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ROSTERS / TEAM PHOTO ALPHABETICAL ROSTER TEAM STAFF Name Ht. Yr. Hometown (High School/College) Head Coach: Billy Martin (27th Year, Redlands, ‘89) Drew Baird 6-3 Fr. Raleigh, N.C. (IMG Academy) Associate Head Coach: Rikus de Villiers (7th Year, Fresno Lucas Bellamy 6-2 Jr. Los Angeles, Calif. (Palisades Charter HS) State, ‘11) Roscoe Bellamy 6-5 So. Pacific Palisades, Calif. (Laurel Springs School) Volunteer Asst. Coach: Wil Martin (2nd Year, Saint Mary’s, Ben Goldberg 6-0 Sr. Pacific Palisades, Calif. (Palisades Charter HS) ‘15) Eric Hahn 6-0 So. Fullerton, Calif. (Sunny Hills HS) Director of Operations: Max Hammer Connor Hance 5-10 Jr. Torrance, Calif. (Palos Verdes Peninsula HS) Staff Athletic Trainer: Ariel Guldstrand Blaine Hovenier 6-4 R-Fr. Los Angeles, Calif. (Campbell Hall) Govind Nanda 5-9 So. Redlands, Calif. (Laurel Springs School) Bryce Pereira 6-0 Jr. Arcadia, Calif. (San Marino HS) ROSTER BREAKDOWN Connor Rapp 6-2 R-Jr. Rancho Mirage, Calif. (Palm Desert HS) Height Hahn, Nanda, Tsolakyan, Wild, Zahraj Keegan Smith 6-7 Jr. San Diego, Calif. (Point Loma HS) 6-7 ............................Smith Mathew Tsolakyan 6-1 So. Glendale, Calif. (Laurel Springs School) 6-5 .....................R. Bellamy Juniors (5): L. Bellamy, Max Wild 6-2 So. Murrieta, Calif. (Laurel Springs School) 6-4 ....................... Hovenier Hance, Pereira, Rapp, Smith Patrick Zahraj 6-2 So. Frankfurt am Main, Germany (Kurpfalz-Gymnasium und Realschule Mannheim) 6-3 .............................Baird Seniors (1): Goldberg 6-2 .....................L. Bellamy ...................................Rapp State PRONUNCIATION GUIDE ....................................Wild California (12): L. Bellamy, Blaine Hovenier ..............................................HO-veneer .................................Zahraj R. Bellamy, Goldberg, Hahn, Govind Nanda .......................................GO-vin NON-duh 6-1 ......................Tsolakyan Hance, Hovenier, Nanda, Mathew Tsolakyan ......................................so-LOCK-ian 6-0 .......................Goldberg Pereira, Rapp, Smith, Patrick Zahraj ................................................... zuh-RYE ...................................Hahn Rikus de Villiers..............................RICK-iss de VILL-yers Tsolakyan, Wild ................................Pereira 5-10 .........................Hance North Carolina (1): Baird 5-9 ...........................Nanda Class International Germany (1): Zahraj Freshmen (2): Baird, Hovenier Sophomores (6): R. Bellamy, 3 COACHING STAFF 6-7 (8), 7-6 (4), 1-0 (9). Most recently, Maxime Cressy and Keegan Smith completed an BILLY undefeated season by beating Patrick Kaukovalta and Mazen Osama of Alabama, 6-3, 6-4, in the final. Cressy and Smith did not drop a set on the year, beating 15 nationally- MARTIN ranked opponents along the way. Head Coach In all, a total of 33 players have achieved All-America status under Martin’s direction. Inducted into the ITA Men’s Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame in 1996, Martin’s playing career 27th Season is full of highlights. To this very day he is still regarded as one of the best junior players in Redlands ‘89 the history of the sport. He captured the 1973 and 1974 singles titles at Junior Wimbledon, the Junior U.S. Open and Junior Orange Bowl tournaments. Inside Tennis Magazine 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 Hall of Fame in December of 2010. He was also inducted into the Southern California Tennis Association Hall of Fame in August of 2011. Head coach Billy Martin, who is in his 27th year as the UCLA head men’s tennis coach, Although Martin played just one season at UCLA before turning pro, the 1975 season was takes an overall record of 595-124 (.828) into the 2020 season. This year marks his a special one, as he guided the team to a perfect 19-0 dual-match record en route to an 37th on staff, as he served as an assistant coach for 10 years prior to taking over for NCAA team championship during his freshman year. Glenn Bassett in 1994. The longest-tenured active coach at UCLA, Martin became the program’s all-time leader in head-coaching wins when he passed friend and mentor After capturing the 1975 NCAA singles championship, Martin turned professional and Bassett with No. 593 on April 25, 2019. He is only the fourth head coach in UCLA tennis enjoyed a fine career. He reached the Wimbledon singles quarterfinals in 1977 and was history, following legends Bill Ackerman (1921-50), J.D. Morgan (1951-66) and Bassett selected Rookie of the Year in his first professional season. (1967-93). Martin became just the third active head coach to be inducted into the UCLA Martin defeated top pros such as Ken Rosewall (twice), Stan Smith, John Newcombe, Athletic Hall of Fame, joining Al Scates and Valorie Kondos Field, in 2005. Perhaps the most Roscoe Tanner and Harold Soloman. In 1975 he won the Arkansas International singles amazing accomplishment in Martin’s career is his ability to contend for a championship title. He also won doubles championships in 1977, ‘79 and ‘81 in Laguna Niguel, CA, each and every year, as only three times has he had a team finish out of the top five at Brussels, Belgium and Bristol, England, respectively. the season-ending NCAA Championships. Martin attended UCLA for three years, working on his undergraduate studies before Martin’s finest season at UCLA came in 2005 when he led the squad to its first NCAA completing his bachelor’s degree in business management from the University of Redlands title since 1984. UCLA’s 4-3 come-from-behind victory over top-seeded and undefeated in 1989. He earned his MBA from USC in 1991. Baylor that year marked the Bruins’ 16th NCAA Championship in men’s tennis and the During the summer, Martin runs the Bassett-Martin Tennis Camp, one of the country’s school’s 97th NCAA title overall. The win snapped Baylor’s 57-match winning streak, the most successful camps for youngsters. Martin also directs the UCLA Summer Tennis second longest in NCAA history. It also avenged the team’s 4-0 loss to the Bears in the Camps held on the UCLA campus. 2004 NCAA final. Martin and his wife, Justine, have two children, William and Travis. William played college In addition to the team’s dramatic run to the title in 2005, Martin has had several near tennis at Saint Mary’s and currently serves as volunteer assistant coach for the Bruins, misses at the NCAA Championships, including 2013 when the top-seeded Bruins were while Travis played at UCLA. narrowly edged by No. 2 Virginia, 4-3 in the championship match in Champaign, Ill. Under Martin, UCLA has reached the NCAA Final on three other occasions (1996, 1999 and 2004). After reaching the final in just his third year as head coach, Martin was named the Career Coaching Record 1996 ITA National Coach of the Year, as the Bruins finished with a 27-1 overall record. Year Overall Record Conf. Record/Finish NCAA Finish Another significant highlight in Martin’s career is his outstanding success in the highly- 1994 22-6 7-3/3rd NCAA Semifinals competitive Pac-12 Conference, where he owns a 165-27 (.859) record. Under Martin’s 1995 19-6 7-3/3rd NCAA Semifinals direction, UCLA has captured 15 regular-season conference titles, including four in a row 1996 27-1 10-0/1st NCAA Runner-Up from 2004-07 and 2016-19. His teams have swept through conference regular-season 1997 25-4 9-1/T-1st NCAA Semifinals play four years in a row, going 29-0 during that span. UCLA has never finished out of the 1998 17-8 5-2/T-2nd NCAA Quarterfinals top three in the Pac-12 standings during Martin’s tenure and have won four conference- 1999 26-3 6-1/T-1st NCAA Runner-Up tournament titles (2013, 2014, 2016, 2018). He has been named Pac-12 Coach of the 2000 24-4 6-1/2nd NCAA Quarterfinals Year five times (1996, 2012-14, 2018). 2001 23-3 6-1/2nd NCAA Quarterfinals In addition to his numerous team accomplishments, Martin takes great pride in helping 2002 23-5 6-1/1st NCAA Semifinals his players achieve their individual goals as well. In 2006, he helped Benjamin Kohlloeffel 2003 24-4 6-1/2nd NCAA Semifinals become the 10th player in school history to capture the NCAA Singles Championship. 2004 23-6 6-1/T-1st NCAA Runner-Up Kohlloeffel notched a straight-set win over Virginia’s Somdev Devvarman in the title match 2005 27-3 6-1/T-1st NCAA Champion that year, becoming the first Bruin player since Martin in 1975 to win the title. Kohlloeffel’s 2006 20-6 6-1/T-1st NCAA Quarterfinals victory put his coach in an elite category, as Martin joined Georgia’s Manny Diaz as the 2007 22-4 7-0/1st NCAA Quarterfinals only other active head coach to earn the career “triple crown” by leading their schools to 2008 23-4 5-2/T-2nd NCAA Semifinals three different titles at the NCAA Championships (team, singles and doubles). In 2014, 2009 21-5 6-0/1st NCAA Semifinals Martin helped Marcos Giron become the school’s 11th NCAA Singles Champion when Giron 2010 17-7 4-2/3rd NCAA Quarterfinals downed Pepperdine’s Alex Sarkissian in straight sets in the 2014 championship match in 2011 18-7 3-3/T-3rd NCAA Round of 16 Athens, Ga. Last season, Martin coached three-time All-American Mackenzie McDonald to the NCAA Singles crown. The Bruin junior dispatched top-ranked Mikael Torpegaard of 2012 26-4 7-0/1st NCAA Semifinals Ohio State in straight sets to become UCLA’s 12th NCAA Singles Champion. McDonald 2013 29-2 7-0/1st NCAA Runner-Up was named the 2016 ITA National Men’s College Player of the Year and earned his second 2014 26-4 6-1/2nd NCAA Semifinals straight Pac-12 Player of the Year nod (2015, 2016).

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