2012 Georgia Men s Tennis

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1 2012 Georgia Men s Tennis 6 NCAA Championships: 1985, 1987, 1999, 2001, 2007, SEC Titles Sports Communications Contact: Kate Burkholder (kateburk@sports.uga.edu) or Ben Beaty (bbeaty@sports.uga.edu) SCHEDULE (5-0, 0-0) Date Opponent/Tournament Time Jan SEC Coaches Indoor Championships All Day Jan. 21 Clemson W, 7-0 Jan. 29 TCU (ITA Kickoff) W, 7-0 Jan. 30 Nebraska/Virginia Tech (ITA Kickoff) W, 7-0 Feb. 4 East Tennessee State W, 6-1 Feb. 10 William & Mary W, 6-1 Feb. 14 Georgia Tech 4:00 p.m. Feb ITA National Team Indoors% All Day First round - California Feb. 27 Furman 2:30 p.m. March 2 at South Carolina* 2:30 p.m. March 4 at Florida* 1:00 p.m. March 9 Mississippi State* 2:30 p.m. March 11 Ole Miss* 1:00 p.m. March 21 Ohio State 2:30 p.m. March 23 Arkansas* 2:30 p.m. March 25 at LSU* 2:00 p.m. March 30 Kentucky* 5:00 p.m. April 1 Vanderbilt* 1:00 p.m. April 6 at Alabama* 4:00 p.m. April 8 at Auburn* 2:00 p.m. April 14 at Tennessee* 1:00 p.m. April SEC Tournament TBA May NCAA First & Second Rounds TBA May NCAA Championships (Team)& All Day May NCAA Championships (S&D)& All Day All times are Eastern and subject to change Home matches in bold * SEC match %Charlottesville, Va. &Athens, Ga. (27th time) 2012 BULLDOGS Starters Returning/Lost... 4/2 Letterwinners Returning/Lost... 7/ All-Americans Returning/Lost... 2/1 Newcomers ROSTER Name Height Class Hometown/Previous School Garrett Brasseaux 5-7 So. Mandeville, La./St. Paul s School Eric Diaz 6-2 RFr. Athens, Ga./Monsignor Donovan Sadio Doumbia 6-1 Sr. Toulouse, France/AUM Campbell Johnson 5-10 So. Rancho Santa Fe, Calif./Bridgeway Casey Kay 5-10 Fr. Atlanta, Ga./Alpharetta Will Oliver 5-8 Jr. San Antonio, Texas/Alamo Heights Nathan Pasha 6-3 Fr. Atlanta, Ga./Homeschooled Hernus Pieters 6-2 So. Pretoria, South Africa/Hoerskool Waterkloof Will Reynolds 6-1 RSo. Chattanooga, Tenn./Chatt. Christian KU Singh 5-10 Jr. Gurgaon, Haryana, India/Nat. Inst. of Open Schooling Wil Spencer 5-11 Sr. Ponce de Leon, Fla./Texas A&M Ignacio Taboada 6-0 Sr. Atlanta, Ga./University of Miami Head Coach: Manuel Diaz (24th season) Associate Head Coach: Will Glenn (7th season) Volunteer Coach: Justin Pickham (1st season) Match 6: #29 Georgia Tech (4-4) Tues., Feb. 14 4:00 p.m. Athens, Ga. Lindsey Hopkins Indoor Courts GEORGIA VS. GEORGIA TECH: The fourth-ranked University of Georgia men s tennis team (5-0) concludes its six-match seasonopening homestand when it welcomes in-state rival Georgia Tech to the Lindsey Hopkins Indoor Courts for a 4 p.m. match on Tues., Feb. 14. The Bulldogs are hoping to avenge last season s 4-3 heartbreaker to Georgia Tech that snapped Georgia s 24-match winning streak over the Yellow Jackets. Live scoring and the Georgia Tennis Live Chat will be available on Georgiadogs.com just before first serve. Admission is free and open to the public. LOOKING AT THE YELLOW JACKETS: Georgia is a staggering 57-9 all-time against its rival from Atlanta, with 57 wins marking the most against any opponent. Prior to last season the Bulldogs hadn t lost to Tech in 24 outings dating back to the legendary Dan Magill s last season at the helm. The Yellow Jackets enter the mid-week match ranked No. 29 as a team, while Kevin King is ranked No. 9 in the singles poll and the team of King and Juan Spir is currently No. 2 in the nation. Georgia Tech is 4-4 on the season with losses to a trio of top-20 teams in Tennessee, Auburn, and Illinois. King currently leads the team with a 21-4 record, including a 7-1 clip at No. 1 singles in dual match play. King and Spir lead the way in doubles at 12-2 and a perfect 7-0 a t No. 1 doubles. LAST TIME OUT: The Georgia men s tennis team improved to 5-0 on the 2012 season with a 6-1 win over William & Mary last Friday afternoon at the Lindsey Hopkins Indoor Courts. Georgia won doubles for the fifth straight time while sophomore Hernus Pieters captured the match clincher for the first time this season. Redshirt freshman Eric Diaz saw the first dual match action of his career, winning at No. 6 singles. HOT START: Georgia has started out the season undefeated at with its first three season-opening victories coming via scores @CoachMannyDiaz Facebook.com/UGAMensTennis

2 Georgia Quick Facts Location...Athens, Ga. Enrollment...34,677 Founded Nickname...Bulldogs Colors... Red & Black Conference... Southeastern Facility Dan Magill Tennis Complex President... Dr. Michael F. Adams Athletic Director... Greg McGarity Faculty Athletics Rep... David Shipley Sport Facilitator...Matt Brachowski NCAA Titles...6 ITA Team Indoor Titles...2 SEC Regular Season Titles SEC Tournament Titles TENNIS Staff Head Coach...Manuel Diaz, 24rd season Alma Mater...Georgia 75 Record at UGA (.825) Career Record...same Associate Head Coach...Will Glenn Volunteer Coach... Justin Pickham Manager... Matt Jackson Administrative Assistant...Lynn Steedman Athletic Trainer...Jared Maisel Tennis phone... (706) Review Final Record SEC Record (T1st East/Overall) Home Away Neutral Final Ranking... No. 5 Postseason Results......SEC regular-season champions...ncaa Semifinals (Palo Alto, Calif.) SPORTS COMMUNICATIONS Ben Beaty...bbeaty@sports.uga.edu Kate Burkholder...kateburk@sports.uga.edu Office phone... (706) Website... Mailing address...p.o. Box Athens, Ga and the last two coming 6-1. The last time a Georgia team started with three shutouts in a row was 2007, when the Bulldogs went on to win the NCAA championship with an undefeated 32-0 record, and the squad has began the season at 5-0 in six of the last seven years. Georgia has won doubles in all five matches, going 12-1 so far in doubles while posting an impressive 28-2 ledger to date in singles. MIXING IT UP: After a season in which the Bulldog doubles lineups were solidifed early on, head coach Manuel Diaz has done some shuffling of his teams in After the fall season and three dual matches, Diaz s Bulldogs have gone with 21 different doubles team combinations out of a total of 66 possibilities. SPENCER S RECORD WATCH: Georgia senior captain Wil Spencer is off to another spectacular start in 2012, winning his first three singles matches and second on the team with 21 victories on the year. Spencer sits just seven singles wins shy of reaching 100 for his career - having played his first two seasons at Texas A&M and his final two at UGA. Spencer s combined career record at the two institutions is Seven more wins would make Spencer just the 15th player in UGA history to win 100 singles matches, a feat that was most recently accomplished by Drake Bernstein and Javier Garrapiz last season. IN THE RANKINGS: University of Georgia men s tennis senior Wil Spencer came in at No. 3 in the singles rankings in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) poll released Jan. 3, highlighting a strong Bulldog showing that includes two players in the singles top-10 and seven ranked individually in either singles or doubles. Meanwhile, Georgia which reached the NCAA semifinals last May in Palo Alto, Calif. started the 2012 season ranked No. 4 as a team and has remained there in the subsequent team-only editions of the poll updated on Jan. 24, Feb. 2, and Feb. 7. The next set of singles and doubles rankings comes out Feb. 16. In the team poll, Southern California, Virginia, and Ohio State took the top three spots, respectively to start the season and have stayed put there in front of the Bulldogs. Senior Sadio Doumbia also cracked the top-10 at No. 10 in singles while Ignacio Taboada was ranked No. 26, Hernus Pieters No. 64, and Campbell Johnson No In doubles, the team of Spencer and sophomore Garrett Brasseaux were tabbed No. 8 after the pair reached the final of the ITA Southeast Regional in Athens in October. Doumbia and Taboada are ranked just behind at No. 9 while Doumbia is also ranked No. 53 with freshman Nathan Pasha. WINNING THE FALL : Georgia s mantra this preseason was winning the fall, meaning a collective focus was placed on getting better each day during the fall individual season in order to be fully prepared for team play. The team did that and then some. The Bulldogs were led in the fall by senior Wil Spencer, who continued where he left off in 2011 as a junior. Spencer started his season off beating third-ranked Eric Quigley of Kentucky to win the Southern Intercollegiate Championships in Athens in September. Spencer, who won 12 matches against ranked opponents, also reached the final of the ITA All-American Championships and won the consolation draw of the National Indoor Championships to finish the fall with a record of Hernus Pieters, winner of the 2011 Bulldog Scramble, and Sadio Doumbia had 13 wins apiece, and Ignacio Taboada reached the singles final of the ITA Southeast Regional Championships. Eric Diaz and Campbell Johnson each won nine matches, while freshman Nathan Pasha won eight matches. Johnson won the singles title at the Georgia Tech Fall Invitational, while Diaz and Garrett Brasseaux reached the doubles final. SPENCER, USA CAPTURE MASTER U TITLE: University of Georgia senior men s tennis player Wil Spencer went a perfect 3-0 in helping the United States win three matches to claim the 2011 Master U BNP Paribas championship in Rouen, France in December. Spencer was one of six American college players three men, three women representing their country and joining seven other teams of collegians from around the world at

3 the sixth annual event. The United States ultimately claimed the championship with wins over Germany (6-1), Belgium (7-0), and France (4-3) in the best-of-seven format consisting of two men s and two women s singles, one men s and one women s doubles, and one mixed doubles match each day. Spencer won all three of his singles matches, including the defining match of the tournament as he rallied from down 4-1 in the third his French counterpart Sebastien Rocher with the U.S. already trailing 3-0 and facing the loss. Spencer s tiebreak victory gave the United States its first point, which would spark the team to three straight doubles wins to pull it out, 4-3. PICKHAM NAMED VOLUNTEER COACH: Two-time Division II Southeast Region Assistant Coach of the Year Justin Pickham will serve as the University of Georgia men s tennis volunteer coach for the season, head coach Manuel Diaz announced in September. Pickham a native of Australia joined the Bulldog program this fall after serving as the assistant men s and women s tennis coach at Georgia College in Milledgeville since Prior to that, Pickham was the assistant for both tennis programs at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton. He has additional coaching experience with Tennis Coaches Australia since 2001 and spent six years coaching with the Future Stars Summer Tennis Camps in Long Island, N.Y. SINGH TRANSFERS TO GEORGIA: KU Singh, who played Nos. 2 and 3 for the University of Illinois last season, has transferred to the University of Georgia and will have two seasons of eligibility with the Bulldogs. Singh, who will be a junior, played seven matches at No. 2 and nine at No. 3 for the Illini in 2011 and helped the team reach the NCAA Championships round of 16. Twice this year Singh defeated Yuki Bhambri, the No. 1 junior in India, and he has also won a pair of Futures tournaments. In addition, Singh reached the semifinals once and the quarterfinals three different times at Futures events. The Gurgaon, India, native was ranked as high as No. 94 in ITF Juniors. Singh was also named Academic All-Big Ten at Illinois in KAY JOINS BULLDOGS EARLY: One of Manuel Diaz s four signees for 2012 has already joined the program, as freshman and Atlanta native Casey Kay - out of Alpharetta High School - enrolled a semester early. Kay will redshirt the 2012 spring season. Kay was ranked the No. 3 prospect in Georgia, according to tennis reruiting.net, and was ranked as high as No. 24 nationally earlier this year. He has reached the semifinals of two USTA National Opens. ON DECK: Following the Tech match, the Bulldogs head to Charlottesville, Va., for the ITA National Team Indoors Feb Georgia s first round opponent will be Cal, with that match slated for noon on the opening day of competition on Friday. THE MANUEL DIAZ FILE 24th season (all at UGA) (.825) career record (all at UGA) Four NCAA Championships (1999, 2001, 2007, 2008) One of only two active coaches (USC s Peter Smith) to have won more than one NCAA Championship and one of only three active coaches with an NCAA Championship to his name Became just the sixth coach in UGA history to notch 500 wins on March 15, 2010 Vandy Led Bulldogs to 71 straight home match wins through 2010, second-longest in program history Coached UGA to its first ITA Team Indoor National Championship in 2006, then went backto-back, winning another in 2007 Three-time ITA National Coach of the Year (1995, 2001, 07) Five-time ITA Southeast Region Coach of the Year (1991, 92, 95, 2001, 06) Five-time SEC Coach of the Year (1985, 95, 2001, 06, 07) 30 players have received 64 All-America honors 13 SEC regular-season titles, seven SEC Tournament titles Appeared in NCAA Championship match 11 times (1989, 91, 93, 97, 98, 99, 2001, 02, 06, 07, 08) Seven individual singles National Champions Three individual doubles National Champions Seven four-time All-Americans, which ranks No. 1 nationally 74 All-SEC selections Six four-time All-SEC honorees, most recently Javier Garrapiz ( ) Four Academic All-Americans 44 Academic All-SEC accolades 15 SEC Scholar-Athlete Award winners Three Clayton-Wilhite Scholar-Athlete Award winners Four Joel Eaves Award winners Assistant Coach At UGA under Dan Magill from Promoted to Associate Head Coach in 1985 Became Head Coach in 1989 upon Magill s retirement Georgia Tennis letterwinner (UGA 75) Total of 30 seasons in college coaching Personal Married to the former Suzanne Rondeau of Toronto, Canada They have three sons: Manuel, III, 22, Eric, 19, and Alex, 13 Eric is a redshirt freshman on the tennis team Born March 16, 1953 in San Juan, Puerto Rico Graduated from Sacred Heart Academy, 1971

4 Overall record: 4-0 SEC: 0-0 Region: 0-0 Home: 4-0 Away: 0-0 Neutral: 0-0 Vs. Top 25: 0-0 Last Singles Overall Dual Tour SEC Ranked Streak 10 Garrett Brasseaux L5 4-6 Eric Diaz W1 5-5 Sadio Doumbia W5 9-1 Campbell Johnson L2 7-3 Will Oliver W1 4-6 Nathan Pasha W3 8-2 Hernus Pieters W5 7-2 Will Reynolds L3 2-7 KU Singh W5 8-1 Wil Spencer W3 6-4 Ignacio Taboada W5 6-4 TOTALS PERCENTAGE Last Doubles Overall Dual Tour SEC Ranked Streak 10 Doumbia/Spencer W2 2-0 Diaz/Pasha W1 1-1 Johnson/Oliver L1 0-1 Brasseaux/Diaz L1 3-1 Brasseaux/Spencer W1 7-3 Pasha/Pieters W1 3-3 Doumbia/Taboada W3 8-2 Oliver/Reynolds W1 1-1 Diaz/Johnson W1 3-1 Diaz/Oliver L1 1-1 Pieters/Taboada L1 5-2 Johnson/Reynolds L1 2-1 Doumbia/Pasha L2 2-2 Oliver/Pasha L1 0-1 Pasha/Taboada W3 3-0 Diaz/Pieters W2 2-0 Pasha/Reynolds W1 1-0 Diaz/Singh L2 0-2 Singh/Pieters W1 1-0 Doumbia/Pieters W2 2-0 Brasseaux/Singh W1 1-0 TOTALS PERCENTAGE Singles Doubles Rank Date Opponent Result Record SEC Home Away Neutral UGA Opp. J21 Clemson W, W W W W W W L W W 4 66 J29 TCU W, W W W W W W W W u 4 51 J30 Virginia Tech W W W W W W W u W W 4 34 F4 ETSU W, W W W W W L W W W 4 64 F10 William & Mary W, W W W W L W W W W 4 NR F14 Georgia Tech F17-20 National Indoor F27 Furman M2 South Carolina M4 Florida M9 Miss. State M11 Ole Miss M14 Wake Forest M21 Ohio State M23 Arkansas M25 LSU M30 Kentucky A1 Vanderbilt A6 Alabama A8 Auburn A14 Tennessee A19-A22 SEC Tourn. M11-13 NCAA Reg. M17-28 NCAA Tourn.

5 ITA Top 25 (Feb. 7, 2012) Rank Team Previous 1 USC 1 2 Virginia 2 3 Ohio State 3 4 GEORGIA 4 5 Florida 5 6 Kentucky 7 7 Baylor 8 8 UCLA 9 9 Stanford 6 10 Duke Texas A&M Pepperdine Cal 13 T-14 Mississippi State 14 T-14 Texas Auburn North Carolina Illinois Oklahoma Tennessee Ole Miss Texas Tech Tulsa San Diego Indiana 27 GEORGIA IN THE RANKINGS Date Team Spencer Doumbia Taboada Pieters Johnson Spencer/ Doumbia/ Doumbia/ Brasseaux Taboada Pasha Jan Jan X X X X X X X X Feb. 2 4 X X X X X X X X Feb. 7 4 X X X X X X X X Feb. 14 Feb. 21 Feb. 28 March 6 March 13 March 20 March 27 April 3 April 10 April 17 April 24 April 30 May 29/June 6 X=team rankings only that week 2012 Dual Match Stats W L All Matches 5 0 Home 5 0 Away 0 0 Netural 0 0 SEC Matches 0 0 Home 0 0 Away 0 0 Neutral 0 0 Ranked Opponents 3 0 No No No No No Unranked Opponents 1 0 January 3 0 February 2 0 March 0 0 April 0 0 May 0 0 Sunday 1 0 Monday 1 0 Tuesday 0 0 Wednesday 0 0 Thursday 0 0 Friday 1 0 Saturday 2 0 Indoor 5 0 Outdoor 0 0 Winning Doubles 5 0 Losing Doubles 0 0 THE LAST TIME GEORGIA... Won at Home...2/10/12 William & Mary, 6-1 Won on the Road... 4/3/11 at Mississippi State, 4-3 Won At Neutral Site... 5/21/11 Tennessee (NCAA Championships), 4-3 Lost at Home...4/16/11 Tennessee, 4-3 Lost on the Road...2/12/11 at Georgia Tech, 4-3 Lost At Neutral Site... 5/23/11 Southern Cal (NCAA Championships), 4-0 Earned a Shutout... 1/30/12 Virginia Tech, 7-0 Was Shutout... 5/23/11 Southern Cal (NCAA Championships), 4-0 Won the Doubles Point...2/10/12 William & Mary, 6-1 Swept the Doubles Point...2/10/12 William & Mary, 6-1 Lost the Doubles Point... 5/23/11 Southern Cal (NCAA Championships), 4-0 Recorded Back-to-Back Shutouts...1/21, 1/29, & 1/30/12 (Clemson, TCU, Virginia Tech) Held a 5-match win streak... 1/21/12-2/10/12 (5 matches) Held a 10-match win streak...2/19/11-4/10/11 (14 matches) Held a 15-match win streak... 2/4/07-2/16/08 (38 matches) Held a 20-match win streak... 2/4/07-2/16/08 (38 matches) Held a 25-match win streak... 2/4/07-2/16/08 (38 matches) Held a 30-match win streak... 2/4/07-2/16/08 (38 matches) Held a 35-match win streak... 2/4/07-2/16/08 (38 matches) Held a 40-match win streak... 3/23/70-5/1/71 (47 matches) Held a 45-match win streak... 3/23/70-5/1/71 (47 matches) MATCH CLINCHERS Sadio Doumbia: 2 (TCU, ETSU Ignacio Taboada: 2 (Clemson, Virginia Tech) Hernus Pieters: 1 (William & Mary)