2010 MEDIA GUIDE
QUICK FACTS Location ...... J.D. Morgan Center ...... 325 Westwood Plaza ...... Los Angeles, CA 90095-1639 Offi ce ...... 1919 Colors ...... Blue and Gold Nickname ...... Bruins Enrollment...... 36,890 Conference ...... Pacifi c-10 National Affi liation ...... NCAA Division I Athletics Phone ...... (310) 825-8699 Ticket Offi ce ...... (310) UCLA-WIN Bruins’ website ...... uclabruins.com Pac-10 website ...... pac-10.org Sports Information Sports Information Director ...... Marc Dellins Tennis SID ...... Danny Harrington SID Phone ...... (310) 206-8075 SID Fax ...... (310) 825-8664 E-mail ...... [email protected] Tennis Information 2009 Record ...... 21-5 2009 NCAA Finish ...... T-3rd TABLE OF CONTENTS 2009 Pac-10 Record (Finish) ...... 6-0 (1st) Letterwinners Returning/Lost ...... 9/3 Home Court ...... Los Angeles Tennis Center (LATC) Why UCLA Tennis? Bruin History Capacity ...... 5,800 Professional Success ...... 2 All-Time Letterwinners ...... 27 Surface ...... Outdoor Hardcourt All-Time Greats ...... 3 Team Captains & All-Americans...... 28 Coach’s Offi ce Phone ...... (310) 206-6375 A Winning Tradition ...... 4 ITA & UCLA Hall of Fame Members ...... 29 LATC Phone ...... (310) 208-3838 A Standard of Excellence ...... 5 ITA Honors and Tournament Champions ...... 29 The Los Angeles Tennis Center ...... 6 Pacifi c-10 Conference Honors ...... 30 Key Personnel All-Time Bruin Greats ...... 31 Chancellor ...... Dr. Gene Block 2010 Staff Season Results (1981-2009) ...... 32-34 Faculty Rep...... Donald Morrison Head Coach Billy Martin ...... 8-9 Yearly Records ...... 35 Athletic Director ...... Dan G. Guerrero Assistant Coach Kris Kwinta ...... 10 All-Time Record vs. Opponents ...... 35 Associate A.D...... Glenn Toth Director of Tennis Operations Grant Chen ...... 10 Career Coaching Records ...... 35 Event Manager ...... Paul Brown Staff Athletic Trainer ...... Steve Agee The Players General Information Student Trainers ...... Alan Mendes Haythem Abid ...... 11 Administration ...... 36 ...... Brian Enriquez Alex Brigham ...... 12 Key Athletic Department Staff ...... 36 Matt Brooklyn ...... 13 2009 Schedule ...... IBC Tennis Staff Jake Fleming...... 14 The UCLA Experience ...... I-XVI Head Coach ...... Billy Martin Jeff Gast ...... 15 Alma Mater ...... Univ. of Redlands ’89 Amit Inbar ...... 16 Record at UCLA (Yrs.) ...... 366-72 (16) Ahmed Ismail ...... 17 Career Record (Yrs.) ...... Same Evan Lee ...... 18 adidas is the offi cial footwear and apparel supplier of all 22 UCLA Nick Meister ...... 19 Assistant Coach ...... Kris Kwinta athletic teams Director of Tennis Operations ...... Grant Chen Holden Seguso ...... 20 Team Managers ...... Barry Goldenberg, Kallim Stewart ...... 21 ...... Daniel Vu Julian Arnold, Florante Sarmiento ...... 22 Evan Teufel, Maxime Tabatruong ...... 22 The 2008-09 Season Match-By-Match Results ...... 24-25 Team Results/Final Statistics ...... 26 2008-09 Final Pac-10 Honors & Standings ...... 26
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Head Coach 17th Season Redlands ’89
Head coach Billy Martin enters his 17th season at the helm of the UCLA men’s tennis team. The 1996 ITA National Coach of the Year, Martin brings a 366-72 (.836) record into his 26th season on the Bruin coaching staff . Martin served as an assistant coach at UCLA for 10 years prior to being elevated to his current status as only the fourth head coach in Bruin tennis history. He follows legends Bill Ackerman (1921-50), J.D. Morgan (1951-66) and Glenn Bassett (1967-93). Martin, who in 16 seasons has never had a team fi nish out of the top 5 at the NCAA Championships, led UCLA to the school’s 16th NCAA men’s ten- nis title in 2005. The Bruins upset top-seeded Baylor, 4-3 in the title match that season with a thrilling come-from-behind victory in College Station, Texas. It marked UCLA’s fi rst national title in men’s tennis since 1984, and followed a string of near misses at the NCAAs during Martin’s fi rst 12 years as head coach. In 16 years of coaching, Billy Martin has never had a team Another significant achievement in Martin’s career came during the 2006 place lower than fi fth at the NCAA season, as he coached Ben Kohlloeffel to a straight-set win over Virginia’s Championships Somdev Devvarman in the title match at the NCAA Singles Championships. Kohlloeffel became the Bruins’ 10th singles champion, and the first since Martin captured the title back in 1975. Kohlloeff el’s victory put his coach in an elite category, as Martin joins Georgia’s Manny Diaz as the only other active head coach to earn the career “triple crown” by leading their schools to three diff erent titles at the NCAA Championships Martin’s Career Coaching Record (1994-2009) (team, singles and doubles). Martin’s doubles title came when he coached Justin Gimelstob and Srdjan Muskatirovic to the championship in 1995. Overall Pac-10 Pac-10 NCAA In just his fi rst season as head coach, Martin guided the Bruins to their third Year Record Record Finish Finish consecutive NCAA Semifi nal appearance and an overall record of 22-6. He 1994 22-6 (.786) 7-3 (.700) 3rd T-3rd enjoyed an equal amount of success in his second year, as he led the Bruins 1995 19-6 (.760) 7-3 (.700) 3rd T-3rd to a 19-6 record and UCLA’s fourth consecutive NCAA Semifi nal appearance. 1996 27-1 (.964) 10-0 (1.000) 1st 2nd The Bruins moved a step closer to winning the national title during Martin’s third year when UCLA ended the season as NCAA Runner-Up, posting a 27-1 1997 25-4 (.862) 9-1 (.900) T-1st T-3rd record and a No. 1 fi nal ranking. After enjoying a tremendous year in 1997 1998 17-8 (.680) 5-2 (.714) T-2nd T-5th and entering the NCAA Tournament as the No. 1 seed, the Bruins posted 1999 26-3 (.896) 6-1 (.857) T-1st 2nd another semifinal finish, notching a 25-4 record. In 1998, the Bruins tied 2000 24-4 (.857) 6-1 (.857) 2nd T-5th for fi fth at NCAAs and claimed a fi nal ranking of No. 7 with a 17-8 overall record, as three Bruins claimed All-America honors. Like the 1997 season, 2001 23-3 (.885) 6-1 (.857) 2nd T-5th the ’99 Bruins, who entered the NCAA Tournament ranked No. 1, were NCAA 2002 23-5 (.821) 6-1 (.857) 1st T-3rd runner-ups and Pac-10 Champions, finishing with a 26-3 record. In 2000, 2003 24-4 (.857) 6-1 (.857) 2nd T-3rd Martin’s team finished 24-4 overall and were runner-up to eventual NCAA 2004 23-6 (.793) 6-1 (.857) T-1st 2nd Champion Stanford in Pac-10 conference play. The Bruins, ranked No. 2 go- ing into the NCAA Tournament, lost a heartbreaking match to Tennessee in 2005 27-3 (.900) 6-1 (.857) T-1st 1st the quarterfi nal round. In 2001, the Bruins reached the NCAA Quarterfi nals, 2006 20-6 (.769) 6-1 (.857) T-1st T-5th fi nishing with a 23-3 overall record and a No. 3 fi nal ranking. In 2002, the 2007 22-4 (.846) 7-0 (1.000) 1st T-5th Pac-10 Champion Bruins advanced to the NCAA Semifi nals, fi nishing with a 2008 23-4 (.852) 5-2 (.714) T-2nd T-3rd 23-5 overall record. In 2003, UCLA advanced to the NCAA Semifi nals, post- ing a 24-4 overall record. The 2004 season marked the third time in coach 2009 21-5 (.808) 6-0 (1.000) 1st T-3rd Martin’s tenure that the Bruins came within one match of the national title, Totals 366-72 (.836) 104-19 (.845) as UCLA fi nished with a 23-6 overall record and coach Martin’s fi fth Pac-10 Championship. A number of close calls fi nally came to an end in 2005, when
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Martin led the Bruins to the school’s fi rst NCAA title since 1984. UCLA fi n- ished the season with a 27-3 overall record and the school’s second-straight Pac-10 Championship. The 2006 season marked the eighth-consecutive 20-win season for Martin, as UCLA fi nished with a 20-6 overall record, advancing to the quarterfi nals at the NCAA Championships. The Bruins also claimed their third-straight Pac- 10 title. UCLA equaled its success of the previous year in 2007, posting yet another 20-win season (22-4), another Pac-10 Championship, and another quarterfi nal appearance at the season-ending NCAA Championships. Perhaps one of Martin’s best coaching seasons came in 2008 as, despite missing their top four players from the previous season, the Bruins still man- aged to reach the semifi nals at the NCAA Championships, ending the year 23-4 overall. The Bruins made it back-to-back NCAA Semifi nal appearances last season, with UCLA falling just short of reaching the fi nal in a 4-3 loss to Ohio State in College Station, Texas. The Bruins ended the year 21-5 overall, claiming the school’s fi fth Pac-10 title in six years. Inducted into the ITA Tennis Hall of Fame in 1996, Martin’s playing career is full of highlights. To this very day he is still regarded as one of the best junior players in the history of the sport. He captured the 1973 and ’74 singles titles at Junior Wimbledon, the Junior U.S. Open and Junior Orange Bowl tourna- ments. Inside Tennis Magazine recently ran an article that named him “Junior Player of the Century.” Due to his tremendous success as a junior player while growing up in Illinois, Martin was inducted into the USTA Midwest Section Billy Martin captured the NCAA Hall of Fame this past December. Singles Championship as a freshman in 1975. As a Bruin freshman, he guided the 1975 team to one of its best seasons, posting a perfect 19-0 dual-match record en route to an NCAA team cham- pionship. After capturing the 1975 NCAA singles championship, Martin turned professional and enjoyed a fi ne career. He reached the Wimbledon singles quarterfi nals in 1977 and was selected Rookie of the Year in his fi rst professional season. Martin defeated top pros such as Ken Rosewall (twice), Stan Smith, John Newcombe, Roscoe Tanner and Harold Soloman. In 1975 he won the Arkan- sas International singles title. He also won doubles championships in 1977, ’79 and ’81 in Laguna Niguel, CA, Brussels, Belgium and Bristol, England, respectively. Martin attended UCLA for three years, working on his undergraduate studies before completing his bachelor’s degree in business management from the University of Redlands in 1989. He earned his MBA from USC in 1991. During the summer, Martin runs the Bassett-Martin Tennis Camp, one of the country’s most successful camps for youngsters. Martin also directs the UCLA Summer Tennis Camps held on the UCLA campus. Martin and his wife, Justine, have two children, William and Travis.