NC State
Louisville
#5 Pack Men’s Tennis Hits the Road for the Weekend
3/20/2025 8:25:00 PM | Men's Tennis
RALEIGH – Fifth-ranked NC State men's tennis kicks off its next road stretch by traveling to Louisville and Notre Dame this weekend. The match with Louisville will be Friday evening at 4 p.m. and the match with Notre Dame will be Sunday morning at 11 a.m.
Dual-Match Info
Louisville
• Start time for the match is slated for 4 p.m. (ET) on Friday, March 21 in Louisville at the Bass-Rudd Tennis Center.
• Fans at home will be able to follow along with live scores here and the live stream here.
Notre Dame
• Start time for the match is slated for 11 a.m. (ET) on Sunday, March 23 in South Bend at the Eck Tennis Pavilion.
• Fans at home will be able to follow along with live scores here and the live stream here.
Series History with Louisville (tied 7-7)
• Friday's dual-match marks the 15th meeting between the Wolfpack and the Cardinals. The series between the two is split even at 7-7 but NC State has won four matches in the last six meetings.
• The two last faced each other last season (March of 2024) in Louisville which resulted in a 4-0 win for the Wolfpack.
Series History with Notre Dame (leads 8-4)
• Sunday's dual-match marks the 13th meeting between the Wolfpack and the Fighting Irish. NC State leads the series over Notre Dame with four wins.
• The two last faced each other in March of 2024 in South Bend which resulted in a 4-0 win for the Wolfpack.
Last Time Out
NC State defeated No. 32 Florida State and No. 34 Miami both by a 4-0 sweep in Raleigh.
Quick Notes
• The ACC holds seven teams ranked nationally in the top-25, four of which are in the top-10 (No. 1 Wake Forest, No. 5 NC State, No. 6 Virginia, No. 8 Stanford, No. 13 Duke, No. 14 California, and No. 16 Clemson).
• 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)
• Head coach Kyle Spencer enters his eighth season at the 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.
Team Highlights
• 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.
• A strong opening performance at the ITA Team Indoor Championships allowed NC State to take down No. 8 Kentucky by a 4-1 score, marking the second top-10 win of the season.
• Displaying resilience and determination at home, the Pack defeated No. 6 Stanford 4-2 at home playing on indoor courts, marking the third top-10 win of the season.
• The team moved up to No. 6 in the rankings on March 4, tying for the program's best-ever ranking, the last time was in March of 2020.
• Most recently after defeating No. 5 Virginia and tallying the fourth top-10 win of the season, the team landed fifth in the ITA rankings, marking the highest team ranking in program history.
Individual Highlights
• The Pack holds three players ranked in singles (No. 24 Braden Shick, No. 41 Martin Borisiouk, and No. 55 Luca Staeheli) and two pairs ranked in doubles (No. 8 Braden Shick & Fons Van Sambeek and No. 12 Jules Leroux & Luca Staeheli).
• 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.
• Braden Shick earned his first conference weekly honor of the season when he was named ACC Player of the Week on February 11 for his dominant victory over No. 20 Paul Inchauspe.
• After going undefeated in singles and doubles and making huge contributions to win three straight matches over UNC Greensboro, No. 22 California, and No. 6 Stanford in just five days, Jules Leroux and Luca Staeheli racked up more ACC Weekly Awards. Leroux was named Freshman of the Week while Staeheli was Player of the Week on Tuesday, March 4.
• Martin Borisiouk took home his well-deserved ACC Player of the Week honor on Tuesday, March 11 after he upset his opponent to clinch the team's win over No. 5 Virginia on the road.
• Fons Van Sambeek was named ACC Player of the Week honor on Tuesday, March 18 after he went undefeated in singles and doubles across matches with No. 32 Florida State and No. 34 Miami. Alongside his doubles partner, Braden Shick, they upset Florida State's leading doubles pair that were ranked third in the country at the time.
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