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#19 Pack Heads to Princeton for Friday Night Dual-Match
2/6/2025 12:46:00 PM | Men's Tennis
RALEIGH – 19th-ranked NC State men's tennis continues its non-conference road stretch at Princeton on Friday at 6 p.m.
Dual-Match Info
• Friday's match is set for a 6:00 p.m. start time in Princeton, New Jersey at the Lenz Tennis Center. Fans at home will be able to follow along with the live stream here and live scores here.
Series History with Princeton (leads 4-2)
• This weekend's match marks the seventh meeting between the Wolfpack and the Tigers. NC State leads the series 4-2 and has won the last four meetings.
• The two faced each other this past season (January of 2024) in Raleigh that resulted in a 7-0 sweep for the Pack.
Last Time Out
NC State fell to sixth-ranked Columbia by a 1-4 score last Sunday in New York. The Wolfpack was only able to come up with one singles win (Fons Van Sambeek) and one doubles win (Jules Leroux and Luca Staeheli) during the match.
Quick Notes
• The ACC holds seven teams ranked nationally, three of which are now inside the top-10 (No. 2 Wake Forest, No. 5 Virginia, No. 7 Duke, No. 11 Stanford, No. 15 Florida State, No. 19 NC State, and No. 23 California).
• NC State is scheduled to play eight teams featured in the ITA preseason rankings (No. 4 Wake Forest, No. 5 Virginia, No. 8 Columbia, No. 9 Florida State, No. 12 Duke, No. 17 Stanford, No. 21 Harvard, and No. 25 Michigan)
• The Pack holds three players ranked in singles (No. 16 Braden Shick, No. 45 Martin Borisiouk, and No. 110 Luca Staeheli) and two pairs ranked in doubles (No. 28 Braden Shick & Fons Van Sambeek and No. 33 Jules Leroux & Luca Staeheli).
• Head coach Kyle Spencer enters his eighth season at helm of the Wolfpack.
• The program welcomes three freshmen to their first collegiate spring season - local product from Chapel Hill, Cody Benton, Netherlands native, Noah Gabriel, and Bulgaria native Nikolay Nedelchev.
• A doubleheader win to open the season made the Pack 8-0 in winning season premiere matches with head coach Kyle Spencer at the helm of the program.
• After defeating No. 9 Mississippi State by a 4-1 score on the road, the team qualified for ITA National Team Indoors for the first time since the 2020 season. The win marked the first top-10 win for the program since the 2022 season.
• Going undefeated in doubles and singles against No. 21 Harvard, LSU, and No. 9 Mississippi State all in the same week, Jules Leroux and Luca Staeheli claimed all of the ACC Weekly Awards as announced by the conference office on Tuesday, January 28. Staeheli was named Player of the Week, Leroux was named Freshman of the Week and the two together were named the Doubles Team of the Week.
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