2017 Georgia Men's Tennis Tv/Radio Roster
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2017 GEORGIA MEN’S TENNIS TV/RADIO ROSTER ALEX DIAZ SAM DROMSKY WALKER DUNCAN ROBERT LOEB ANDY MARTINEZ 6-2 • Fr. 6-2 • Fr. 6-1 • So. 6-1 • Fr. 6-0 • Jr. Athens, Ga. Augusta, Ga. Atlanta, Ga. Hilton Head, S.C. Atlanta, Ga. WAYNE MONTGOMERY PAUL OOSTERBAAN ALEX PHILLIPS NATHAN PONWITH EMIL REINBERG 5-10 • Jr. 6-7 • RS-Jr. 5-10 • RS-Fr. 6-2 • Fr. 6-2 • So. Somerset West, South Kalamazoo, Mich. Peachtree City, Ga. Scottsdale, Ariz. Atlanta, Ga. Africa JAN ZIELINSKI MANUEL DIAZ BO HODGE NICK WOOD 5-10 • So. HEAD COACH ASSOC. HEAD COACH VOLUNTEER COACH Warsaw, Poland PRONUNCIATION GUIDE Paul Oosterbaan: OH-ster-bahn Jan Zielinski: Yahn Zuh-LYNN-ski Alex/Manuel Diaz: DEE-az Robert Loeb: (like ‘lobe’) Emil Reinberg: Ee-meal 6 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS | 41 SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS | 49 ALL-AMERICANS | 8 NCAA INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONS 2016-17 SCHEDULE (18-7, 11-1 SEC) PROJECTED LINEUP J20 Georgia Tech W, 5-2 1 DOUBLES 2 DOUBLES 3 DOUBLES J27 Purdue# W, 4-1 J29 Washington# W, 4-0 F4 (6)UCLA! L, 4-3 JAN ZIELINSKI PAUL OOSTERBAAN WALKER DUNCAN F5 (8)USC! L, 4-0 ROBERT LOEB NATHAN PONWITH WAYNE MONTGOMERY F12 (3)Ohio State L, 4-0 F17 (5)North Carolina% L, 4-2 F18 (13)Baylor% L, 4-2 F19 Utah State% W, 4-0 M3 (30)Vanderbilt W, 5-2 1 SINGLES 2 SINGLES 3 SINGLES 4 SINGLES 5 SINGLES 6 SINGLES M5 (15)Kentucky W, 4-3 M10 (37)Ole Miss W, 6-1 M12 Arkansas W, 4-3 NATHAN PONWITH WAYNE MONTGOMERY EMIL REINBERG JAN ZIELINSKI WALKER DUNCAN PAUL OOSTERBAAN M17 (1)Wake Forest L, 4-3 FR. JR. SO. SO. SO. RS-JR. M19 (43)Tennessee W, 4-3 M23 LSU W, 4-1 M25 Alabama W, 7-0 M30 (17)Mississippi State W, 4-0 A1 (48)Auburn W, 4-0 No. Player(s) ITA Ranking Overall Record Dual Record SEC Record 1 Zielinski/Loeb 1 22-9 15-8 6-4 A7 (14)Florida W, 6-1 2 Oosterbaan/Ponwith -- 0-1 0-1 0-1 A9 (20)South Carolina W, 4-0 3 Montgomery/Duncan -- 16-3 12-2 10-1 A15 (10)Texas A&M L, 5-2 A28 (39)Arkansas^ W, 4-1 1 Nathan Ponwith 56 20-11 12-7 8-3 A29 (14)Florida^ W, 4-3 2 Wayne Montgomery 33 27-16 12-11 6-6 A30 (18)Mississippi State^ W, 4-3 3 Emil Reinberg 59 32-13 11-8 6-3 4 Jan Zielinski -- 27-11 13-6 7-3 M12-13 NCAA First & Second Rounds TBA 5 Walker Duncan -- 29-14 17-5 11-1 M18-29 NCAA Championships TBA 6 Paul Oosterbaan -- 1-4 1-4 0-0 Bold - in Athens, Ga. #ITA Kick-off FIRST AND SECOND ROUNDS – ATHENS SEC match !SEC/Pac-12 Showdown (Gainesville, Fla.) %ITA National Indoors - (Charlottesville, Va.) ^SEC Tournament (Knoxville, Tenn. All times Eastern. SPORTS COMMUNICATIONS [13] GEORGIA [49-64] FLORIDA A&M [33-48] DUKE [17-32] SOUTH FLORIDA Men’s Tennis Contacts Tray Littlefield ([email protected]) 18-7 (11-1 SEC) 11-11 16-9 (8-4 ACC) 17-8 (7-1 American) Jack Ryan ([email protected]) SEC Champions MEAC Champions At-Large Bid American Champions Office Phone (706) 542-1621 HC: Manuel Diaz HC: Rochelle Goldthreate HC: Ramsey Smith HC: Ashley Fisher Website www.georgiadogs.com 29th Season Ninth Season First Season Mailing Address P.O. Box 1472, Athens, Ga. 30603 669-147 (all at UGA) 179-58 (all at Duke) 17-8 (all at USF) @ugatennis SERIES HISTORY facebook.com/UGAMensTennis Meetings First Meeting 11 6 UGA Wins -- 9 5 GEORGIA ROSTER Opponent Wins -- 2 1 Player Class Hometown Current Streak -- UGA W1 UGA W1 Alex Diaz Fr. Athens, Ga. Last Meeting -- 2011 NCAA Quarterfinals 2004 Samuel Dromsky Fr. Augusta, Ga. Result -- UGA W, 4-1 UGA W, 4-1 Walker Duncan So. Atlanta, Ga. Robert Loeb Fr. Hilton Head, S.C. WHERE GEORGIA COULD SEE THE TOP SEEDS Andy Martinez Jr. Atlanta, Ga. Wayne Montgomery Jr. Somerset West, South Africa Paul Oosterbaan RJr. Kalamazoo, Mich. Alex Phillips RFr. Peachtree City, Ga. Nathan Ponwith Fr. Scottsdale, Ariz. Emil Reinberg So. Atlanta, Ga. [4] [5] [1] [8] [2] [3] [6] [7] Jan Zielinski So. Warsaw, Poland Southern Cal UCLA Wake Forest California Virginia Ohio State TCU Baylor Head Coach Manuel Diaz Associate Head Coach Bo Hodge; Volunteer Coach Nick Wood Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Championship POSTSEASON NOTES ON THE DOCKET midpoint of the conference schedule, was named a First-Team All-SEC member and the conference’s Freshman of the Year. The Scottsdale, Ariz. native came to Athens In the first round of the NCAA Championships, the Bulldogs host Florida A&M. The as the top-ranked recruit in the nation and during the regular season became the first Rattlers come to Athens with an 11-11 record and qualified for the tournament SEC player in history to win the Freshman of the Week award five times from the following their MEAC Tournament crown. Florida A&M’s championship meant an end conference. to a string of conference dominance by South Carolina State, whom Georgia defeated in the first round of last year’s NCAA Championships. LOEB AND ZIELINSKI CLAIM TOP SPOT Should the Bulldogs advance past the Rattlers, they will take on the winner of South Florida and Duke. The Bulls (American Conference champions) are 17-8 entering the In the final edition of the Oracle/ITA Rankings entering the NCAA Tournament, match against the Blue Devils, and of the eight losses, five came to teams that Georgia freshman Robert Loeb and sophomore Jan Zielinski are ranked No. 1 in doubles. They also played: LSU, Ohio State, Texas A&M, Baylor and USC. The Blue Devils received an have played together in every dual match at the first doubles court and hold a 15-8 at-large bid, and also lost to many teams the Bulldogs faced: Kentucky, North Carolina, record in dual matches. Perhaps most impressively, the pair is 10-4 against ranked Wake Forest, UCLA and Georgia Tech (twice). opponents, including six wins against pairs currently ranked in the top-12. NCAA TOURNAMENT HISTORY INDIVIDUAL NCAA PARTICIPANTS Georgia is 105-34 all-time in the NCAA Tournament with six titles, most recently in All five players that received All-SEC honors will participate in either the singles or 2008. This is the 14th consecutive year that the Bulldogs have played host to the first doubles championships following the team tournament. Loeb and Zielinski are the and second rounds, and Georgia has advanced to the Round of 16 each of the previous top seed in the doubles tournament and automatically receive All-America honors 13. In addition to winning six NCAA Championships, Georgia has reached the NCAA fi- as a result. In the singles tournament, Georgia will be represented by Montgomery, nal seven other times. This is the Bulldogs’ 39th appearance in the NCAA Tournament. Ponwith, and Reinberg. Only three other schools have at least three players in the singles tournament. FIVE ALL-SEC HONOREES Georgia put five players on the All-SEC teams in 2017, including four on the first team. REINBERG TOURNAMENT MVP Jan Zielinski and Robert Loeb, who form the nation’s top-ranked doubles pair, were Emil Reinberg was named the SEC Tournament’s Most Valuable Player following a 3-0 on the First Team, as were Nathan Ponwith and Wayne Montgomery, who play at the performance in singles and a 2-1 effort in doubles throughout the tournament. In the top-two singles positions for the Bulldogs. For Montgomery, this is the third first-team championship match against Mississippi State, Reinberg clinched with a win at 7-6 honor of his career, while the three underclassmen each got the nod for the first time. (4), 7-6 (6) win at No. 3 over No. 111 Strahinja Rakic. Emil Reinberg, who plays at the third court in singles and leads the Bulldogs with 32 singles wins this season, was named to the Second Team. ZIELINSKI CHASING HISTORY Jan Zielinski is currently tied for 16th in school history for most doubles wins in a DIAZ COACH OF THE YEAR single season with 32. He is... Georgia head coach Manuel Diaz was named the 2017 Southeastern Conference » 1 away from T14th (Al Parker, 1988-89; Travis Helgeson, 2006-07) Coach of the Year following the Bulldogs’ regular-season and tournament champion- » 2 away from T12th (Jamie Hunt and Matic Omerzel, 2006-07) ships. This is the sixth time Diaz has been named the recipient of the award and first » 3 away from T5th (seven players) since 2007. Georgia’s 2017 roster features no seniors, and freshmen currently play » 5 away from 4th (Ben Wagland, 2012-13) at the No. 1 singles and doubles positions, making this one of Diaz’s best coaching » 7 away from 3rd (John Isner, 2006-07) performances in recent memory. » 8 away from T1st (John Isner, 2003-04; Talito Corrales, 1997-98) STELLAR FRESHMAN CAMPAIGN FOR PONWITH Zielinski will play any number between one and six doubles matches in the team portion of the NCAA Championships (depending on how far Georgia advances) and Bulldog freshman Nathan Ponwith, who rose to the No. 1 singles position by the has the potential to play five matches in the individual doubles tournament. LINEUPS/MATCH CLINCHERS SINGLES DOUBLES Match 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 @GT Montgomery Reinberg Zielinski Ponwith Duncan Loeb Loeb/Zielinski Ponwith/Duncan Montgomery/Reinberg Purdue Montgomery Reinberg Ponwith Oosterbaan Zielinski Duncan Loeb/Zielinski Oosterbaan/Duncan Montgomery/Ponwith UW Montgomery Reinberg Ponwith Zielinski Duncan Loeb Loeb/Zielinski Oosterbaan/Duncan Montgomery/Ponwith UCLA Montgomery Reinberg Ponwith Oosterbaan Zielinski Duncan Loeb/Zielinski Montgomery/Ponwith Oosterbaan/Duncan USC Montgomery Reinberg Ponwith Oosterbaan Duncan Loeb Loeb/Zielinski Oosterbaan/Duncan Montgomery/Ponwith @OSU Montgomery Reinberg Ponwith Oosterbaan Zielinski Duncan Loeb/Zielinski Oosterbaan/Duncan Montgomery/Ponwith UNC Montgomery Reinberg Ponwith Zielinski Duncan Loeb Loeb/Zielinski Oosterbaan/Duncan Montgomery/Ponwith Baylor Montgomery Reinberg Ponwith Zielinski Duncan Loeb Loeb/Zielinski Reinberg/Duncan Montgomery/Ponwith USU Montgomery Reinberg Ponwith Zielinski Duncan Loeb Loeb/Zielinski Reinberg/Duncan Montgomery/Ponwith @VU Montgomery Reinberg Ponwith Zielinski Duncan Loeb Loeb/Zielinski Reinberg/Ponwith Montgomery/Duncan @UK Montgomery Reinberg Ponwith Zielinski Duncan Loeb Loeb/Zielinski Reinberg/Ponwith Montgomery/Duncan Miss Montgomery Ponwith Reinberg Zielinski Duncan Loeb Loeb/Zielinski Reinberg/Ponwith Montgomery/Duncan Ark.