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RADIO / TV ROSTER Drew Lucas Roscoe Sam Ben Eric Connor BAIRD BELLAMY BELLAMY FEIT GOLDBERG HAHN HANCE 6-3/So. 6-2/Sr. 6-5/Jr. 6-0/Gr. 6-0/R-Sr. 6-0/Jr. 5-10/Sr. Raleigh, N.C. Los Angeles, Calif. Pacific Palisades, Calif. Los Angeles, Calif. Pacific Palisades, Calif. Fullerton, Calif. Torrance, Calif. Blaine Stefan Timothy Govind Bryce Connor Keegan HOVENIER LEUSTIAN LI NANDA PEREIRA RAPP SMITH 6-4/R-So. 5-10/Fr. 5-11/Fr. 5-9/Jr. 6-0/Sr. 6-2/R-Sr. 6-7/Sr. Los Angeles, Calif. Sacramento, Calif. Valley Village, Calif. Redlands, Calif. Arcadia, Calif. Rancho Mirage, Calif. San Diego, Calif. Mathew Max Patrick TSOLAKYAN WILD ZAHRAJ 6-1/Jr. 6-2/Jr. 6-2/Jr. Glendale, Calif. Murrieta, Calif. Frankfurt am Main, Germany Billy Rikus Wil Max MARTIN DE VILLIERS MARTIN HAMMER Head Coach Associate Head Coach Volunteer Assistant Coach Director of Operations 2 ROSTER ALPHABETICAL ROSTER TEAM STAFF Name Ht. Yr. Hometown (High School/College) Head Coach: Billy Martin (28th Year, Redlands, ‘89) Drew Baird 6-3 So. Raleigh, N.C. (IMG Academy) Associate Head Coach: Rikus de Villiers (8th Year, Fresno Lucas Bellamy 6-2 Sr. Los Angeles, Calif. (Palisades Charter HS) State, ‘11) Roscoe Bellamy 6-5 Jr. Pacific Palisades, Calif. (Laurel Springs School) Volunteer Asst. Coach: Wil Martin (3rd Year, Saint Mary’s, ‘15) Sam Feit 6-0 Gr. Los Angeles, Calif. (Milken Community School/Gonzaga) Director of Operations: Max Hammer Ben Goldberg 6-0 R-Sr. Pacific Palisades, Calif. (Palisades Charter HS) Staff Athletic Trainer: Ariel Guldstrand Eric Hahn 6-0 Jr. Fullerton, Calif. (Sunny Hills HS) Connor Hance 5-10 Sr. Torrance, Calif. (Palos Verdes Peninsula HS) ROSTER BREAKDOWN Blaine Hovenier 6-4 R-So. Los Angeles, Calif. (Campbell Hall) Height Class Stefan Leustian 5-10 Fr. Sacramento, Calif. (Connections Academy) 6-7 ............................Smith Freshmen (2): Leustian, Li Timothy Li 5-11 Fr. Valley Village, Calif. (Harvard-Westlake School) 6-5 .....................R. Bellamy Govind Nanda 5-9 Jr. Redlands, Calif. (Laurel Springs School) Sophomores (2): Baird, 6-4 ....................... Hovenier Hovenier Bryce Pereira 6-0 Sr. Arcadia, Calif. (San Marino HS) 6-3 .............................Baird Connor Rapp 6-2 R-Sr. Rancho Mirage, Calif. (Palm Desert HS) 6-2 .....................L. Bellamy Juniors (6): R. Bellamy, Hahn, Keegan Smith 6-7 Sr. San Diego, Calif. (Point Loma HS) ...................................Rapp Nanda, Tsolakyan, Wild, Zahraj Mathew Tsolakyan 6-1 Jr. Glendale, Calif. (Laurel Springs School) ....................................Wild Seniors (6): L. Bellamy, Max Wild 6-2 Jr. Murrieta, Calif. (Laurel Springs School) .................................Zahraj Goldberg, Hance, Pereira, Patrick Zahraj 6-2 Jr. Frankfurt am Main, Germany (Kurpfalz-Gymnasium Mannheim) 6-1 ......................Tsolakyan Rapp, Smith 6-0 ...............................Feit .............................Goldberg Graduate Students (1): Feit PRONUNCIATION GUIDE ...................................Hahn Sam Feit ........................................................ like “fight” ................................Pereira State Blaine Hovenier ..............................................HO-veneer 5-11 ................................Li California (15): L. Bellamy, R. Stefan Leustian .......................... STEH-fawn LOOSE-chin 5-10 .........................Hance Bellamy, Feit, Goldberg, Hahn, Timothy Li ...................................................... like “Lee” ..............................Leustian Hance, Hovenier, Leustian, Li, Govind Nanda .......................................GO-vin NON-duh 5-9 ...........................Nanda Nanda, Pereira, Rapp, Smith, Mathew Tsolakyan ......................................so-LOCK-ian Tsolakyan, Wild Patrick Zahraj ................................................... zuh-RYE Rikus de Villiers..............................RICK-iss de VILL-yers North Carolina (1): Baird International Germany (1): Zahraj 3 COACHING STAFF warranted, edging Torpegaard and Martin Joyce of Ohio State in a thriller, 6-7 (8), 7-6 BILLY (4), 1-0 (9). Most recently, Maxime Cressy and Keegan Smith completed an undefeated season by beating Patrick Kaukovalta and Mazen Osama of Alabama, 6-3, 6-4, in the MARTIN final. Cressy and Smith did not drop a set on the year, beating 15 nationally-ranked opponents along the way. Head Coach In all, 33 players have achieved All-America status under Martin’s direction. 28th Season Inducted into the ITA Men’s Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame in 1996, Martin’s playing career Redlands ‘89 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 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 The program’s all-time leader in head-coaching wins, Billy Martin enters his 28th year California Tennis Association Hall of Fame in August of 2011. guiding UCLA men’s tennis in 2020-21. It also marks his 38th year on staff, as he served Although Martin played just one season at UCLA before turning pro, the 1975 season was as an assistant coach for 10 years prior to taking over for Glenn Bassett in 1994. Owner a special one, as he guided the team to a perfect 19-0 dual-match record en route to an of a 604-128 (.825) record in dual matches, Martin passed friend and mentor Bassett with NCAA team championship during his freshman year. win No. 593 on April 25, 2019. The longest-tenured active head coach at UCLA is only the fourth in the history of the tennis program, following legends Bill Ackerman (1921-50), After capturing the 1975 NCAA singles championship, Martin turned professional and J.D. Morgan (1951-66) and Bassett (1967-93). Martin became just the third active head enjoyed a fine career. He reached the Wimbledon singles quarterfinals in 1977 and was coach to be inducted into the UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame, joining Al Scates and Valorie selected Rookie of the Year in his first professional season. Kondos Field, in 2005. Perhaps the most amazing accomplishment in Martin’s career is Martin defeated top pros such as Ken Rosewall (twice), Stan Smith, John Newcombe, his ability to contend for a championship each and every year, as only three times has he Roscoe Tanner and Harold Soloman. In 1975 he won the Arkansas International singles had a team finish out of the top five at the season-ending NCAA Championships. title. He also won doubles championships in 1977, ‘79 and ‘81 in Laguna Niguel, CA, Martin’s finest season at UCLA came in 2005 when he led the squad to its first NCAA Brussels, Belgium and Bristol, England, respectively. title since 1984. UCLA’s 4-3 come-from-behind victory over top-seeded and undefeated Martin attended UCLA for three years, working on his undergraduate studies before Baylor that year marked the Bruins’ 16th NCAA Championship in men’s tennis and the completing his bachelor’s degree in business management from the University of Redlands school’s 97th NCAA title overall. The win snapped Baylor’s 57-match winning streak, the in 1989. He earned his MBA from USC in 1991. second longest in NCAA history. It also avenged the team’s 4-0 loss to the Bears in the 2004 NCAA final. 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 In addition to the team’s dramatic run to the title in 2005, Martin has had several near Camps held on the UCLA campus. misses at the NCAA Championships, including 2013 when the top-seeded Bruins were narrowly edged by No. 2 Virginia, 4-3 in the championship match in Champaign, Ill. Under Martin and his wife, Justine, have two children, William and Travis. William played college Martin, UCLA has reached the NCAA Final on three other occasions (1996, 1999 and tennis at Saint Mary’s (2012-15) and currently serves as volunteer assistant coach for 2004). After reaching the final in just his third year as head coach, Martin was named the UCLA, while Travis played for the Bruins from 2014-17. 1996 ITA National Coach of the Year, as the Bruins finished with a 27-1 overall record. Career Coaching Record During the coronavirus-shortened 2020 dual-match campaign, Martin collected the 600th Year Overall Record Conf. Record/Finish NCAA Finish win of his coaching career. He has guided 20 teams to 20 or more wins in his 26 completed 1994 22-6 7-3/3rd NCAA Semifinals seasons. The 2018 squad logged a 30-3 record en route to the national semifinals. 1995 19-6 7-3/3rd NCAA Semifinals Another significant highlight in Martin’s career is his outstanding success in the highly- 1996 27-1 10-0/1st NCAA Runner-Up competitive Pac-12 Conference, where he owns a 167-27 (.861) record. Under Martin’s 1997 25-4 9-1/T-1st NCAA Semifinals direction, UCLA has captured 15 regular-season conference titles, including four in a row 1998 17-8 5-2/T-2nd NCAA Quarterfinals from 2004-07 and 2016-19. His teams have swept through conference regular-season 1999 26-3 6-1/T-1st NCAA Runner-Up play over a period that spans more than four seasons, going 31-0. UCLA has never finished out of the top three in the Pac-12 standings during Martin’s tenure and have won four 2000 24-4 6-1/2nd NCAA Quarterfinals conference tournament titles (2013, 2014, 2016, 2018). He has been named Pac-12 2001 23-3 6-1/2nd NCAA Quarterfinals Coach of the Year five times (1996, 2012-14, 2018). 2002 23-5 6-1/1st NCAA Semifinals 2003 24-4 6-1/2nd NCAA Semifinals In addition to his numerous team accomplishments, Martin takes great pride in helping 2004 23-6 6-1/T-1st NCAA Runner-Up his players achieve their individual goals as well.