2019-20 UCLA MEN’S TENNIS 2019-20 QUICK FACTS TABLE OF CONTENTS Location Los Angeles, CA The 2019-20 Bruins Head Coaching History 20 Athletic Dept. Address 325 Westwood Plaza Radio / TV Roster 2 Award Winners 21 Los Angeles, CA 90095 Rosters 3 NCAA Championships 23 Athletics Phone (310) 825-8699 Team Photo 3 All-Time Results 24 Men’s Tennis Office Phone (310) 206-6375 Coaching Staff 4 Record vs. Opponents 28 Chancellor Dr. Gene Block Player Profiles - Seniors 6 Record vs. Opponents in NCAA Play 29 Director of Athletics Daniel G. Guerrero Player Profiles - Juniors 7 NCAA Seed History 29 Assoc. Athletic Director (Tennis) Chris Carlson Player Profiles - Sophomores 10 NCAA Tournament Year-by-Year 29 Faculty Athletic Rep. Dr. Michael Teitell Player Profiles - Freshmen 13 Bruins in the ATP Rankings 30 Home Court (Capacity) Los Angeles Tennis Grand Slam Titles 30 Center (10,000+) 2018-19 Season in Review Davis Cup Players 30 Enrollment 43,239 2018-19 Records & Honors 14 Los Angeles Tennis Center 31 Founded 1919 2019 Results 15 Colors Blue and Gold General Information Nickname Bruins History / Records Administrator Biographies 32 Conference Pac-12 All-Time Letterwinners 18 Media Information 33 National Affiliation NCAA Division I Team Captains 19 Pac-12 Conference 34 Head Coach Billy Martin (Redlands ‘89) Bruin Greats 19 Career Record (Years) 595-124 (26) Assistant Coach Rikus de Villiers Volunteer Assistant Coach Wil Martin 2019 Record 19-6 2019 Pac-12 Record (Finish) 8-0 (1st) 2019 NCAA Tournament T-9th 2019 Final National Ranking 11 NCAA Championships 16 (1950, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1960, 1961, 1965, 1970, 1971, 1975, 1976, 1979, 1982,1984, 2005) All-Time NCAA Tournament Appearances (Last) 43 (2019) All-Time Conference Championships (Last) 44 (2019) 2020 SCHEDULE MEDIA INFORMATION Date Opponent Location Time (PT) TV Tennis Contact: Andrew Sinatra Jan. 15 BYU Los Angeles Tennis Center 2 pm Phone: 310-206-8141 Jan. 25 San Diego State@ Los Angeles Tennis Center 12 pm Fax: 310-825-8664 Jan. 26 UCF/San Diego@ Los Angeles Tennis Center TBD E-mail: [email protected] Jan. 31 at California Berkeley, Calif. 1:30 pm Address: 325 Westwood Plaza Feb. 1 at Stanford Stanford, Calif. 2 pm Los Angeles, CA 90095 Feb. 11 Western Michigan Chicago, Ill. 10 am Feb. 14-17 National Team Indoor Championship Madison, Wis. All Day Feb. 23 UC Irvine Los Angeles Tennis Center 11 am Note: Student-athletes have been instructed not to grant Feb. 28 at Washington* Seattle, Wash. 3 pm any interview requests that have not been set up through the March 1 at Oregon* Eugene, Ore. 12 pm UCLA Athletic Communications Office. March 10 Liberty Los Angeles Tennis Center 2 pm March 12 USC Los Angeles Tennis Center 3 pm March 24 UNLV Los Angeles Tennis Center 2 pm March 27 California* Los Angeles Tennis Center 2 pm March 28 Stanford* Los Angeles Tennis Center 2 pm On the Cover: Back row (left to right): Ben Goldberg, April 3 at Arizona* Tucson, Ariz. 2 pm Keegan Smith. Front: Govind Nanda. April 5 at Arizona State* Tempe, Ariz. 1 pm April 11 at USC* Los Angeles, Calif. 2 pm April 15 Pepperdine Los Angeles Tennis Center 3 pm April 18 Utah* Los Angeles Tennis Center 1 pm April 22-25 Pac-12 Championships Ojai, Calif. All Day Pac-12 Networks (Final) May 2-3 NCAA First and Second Rounds TBD TBD May 9 NCAA Third Round TBD TBD May 14-23 NCAA Championships Stillwater, Okla. TBD Home matches in bold / @ ITA Kickoff Weekend / * Pac-12 Conference match 1 RADIO / TV ROSTER Drew Lucas Roscoe Ben Eric Connor Blaine BAIRD BELLAMY BELLAMY GOLDBERG HAHN HANCE HOVENIER 6-3/Fr. 6-2/Jr. 6-5/So. 6-0/Sr. 6-0/So. 5-10/Jr. 6-4/R-Fr. Raleigh, N.C. Los Angeles, Calif. Pacific Palisades, Calif. Pacific Palisades, Calif. Fullerton, Calif. Torrance, Calif. Los Angeles, Calif. Govind Bryce Connor Keegan Mathew Max Patrick NANDA PEREIRA RAPP SMITH TSOLAKYAN WILD ZAHRAJ 5-9/So. 6-0/Jr. 6-2/R-Jr. 6-7/Jr. 6-1/So. 6-2/So. 6-2/Fr. Redlands, Calif. Arcadia, Calif. Rancho Mirage, Calif. San Diego, Calif. Glendale, Calif. Murrieta, Calif. Frankfurt am Main, Germany Billy Rikus Wil Max MARTIN DE VILLIERS MARTIN HAMMER Head Coach Assistant Coach Volunteer Assistant Coach Director of Operations 2 ROSTERS / TEAM PHOTO ALPHABETICAL ROSTER TEAM STAFF Name Ht. Yr. Hometown (High School/College) Head Coach: Billy Martin (27th Year, Redlands, ‘89) Drew Baird 6-3 Fr. Raleigh, N.C. (IMG Academy) Associate Head Coach: Rikus de Villiers (7th Year, Fresno Lucas Bellamy 6-2 Jr. Los Angeles, Calif. (Palisades Charter HS) State, ‘11) Roscoe Bellamy 6-5 So. Pacific Palisades, Calif. (Laurel Springs School) Volunteer Asst. Coach: Wil Martin (2nd Year, Saint Mary’s, Ben Goldberg 6-0 Sr. Pacific Palisades, Calif. (Palisades Charter HS) ‘15) Eric Hahn 6-0 So. Fullerton, Calif. (Sunny Hills HS) Director of Operations: Max Hammer Connor Hance 5-10 Jr. Torrance, Calif. (Palos Verdes Peninsula HS) Staff Athletic Trainer: Ariel Guldstrand Blaine Hovenier 6-4 R-Fr. Los Angeles, Calif. (Campbell Hall) Govind Nanda 5-9 So. Redlands, Calif. (Laurel Springs School) Bryce Pereira 6-0 Jr. Arcadia, Calif. (San Marino HS) ROSTER BREAKDOWN Connor Rapp 6-2 R-Jr. Rancho Mirage, Calif. (Palm Desert HS) Height Hahn, Nanda, Tsolakyan, Wild, Zahraj Keegan Smith 6-7 Jr. San Diego, Calif. (Point Loma HS) 6-7 ............................Smith Mathew Tsolakyan 6-1 So. Glendale, Calif. (Laurel Springs School) 6-5 .....................R. Bellamy Juniors (5): L. Bellamy, Max Wild 6-2 So. Murrieta, Calif. (Laurel Springs School) 6-4 ....................... Hovenier Hance, Pereira, Rapp, Smith Patrick Zahraj 6-2 So. Frankfurt am Main, Germany (Kurpfalz-Gymnasium und Realschule Mannheim) 6-3 .............................Baird Seniors (1): Goldberg 6-2 .....................L. Bellamy ...................................Rapp State PRONUNCIATION GUIDE ....................................Wild California (12): L. Bellamy, Blaine Hovenier ..............................................HO-veneer .................................Zahraj R. Bellamy, Goldberg, Hahn, Govind Nanda .......................................GO-vin NON-duh 6-1 ......................Tsolakyan Hance, Hovenier, Nanda, Mathew Tsolakyan ......................................so-LOCK-ian 6-0 .......................Goldberg Pereira, Rapp, Smith, Patrick Zahraj ................................................... zuh-RYE ...................................Hahn Rikus de Villiers..............................RICK-iss de VILL-yers Tsolakyan, Wild ................................Pereira 5-10 .........................Hance North Carolina (1): Baird 5-9 ...........................Nanda Class International Germany (1): Zahraj Freshmen (2): Baird, Hovenier Sophomores (6): R. Bellamy, 3 COACHING STAFF 6-7 (8), 7-6 (4), 1-0 (9). Most recently, Maxime Cressy and Keegan Smith completed an BILLY undefeated season by beating Patrick Kaukovalta and Mazen Osama of Alabama, 6-3, 6-4, in the final. Cressy and Smith did not drop a set on the year, beating 15 nationally- MARTIN ranked opponents along the way. Head Coach In all, a total of 33 players have achieved All-America status under Martin’s direction. Inducted into the ITA Men’s Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame in 1996, Martin’s playing career 27th Season is full of highlights. To this very day he is still regarded as one of the best junior players in Redlands ‘89 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 California Tennis Association Hall of Fame in August of 2011. Head coach Billy Martin, who is in his 27th year as the UCLA head men’s tennis coach, Although Martin played just one season at UCLA before turning pro, the 1975 season was takes an overall record of 595-124 (.828) into the 2020 season. This year marks his a special one, as he guided the team to a perfect 19-0 dual-match record en route to an 37th on staff, as he served as an assistant coach for 10 years prior to taking over for NCAA team championship during his freshman year. Glenn Bassett in 1994. The longest-tenured active coach at UCLA, Martin became the program’s all-time leader in head-coaching wins when he passed friend and mentor After capturing the 1975 NCAA singles championship, Martin turned professional and Bassett with No. 593 on April 25, 2019. He is only the fourth head coach in UCLA tennis enjoyed a fine career. He reached the Wimbledon singles quarterfinals in 1977 and was history, following legends Bill Ackerman (1921-50), J.D. Morgan (1951-66) and Bassett selected Rookie of the Year in his first professional season. (1967-93). Martin became just the third active head coach to be inducted into the UCLA Martin defeated top pros such as Ken Rosewall (twice), Stan Smith, John Newcombe, Athletic Hall of Fame, joining Al Scates and Valorie Kondos Field, in 2005. Perhaps the most Roscoe Tanner and Harold Soloman. In 1975 he won the Arkansas International singles amazing accomplishment in Martin’s career is his ability to contend for a championship title. He also won doubles championships in 1977, ‘79 and ‘81 in Laguna Niguel, CA, each and every year, as only three times has he had a team finish out of the top five at Brussels, Belgium and Bristol, England, respectively. the season-ending NCAA Championships. Martin attended UCLA for three years, working on his undergraduate studies before Martin’s finest season at UCLA came in 2005 when he led the squad to its first NCAA completing his bachelor’s degree in business management from the University of Redlands title since 1984.