Bulldogs Open NCAA Championship Against Stanford

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., - Mississippi State men's tennis makes its 11^th consecutive appearance in the NCAA Championship taking on Stanford in the first round on Friday at 10 a.m. CT.

The Bulldogs and Cardinal will be the first match of the Cambridge Regional held at the Robert M. Beren Tennis Center on the campus of Harvard University.

MSU has made three straight appearances in the Round of 16 under Matt Roberts and will be matched up with Stanford for the third time in the NCAA Championship and fourth time ever. It will be the first meeting between the two programs since the 1998 NCAA Championship in Athens, Georgia.

It is the Bulldogs' second time to play at Harvard, having also participated in the Harvard Kickoff Tournament in 2010.

State starts its 30th NCAA Championship with a 14-12 overall record. The Bulldogs enter the Cambridge Regional as the No. 3 seed and are ranked 35^th overall.

Mississippi State's lineup features a pair of ranked players along with one ranked doubles duo. Florian Broska holds a career-best ranking of 17^th in singles and also makes up one-half of the No. 47 doubles tandem with Gregor Ramskogler. Nemanja Malesevic also holds a singles ranking of 75^th and leads the team with an 18-6 record.

Broska and Malesevic each have seven victories versus ranked opponents during dual match play this spring and their 21 singles wins apiece this year tops the team. Broska has 97 career singles victories, which is tied with Matthieu Balley (1996-99) for the sixth-most in school history and needs just one more to match Romain Ambert (2001-04) for fifth all-time.

Broska will also represent the Bulldogs in the NCAA Singles Championship in Ubana, Illinois later this month.

Entering Friday, Ramskogler and Davide Tortora have each won four of their past five singles matches.

Second-seeded Stanford is ranked 18^th nationally and is 17-5 overall this season. The Cardinal has four ranked singles competitors in Arthur Fery (15), Alexandre Rotsaert (78), Max Basing (80) and Axel Geller (112) along with the doubles tandems of Fery and Rotaert (25) and Fery and Geller (62).

Host Harvard will take on No. 4 seed Monmouth on Friday at 1 p.m. CT with the winners advancing to play in the second round on Saturday at 1 p.m. CT.

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Bulldogs Open NCAA Championship Against Stanford

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Florian Broska

Nemanja Malesevic

Gregor Ramskogler

Davide Tortora

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