MATCH INFORMATION
 
#75 WICHITA STATE (7-8) AT SAN DIEGO STATE (6-8)
Friday, March 21 | 4:00 PM CT
San Diego, Calif. | Aztec Tennis Center 

Live Video: Track Tennis

Openers

• Wichita State men's tennis is in its third season under head coach Darragh Glavin
• The Shockers are 7-8 and have won back-to-back matches
• WSU is 3-4 on the road this year and has won three of their last four true road matches
• Wichita State entered the ITA top 75 for the first time this season on Tuesday, debuting at No. 75
• The Shockers surpassed last season's win total of five with a win on March 16 over Charlotte

By the Numbers

• Ilias Worthington leads the team singles wins with ten
• In doubles, the pair of Jacome and Minarik have won six matches to lead the team
• The Shockers are 47-35 in singles as a team and 19-22 in doubles

Fall Success

• The Shocker pair of Kristof Minarik and Alejandro Jacome had a very successful fall, collecting wins over multiple power four opponents and collecting doubles wins in high-level events throughout the fall
• The duo collected two wins in pre-qualifiers of ITA All-Americans and added two wins at ITA Central Regionals, reaching the doubles semifinals
• The Regionals performance punched the Shocker ticket to ITA Sectionals in Fort Worth, Texas, where the Shockers battled tough against high-level, ranked doubles competition
• Transfer addition Arenui Luethi matched Minarik and Jacome's five fall doubles wins to tie for the team lead in the fall

New Faces

• The Shocker roster has undergone a shakeup from last season with five new players and two new coaches joining the team for the 2025 spring season
• The new players consist of four true freshmen in Zaid Al Mashni, Amir Milushev, and Worthington, and one transfer in Luethi
• Two new coaches will join Coach Glavin on the sideline as Sonam Phuntsok came to Wichita State after serving as an assistant at New Mexico and Joan Grosset moved to Wichita after one year coaching at the University of Omaha

Scouting San Diego State

• Gene Carswell is in his 22^nd year at the helm of San Diego State
• SDSU is 6-8 on the year and has played 11 matches at home, going 5-6
• The Aztecs have lost four straight entering Friday's match
• San Diego State's last win came on March 8, a 4-2 victory over Tulane at Aztec Tennis Center
• The teams have one common opponent this year in Texas Tech with WSU losing 4-3 to the Red Raiders and SDSU losing 4-2

Series History vs. SDSU

• San Diego State has won the only two meetings with Wichita State all-time
• Both meetings came in the 1980s, with the last being on March 24, 1989, when SDSU won 4-3 in Irvine, California
• The previous two meetings both came at neutral sites, once in Irvine and once in Las Vegas, Nev.

Next Up
The Shockers travel to Las Vegas, Nev., to meet UNLV on March 24.