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HISTORY & RECORDS History & Records 33 TCU MEN’S TENNIS The 2008 TCU men’s was tabbed MWC Co-Player tennis team exceeded all of the Year, and finished expectations entering the the season ranked No. 30, season, doubling their win marking the highest singles total from the previous year ranking for a Frog since the with 20 victories. The Horned 2001 season. 2008 REVIEW Frogs, who were one of the youngest squads in the The Frogs jumped out to nation, won the Mountain a 9-0 start this season, West Conference Tennis marking the first time since Championship, as well as a 2004 and only the second share of the MWC regular time a TCU squad has season crown, and finished won its first nine contests the season ranked No. 34 in 22 years. TCU posted a nationally. dramatic 4-3 victory at home over No. 31 Texas Tech, and Four Frogs were named followed with a dominating to the All-Mountain West 7-0 shutout of No. 66 Conference Singles Team Minnesota to improve to 9-0 to lead the league, while before a heartbreaking 4-3 Cosmin Cotet and Kriegler loss to No. 10 Oklahoma Brink earned their second State. consecutive all-conference doubles selection. Cotet, a The Purple and White would senior from Iasi, Romania, bounce back, claiming a Kriegler Brink Cosmin Cotet 4-3 victory over No. 35 impressive performance at Oklahoma in a match for the Fresno State, handing the ages. With the contest tied Bulldogs their lone home at 3-3, TCU freshman Zach loss of the season. Nichols found himself down 5-0 in the final set before TCU opened regular season mounting a furious rally to conference action in Las force a tiebreaker which he Vegas with three convincing would win in front of the victories over Air Force, home crowd, sending his BYU and UNLV. Against 34 teammates rushing to the the Rebels, head coach court. Dave Borelli earned his 400th career victory in his After a three-match road skid 20th season of coaching in against ranked opponents, collegiate tennis. the Frogs returned home to knock off No. 22 Wake The Frogs traveled to Forest by a score of 4-3. TCU Provo, Utah, to wrap up would also defeat Columbia the regular season in the at home before turning in an MWC, dropping a tough 4-3 TCU MEN’S TENNIS 2008 REVIEW decision to Utah, which forced TCU Cotet earned an automatic bid to Final ITA Team Rankings to win the remaining two matches in the NCAA Championships out of the 1. Georgia order to claim a share of the MWC Mountain West Conference, while 2. Virginia regular season title. The Frogs did Cotet and Brink also received a bid 3. Ohio State just that, defeating San Diego State in doubles play. Cotet opened play 4. Texas and New Mexico to close out the with a 7-6(2), 6-4 victory over No. 62 5. UCLA conference slate. Christoph Muller of Rice for his 14th 6. Mississippi 7. USC victory of the season over a ranked 8. Baylor After receiving the top seed in the opponent. Cotet would fall in the 9. Tennessee MWC Championships and earning round of 32, while the Frog duo of 10. Florida a first-round bye, the Frogs blanked Cotet and Brink fell just short of an -------------------------------------------------------- BYU to set up a rematch with New upset bid of the No. 3 seeded team 34. TCU Mexico for the title. TCU lost the from Miami in the opening round. first three singles matches and Brink and Cotet earned a year-end Final ITA Singles Rankings dropped the first set in two other national ranking of No. 53. 1 Somdev Devvarman (Virginia) contests before reeling off three 2 Oleksandr Nedovyesov (Oklahoma State) victories to knot the match at 3-3. 3 Travis Helgeson (Georgia) Junior Kriegler Brink won the final 4 Greg Ouellette (Florida) match in dramatic fashion to clinch 5 Andre Begemann (Pepperdine) 6 Denes Lukacs (Baylor) the championship, with the last 7 Daniel Vallverdu (Miami (Fla.]) game going to 14 points. With the 8 Alex Clayton (Stanford) win, the Frogs earned a bid to the 9 Robert Farah (USC) NCAA Regionals for the 17th time 10 Lars Poerschke (Baylor) in the last 18 seasons. -------------------------------------------------------- 30. Cosmin Cotet (TCU) The Frogs would face No. 24 Rice in the opening round of the Austin Final ITA Doubles Rankings Regional, and find themselves in yet 1 Van’t Hof/Farah (USC) another tight contest in a match that 2 Huey/Devvarman (Virginia) lasted nearly five hours. TCU would 3 Tveit/Berg (Mississippi) ultimately drop a heartbreaking 4-3 4 Fogleman/Kearney (North Carolina) 5 Hensel/Smith (Tennessee) decision to close the season. Cotet 6 Vallverdu/Sundberg (Miami [Fla.]) highlighted the match for TCU, 7 Parr/Forman (Wake Forest) knocking off No. 14 Bruno Rosa 8 Damico/Corrie (Texas) in straight sets for his third victory 9 Pollock/Krajicek (Texas A&M) over an opponent ranked in the top 10 Koniecko/Moneke (Ohio State) 15 on the season. -------------------------------------------------------- 53. Brink/Cotet (TCU) 35 TCU MEN’S TENNIS 2008 Team Results DATE OPPONENT W-L IN/OUT SCORE RECORD S1 S2 S3 S4 S5 S6 D1 D2 D3 RANK Feb. 2 at UT San Antonio W OUT 7-0 1-0 W W W W W W W L W #63 Feb. 2 vs. St. Edward’s W OUT 7-0 2-0 W W W W W W W L W #63 Feb. 4 Idaho W OUT 5-2 3-0 W L W W L W W W W #63 Feb. 6 UT Arlington W OUT 7-0 4-0 W W W W W W W W W #62 2008 REVIEW Feb. 6 Abilene Christian W IN 6-0 5-0 W W W W W u W W W #62 Feb. 11 #42 TAMU-Corpus Christi W OUT 5-2 6-0 W L W W W L W W W #62 Feb. 17 #31 Texas Tech W OUT 4-3 7-0 L L W W W L L W W #63 Feb. 23 #66 Minnesota W OUT 7-0 8-0 W W W W W W W W W #46 Feb. 24 #15 Oklahoma State L OUT 3-4 8-1 W L L W W L L L W #26 March 5 #35 Oklahoma W OUT 4-3 9-1 L L W W W L W W W #29 March 8 at #19 Texas A&M L OUT 3-4 9-2 L W L W L L W L W #29 March 10 at #62 Wisconsin L IN 2-5 9-3 W L L W L L W L L #29 March 12 at #16 Illinois L IN 2-5 9-4 L L L W W L L L L #27 March 14 #22 Wake Forest W OUT 4-3 10-4 W L L W W W L W L #27 March 18 Columbia W IN 5-2 11-4 W W W L W L W W L #28 March 21 at #50 Fresno State W OUT 4-3 12-4 W L L W W L W W L #28 March 22 at #15 Pepperdine L OUT 0-7 12-5 L L L L L L L L L #28 March 27 vs Air Force W OUT 7-0 13-5 W W W W W W W W W #31 March 28 vs BYU W OUT 6-1 14-5 W W W W W L W W W #31 March 29 UNLV W OUT 5-2 15-5 W W W L W L W W W #31 April 10 vs Utah L IN 3-4 15-6 Lr W W L W L L L L #34 April 11 vs #54 San Diego State W IN 4-1 16-6 W L W W u u W W L #34 April 12 vs #51 New Mexico W OUT 4-3 17-6 W W L W L W L W L #34 April 16 at #47 SMU L OUT 1-4 17-7 W L L u L u L W L #36 April 25 BYU W OUT 4-0 18-7 u W W u u W W W L #36 April 26 #44 New Mexico W OUT 4-3 19-7 W L W L L W u W W #36 May 9 vs #24 Rice L OUT 3-4 20-7 W L Lr W W L L W L #34 2008 Singles Results PLAYER OVERALL DUAL TOURNEY MWC #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Nat’l Streak Last 10 E. Brighiu 11-11 11-11 0-0 5-1 --- 9-10 2-1 --- --- --- 0-5 L 2 6-4 K. Brink 32-7 23-3 9-4 5-1 --- --- 12-3 11-0 --- --- 3-3 L 1 7-2 C. Bulls 2-5 1-0 1-5 0-0 --- --- --- --- --- 1-0 0-0 W 1 1-0 C. Cotet 25-8 21-6 4-2 5-1 21-6 --- --- --- --- --- 13-7 W 5 8-1 Z. Nichols 30-8 22-5 8-3 6-0 --- --- 2-1 8-1 12-3 --- 0-0 W 1 7-2 A. Panayides 3-5 0-0 3-5 0-0 --- --- --- --- --- --- 0-0 L 2 3-5 C. Powers 15-6 10-4 5-2 2-0 --- --- --- --- 2-0 8-4 0-0 L 1 5-3 J.