For Immediate Release: // Wednesday, April 25, 2018 Contacts // Heather Ward ([email protected]) 2018 PAC-12 TENNIS STANDINGS MEN’S STANDINGS WOMEN’S STANDINGS CONFERENCE OVERALL CONFERENCE OVERALL W L PCT W L PCT W L PCT W L PCT 1. UCLA * 8 0 1.00 23 2 .920 1. Stanford* 9 0 1.000 15 3 .833 2. Stanford 7 1 .875 20 2 .909 2. UCLA 9 1 .900 18 4 .818 3. USC 6 2 .750 15 7 .681 3. Arizona State 7 3 .700 15 6 .714 4. Oregon 4 4 .500 16 8 .666 4. California 6 4 .600 11 8 .579 5. Arizona State 3 4 .428 14 9 .609 5. Washington State 5 5 .500 20 6 .769 6. California 3 4 .428 11 8 .579 6. Oregon 5 5 .500 14 8 .636 7. Utah 2 6 .250 19 8 .704 7. Washington 5 5 .500 15 10 .600 8. Washington 2 6 .250 12 12 .500 8. USC 5 5 .500 12 9 .571 9. Arizona 0 8 .000 15 14 .789 8. Colorado 2 7 .200 9 11 .450 10. Utah 1 9 .100 10 13 .435 11. Arizona 0 10 .000 9 15 .375 * Pac-12 Regular Season Champion / Standings do not reflect seeding 2018 PAC-12 CONFERENCE TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS WHO: The Pac-12’s nine men’s teams and 11 women’s teams head to Ojai, Calif., Wednesday, April 25 - Saturday, April 28 to decide the Pac-12 men’s and women’s tennis team champions. Both the women and men will compete in a tournament team format to determine the Pac-12 Champion and the automatic qualifier for the NCAA Championships. Teams will be seeded based on won-lost percentages during regular-season Conference play with the tie breaker being the head-to-head matchup winner. WHAT: Pac-12 competition will be held in conjunction with the 118th Annual Ojai Valley Tennis Tournament. Live TV coverage of the event begins Friday, April 27 with the men’s semifinals at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. PT on both Pac-12 Network and Pac-12 Los Angeles. On Saturday, the women’s final will air live starting at 12 p.m. PT on Pac-12 Los Angeles, followed by the men’s final at 3 p.m. PT on Pac-12 Network and Pac-12 Los Angeles. The full men’s and women’s brackets are available on Pgs. 5 & 6.” WHERE: The Pac-12 Men’s Championship will be held at Libbey Park in Ojai for all rounds, while the Pac-12 women will play the first two rounds plus the semi- finals at the Ojai Valley Athletic Club and Weil Tennis Academy, with the championship match taking place at Libbey Park. COVERAGE: Full coverage of the 2018 Pac-12 Men’s and Women’s Tennis Championships and live results can be found at http://pac-12.com/tennischamps. PAC-12 TENNIS PAC-12 TENNIS INFORMATION CONTINUED SID DIRECTORY OJAI HISTORY: The Pac-12 Championships will keep with tradition ARIZONA as the featured event at this year’s 118th Ojai Valley Tennis Tourna- ment, which attracts 1,600 of the best college, junior and open play- Men’s SID ...........................Jake Marchi ers from the Western states. The annual event, started by William [email protected] Thacher in 1896, has been played at the same site and interrupted Women’s SID ...........................Katie Vick only five times. If this tournament, put on entirely by volunteer efforts [email protected] on public and privately owned courts, seems an unlikely place to Office ............................(520) 621-4163 see championship quality players, consider who has appeared here: Pete Sampras, Lindsay Davenport, Michael Chang, Rick Leach, ARIZONA STATE Tracy Austin, Billie Jean King, Arthur Ashe, Jimmy Connors and the Men’s SID ...................... Doug Tammaro Bryan twins. These tennis greats are among more than 91 former players at The Ojai who have gone on to win one [email protected] or more Grand Slam events as professional tennis players, all of whom are listed on Libbey Park’s “Wall of Fame.” Women’s SID .....................Elias Williams [email protected] CHAMPIONSHIP LOCATIONS: Ojai Valley Athletic Club is located at 409 Fox Street, Ojai, CA 93023, Weil Tennis Office ............................(480) 965-4987 Academy is located at 428 Bryant Cir, Ojai, CA and Libbey Park is located at the intersection of Signal and Main in the center of town. More information about the Ojai Tournament can be found at www.ojaitourney.org/tournament- CALIFORNIA info. Men’s/Women’s SID .......... Dean Caparaz [email protected] TICKET PRICES: Cash and will be credit cards accepted and fans can buy five-Day, weekend and single day Office ............................(510) 643-2938 passes online at http://www.ojaitourney.org/tournament-info/tickets/buy-tickets-online/. COLORADO Five-Day Pass: Weekend Pass: Single Day: Student: Women’s SID ................Andy Schlichting General: $50 General: $35 Weekend: $20 Weekend: $10 [email protected] Weekday: $15 Weekday: $5 Office ............................(303)-492-2320 OREGON Men’s/Women’s SID ......... Nathan Bryant [email protected] Office ............................(541)-346-5532 PAC-12 MEN’S COACHES STANFORD Men’s SID ...........................Doug Drabik Arizona ...........................Clancy Shields UCLA........................................... Billy Martin [email protected] ............................................... 2nd season ....................................................... 25th season Women’s SID ........................ Brian Risso [email protected] Arizona State........................... Matt Hill USC ............................................Peter Smith Office ............................(650) 736-9044 ............................................... 2nd season ....................................................... 16th season California ........................... Peter Wright Utah ................................... Roeland Brateanu UCLA .............................................. 25th season ......................................................... 4th season Men’s/Women’s SID ........ Andrew Sinatra [email protected] Oregon..........................Nils Schyllander Washington ................................... Matt Anger Office ............................(310) 206-6831 ................................................ 9th season ....................................................... 23rd season USC Stanford ......................... Paul Goldstein Men’s SID ..........................Darcy Couch ................................................ 4th season [email protected] Women’s SID ......................... Kaite Ryan [email protected] PAC-12 WOMEN’S COACHES Office ............................(213) 740-3808 Arizona ................................ Vicky Maes UCLA.......................... Stella Sampras Webster UTAH .............................................. 17th season ...................................................... 22nd season Men’s SID .......................Drew Wiseman [email protected] Arizona State............... Sheila McInerney USC ...........................................Alison Swain Women’s SID .....................Jordie Lindley ............................................. 32nd season ..........................................................1st season [email protected] Office ............................(801) 581-3771 California ................... Amanda Augustus Utah ............................................Mat Iondolo .............................................. 11th season ....................................................... 10th season WASHINGTON Colorado ......................Nicole Kenneally Washington .........................Robin Stephenson Men’s/Women’s SID .......... Kimber Haner .............................................. 19th season ......................................................... 4th season [email protected] Office ............................(206) 543-2331 Oregon.............................Alison Silverio Washington State ..............................Lisa Hart ................................................ 4th season ....................................................... 12th season WASHINGTON STATE Women’s SID: ......................Bill Stevens Stanford ............................. Lele Forood [email protected] .............................................. 16th season Office: .......................... (509) 335-4294 ITA RANKINGS PAC-12 MEN IN THE RANKINGS MEN’S TENNIS 17 Pac-12 singles players are ranked in the ITA Top-125 national men’s singles rankings (as of April 24). Eigth (as of April 24) Conference teams are represented by ranked individuals, led by Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year, Marin Redlicki of 1 Wake Forest UCLA tops the country at No. 1. He’s joined in the top 25 by Stanford’s Tom Fawcett at No. 9, USC’s Brandon Holt at 2 UCLA No. 11, ASU’s Michael Geerts at No. 20 and Oregon’s Michael Geerts at No. 22. 3 Ohio State 4 Stanford Ten Pac-12 men’s doubles teams are in the ITA Top-90 national doubles rankings, with a ranked pair representing six 5 Texas A&M different schools. USC’s Jack Jaede/Laurens Verboven are ranked second and is the Conference’s highest-ranked pair. 6 North Carolina 7 TCU 8 Illinois MEN’S SINGLES TOP 125 MEN’S DOUBLES TOP 90 1. Martin Redlicki, UCLA 7. Jack Jaede/Laurens Verboven, USC 9 Mississippi State 9. Tom Fawcett, STAN 9. Brandon Holt/Riley Smith, USC 10 Florida 11. Brandon Holt, USC 14. Austin Rapp/Keegan Smith, UCLA 11 Florida State 20. Michael Geerts, ASU 24. Tom Fawcett/Axel Geller, STAN 12 USC 22. Michael Geerts, ORE 32. Billy Griffith/J.T. Nishimura, CAL 13 Michigan 52. Keegan Smith, UCLA 37. Sameer Kumar/Michael Genender, STAN 14 Oklahoma 54. Billy Griffith, CAL 45. Cormac Clissold/Thomas Laurent, ORE 15 Texas 65. Jake Douglas, WASH 48. Andrea Bolla/Makey Rakotomalala, ASU 16 Columbia 74. Axel Geller, STAN 73. Martin Redlicki/Evan