Onward to Ojai – Stanford Cardinal

– The Cardinal heads to Ojai for the 2024 Pac-12 Tournament, the last under the current iteration of the conference. Stanford is the No. 1 seed, and will face the play-in winner of Washington or Utah in the first round.
– Stanford won the Pac-12 regular season championship on April 20, defeating California, 4-1, to clinch the title. The conference championship was the first for the program since winning the outright title in 2021. The 2024 version is shared with Arizona.
– Stanford is 15-5 this season with wins over Saint Mary’s, Memphis, Pepperdine, Sacramento State, UC Davis, California (2x), UNLV, USC (2x), Oregon,  Washington, Arizona, Arizona State and Utah. The Cardinal went 7-1 in the Pac-12 to win the league.
– Stanford moved to 20th in the latest ITA Rankings. Nishesh Basavareddy (17) and Samir Banerjee (57) are included in the latest ITA singles rankings, while the duo of Max Basing and Nico Godsick is ranked No. 49. Max Basing, Neel Rajesh and Kyle Kang have also been ranked earlier this season, as was the duo of Banerjee and Basavareddy.
– Samir Banerjee leads the team with 13 singles wins this season, while six players are in double-digits for singles wins, along with Neel Rajesh (12), Kyle Kang (12), Max Basing (11), Nishesh Basavareddy (10) and Hudson Rivera (10). Basavareddy is 10-1 with all 10 wins in the top position, and he holds an unblemished 5-0 mark against Pac-12 foes.
– Stanford holds a winning record at each singles slot in dual play: No. 1 (14-2), No. 2 (9-6), No. 3 (8-5), No. 4 (11-3), No. 5 (10-4), No. 6 (14-2), and each doubles position: No. 1 (8-5), No. 2 (9-6) and No. 3 (11-4).
– The Cardinal is looking for its first Pac-12 Tournament title since the event began in 2012. The Cardinal has advanced to at least the semifinals in each of the last eight tournaments dating back to 2015.
– The Cardinal’s 12-man roster is loaded with talent: former No. 1 Arthur Fery, last year’s ITA National Champion Nishesh Basavareddy, Max Basing (ranked as high as No. 4 last year), Banerjee (last year’s Pac-12 Freshman of the Year), three highly-touted freshmen and a series of veteran players with high-level collegiate experience.
– Fery and Basavareddy have seen tremendous success on the ATP Challenger Tour, with both players reaching their first tournament championship match in October. Fery has jumped into the top 300 in the world rankings at No. 266, while Basavareddy has risen more than 600 spots this season to No. 439.
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