2017 UCLA MEN’S TENNIS Team Roster/Schedule 2017 Bruins — Front Row (L-R): Maxime Cressy, Austin Rapp, Gage Brymer, Joseph Di Giulio, Martin Redlicki, Travis Martin; Middle Row (L- R): Connor Rapp, Evan Zhu, Logan Staggs, Daniel Gealer, Michael Guzman, Ben Goldberg, Nishanth Yamani, Reid Shumway; Back Row (L-R): Team Manager Michael Pinkerton, Equipment Manager Brandon Lippold, Volunteer Assistant Coach Rikus De Villiers, Head Coach Billy Martin, Associate Head Coach Grant Chen, Director of Tennis Operations Max Hammer, Team Manager Brandon Cooper 2017 ROSTER 2017 DUAL MATCH SCHEDULE Name Ht. Yr. Hometown (Previous School) Date Opponent Time Gage Brymer 6-0 Sr. Irvine, Calif. (University) Jan. 18 GRAND CANYON 2:00 PM Maxime Cressy 6-7 So. Hermosa Beach, Calif. (CNED) Jan. 21 SANTA BARBARA 1:00 PM Joseph Di Giulio 5-11 Sr. Newport Beach, Calif. (K12 Online) Jan. 28 NEW MEXICO^ 2:00 PM Daniel Gealer 5-9 So. Los Angeles, Calif. (San Marino) Jan. 29 BOISE STATE/LAMAR^ TBD Ben Goldberg 6-0 Fr. Pacific Palisades, Calif. (Palisades HS) Feb. 4 @ Georgia 7:00 AM Michael Guzman 5-8 Sr. Napa Valley, Calif. (Justin-Siena) Feb. 5 @ Florida 10:30 AM Travis Martin 5-9 Sr. Los Angeles, Calif. (Loyola) Feb. 13 @ Tulsa 4:00 PM Austin Rapp 6-4 Jr. Rancho Mirage, Calif. (Palm Desert HS) Feb. 17-20 @ USTA/ITA National Team Indoors Connor Rapp 6-1 Fr. Rancho Mirage, Calif. (Palm Desert HS) Martin Redlicki 6-5 Jr. Boca Raton, Fla. (Lake Zurich) Feb. 25 STANFORD 1:00 PM Reid Shumway 6-3 So. Pacific Palisades, Calif. (Loyola HS) March 9 @ USC 3:00 PM Logan Staggs 5-9 Jr. Tracy, Calif. (Kimball) March 11 BAYLOR 3:30 PM Nishanth Yamani 6-2 R-Sr. Calabasas, Calif. (Viewpoint) March 16 DUKE 2:30 PM Evan Zhu 6-0 Fr. Irvine, Calif. (K12 Online) March 29 UC IRVINE 1:00 PM March 31 WASHINGTON * 3:00 PM Head Coach: Billy Martin April 1 OREGON * 3:00 PM Associate Head Coach: Grant Chen April 7 @ Cal * 5:00 PM Volunteer Assistant Coach: Rikus De Villiers April 9 @ Stanford * 12:00 PM Director of Tennis Operations: Max Hammer April 14 UTAH * 3:00 PM Team Managers: Brandon Cooper, Michael Pinkerton April 15 ARIZONA * 12:00 PM Equipment Manager: Brandon Lippold April 21 USC * 3:00 PM April 26-29 @ Pac-12 Championships All Day May 11-12 NCAA Regionals TBD May 18-23 NCAA Team Championships TBD PRONUNCIATION GUIDE May 24-29 NCAA Individual Championships TBD Joseph Di Giulio Di-GEW-LEO Michael Guzman GOOZ-man Home matches in BOLD CAPS ^ - USTA/ITA Indoor Qualifying at Sunset Canyon * - Pac-12 Conference Matches 2 2017 UCLA MEN’S TENNIS Staff Biographies direction. Inducted into the ITA Tennis Hall of BILLY MARTIN Fame in 1996, Martin's playing career is Head Coach full of highlights. To this very day he is still regarded as one of the best junior players 24th Season in the history of the sport. He captured Univ. of Redlands ‘89 the 1973 and '74 singles titles at Junior Wimbledon, the Junior U.S. Open and Junior Orange Bowl tournaments. Inside Tennis 27-1 overall record. Magazine recently ran an article that named Another significant highlight in Mar- him "Junior Player of the Century." Due to tin's career is his outstanding success in his tremendous success as a junior player the highly-competitive Pac-12 Conference, while growing up in Illinois, Martin was where he owns a 143-27 (.841) record. Mar- inducted into the USTA Midwest Section tin, the 2014 Pac-12 Coach of the Year after Hall of Fame in December of 2010. He was leading UCLA to the Pac-12 Tournament title, also inducted into the Southern California has been named the Conference's coach Tennis Association Hall of Fame in August of the year four times (1996, 2012, 2013 of 2011. and 2014). Under Martin's direction, UCLA Although Martin played just one sea- has captured 12 conference titles, includ- son at UCLA before turning pro, the 1975 ing four in a row from 2004-07. UCLA has season was a special one, as he guided the never finished out of the top 3 in the Pac-12 team to a perfect 19-0 dual-match record standings during Martin's tenure. en route to an NCAA team championship Head coach Billy Martin, who is in In addition to his numerous team ac- during his freshman year. his 24th year as head coach of the UCLA complishments, Martin takes great pride in After capturing the 1975 NCAA singles Bruins, takes an overall record of 524-111 helping his players achieve their individual championship, Martin turned professional (.825) into the 2017 season. This year goals as well. In 2006, he helped Benjamin and enjoyed a fine career. He reached the marks Martin's 34th on staff, as he served Kohlloeffel become the 10th player in school Wimbledon singles quarterfinals in 1977 as an assistant coach for 10 years prior history to capture the NCAA Singles Cham- and was selected Rookie of the Year in his to taking over for Glenn Bassett in 1994. pionship. Kohlloeffel notched a straight-set first professional season. He is only the fourth head coach in UCLA win over Virginia's Somdev Devvarman in Martin defeated top pros such as tennis history, following legends Bill Acker- the title match that year, becoming the first Ken Rosewall (twice), Stan Smith, John man (1921-50), J.D. Morgan (1951-66) Bruin player since Martin in 1975 to win the Newcombe, Roscoe Tanner and Harold and Bassett (1967-93). Only three active title. Kohlloeffel's victory put his coach in Soloman. In 1975 he won the Arkansas coaches at UCLA have served longer at an elite category, as Martin joined Georgia's International singles title. He also won their current positions, as Martin follows Manny Diaz as the only other active head doubles championships in 1977, '79 and Cyndi Gallagher (women's swimming - 26 coach to earn the career "triple crown" by '81 in Laguna Niguel, CA, Brussels, Belgium years) and Valorie Kondos Field (women's leading their schools to three different titles and Bristol, England, respectively. gymnastics - 25 years ). Perhaps the most at the NCAA Championships (team, singles Martin attended UCLA for three years, amazing accomplishment in Martin's career and doubles). In 2014, Martin helped Mar- working on his undergraduate studies be- is his ability to contend for a championship cos Giron become the school's 11th NCAA fore completing his bachelor's degree in each and every year, as only twice has he Singles Champion when Giron downed Pep- business management from the University had a team finish out of the top 5 at the perdine's Alex Sarkissian in straight sets in of Redlands in 1989. He earned his MBA season-ending NCAA Championships. the 2014 championship match in Athens, from USC in 1991. Martin's finest season at UCLA came Ga. Last season, Martin coached three- During the summer, Martin runs in 2005 when he led the squad to its first time All-American Mackenzie McDonald to the Bassett-Martin Tennis Camp, one of NCAA title since 1984. UCLA's 4-3 come- the NCAA Singles crown. The Bruin junior the country's most successful camps for from-behind victory over top-seeded and dispatched top-ranked Mikael Torpegaard of youngsters. Martin also directs the UCLA undefeated Baylor that year marked the Ohio State in straight sets to become UCLA's Summer Tennis Camps held on the UCLA Bruins' 16th NCAA Championship in men's 12th NCAA Singles Champion. McDonald campus. tennis and the school's 97th NCAA title was named the 2016 ITA National Men's Martin and his wife, Justine, have two overall. The win snapped Baylor's 57-match College Player of the Year and earned his children, William and Travis. William played winning streak, the second longest in NCAA second straight Pac-12 Player of the Year college tennis at St. Mary's, while Travis is history. It also avenged the team's 4-0 loss nod (2015, 2016). a senior on the UCLA team. to the Bears in the 2004 NCAA Final. Martin's first NCAA doubles title came In addition to the team's dramatic run when he coached Justin Gimelstob and to the title in 2005, Martin has had several Srdjan Muskatirovic to the championship near misses at the NCAA Championships, in 1995. His second came in 2016, when including 2013 when the top-seeded Bruins McDonald and sophomore Martin Redlicki were narrowly edged by No. 2 Virginia, 4-3 coasted past No. 8 Arthur Rinderknech and in the championship match in Champaign, Jackson Withrow of Texas A&M, 6-4, 6-1, Ill. Under Martin, UCLA has reached the in the NCAA doubles final. The duo also NCAA Final on three other occasions (1996, earned Pac-12 Doubles Team of the Year 1999 and 2004). After reaching the final honors. in just his third year as head coach, Martin In all, a total of 26 players have was named the 1996 ITA National Coach achieved All-America status under Martin's of the Year, as the Bruins finished with a 3 2017 UCLA MEN’S TENNIS Staff Biographies Weekend, NCAA Regionals and the Southern GRANT CHEN California Intercollegiate Championships. Associate Head Coach Chen has also played an instrumental role in helping Martin run the highly successful 2nd Season UCLA Tennis Camps and Bassett/Martin UCLA ‘06 Tennis Camp in Big Bear, Calif. In his spare time, Chen has organized During his three years as Billy Martin's several tennis charity events around the top assistant, UCLA twice reached the semi- country.