UCSanDiego Men’s Tennis
TRITONS FALL ON THE ROAD AT AZUSA
The UC San Diego men’s tennis team fell on the road last Friday to Azusa Pacific, 8-1, snapping the Tritons’ three-match winning streak. The Tritons dropped to 4-3 overall while APU improved to 2-1 with the win. The Cougars are ranked No. 5 in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). Despite the Tritons leading early in the doubles matches to open up Friday’s competition, APU ended up sweeping that portion. In the No. 1 and No. 2 doubles positions, Erik Elliott and Jake Fellow lost to the Cougars’ Matthijs Bolsius and Jochem and Hoefnagels while Chapman Chan and Armaun Emami were defeated by APU’s Janosch Apelt and Mathias Weber. Both matches ended in 8-6 scores. The lone point attained by the Tritons Friday came from a 6-3, 6-3 singles victory at the No. 6 position by freshman Junya Yoshida over Ilja Ikonnikov. Yoshida, an Irvine native, holds a 4-0 record in his first season competing for UCSD. Elliott suffered his first singles loss of 2010 at the No. 1 position, dropping a tough match to Bolsius. The contest featured a tiebreaker and ended at 7-5, 5-7 (10-4).
NGUYEN’S FIVE VICTORIES LEADS TEAM
Junior captain Vincent Nguyen, playing mostly out of the squad’s No. 4 singles position, leads the Tritons in wins with five through the early stages of the 2010 season. The San Jose native was honored in 2009 with the ITA/Arthur Ashe Jr. Leadership and Sportsmanship Award during Arthur Ashe Kids’ Day at the United States Tennis Association (USTA) Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York.
SCOUTING THE SUNBIRDS OF FPU
In 2009, the Fresno Pacific men’s tennis team won the school’s national tennis championship as part of the NAIA. Despite losing three key members of last year’s title run, the Sunbirds were ranked No. 1 in the NAIA preseason poll. FPU has not disappointed through the early part of this season, jumping out to a 4-0 start. The Tritons and Sunbirds met last April in La Jolla, with FPU walking away with a 9-0 sweep. The Sunbirds are led by Xavier Smith in the singles ladder, followed by an undefeated Alex Gonzalez at the No. 2 spot.
SCOUTING THE HIGHLANDERS OF UCR
The UC Riverside men’s tennis squad finished 2009 with a 5-18 overall record while playing out of Division I’s Big West Conference. The Highlanders have gotten off to a 3-4 start this season and enter Saturday’s match looking to snap out of a three-match losing streak. UCSD and UCR last met on Feb. 1, 2008, when the Tritons opened that season in fine fashion with an impressive 6-1 victory over the Highlanders. This year’s captain, Nguyen, earned a point for UCSD that day with a victory at No. 6 singles, 6-4, 6-4.
1/30
January
at Univ. of San Diego
Exhibition
February
2/1 2/12 2/12 2/13 2/14 2/14 2/19 2/26 2/27
vs. Concordia L, 3-6 vs. Grand Canyon # W, 8-1 vs. BYU Hawaii # L, 4-5 vs. Western New Mexico # W, 7-2 vs. Montana St. Billings # W, 8-1 vs. Midwestern State # W, 6-3 at Azusa Pacific L, 1-8 vs. Fresno Pacific 3 p.m. at UC Riverside 12 p.m.
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
March
April
May
5/8-10 NCAA West Regional 5/14-17 NCAA Championships
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 at Northview Tennis Courts # Paseo Tournament in Phoenix, Ariz.
2010 UC San Diego Roster Name Class Hometown Agbayani, Ryan R-Fr. Yorba Linda, Calif. Atlan, Justin Fr. Pacific Palisades, Calif. Chan, Chapman So. Westlake Village, Calif. Dixit, Naveen So. Los Altos Hills, Calif. Elliott, Erik Jr. San Juan Capistrano, Calif. Emami, Armaun Jr. Oxnard, Calif. Fellow, Jake So. Poway, Calif. Ling, Sam So. Los Altos, Calif. Mendonsa, Eric So. Corona, Calif. Nguyen, Vincent Jr. San Jose, Calif. Wall, Jason Jr. Long Beach, Calif. West, Austin R-Fr. Greenwood Village, Colo. Yoshida, Junya Fr. Irvine, Calif.
Match 8
UC San Diego (4-3) vs. Fresno Pacific (4-0) Friday, Feb. 26 3 p.m.
Match 9
UC San Diego (4-2) at UC Riverside (3-4) Saturday, Feb. 27 12 p.m.
UC San Diego’s Projected Starters
Quick Facts GENERAL INFORMATION Location........................................ La Jolla, Calif. Founded...................................................... 1960 Enrollment................................................ 28,500 Colors........................................... Blue and Gold Nickname................................................. Tritons Affiliation....................................NCAA Division II Home Court....................Northview Tennis Courts Chancellor........................... Dr. Marye Anne Fox Director of Athletics.................. Earl W. Edwards Athletic Dept. Phone...................... 858.534.4211
*Singles* 1 Erik Elliott (Jr.) KEY 2010 STATS - 4-1 in singles, 4-2 in doubles - Suffered first singles loss of 2010 last week at Azusa Pacific - Already in 2010, Elliott has topped two ranked opponents 2 Chapman Chan (So.) KEY 2010 STATS - 1-5 in singles, 1-1 in doubles - Owns a career singles record of 11-16, while going 4-7 in doubles - Defeated Grand Canyon’s No. 1 singles player, 6-2, 6-2
MEN’S TENNIS HISTORY First Year of Men’s Tennis.............................1977 All-Time Record............................. 400-345 (.537) NCAA Appearances...........................................23 2009 Overall Record .................................. 12-10 2009 Postseason............... NCAA West Regional MEN’S TENNIS STAFF Head Coach..............................Eric Steidlmayer Alma Mater............................UC San Diego, 1996 Record at UCSD/years.............. 137-87/12 years Overall Record/years................. 137-87/12 years Email Coach Steidlmayer.... esteidlm@ucsd.edu UC San Diego -- Season statistics Assistant Coach/years........... Timmer Willing/9th Strength & Conditioning Coach...Stacy Peterson Staff Trainer. .................... UCAthletics San Diego -- Season statistics Vanessa Yang Tennis Office Phone...................... 858.534.8457
3 Jake Fellow (So.) KEY 2010 STATS - 3-3 in singles, 4-2 in doubles - Has a stellar 15-9 singles record in his career - Topped Grand Canyon’s No. 2 singles player, 3-6, 6-3 (10-8) 4 Vincent Nguyen (Jr.) KEY 2010 STATS - 5-2 in singles, 0-1 in doubles - Owns career singles record of 21-20 - Leads the Tritons in singles victories this season 5 Sam Ling (So.) KEY 2010 STATS - 4-1 in singles, 3-3 in doubles - Owns career singles record of 18-8 - Has won four-straight singles matches 6 Naveen Dixit (So.) KEY 2010 STATS - 3-1 in singles, 3-3 in doubles - One of five Triton players that are undefeated in singles - Has gone 1-0 at No. 4 position, 0-1 at No. 5 and 2-0 at No. 6
*Doubles*
1 Austin West/Emami KEY 2010 STATS - 2-4 as a doubles pair - Finished fourth this past fall in the ITA Championships in Alabama UC San Diego - Currently ranked No. 17 as a doubles pair at the Division II level Season statistics 2 Elliott/Fellow KEY 2010 STATS - 4-2 as a doubles pair - Elliott was UCSD’s top doubles player in 2009, going 15-5 UC San Diego SPORTS INFORMATION Overall record: 4-3 • Conference: 0-0 • Region: 2-1 • Home: 0-1 • Away: 0-1 • Neutral: 4-1 2-52-1 record last season in doubles • vs National ranked: 0-0 • vs- Fellow Regionalposted ranked:
2010 UC SAN DIEGO STATS
Tennis SID........................................... Ivan Alber Season statistics SID Phone..................................... 858.246.0660 3 Naveen Dixit/Ling KEY 2010 STATS - 3-3 as a doubles pair vs Ranked SID E-mail................................ ialber@ucsd.edu and Ling doubles victory 4-1 on May 7 in the 2009 Overall record: 4-3 • Conference: 0-0 • Region: 2-1- Dixit • Home: 0-1 recorded • Away:a0-1 • Neutral: Web site............................. vs National 0-0 vs Regional ranked: SINGLESwww.ucsdtritons.com Overall Dual• Tour Confranked: 1 2 • 3 4 Division 5 6 2-1Nat'l Reg'l Streak NCAA II West Regional against HawaiiLast10 Pacific Ryan Agbayani
1-0
1-0
0-0
0-0
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---
---
---
1-0
Chapman Chan SINGLES Naveen Dixit
1-5 Overall 3-1
1-5 Dual 3-1
0-0 Tour 0-0
0-0 Conf 0-0
1-0 1 ---
0-5 2 ---
--3 ---
--4 1-0
--5 0-1
--6 2-0
0-0 0-0 vs Ranked 0-0 0-2 Nat'l Reg'l 0-0 0-0
RyanElliott Agbayani Erik Chapman Chan Armaun Emami
1-0 4-1 1-5 1-2
1-0 4-1 1-5 1-2
0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
--4-1 1-0 ---
----0-5 ---
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---------
------1-2
1-0 -------
0-0 2-0 0-0 0-0
0-0 2-0 0-2 0-0
LW11 L1 4 W
Naveen Dixit Jake Fellow Erik Elliott Sam Ling
3-1 3-3 4-1 4-1
3-1 3-3 4-1 4-1
0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
----4-1 ---
--1-0 --1-0
--2-3 -----
1-0 -------
0-1 ----2-0
2-0 ----1-1
0-0 0-1 2-0 0-0
0-0 0-1 2-0 1-0
LL 21 L4 1 W
ArmaunNguyen Emami Vincent Jake Fellow Austin West
1-2 5-2 3-3 1-0
1-2 5-2 3-3 1-0
0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
--0-1 -----
----1-0 ---
--1-0 2-3 ---
--4-1 -----
1-2 ----1-0
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0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0
0-0 1-0 0-1 0-0
LW11 L1 2 W
Sam Ling Junya Yoshida Vincent Totals Nguyen
4-1 4-0 5-2 27-15
4-1 4-0 5-2 27-15
0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
----0-1 5-2
1-0 ----2-5
--1-0 1-0 4-3
--1-0 4-1 6-1
2-0 ----4-3
1-1 2-0 --6-1
0-0 0-0 0-0 2-1
1-0 0-0 1-0 4-3
W 44 W L 1
Austin West Percentage Junya Yoshida
1-0 .643 4-0
1-0 .643 4-0
0-0 .000 0-0
0-0 .000 0-0
--.714 ---
--.286 ---
--- .857 --- .571 1-0 .857 --.571 1-0 1-0 --2-0
0-0 .667 0-0
0-0 .571 0-0
W 1
1-0
W 4
4-0
Totals
27-15
27-15
0-0
0-0
5-2
2-5
.643 .000 Overall
.000 Dual
Streak
Last10
W 2
2-4
Percentage DOUBLES
.643
Armaun Emami/Austin West Erik Elliott/Jake Fellow DOUBLES Naveen Dixit/Sam Ling Armaun Emami/Austin West Chapman Chan/Jake Fellow Erik Elliott/Jake Fellow Chapman Chan/Armaun Emami Naveen Dixit/Vincent Dixit/Sam Ling Naveen Nguyen Chapman Chan/Jake Fellow Totals
2-4
4-3
6-1
.714 .286 .571 .857 .571 Tour Conf 1 2
4-3
6-1
.857 3
2-1 4-3 vs Ranked .667 .571 Nat'l Reg'l 0-1 0-1 vs Ranked 0-0 1-0
W 1 L 4 Streak L 1
1-0 1-5 Last10 3-1 1-0 4-1 1-5 1-2 3-1 3-3 4-1 4-1 1-2 5-2 3-3 1-0 4-1 4-0 5-2
2-4
0-0
0-0
2-4
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---
4-2 Overall 3-3 2-4 1-0
4-2 Dual 3-3 2-4 1-0
0-0 Tour 0-0 0-0 0-0
0-0 Conf 0-0 0-0 0-0
0-1 1 ---
4-1 2 ---
Reg'l 0-0 0-1 0-0
L 1 Streak L 1 W 12 W
4-2 Last10 3-3 2-4 1-0
4-2 0-1 3-3 0-1
0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
--1-0 4-1 0-1
Nat'l 0-0 0-1 0-0
4-2 0-1 3-3 0-1
2-4 --0-1 ---
--3 3-3 -----
1-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
LL 11 LL 11
4-2 0-1 3-3 0-1
1-0 10-11
0-0 0-0
0-0 0-0
----1-0 5-2
0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
1-0 10-11
------2-5
----3-3 0-1 --3-4
0-0 0-1
0-0 1-1
W 1
1-0