For Immediate Release: // Monday, April 23, 2012 Contacts // Sarah Kezele ([email protected]) 2012 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* 7 0 1.000 21 2 .913 1. USC 9 1 .900 20 3 .870 2. USC 6 1 .857 25 1 .962 2. Stanford 8 1 .889 17 1 .944 3. Stanford 5 2 .714 16 7 .696 3. UCLA 8 2 .800 21 2 .913 4. California 4 3 .571 11 10 .524 4. California 8 2 .800 17 6 .739 5. Washington State 6 3 .667 18 5 .783 5. Washington 3 4 .429 15 7 .682 6. Arizona 5 5 .500 15 8 .652 6. Oregon 2 5 .286 17 6 .739 7. Arizona State 3 7 .300 11 9 .550 7. Utah 1 6 .143 12 11 .522 8. Utah 3 7 .300 11 10 .524 8. Arizona 0 7 .000 5 17 .227 9. Oregon 2 8 .200 12 9 .571 10. Washington 2 8 .200 8 11 .421 * Pac-12 Champion 11. Colorado 0 10 .000 7 14 .333 ^ Automatic Quali!er * Conference champion and automatic quali!er to be determined on April 25 2012 PAC-12 CONFERENCE TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS PACIFIC-12 INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIPS: The Pac-12’s eight men’s teams and 11 women’s teams come to Ojai, Calif., Wednesday, April 25-Sunday, April 29 to decide the league’s women’s singles and doubles champions, in addition to the men’s team champion—a new addition to the tournament this year. For the women, the 32-player singles draw consists of three players from each of the top ten schools that sponsor women’s tennis and two players from the 11th-place team, based on the regular season standings. The 16-team women’s doubles draw will have one doubles team from each of the 11 schools and !ve additional teams selected by the Draw Committee. For the men, the Pac-12 hosts its !rst-ever team tennis tournament to determine the automatic quali!er for the NCAA Championships. Teams will be seeded based on won-lost percentages during regular-season Conference play. On Wednesday, matches between seed Nos. 5 and 8 and Nos. 6 and 7 will open play. The No. 3 and No. 4 seeds will play the winners, respectively, on Thursday. The No. 1 and No. 2 seeds advance directly to the semi!nal round on Friday. WHAT & WHERE: Pac-12 competition will be held in conjunction with the 112th Annual Ojai Valley Tennis Tournament. The Pac-12 men will compete at Libbey Park in Ojai for all rounds. The Pac-12 women will play the !rst two rounds at the Ojai Valley Athletic Club, and then will play the semi!nals and !nals at Libbey Park. The men’s team championship match will be played at Libbey Park on Saturday at 4 p.m. The women’s singles championship match is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. on Sunday at Libbey Park and will be followed by the doubles !nal. OJAI HISTORY: The Pac-12 Championships will keep with tradition as the featured event at this year’s 112th 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 !ve times. If this tournament, put on entirely by volunteer efforts on public and privately owned courts, seems an unlikely place to see champion- ship 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-12 Tennis - April 23, 2012 Page 2 UCLA MEN GO UNDEFEATED IN CONFERENCE PLAY TO WIN PAC-12 TITLE ITA RANKINGS STANFORD AND WSU WOMEN TO PLAY MATCH TO DETERMINE CHAMPION MEN’S TENNIS On the men’s side, UCLA went a perfect 7-0 in Pac-12 play to claim the Conference championship for the !rst time (as of April 17) since 2009. The Bruins upset rival and perennial powerhouse USC, 4-3, on April 20 to upend the country’s top-ranked team and snap the Trojans’ 45-match win streak. 1. USC On the women’s side, STANFORD and WASHINGTON STATE face each other on Wednesday to make up their 2. Virginia March 26 match that was postponed because of rain. Should Stanford win, the Cardinal will share the Pac-12 title with 3. Ohio State USC and grab the NCAA automatic qualifying bid by virtue of Stanford’s head-to-head win over USC on April 13. If Washington State wins, USC will have sole custody of the championship. 4. Georgia 5. UCLA PAC-12 MEN IN THE RANKINGS 6. Kentucky Seventeen Pac-12 singles players are ranked in the ITA Top-125 national men’s singles rankings (as of April 17). Six 7. Pepperdine Conference teams are represented by ranked individuals, with USC senior Steve Johnson leading the Pac-12 men at 8. Duke No. 2. He’s joined in the top 25 by teammate Daniel Nguyen at No. 17, UCLA’s Nick Meister at No. 21, Washington’s 9. Mississippi State Kyle McMorrow at No. 22 and USC’s Ray Sarmiento at No. 23. 10. Florida 11. Oklahoma CALIFORNIA: No. 41 Ben McLachlan, So.; No. 48 Nick Andrews, Sr.; No. 58 Carlos Cueto, Sr. 12. STANFORD STANFORD: No. 31 Ryan Thacher, Sr.; No. 45 Bradley Klahn, Sr. 13. Mississippi UCLA: No. 21 Nick Meister, RS Sr.; No. 61 Adrien Puget, So.; No. 78 Clay Thompson, So.; No. 86 Marcos Giron, Fr. USC: No. 2 Steve Johnson, Sr.; No. 17 Daniel Nguyen, Sr.; No. 23 Ray Sarmiento, So.; No. 43 Yannick Hanfmann, Fr.; 14. CALIFORNIA No. 50 Emilio Gomez, So.; No. 123 Roberto Quiroz, Fr. 15. Texas UTAH: No. 70 Slim Hamza, Fr. 16. Tennessee WASHINGTON: No. 22 Kyle McMorrow, Jr. 17. Auburn 18. North Carolina Ten Pac-12 men’s doubles teams are in the ITA Top-90 national doubles rankings, with a ranked pair representing 19. Louisiana State four different schools. USC’s No. 3-ranked tandem of Steve Johnson and Roberto Quiroz is the Conference’s highest- 20. Illinois ranked pair. 21. Michigan 22. Texas Tech CALIFORNIA: No. 5 Christoffer Konigsfeldt, Jr./Nick Andrews, Sr.; No. 47 Carlos Cueto, Sr./Ben McLachlan, So. 23. Tulsa STANFORD: No. 7 Bradley Klahn, Sr./Ryan Thacher, Sr.; No. 52 John Morrissey, Fr./Ryan Thacher, Sr. 24. Harvard UCLA: No. 41 Adrien Puget, So./Alex Brigham, RS Jr.; No. 48 Adrien Puget, So./Nick Meister, RS Sr.; No. 76 Dennis Novikov, Fr./Nick Meister RS Sr. 25. San Diego USC: No. 3 Steve Johnson, Sr./Roberto Quiroz, Fr.; No. 4 Steve Johnson, Sr./Yannick Hanfmann, Fr.; No. 25 Ray 26. WASHINGTON Sarmiento, So./Daniel Nguyen, Sr. 68. OREGON PAC-12 WOMEN IN THE RANKINGS WOMEN’S TENNIS The Pac-12 women occupy 27 slots on the ITA’s Top-125 singles rankings through April 17. The Pac-12 leads all con- (as of April 17) ferences with nine players ranked in the top 25. Nine Conference teams are represented by ranked individuals, with UCLA freshman Robin Anderson receiving the highest ranking at No. 3. 1. UCLA 2. Duke ARIZONA: No. 55 Lacey Smyth, So.; No. 84 Natasha Marks, Sr. 3. Florida ARIZONA STATE: No. 15 Jacqueline Cako, So.; No. 87 Michelle Brycki, Sr. 4. USC CALIFORNIA: No. 6 Jana Juricova, Sr.; No. 11 Zso! Susanyi, Fr.; No. 57 Tayler Davis, Jr.; No. 79 Annie Goransson, Jr.; No. 93 Anett Schutting, So. 5. STANFORD STANFORD: No. 4 Nicole Gibbs, So.; No. 5 Mallory Burdette, Jr.; No. 54 Stacey Tan, Jr.; No. 61 Ellen Tsay, Fr. 6. Texas UCLA: No. 3 Robin Anderson, Fr.; No . 96 McCall Jones, Sr.; No. 107 Skylar Morton, Fr.; No. 109 Pamela Montez, Jr.; 7. Georgia No. 110 Chanelle Van Nguyen, Fr.; No. 118 Kaitlin Ray, Fr. 8. North Carolina USC: No. 18 Danielle Lao, Jr.; No. 20 Zoe Scandalis, Fr.; No. 29 Sabrina Santamaria, Fr.; No. 75 Kaitlyn Christian, So. 9. Miami (FL) UTAH: No. 50 Anastasia Putilina, Sr. 10. CALIFORNIA WASHINGTON: No. 22 Denise Dy, Sr. 11. Alabama WASHINGTON STATE: No. 53 Liudmila Vasilieva, Jr.; No. 103 Elisabeth Fournier, Sr. 12. Northwestern 13. Baylor In doubles, seven Pac-12 women’s programs are represented as 11 duos hold spots in the ITA Top-90 national doubles 14. Michigan rankings. STANFORD’s pairing of Mallory Burdette and Nicole Gibbs is the highest-ranked doubles team in the Confer- ence at No. 2. 15. Virginia 16. Mississippi ARIZONA: No. 36 Natasha Marks, Sr./Lacey Smyth, So. 17. Notre Dame ARIZONA STATE: No. 56 Jacqueline Cako, So./Nicole Smith, Jr. 18. Nebraska CALIFORNIA: No. 5 Anett Schutting, So./Annie Goransson, Jr.; No. 15 Jana Juricova, Sr./Zso!a Susanyi, Fr. 19. Texas Tech OREGON: No. 54 So!a Hager, Fr./Patricia Skowronski, Jr. 20. Tennessee STANFORD: No. 2 Mallory Burdette, Jr./Nicole Gibbs, So.; No 29 Ellen Tsay, Fr./Stacey Tan, Jr. 21. Illinois UCLA: No. 9 Robin Anderson, Fr./Skylar Morton, Fr.; No. 11 Pamela Montez, Jr./Courtney Dolehide, So. 22. Clemson USC: No.