For Immediate Release: // Tuesday, April 23, 2019 Contacts // Carly Fasciglione ([email protected]) 2019 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 1.000 16 4 .800 1. Stanford* 10 0 1.000 19 1 .950 2. USC 7 1 .875 17 7 .708 2. Washington 8 2 .800 18 3 .857 3. Stanford 5 3 .625 16 5 .762 3. UCLA 8 2 .800 16 6 .727 4. California 4 4 .500 12 11 .522 4. USC 7 3 .700 17 6 .739 5. Arizona State 4 4 .500 13 12 .520 5. California 6 4 .600 12 7 .632 6. Arizona 3 5 .375 17 6 .739 6. Arizona State 5 5 .500 12 9 .571 7. Utah 2 6 .250 16 10 .615 7. Washington State 3 7 .300 18 9 .667 8. Washington 2 6 .250 7 16 .304 8. Utah 3 7 .300 13 10 .565 9. Oregon 1 7 .125 13 9 .591 9. Colorado 3 7 .300 10 13 .435 10. Arizona 2 8 .200 11 11 .500 11. Oregon 0 10 .000 7 15 .318 * Pac-12 Regular Season Champion / Standings do not reflect seeding 2019 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 24 - Saturday, April 27 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 119th Annual Ojai Valley Tennis Tournament. Live TV coverage of the event begins Thursday, April 25 with the men’s quarterfinals starting at 9 a.m. PT on Pac-12 Bay Area. The men’s semifinals on Friday, April 26 will air live on both Pac-12 Network and Pac-12 Bay Area. On Saturday, April 27, the women’s final will air live on Pac-12 Bay Area at 12 p.m. PT, followed by the men’s final at 3 p.m. PT on Pac-12 Network and Pac-12 Bay Area. All televised matches will also be available to stream on the Pac-12 Now app. The full men’s and women’s brackets are available on Pgs. 7 & 8. 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 Weil Tennis Academy, with the championship match taking place at Libbey Park. COVERAGE: Full coverage of the 2019 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 PAC-12 MEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY: In the seven year history of the ARIZONA men’s team championship, UCLA has won the Conference title four times, including its 2018 victory. USC has claimed the other three titles. The Los Men’s SID .......................Adam Gonzales Angeles rivals have played against each other in the championship match [email protected] all but one year (2016). In 2017, USC was the lowest seed to ever win the Women’s SID ........................ Tanner Kay men’s bracket when it was the No. 3 seed. [email protected] Office ............................(520) 621-4163 PAC-12 WOMEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY: Since the women started a team bracket at the Pac-12 Championships in 2016, Stanford has been ARIZONA STATE named the No. 1 seed all three years and have been crowned the Pac-12 Men’s SID ............................Shay Souza Women’s Tennis Champions the last two years. The reigning NCAA Champion Cardinal are vying for its fourth- [email protected] straight automatic bid into the NCAA tournament, as they won the regular season title in 2016. Women’s SID .....................Elias Williams [email protected] Office ............................(480) 965-6592 OJAI HISTORY: The Pac-12 Championships will keep with tradition as the featured event at this year’s 119th Ojai Valley Tennis Tournament, which attracts 1,600 of the best college, junior and open players from the Western CALIFORNIA states. The annual event, started by William Thacher in 1896, has been played at the same site and interrupted Men’s/Women’s SID .......... Dean Caparaz only five times. If this tournament, put on entirely by volunteer efforts on public and privately owned courts, seems [email protected] an unlikely place to see championship quality players, consider who has appeared here: Pete Sampras, Lindsay Office ............................(510) 642-5363 Davenport, Michael Chang, Rick Leach, Tracy Austin, Billie Jean King, Arthur Ashe, Jimmy Connors and the Bryan twins. These tennis greats are among more than 91 former players at The Ojai who have gone on to win one or COLORADO more Grand Slam events as professional tennis players, all of whom are listed on Libbey Park’s “Wall of Fame.” Women’s SID ..................... Shaun Wicen [email protected] CHAMPIONSHIP LOCATIONS: Weil Tennis Academy is located at 428 Bryant Cir, Ojai, CA and Libbey Park is Office ............................(303) 492-7525 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-info. OREGON TICKET PRICES: Cash and will be credit cards accepted and fans can buy five-Day, weekend and single day Men’s SID ..........................Zach Lawson passes online at http://www.ojaitourney.org/tournament-info/tickets/buy-tickets-online/. [email protected] ...............Hannah Krulevich Women’s SID Five-Day Pass: Weekend Pass: Single Day: Student: [email protected] General: $50 General: $35 Weekend: $20 Weekend: $10 Office ............................(541) 346-5488 STANFORD PAC-12 MEN’S COACHES Men’s SID ...........................Doug Drabik [email protected] Arizona ...........................Clancy Shields UCLA ............................. Billy Martin Women’s SID ........................ Brian Risso ................................................3rd season ........................................ 26th season [email protected] Office ............................(650) 200-9513 Arizona State........................... Matt Hill USC ...............................Peter Smith ............................................... 2nd season ........................................ 17th season UCLA California ........................... Peter Wright Utah ..................... Roeland Brateanu Men’s/Women’s SID ........ Andrew Sinatra .............................................. 26th season .......................................... 5th season [email protected] Office ............................(310) 206-7870 Oregon..........................Nils Schyllander Washington......................Matt Anger .............................................. 13th season ........................................ 25th season USC Men’s SID ..........................Darcy Couch Stanford ......................... Paul Goldstein [email protected] ................................................ 5th season Women’s SID ......................... Katie Ryan [email protected] Office ............................(213) 740-8480 PAC-12 WOMEN’S COACHES UTAH Arizona ............................Ryan Stotland UCLA ............ Stella Sampras Webster Men’s/Women’s SID ...........Jordie Lindley .................................................1st season ........................................ 23rd season [email protected] Office ............................(801) 581-8997 Arizona State............... Sheila McInerney USC ............................. Alison Swain .............................................. 35th season ......................................... 2nd season WASHINGTON Men’s/Women’s SID ............Jeff Hoffman California ................... Amanda Augustus Utah ..............................Mat Iandolo [email protected] .............................................. 12th season ........................................ 12th season Office ............................(206) 897-1743 Colorado ....................Danielle Steinberg Washington............ Robin Stephenson WASHINGTON STATE .................................................1st season .......................................... 5th season Women’s SID: ......................Bill Stevens [email protected] Oregon........................... Courtney Nagle Washington State ................Lisa Hart Office: .......................... (509) 335-4294 .................................................1st season ........................................ 16th season Stanford ............................. Lele Forood .............................................. 19th season ITA RANKINGS PAC-12 MEN IN THE RANKINGS MEN’S TENNIS Eight of nine Pac-12 men’s programs are ranked in the ITA Top-50 national team rankings (as of April 23), led by (as of April 23) USC at No. 8. Top-seeded UCLA lands at No. 13 heading into the Conference Championships. 1. Ohio State 2. Texas 18 league singles players are ranked in the ITA Top-125 national men’s singles poll. Seven conference teams are 3. Wake Forest represented by ranked individuals, led by two-time ITA All-American USC’s Brandon Holt at No. 10. He’s joined in 4. Florida the top 25 by Stanford’s Axel Geller at No. 12, Oregon’s Thomas Laurent at No. 14, UCLA’s Maxime Cressy at No. 5. Virginia 17 and fellow Trojan Daniel Cukierman at No. 20. 6. Baylor 7. Mississippi State Nine Pac-12 men’s doubles teams are in the ITA Top-90 national doubles rankings, with a ranked pair representing 8. USC seven different schools.