PAC-10 NEWS 1350 Treat Boulevard, Suite 500 • Walnut Creek, California 94597 Telephone (925) 932-4411 • Fax (925) 932-4601 • http://www.pac-10.org For Immediate Release: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 Contact: Mike Bruscas 2007 PAC-10 MEN’S TENNIS STANDINGS CONFERENCE OVERALL W L PCT W L PCT 1. UCLA* 7 0 1.000 19 3 .864 2. USC 6 1 .857 20 2 .909 3. Washington 4 3 .571 16 6 .727 California 4 3 .571 14 9 .609 Arizona State 4 3 .571 12 9 .571 6. Stanford 2 5 .286 8 16 .333 7. Oregon 1 6 .143 10 13 .435 8. Arizona 0 7 .000 5 17 .227 *Pac-10 Champion 2007 PAC-10 WOMEN’S TENNIS STANDINGS CONFERENCE OVERALL W L PCT W L PCT 1. Stanford* 8 0 1.000 20 1 .952 2. USC 6 2 .750 17 4 .810 UCLA 6 2 .750 15 7 .682 4. California 5 3 .625 19 6 .760 Arizona State 5 3 .625 12 9 .571 6. Arizona 3 5 .375 9 13 .409 7. Washington 2 6 .250 5 16 .238 8. Washington State 1 7 .125 14 11 .560 9. Oregon 0 8 .000 11 11 .500 *Pac-10 Champion 2007 PACIFIC-10 MEN’S & WOMEN’S INDIVIDUAL TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS PACIFIC-10 INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIPS: The Pac-10’s nine women’s teams and eight men’s teams head to Ojai, Calif., Thurs., April 26 through Sun., April 29, to decide the league’s singles and doubles champions. The 32-player men’s singles draw shall consist of four student-athletes from each school, and the 16-team doubles draw shall consist of two doubles teams from each school. For the women, the 32-player singles draw shall consist 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 participants record. The 16-team 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: Pac-10 competition will be held in conjunction with the 107th 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 Thurs., April 26, and Fri., April 27. All semifinal and final matches on Sat., April 28, and Sun., April 29, 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. Semifinals and finals will be held at a time yet to be determined. OJAI HISTORY: The PAC-10 championships will again be the featured event at this year’s 107th Ojai Valley Tennis Tournament, which attracts 1600 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, run entirely by volunteer effort 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 Con- nors 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 24, 2007 Page 2 MEDIA CONTACT:CONTACT: Sam Eaton will serve as the Ojai Valley Tennis Tournament coordinator. All media requests ITA RANKINGS can be forwardedforwarded to him at (805) 963-2014, or [email protected]@roadrunner.com. During tennis competition, Eaton can be reachedreached at the Ojai TournamentTournament desk, (805) 646-7241. Results will be posted at www.ojaitourney.org,www.ojaitourney.org, as well MEN’S TENNIS as on the Pac-10 website: www.pac-10.org.www.pac-10.org. (as of April 24) 1. Georgia PAC-10PAC-10 INDIVIDUAL AWARDS:AWARDS: Individual awards, including the Player of the Year, Doubles Team of the Year, 2. Virginia FreshmanFreshman of the YearYear and Coach of the Year,Year, will be awardedawarded after the conclusion of the Pac-10 Championships in 3. Ohio State Ojai and releasedreleased fromfrom the ConferenceConference offi ce. 4. Baylor 5. Notre Dame NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS: The fi eld for the 2007 NCAA Team Championships will be announced on May 1, 6. North Carolina with the individual fi elds revealedrevealed on May 2. NCAA Regional action will take place on campus sites, May 11-1211-12 7. Mississippi or 12-13. For the second time in NCAA historyhistory,, both the NCAA Men’s and WWomen’somen’s TTennisennis Championships will 8. UCLA be held together at the Dan Magill TennisTennis Complex in Athens, Georgia,Georgia, May 17 - 28, hosted by the University of 9. Illinois Georgia.Georgia. StanfordStanford played host to both Men’s and Women’sWomen’s Championships last year.year. 10. USC 11. Texas PAC-10PAC-10 MEN: 12 Pac-10 singles players are ranked in the ITA Top-125 national men’s singles rankings (as of April 12. Oklahoma State 24). Seven ConferenceConference teams areare representedrepresented by individuals, with UCLA senior Benjamin Kohlloeffel topping 13. Wake Forest the list at No. 4. The BruinsBruins and TrojansTrojans lead the way with threethree individuals each in the Top-125.Top-125. 14. LSU 15. Duke ARIZONA: No. 122 Claudio Christen, Jr. 16. Tulsa ARIZONA STATESTATE: No. 91 Juan Carlos Rebaza, Jr.; No. 118 Matt Brooklyn, Fr. 17. Alabama CALIFORNIA: No. 30 Pierre Mouillon, Jr. 18. Florida State STANFORDSTANFORD: No. 77 Richard Wire, Fr. 19. Florida UCLA: No. 4 Benjamin Kohlloeffel, Sr.; No. 27 Haythem Abid, So.; No. 44 Chris Surapol, Sr. 20. Michigan USC: No. 35 Jamil Al-Agba, Sr.; No. 51 Dejan Cvetkovic, Sr.; No. 67 Kaes Van’t Hof, Jr. 21. Pepperdine WASHINGTONWASHINGTON: No. 87 Alex Slovic, Sr. 22. Clemson 23. Boise State In doubles, Pac-10 men’s teams occupy four spots among the Top-60,Top-60, with a ranked duo representingrepresenting four dif- 24. Tennessee ferentferent schools. UCLA’sUCLA’s tandem of Philipp Gruendler and Benjamin Kohlloeffel is the highest-ranked dou at 25. Virginia Commonwealth No. 10 32. WASHINGTON STANFORDSTANFORD: No. 12 Matt Bruch, So./Blake Muller, So. 39. CALIFORNIA UCLA: No. 10 Philipp Gruendler, Sr./Benjamin Kohlloeffel, Sr. 46. ARIZONA STATE USC: No. 60 Dejan Cvetkovic, Sr./Gary Sacks, Fr. 58. STANFORD WASHINGTONWASHINGTON: No. 59 Daniel Chu, Sr./Alex Slovic, Sr. PAC-10PAC-10 WOMEN: The Pac-10 women hold down 22 spots on the ITA’s Top-125 singles rankings list through April 18. Of the Top-25Top-25 players in the nation, 10 hail fromfrom the Pac-10, easilyeasily the most of any conference.conference. Six Con- WOMEN’S TENNIS ferenceference teams areare representedrepresented by individuals, with junior Susie Babos of CALIFORNIA, the 2006 NCAA Singles (as of April 24) Champion, with the highest ranking at No. 4. StanfordStanford leads the way with six players ranked. 1. STANFORD 2. Georgia Tech ARIZONA: No. 42 Danielle Steinberg, So.; No. 78 Juliette Mavroleon, Jr. 3. Georgia ARIZONA STATE:STATE: No. 29 Nadia Abdala, Fr.; No. 67 Sabrina Capannolo, Sr. 4. Florida CALIFORNIA: No. 4 Susie Babos, Jr.; No. 11 Zsuzsanna Fodor, Sr.; No. 23 Nina Henkel, Fr.; No. 87 Stephanie 5. Northwestern Kusano, Jr.Jr. 6. Notre Dame STANFORDSTANFORD: No. 12 Theresa Logar, Sr.; No. 14 Celia Durkin, Jr.; No. 16 Anne Yelsey, Sr.; No. 20 Jessica Nguyen, 7. Clemson So.; No. 82 Lindsay Burdette,Burdette, Fr.;Fr.; No. 92 Whitney Deason, JrJr.. 8. USC UCLA: No. 15 Riza Zalameda, Jr.; No. 35 Tracy Lin, Jr.; No. 49 Yasmin Schnack, Fr.; No. 101 Ashley Joelson, So. 9. Miami USC: No. 9 Lindsey Nelson, Jr.; No. 10 Sarah Fansler, Fr.; No. 73 Amanda Fink, So.; No. 100 Dianne Matias, Sr. 10. CALIFORNIA 11. UCLA In doubles, Pac-10 women’s teams hold eight spots among the TTop-60,op-60, with four schools rrepresented.epresented. The Cali- 12. North Carolina fornia tandem of Susie Babos and Zsuzsanna Fodor are the third-ranked doubles team in the nation. 13. William & Mary 14. Vanderbilt ARIZONA STATESTATE: No. 12 Kady Pooler, Sr./Roxanne Clarke, Sr. 15. Baylor CALIFORNIA: No. 3 Susie Babos, Jr./Zsuzsanna Fodor, Sr.; No. 53 Daron Moore, So./Nina Henkel, Fr. 16. Fresno State STANFORDSTANFORD: No. 21 Lindsay Burdette, Fr./Anne Yelsey, Sr.; No. 36 Celia Durkin, Jr./Jessica Ngueyn, So. 17. Wake Forest UCLA: No. 26 Riza Zalameda, Jr./Yasmin Schnack, Fr.; No. 38 Elizabeth Lumpkin, Jr./Stephanie Wetmore, Fr.; 18. Florida State No. 59 Riza Zalameda, Jr./AshleyJr./Ashley Joelson, So. 19. ARIZONA STATE 20. Tennessee UCLA MEN AND STANFORDSTANFORD WOMEN CLAIM TEAM TITLES: On both the men’s and women’s side this 21. Pepperdine year,year, the Pac-10 team titles came down to a matter of points herehere or therethere on the fi nal weekend of dual match play.play. 22. Duke On the men’s side, in what was essentially a two-team race all season, UCLAUCLA and USC broughtbrought perfect 6-0 recordsrecords 23. South Carolina into a match against each other to decide the ConferenceConference champion. WithWith the match tied at 3-3, UCLA’sUCLA’s all-time 24. Texas A&M singles wins leader Benjamin Kohlloeffel,Kohlloeffel, prevailedprevailed at No.