) and Sebastian Gorzny (71) - rank in the ITA singles poll.
• Gorzny and Vives (4) and Maxted and Duncan Chan (77) rank in the doubles poll.

LAST TIME OUT
• SMU Swept No. 27 Memphis (4-0) for the Mustangs' fourth win over AAC opponents.
• Adam Neff clinched the win with his 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 victory on line two over Conor Gannon.
• Trevor Svajda picked up his fifth win over ranked opponents against No. 68 Pablo Alemany (6-0, 6-2).

SEASON AWARDS
• AAC Player of the Week
Adam Neff (Feb. 20, Mar. 12)
Trevor Svajda (Mar. 19)

SPRING RECORDS
• Singles
Trevor Svajda (14-4)
Adam Neff (8-7)
Jerry Barton (12-5)
Liam Krall (10-5)
Maks Silagy (10-6)
Eric Hadigian (9-4)
Louis Cloud (10-3)
Julian Steinhausen (2-1)
Alex Stafford (3-0)
Liam Sunkel (1-1)
Callaway Clark (3-0)
Kyle Sillman (2-0)
Alex Yang (2-0)
John Zisette (1-0)
• Doubles
Allen/Steinhausen (5-1)
Neff/Svajda (4-2)
Silagy/Barton (2-1)
Clark/Hadigian (1-1)
Allen/Silagy (1-0)
Krall/Clark (1-2)
Cloud/Sillman (1-0)
Silagy/Sillman (1-0)
Allen/Neff (6-3)
Barton/Svajda (1-1)
Steinhausen/Silagy (3-5)
Clark/Sillman (2-0)
Svajda/Cloud (5-3)
Neff/Zisette (1-0)

ITA RANKINGS
• Singles - Trevor Svajda (33), Adam Neff (97)
• Doubles - Adam Neff/Huntley Allen (28).
• Team - SMU (40).

CALIFORNIA COOL
• Trevor Svajda earned his first pro-level title at the Cadillac of Calabasas USTA Pro Circuit tournament on Mar. 24, winning five matches in six days to claim the title.

NEFF SAID
• Senior Captain Adam Neff has been named the American Athletic Conference Player of the Week twice this season (Feb. 20, Mar. 12).
• Neff currently ranks No. 97 in the ITA singles poll and No. 28 with partner Huntley Allen in the doubles poll.
• Neff headlined the 2024 Dallas Open's College Night in his singles main draw match against Jordan Thompson.
• Neff earned a ranked win over Cal's No. 67 Ryder Jackson to help SMU defeat the Golden Bears 5-2.

SERVIN' SVAJDA
• Freshman Trevor Svajda joined SMU as the No. 1 tennis recruit in the nation.
• Svajda has opened his collegiate career with a 14-4 record playing on line one for the Mustangs.
• Svajda has earned five singles wins over ranked opponents this season (No. 17, No. 29, No. 35, No. 68, No. 107).
• Svajda was named the AAC Player of the Week on Mar. 19 after defeating Middle Tennessee's No. 29 Leo Raquin.
• The San Diego native was selected to play against Nicolas Moreno De Alboran as a singles qualifying wild card at the 2024 Dallas Open.

2024 DALLAS OPEN
• Five Mustangs - Adam Neff, Trevor Svajda, Jerry Barton, Julian Steinhausen and Huntley Allen - competed in the 2024 Dallas Open.
• Neff headlined the tournament's College Night as a singles main draw wild card against Jordan Thompson.
• Allen and Steinhausen went three sets in their main draw doubles match against Ben Shelton and Emilio Nava.
• Both Svajda and Barton competed as wild cards in the singles qualifying rounds.

KRALL-STAR
• Liam Krall is currently 10-5 in his senior season with the Mustangs.
• Krall defeated Baylor's No. 75 Devin Badenhorst (6-4, 5-7, 6-4).
• Krall has clinched two wins for SMU this season with singles victories at No. 57 Cornell and against Cal.
• Krall competed in the 2023 World University Games in Chengdu, China. He went on to defeat the tournament's No. 1 overall seed to advance to the quarterfinals.

ERIC HAD-A-WIN
• Pepperdine transfer Eric Hadigian currently holds a 9-4 singles record in his first year at SMU.
• Hadigian defeated No. 100 Iiro Vasa of No. 12 San Diego in straight sets (6-1, 6-4).
• Hadigian posted a 9-1 singles record in the fall in two tournaments.
• Hadigian posted tournament victories in both of his fall competitions (Cowboy Classic, ITA Regional Consolation Championship) for SMU.
• Hadigian finished the fall season ranked No. 122 in the ITA's final fall singles poll.

THIS YEAR'S GAUNTLET
• The Mustangs will face off with 17 teams that finished ranked inside the top-75 of the final 2023 ITA standings in June.
• Of those matchups, SMU will host Rice (W, 4-1), Arkansas (L, 4-2), Cal (W, 5-2), Wisconsin (W, 7-0), Middle Tennessee (W, 4-1), Tulane (W, 6-1), Memphis (W, 4-0) and TCU (Apr. 11).
• SMU will play a total of 15 home matches at the Styslinger/Altec Tennis Complex in the spring.
• The Mustangs will face six American Athletic Conference opponents – UAB, Rice, Tulane, Memphis, Temple and Tulsa – before the AAC Tournament Championships on April 18-21 in Tulsa, Okla.

JERRY'S WORLD
• Furman transfer Jerry Barton holds an 11-5 singles record this season.
• Barton was ranked No. 88 in the ITA's Feb. 7 singles poll and No. 98 in the final fall poll.
• Barton was selected as a singles qualifying wild card at the 2024 Dallas Open, where he competed against Denis Kudla.
• Barton holds a ranked win on the season against USC's No. 73 Lodewijk Weststrate.

CLOUD NINE
• Junior Louis Cloud is currently 10-3 in singles play for SMU this season.
• Last season, Cloud clinched the Mustangs' second consecutive AAC title in his singles match with Tulane's Sam Scherer, rallying to win after facing triple match-point.
• Cloud's success carried over into the summer, where he traveled to Chengdu, China for the 2023 World University Games. The San Antonio, Texas, native earned a dominant 6-0, 6-0 victory in the singles round-of-64.

TO THE MAKS
• Florida State transferMaks Silagy holds a 10-6 record in singles play in his first season with the Mustangs.
• The junior clinched SMU's 4-1 win against AAC foe Rice with his 6-2, 7-6(10) victory over Santiago Navarro.

FRESH FACES
• SMU added three freshmen - Trevor Svajda, Kale Mize and Hughes Peus - and four transfers - Jerry Barton (Furman), Eric Hadigian (Pepperdine), Maks Silagy (Florida State) and Alex Yang (NYU) to its 2023-24 roster.
• The Mustangs announced their stellar freshmen signing class in December. Svajda ranked as the number-one recruit in the nation when signing with SMU. Mize comes to SMU also as a five-star recruit, with Peus bringing Team USA experience to the Hilltop.

WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES
• Three Mustangs - Liam Krall, Callaway Clark and Louis Cloud - traveled to Chengdu, China, to compete in the 2023 World University Games.
• Krall defeated the tournament's No. 1 overall seed - Chak Lam Coleman (Hong Kong) - in the second round of singles play.
• Clark competed in the tournament's mixed doubles field with Elise Wagle from UCLA women's tennis, advancing to the field's quarterfinal round.
• Cloud competed in the men's singles field, coming away with a win in the first round.

UP NEXT
• SMU travels to Tulsa, Oklahoma for matches against Temple (Sunday - 12 p.m.) and Tulsa (Monday - 4 p.m.) at the Michael D. Case Tennis Center.

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