ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- The Navy men's tennis team travels to Winston-Salem, N.C., to face top-seeded Wake Forest in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.  The match between the Mids (27-17) and the Demon Deacons (30-3), winners of last year's NCAA title, will be played Friday at 5 p.m.

The other half of the four-team bracket features Old Dominion playing Gardner-Webb Friday at 2 p.m.  The winners of Friday's matches will advance to a Saturday afternoon (2 p.m.) second round match.

Tournament Schedule
Friday, May 1 - First Round
2 p.m. - Gardner-Webb vs. Old Dominion
5 p.m. - Navy at No. 1 Wake Forest
Saturday, May 2 - Second Round
2 p.m. - First Round Winners

Facility Information
Wake Forest Tennis Center / 100 W Thirty-Second Street, Winston-Salem, NC 27105 (Parking is available by the courts.)

Tickets
Tickets are $12.50 for adults and $7.50 for those ages 3-17 and can be purchased in advance through the Wake Forest web site.

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About Navy
* 27-17 Overall / 6-1 Patriot League Regular Season / Patriot League Tournament Champions (3-0)
* The Mids have won their last 10 matches.
* Navy won the program's 16th Patriot League Tournament title over the weekend.  The second-seeded Mids defeated seventh-seeded Colgate 4-0 in the quarterfinals, third-seeded Army 4-0 in the semifinals and top-seeded and tournament-host Lehigh 4-2 in the final.
* The Mids overcame a 2-0 deficit in the final against the Mountain Hawks.
* Herrick Legaspi and Charlie Spencer both posted 5-1 records during the Patriot League Tournament.  Each player compiled a 3-0 record in singles and the two combined for a 2-1 record as Navy's No. 1 doubles team.  Spencer was named the MVP of the tournament as he clinched the match in both the semifinals against Army and finals against Lehigh.
* Legaspi has tallied a 16-6 record in singles this spring (14-4 at No. 1) and Spencer has produced an 11-5 mark (6-1 at No. 3).  The pair has tallied a 7-3 mark as a doubles team, which includes a 6-3 record at the No. 1 flight.
* Aniketh Ayinala has put together a 9-4 mark at No. 2 singles as part of his 14-6 overall record.
* Tommy Kim also had a solid spring with a 5-0 record at the No. 4 flight and a 13-5 record in all.
* J.J. Etterbeek is tied with Legaspi for the most singles wins this spring with his 16-7 record.  This includes a 4-0 mark at No. 5 singles.
* Steve Nguyen has totaled a 10-2 record in spring singles matches and has won all four of his completed matches at No. 6 singles.
* Navy's anticipated No. 3 doubles team of Lachlan Buckingham and Jake Young enters the match with an 8-1 record this spring.  The duo won all four of its matches that were played at No. 3.

Navy's NCAA Tournament History
* Navy has been the Patriot League's representative to the NCAA Tournament 13 times since the field was expanded to 64 teams starting with the 1999 event.  This includes six times in the last eight tournaments that have been contested.
* Every graduating class from Navy since 2007 has played in the NCAA Tournament at least once over the course of their careers.
* Seniors Herrick Legaspi, J.J. Etterbeek and Aniketh Ayinala all played singles for Navy in the 2023 NCAA Tournament. Legaspi played No. 4, Etterbeek No. 5 and Ayinala No. 6.
* Including this year's match, Navy will have played a top-16 seeded team in 12 of its 13 NCAA Tournaments, with all 12 of those matches being played at the home of the seeded team.
* The lone non-seeded team the Mids have played in the tournament was in 2021 when they faced Oklahoma State in a match played in Chapel Hill, N.C.
* Navy has played four No. 1 seeded teams (includes 2026 vs. Wake Forest), five top-five seeded teams and nine top-10 seeded teams.
* The Mids are playing the defending national champions for the second time (2023, Virginia).
* Two of Navy's opponents in the NCAA Tournament have gone on to win the national title (2018, Wake Forest; 2023, Virginia).
* Navy is playing an ACC team in the NCAA Tournament for the seventh time and is playing in North Carolina for the fifth time.
* The Navy men's team is the only Patriot League team -- men and women -- to have earned a point during an NCAA Tournament match since the 64-team format was introduced in 1999.
* Mitch Koch won his No. 1 singles match in 1999 vs. Ole Miss.
* The Mids won the doubles point in the 2022 NCAA Tournament at No. 15 North Carolina.  
* Navy lost in a tiebreaker (10-8) in the last doubles match left on the courts in 2021 vs. Oklahoma State that had it been won by the Mids would have given them the doubles point.  The Mids also won a doubles match at Florida in 2008.

Navy's NCAA Tournament Appearances (since 1999)
1999 - No. 6 Mississippi 4, Navy 1 / Oxford, Miss.
2007 - No. 11 Texas 4, Navy 0 / Austin, Texas
2008 - No. 9 Florida 5, Navy 0 / Gainesville, Fla.
2009 - No. 1 Virginia 4, Navy 0 / Charlottesville, Va.
2010 - No. 1 Virginia 4, Navy 0 / Charlottesville, Va.
2012 - No. 12 Florida 4, Navy 0 / Gainesville, Fla.
2015 - No. 9 Texas 4, Navy 0 / Austin, Texas
2018 - No. 1 Wake Forest 4, Navy 0 / Winston-Salem, N.C.
2019 - No. 10 North Carolina 4, Navy 0 / Chapel Hill, N.C.
2021 - Oklahoma State 4, Navy 0 / Chapel Hill, N.C.
2022 - No. 15 North Carolina 4, Navy 1 / Chapel Hill, N.C.
2023 - No. 5 Virginia 4, Navy 0 / Charlottesville, Va.
2026 - Navy at No. 1 Wake Forest / Winston-Salem, N.C.

Wake Forest Notes
* 30-3 overall / 12-1 ACC Regular Season / ACC Tournament Champions (3-0)
* Received the No. 1 seed for the 2026 NCAA Tournament.
* Is ranked fourth nationally in the computer ranking that was released on April 30.
* NCAA Champions in 2018 and 2025.
* Has won 18 matches this year against nationally-ranked teams and its lone 2026 defeats have been to (rankings at the time of the matches) No. 6 Ohio State (4-0), No. 19 Baylor (4-3) and No. 25 Stanford (4-3). 
* Singles National Rankings - Dhakshineswar Suresh, No. 27; Luca Pow, No. 28; Mees Rottgering, No. 38; Andrew Delgao, No. 124; Aryan Shah, No. 125
* Doubles National Rankings - Andrew Delgao / Dhakshineswar Suresh, No. 1
* The three Wake Forest doubles teams in its anticipated lineup have combined for a 33-1 record in dual matches.

Navy vs. Wake Forest Series History - Wake Forest leads, 2-0
at Wake Forest 3, Navy 2 / April 8, 1989
at Wake Forest 4, Navy 0 / May 12, 2018 (NCAA Tournament first round)