2011 Pacific-10 Conference Individual Tennis
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For Immediate Release: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 Contact: Rachel Caton//[email protected] 2011 PAC-10 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. USC*^ 6 0 1.00 21 2 .913 1. Stanford^ 8 0 1.000 23 0 1.00 2. Stanford 5 1 .833 18 5 .783 2. UCLA 7 1 .875 18 5 .783 3. UCLA 3 3 .500 16 6 .727 3. California 6 2 .750 16 6 .727 California 3 3 .500 12 7 .632 4. Arizona State 5 3 .625 16 6 .727 Washington 3 3 .500 17 8 .680 5. USC^ 4 4 .500 15 6 .714 6. Oregon 1 5 .167 11 11 .500 6. Washington 2 6 .250 12 10 .545 7. Arizona 0 6 .000 9 16 .565 7. Arizona 2 6 .250 15 9 .625 8. Washington State 1 7 .125 13 10 .562 Oregon 1 7 .125 7 14 .333 *Pac-10 Champion *Pac-10 Champion ^ Automatic Qualifier ^ Automatic Qualifier 2011 PACIFIC-10 CONFERENCE INDIVIDUAL TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS PACIFIC-10 INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIPS: The Pac-10’s seven men’s teams and nine women’s teams head to Ojai, Calif., Thursday, Apr. 28 through Sunday, May 1 to decide the league’s singles and doubles champions. The 32-player men’s singles draw consists of four student- athletes from each school and four wild cards will be selected at the discretion of the draw committee. The 16-team men’s doubles draw consists of two doubles teams from each school and two wild card teams will be selected by the committee. For the women, the 32-player singles draw consists of three players from each of the nine schools that sponsor women’s tennis, with five additional competitors selected by a committee of coaches, based upon the participant’s record. The 16-team women’s doubles draw will have one doubles team from each school and seven additional teams selected by the committee, based upon the participants’ record. WHAT & WHERE: The Pac-10 Championships will be held in conjunction with the 111th Annual Ojai Valley Tennis Tournament. The Pac-10 men will compete at Libbey Park in Ojai for all rounds. The Pac-10 women will play at the Ojai Valley Athletic Club Thursday, Apr. 28 and Friday, Apr. 29. All semifinal and final matches on Saturday, Apr. 30 and Sunday, May 1 are at Libbey Park. Matches begin at 8 a.m., with two rounds of singles on opening day. One round of singles and two rounds of doubles will be played on Friday. The Pac-10 women’s singles final will be held at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, followed by the men’s singles final at approximately 11 a.m. The women’s doubles championship will follow at 12:30 p.m., with the men’s doubles championship at 2 p.m. For the complete draw brackets, visit: http://tennislink.usta.com/Tournaments/Draws/TournamentDraws.aspx?T=99869 OJAI HISTORY: The Pac-10 Championships will again be the featured event at this year’s 111th Ojai Valley Tennis Tournament, which attracts 1,600 of the best college, junior and open players from the Western states. The annual event, started by William Thacher in 1896, has been played at the same site and interrupted only five times. If this tournament, put on entirely by volunteer efforts on public and privately owned courts, seems an unlikely place to see championship quality players, consider who has appeared here: Pete Sampras, Lindsay Davenport, Michael Chang, Rick Leach, Tracy Austin, Billy Jean King, Arthur Ashe, Jimmy Connors and the Bryan twins. These tennis greats are among more than 85 former players at The Ojai who have gone on to win one or more Grand Slam events as professional tennis players, all of whom are listed on Libbey Park’s “Wall of Fame.” Pac-10 Tennis - April 27, 2011 Page 2 USC WINS MEN’S TITLE STANFORD TAKES WOMEN’S TITLE ITA RANKINGS On the men’s side, USC each finished 6-0 in Conference play to win the Pac-10 crown. The Trojans went unde- feated in Pac-10 play for the first time since 1987. This is USC’s third title in the last four years, but first outright MEN’S TENNIS championship in that stretch. Stanford won the 2011 Pac-10 women’s title, its third in the last four years. The (as of April 26) Cardinal are the only undefeated team left in Division I women’s tennis and has won 42 consecutive contests to date. 1. Virginia PAC-10 MEN IN THE RANKINGS 2. USC Sixteen Pac-10 singles players are ranked in the ITA Top-125 national men’s singles rankings (as of April 26). 3. Ohio State Five Conference teams are represented by ranked individuals, with USC junior Steve Johnson topping the list 4. Tennessee at No. 1. 5. Baylor ARIZONA: Andres Carrasco, Sr. 6. STANFORD CALIFORNIA: No. 20 Pedro Zerbini, Sr.; No. 70 Carlos Cueto, So.; No. 116 Nick Andrews, Jr. 7. Georgia STANFORD: No. 9 Bradley Klahn, Jr.; No. 46 Ryan Thacher, Jr.; No. 65 Alex Clayton, Sr. 8. Florida UCLA: No. 34 Daniel Kosakowski, Fr.; No. 61 Amit Inbar, Sr. ; No. 77 Clay Thompson, Fr. 9. Texas A&M USC: No. 1 Steve Johnson, Jr.; No. 38 Jaak Poldma, Sr.; No. 43 Daniel Nguyen, Jr.; No. 56 Ray Sarmiento, Fr. 10. Kentucky WASHINGTON: No. 44 Kyle McMorrow, So.; No. 62 Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan, Sr. 11. Duke In doubles, Pac-10 men’s teams occupy 10 spots among the ITA Top-90 national doubles rankings, with a 12. UCLA ranked pair representing five different schools. STANFORD’S tandem ofBradley Klahn and Ryan Thacher is 13. Pepperdine the highest-ranked duo at No. 2. 14. Texas 15. Georgia Tech CALIFORNIA: No. 23 Christopher Konigsfeldt, So./Nick Andrews, Jr. STANFORD: No. 2 Bradley Klahn, Jr./Ryan Thacher, Jr. 16. CALIFORNIA UCLA: No. 22 Nick Meister, Sr./Amit Inbar, Sr.; No. 40 Adrien Puget, Fr./Alex Brigham, RS-So.; No. 59 Alex 17. North Carolina Brigham, RS-So. /Amit Inbar, Sr. 18. Illinois USC: No. 25 Jaak Poldma, Sr./JT Sundling, So.; No. 34 Ray Sarmiento, Fr./Steve Johnson, Jr.; No. 83 Steve 19. Minnesota Johnson, Jr./Daniel Nguyen, Jr. 20. Mississippi State WASHINGTON: No. 26 Jeeven Nedunchezhiyan, Sr./Kyle McMorrow, So.; No. 88 Tobi Obenaus, Sr./Martin Kildahl, Sr. 21. Texas Tech PAC-10 WOMEN IN THE RANKINGS 22. Auburn The Pac-10 women occupy 25 spots on the ITA’s Top-125 singles rankings list through April 20. Of the Top-five 23. WASHINGTON players in the nation, four hail from the Pac-10. Junior Jana Juricova of CALIFORNIA is the No. 1 player in the 24. Louisville nation, USC senior Maria Sanchez is ranked No. 2, STANFORD senior Hilary Barte is third and WASHINGTON 25. Oklahoma junior Denise Dy is No. 5. ARIZONA STATE: No. 12 Jacqueline Cako, Fr.; No. 17 Kelcy McKenna, Sr.; No. 68 Micaela Hein, Sr. CALIFORNIA: No. 1 Jana Juricova, Jr.; No. 21 Mari Andersson, Sr.; No. 54 Tayler Davis, So. ; No. 85 Annie Goransson, So. WOMEN’S TENNIS STANFORD: No. 3 Hilary Barte, Sr.; No. 18, Nicole Gibbs, Fr.; No. 20 Mallory Burdette, So.; No. 25 Kristie Ahn, Fr.; No. 60 Stacey Tan, So.; No. 122 Veronica Li, Jr. (as of April 26) OREGON: No. 107 Pavlina Smatova, Sr. UCLA: No. 40 Noelle Hickey, Sr.; No. 61 McCall Jones, Sr.; No. 70 Andrea Remynse, Sr.; No. 94, Courtney 1. STANFORD Dolehide, Fr. ; No. 110, Pamela Montez, So. 2. Florida USC: No. 2 Maria Sanchez, Sr.; No. 23 Danielle Lao, So.; No. 33 Alison Ramos, Jr.; No. 99 Kaitlyn Christian, Fr. 3. Duke WASHINGTON: No. 5 Denise Dy, Jr.; No. 14 Venise Chan, Sr. 4. North Carolina In doubles, Pac-10 women’s teams hold 16 spots in the ITA Top-90 national doubles rankings, with eight schools 5. Miami (Florida) represented. The CALIFORNIA tandem of Mari Andersson and Jana Juricova are the highest-ranked doubles 6. UCLA team in the country at No. 1 and the STANFORD duo of Hilary Barte and Mallory Burdette are ranked No. 2. 7. Baylor 8. CALIFORNIA ARIZONA: No. 90 Sarah Landsman, Jr./Natasha Marks, Jr. ARIZONA STATE: No. 24 Kelcy McKenna, Sr.; Micaela Hein, Sr.; No. 70 Ashlee Brown, Sr./Sianna Simmons, 9. Georgia Jr.; No. 86, Jacquline Cako, Fr./Michelle Brycki, Jr. 10. Michigan CALIFORNIA: No. 1 Mari Andersson, Sr./Jana Juricova, Jr. 11. Florida State STANFORD: No. 2 Mallory Burdette, So./Hilary Barte, Sr.; No. 43 Kristie Ahn, Fr./Nicole Gibbs, Fr. 12. Virginia UCLA: No. 18 Andrea Remynse, Sr./Courtney Dolehide, Fr.; No. 21 Noelle Hickey, Sr./McCall Jones, Sr.; No. 62 13. Tennessee McCall Jones, Sr., Pamela Montez, So. USC: No. 5 Kaitlyn Christian, Fr./Maria Sanchez, Sr.; No. 28 Alison Ramos, Jr./Valeria Pulido, So.; No. 77 Cris- 14. ARIZONA STATE tala Andrews, Sr./Alison Ramos, Jr. 15. Clemson WASHINGTON: No. 14 Denise Dy, Jr./Venise Chan, Sr.; No. 58 Denise Dy, Jr./Aleksandra Krsljanin, Sr. 16. Georgia Tech WASHINGTON STATE: No. 85 Liudmila Vasilieva, So./Ksenia Googe, So. 17. USC 18. Vanderbilt 19. Northwestern 20. Tulsa 21. Arkansas 2011 PAC-10 PLAYERS OF THE WEEK MEN 22. Oklahoma Jan. 18 - Pedro Zerbini, CAL WOMEN 23. Notre Dame Jan. 24 - Bradley Klahn, STAN Jan. 18 - Maria Sanchez, USC Jan. 31 - Emilio Gomez, USC Jan. 24 - Venise Chan, WASH 24. Alabama Feb. 7 - Clay Thompson, UCLA Jan. 31 - Denise Dy, WASH 25.