UCSanDiego Men’s Tennis
Exhibition
UC San Diego at University of San Diego Saturday, Jan. 30 1 p.m.
Tritons to Meet Toreros to Start 2010 The UC San Diego men’s tennis team begins its 2010 campaign with a 1 p.m. exhibition road match on Saturday against cross-town foe University of San Diego, a Division I competitor. To end the 2009 season, UCSD lost in the first round of the NCAA D-II West Regional to Hawaii Pacific. This year’s schedule features trips to Arizona and Hawaii but the Tritons aim to include plenty of postseason travel as well.
Returners Highlight New UCSD Roster The 2010 roster for the Tritons features nine returners, including six underclassmen. Without any seniors on the squad, leading the way are three juniors - Erik Elliott, Armaun Emami and Vincent Nguyen. In 2008, Elliott played only doubles, tallying a record of 15-5. Emami went 1-0 in singles and 6-7 in doubles, while Nguyen put together a 5-10 singles record. Scouting the Toreros After getting rained out twice to start the season, USD hosts UC Riverside Wednesday. Following Saturday’s match with the Tritons, the Toreros are scheduled to challenge USC, the No. 1 ranked team in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association, on Feb. 5. The Toreros are led by first-year head coach Brett Masi and the squad returns four starters this season: senior Charles Wolmarans, juniors Nils Schive and Dean Jackson and sophomore Nikola Bubnic. Preseason Division II Rankings Released The Tritons have been ranked No. 35 in the D-II ITA preseason rankings. UCSD’s duo of Emami and Austin West are positioned at No. 17 in doubles. Doubles Pair Advances to Fall ITA Championships The doubles pair of Emami and West finished fourth at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) National Small College Championships, after qualifying for the tournament as the best duo out of the West Region. The Tritons, following a victory over Midwestern State, dropped a 6-0, 6-0 decision to a second-seeded pair from Francis Marion and then later fell to Bloomsburg 6-2, 6-3 at the Copeland-Cox Tennis Center in Mobile.
1/30
January
at Univ. of San Diego (Exh.)
February
2/1 2/6 2/11 2/12-15 2/26 2/27
vs. Concordia at Azusa Pacific at Glendale C.C.
3/1 3/2 3/4-7 3/8 3/10 3/12 3/13 3/22 3/24
vs. Villanova vs. Cal Poly Pomona Pacific Coast Doubles vs. Rollins College vs. Western New Mexico vs. Sonoma State vs. Hawaii Hilo vs. Dartmouth College at BYU Hawaii
4/6 4/9 4/10 4/11 4/15
at Point Loma Nazarene at UC Davis at UC Santa Cruz at Sonoma State at Cal Poly Pomona
Phoenix Tournament vs. Fresno Pacific at UC Riverside
March
April
May
5/8-10 NCAA West Regional 5/14-17 NCAA Championships
1 p.m. 2 p.m. 10 a.m. 3 p.m. TBA 3 p.m. 12 p.m. 2 p.m. 2 p.m. All Day 2 p.m. 3 p.m. 2 p.m. 2 p.m. 12 p.m. 2 p.m.
2 p.m. 2 p.m. 9:30 a.m. 11 a.m. 1:30 p.m. TBA TBA
Home matches played at Northview Tennis Courts
Emami, of Oxnard, Calif., and West, a Greenwood Village, Colo., native, topped Sonoma State’s top doubles pair to advance out of the ITA West Region.
Name Chan, Chapman Elliott, Erik Emami, Armaun Fellow, Jake Ling, Sam Nguyen, Vincent
Projected Starters
Class Hometown (Previous School) So. Westlake Village, Calif. (Agoura Hills HS) Jr. San Juan Capistrano, Calif. (Dana Hills HS) Jr. Oxnard, Calif. (Oxnard HS) So. Poway, Calif (Poway HS) So. Los Altos, Calif. (Homestead HS) Jr. San Jose, Calif. (Archbishop Mitty HS)
Name Class Hometown (Previous School) Bubnic, Nikola Jr. Belgrade, Serbia (Sportska gimnazija) Hashem, Abdullah Jr. Mishref, Kuwait (Fullerton College) Jackson, Dean Sr. Soest, Germany (Archigymnasium Soest) Schive, Nils Sr. Oslo, Norway (Wang Toppidrett) Visy, Thibaut Fr. Reims, France (Jean-Juares) Wolmarans, Charl Sr. Capetown, South Africa (Intec Homeschool)