MATCH INFORMATION
 
WICHITA STATE (11-11) AT #44 MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE (12-11)
Sunday, April 13 | 12:00 PM CT
Murfreesboro, Tenn. | MTSU Tennis Center
 
Live Stats: IonCourt
Live Video: Playsight     

Openers

• Wichita State men's tennis is in its third season under head coach Darragh Glavin
• The Shockers are 11-11 and enter on a 4-0 loss to Oklahoma State on Wednesday
• Wichita State has won six of their last nine matches dating back to March 16
• WSU is 5-7 on the road this season
• The Shockers surpassed last season's win total of five with a win on March 16 over Charlotte and doubled their win total from last year with a 4-3 victory over UT Arlington on March 26

By the Numbers

• Ilias Worthington leads the team in singles wins with 13 and the freshman is 6-3 in his last ten decisions
• The pair of Alejandro Jacome and Kristof Minarik lead the team in his wins as a doubles pairing with six
• Minarik leads the team in total doubles wins with 13
• The Shockers are 62-49 in singles as a team and 28-30 in doubles

Fall Success

• The Shocker pair of Minarik and 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 four new players and two new coaches joining the team for the 2025 spring season
• The new players consist of three 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 MTSU

• Jimmy Borendame is in his 15^th year at the helm of Middle Tennessee States
• The Blue Raiders are 12-11 this year and enter after losing to Louisville on Thursday, 4-1
• MTSU is 9-5 at home this year 
• The Blue Raiders are 5-5 in their last ten matches
• Middle Tennessee is 2-1 against teams in the AAC this season

Series History vs. MTSU

• MTSU leads the all-time series 3-1
• The last meeting in the series came on April 16, 2022, in Wichita where MTSU won 5-0
• Wichita State won the only meeting in Murfreesboro, 4-3, on February 4, 2019

Next Up
The Shockers open play in the 2025 American Athletic Conference Championship on April 17.