BYU men’s tennis opens its fall with four Cougars at the Sherwood Collegiate Cup from Friday, Sept. 25 through Sunday, Sept. 27 in Thousand Oaks, California. The event has no published television, stream or radio listing. The official ITA tournament page is the place to check for pairings and results.
There is one schedule trap worth clearing up immediately. BYU’s event record calls this an away date at “SMU,” but it is not a BYU-SMU dual match. SMU helps operate the tournament, and players from more than a dozen programs are expected at Sherwood Country Club. No team score or single first serve covers the whole weekend.
The useful BYU watch list is specific: Yubel Ubri, TJ Wells, Tygen Goldammer and Leon Peranovic. Goldammer and Wells bring an established doubles partnership. Ubri returns after playing meaningful singles as a freshman. Peranovic gets his first listed competition as a Cougar after transferring from Kennesaw State.
BYU Sherwood Collegiate Cup follow information
| Event detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Event | 2026 Sherwood Collegiate Cup |
| Mountain dates | Friday, Sept. 25 through Sunday, Sept. 27, 2026 |
| BYU start time | TBA; do not convert the placeholder UTC timestamp into a first serve |
| Venue | Sherwood Country Club, Thousand Oaks, California |
| TV/stream | No official broadcast or stream published |
| Radio | No official radio listing published |
| Pairings/results | Official ITA tournament page |
| Admission | Free, according to SMU Athletics |
| Official BYU event | Schedule record 25473 |
| Permanent schedule | BYU men’s tennis schedule |
BYU’s schedule record carries the authoritative time_tba marker. It also stores 16:00 UTC for Friday, but that is not a hidden 10 a.m. Mountain start. Individual tournaments assign different players to different courts, and the organizer had not posted a verifiable BYU order of play when this guide was published Thursday night.
Use the Friday-through-Sunday Mountain date window, then let the ITA page settle the actual court schedule. If a daily draw appears elsewhere first, confirm it against the organizer before treating it as final.
Four Cougars, four different questions
This is a compact travel group, but it is not four copies of the same player. BYU has sent two seniors, one sophomore who already saw spring pressure and one sophomore transfer who has never represented the Cougars in an official result.
Tygen Goldammer: can the veteran turn close sets into clean wins?
Goldammer is the easiest starting point because his record has the most weight. BYU credits him with a 14-3 singles mark and a 13-8 doubles mark last season. He led the team in singles victories, went 7-0 at the No. 3 position and played all 22 dual matches.
He also knows this tournament. At Sherwood last fall, Goldammer went 2-1 in singles. All three results say something different. He lost to UCLA’s Cassius Chinlund after winning the first set 6-0, with a match tiebreak deciding it 12-10. He then beat LMU’s Max Wuelfing 7-6(5), 4-6, 11-9 and Cal Poly’s Jack Cross 6-3, 6-2.
That is one clean straight-set win and two matches decided by the smallest useful margin. The test this weekend is not whether Goldammer can stay on the court with a strong field. He has already done that. It is whether the senior version can avoid turning an early edge into another coin-flip match tiebreak.
TJ Wells: does BYU keep its most familiar doubles pair together?
Wells and Goldammer went 12-6 together in doubles last season. Their partnership survived the full range: routine wins, ranked opponents, late tiebreaks and the pressure of deciding the opening team point. Against Idaho State in February, they clinched the doubles point 7-5; Wells later won his singles match in straight sets to finish BYU’s 4-3 victory.
Fall tournaments are built for experimentation, so coach Zack Warren does not have to preserve that pairing. That choice will be informative either way. Keeping Wells and Goldammer together would give BYU an experienced measuring stick against unfamiliar combinations. Splitting them would show which younger player the staff wants beside a steady senior.
Do not infer the pair from last spring. Wait for the draw. A familiar roster is evidence, not a court assignment.
Yubel Ubri: what carries over from a freshman spring?
Ubri’s first dual season included both a fast start and a Big 12 reality check. He won his first four singles decisions, including a three-set comeback against Montana State after dropping the opener. Later conference matches put him against deeper ranked lineups and produced fewer finished wins.
That makes Sherwood useful. The fall removes the pressure of a race-to-four team result and leaves the individual problem in plain view. Can Ubri win an opening set and close it? If he loses the first, can he reset the way he did against Montana State? A weekend of separate singles assignments can answer more than one spring lineup slot ever could.
Ubri should not be measured against Goldammer’s career total. He should be measured against his own match shape: first-set starts, response after a break and the number of points he has to rescue in a match tiebreak.
Leon Peranovic: the first BYU receipt
Peranovic is the new variable. Kennesaw State identified him as a breakout freshman and confirmed his transfer to BYU after the 2025-26 season. BYU now lists him as a sophomore transfer in the four-man Sherwood group.
That is enough to establish who he is and where he will compete. It is not enough to assign him a singles line, a doubles partner or a role for spring. Sherwood should provide the first BYU score attached to his name.
The important details will be basic and revealing: whom he draws, whether BYU pairs him with a veteran, and how many matches he gets across three days. A transfer debut does not need a grand verdict. It needs a clean record.
The field is deeper than the schedule label
BYU’s preview names Pepperdine, Saint Mary’s, UCLA, Grand Canyon, Pacific, Cal Poly, USC, LMU, SMU, New Mexico and California as the other programs in attendance. SMU’s preview also lists Cal Lutheran. USC describes a 13-school field.
Those official lists do not line up perfectly, which is another reason to use the live tournament page rather than freeze a Thursday preview into permanent fact. The stable part is the quality and variety of the field: California powers, a Big 12 program in BYU, SMU from the ACC, and several western programs BYU can see again in regional or spring play.
This format should not be read like a dual. BYU can have a productive day even if one player loses, and there may be mixed-school doubles combinations if the draw needs them. Last year’s official result sheet included several mixed-program pairs. Count each singles result and each doubles result on its own terms.
The field also gives Goldammer a direct comparison with his 2025 trip. He went 2-1 in singles against players from UCLA, LMU and Cal Poly. If he sees that level again and finishes without requiring two match tiebreaks, that would be real progress. If Peranovic draws the same tier immediately, the score will give BYU a first look at how his Kennesaw State experience travels west.
How to follow without inventing a stream
The follow routine is simple:
- Open the ITA tournament page and look for the current draw or event schedule.
- Search for Goldammer, Wells, Ubri and Peranovic rather than looking for one BYU team line.
- Record the opponent, round and full set score for each completed match.
- Treat a blank slot as unannounced, not canceled.
- Check BYU Athletics after each day for a recap or corrected result sheet.
No official source we found promises video. There is no reason to send fans hunting through generic streaming pages when the event has not advertised a feed. The organizer page is still useful because tennis results need more than a win-loss mark. A 6-3, 6-2 result, a third-set retirement and an 11-9 match tiebreak are not interchangeable.
The same caution applies to the event name. SMU appears in BYU’s opponent field because the schedule database needs a label. Sherwood is an individual tournament, not the fall equivalent of BYU visiting Dallas for a dual. SMU says its four players begin Friday evening against UCLA, Cal and Saint Mary’s; that timing belongs to SMU’s assignments, not BYU’s.
What would count as a good weekend?
A useful BYU weekend has three parts.
First, Goldammer and Wells should look like seniors. That does not require an unbeaten record against a broad field. It means fewer loose scorelines, a doubles pairing that holds up late and a response when a first set turns.
Second, Ubri should leave with evidence that his freshman spring became usable experience. A strong opening day would matter, but the better signal is repeated match quality. One win followed by a flat loss says less than three competitive scorelines with clean closing sets.
Third, Peranovic needs a baseline. Fans should not decide his spring position from one September weekend. Still, an official result against this field is more useful than a summer roster announcement. It tells us where the newcomer starts.
There is a fourth layer in the background. BYU split its roster between Sherwood and the Dar Walters Classic in Boise. Caden Hasler and Otto Schreiner are the Boise group; Goldammer, Wells, Ubri and Peranovic are the California group. The split lets six Cougars play instead of crowding one draw, and it gives the staff two different doubles laboratories on the same weekend.
The next confirmed checkpoint is closer to home. BYU hosts the ITA Regional Championships in Provo from Oct. 6-10. Sherwood will not award a team win or settle a spring lineup, but it can tell the Cougars what to fix before the regional field arrives.
What to check Friday
Start with the official event page. BYU has confirmed the four names and the venue, but not a Mountain first serve, draw or stream. If the organizer posts pairings, check all four players and both singles and doubles sections. If the page remains blank, wait.
The story is not “BYU versus SMU.” It is four Cougars spread across an individual field, with one established senior pair, one returning sophomore and one transfer making his first BYU appearance. That is plenty to follow without pretending the schedule placeholder is a match time.
Sources and further reading
- BYU Athletics: official event record 25473 for the stable schedule ID, Sept. 25-27 UTC window, Thousand Oaks location, scheduled status and authoritative
time_tbamarker. - BYU Athletics: weekend tournament preview for the Sherwood and Dar Walters split, four-player BYU groups and listed Sherwood field.
- ITA: official Sherwood Collegiate Cup tournament page for organizer updates, pairings and results as they populate.
- SMU Athletics: Sherwood preview for the Friday-Sunday dates, Sherwood Country Club venue, free admission, organizer link and expected field.
- USC Athletics: fall-opening preview for independent verification of the Sept. 25-27 window, Thousand Oaks venue and multi-school format.
- BYU Athletics: Goldammer profile for his 2025-26 singles and doubles records, lineup positions and Wells partnership.
- BYU Athletics: 2025 Sherwood result sheet for Goldammer’s three singles scores and the event’s individual-results structure.
- Kennesaw State Athletics: 2026 ITA academic awards for independent confirmation that Peranovic transferred to BYU after his freshman season.
- BYU Sport Nuts: men’s tennis hub, roster, schedule, ITA All-American follow guide and all-sports index.
