Big West Conference Tournament-champion UC Santa Barbara will face Pepperdine in the first round of the NCAA Division I Men’s Tennis Championship on Friday, May 7 at the David X. Marks Tennis Stadium on the campus of the University of Southern California.
First serve for the Gauchos and Waves will be at 10 a.m., followed by a match between the host Trojans and Grand Canyon University scheduled for 1 p.m.
“I feel fortunate that we received a No. 3 seed in our pod,” said head coach Marty Davis. “There have been times in the past that I thought we should be a three and we got a four, so this is very good for us.”
UCSB Women Face Stanford in NCAA Opener
UCSB is set to take on No. 28 Stanford in the first round of the 2021 NCAA Women’s Tennis Championship on Friday at the Ralphs-Straus Tennis Center on the campus of Pepperdine in Malibu.
The Gauchos (13-3) are returning to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2017. They are on a 12-match win streak, the program’s longest over the last 25 years.
On March 24, the Gauchos dropped a 7-0 decision to Stanford in Palo Alto. Stanford is the most decorated program in college history, having won 20 NCAA championships. They enter the NCAA Tournament with a 14-4 overall record. They fell 4-1 to No. 23 California in the PAC-12 semi-final.