university of georgia 2014 men's tennis MATCH NOTES SIX-TIME NCAA CHAMPIONS: 1985, 1987, 1999, 2001, 2007, 2008 36-TIME SEC CHAMPIONS Sports Communications Contacts: Kate Burkholder (kateburk@sports.uga.edu) & Ben Beaty (bbeaty@sports.uga.edu) 706-542-1621 2014 SCHEDULE (3-5, 0-0) Date Opponent/Tournament Site Time Jan. 25 Columbia& Athens, Ga. W, 4-2 Jan. 26 Washington/Stanford& Athens, Ga. W, 4-1 Jan. 31 USC% Los Angeles L, 4-0 Feb. 2 UCLA% Los Angeles L, 4-3 Feb. 6 East Tennessee State Athens, Ga. W, 7-0 Feb. 14 Texas& Houston, Texas L, 4-3 Feb. 15 Florida& Houston, Texas L, 4-2 Feb. 16 Mississippi State& Houston, Texas L, 4-3 Feb. 27 Georgia Tech Athens, Ga. 2:30 p.m. March 2 at Tennessee* Knoxville, Tenn. 1 p.m. March 7 Mississippi State* Athens, Ga. 2:30 p.m. March 9 Ole Miss* Athens, Ga. 1 p.m. March 12 Ohio State Athens, Ga. 2:30 p.m. March 14 at South Carolina* Columbia, S.C. 5 p.m. March 16 at Florida* Gainesville, Fla. 1 p.m. March 21 Kentucky* Athens, Ga. 4:30 p.m. March 23 Vanderbilt* Athens, Ga. 1 p.m. March 28 at Texas A&M* College Station, Tx. 7 p.m. April 4 Arkansas* Athens, Ga. 5 p.m. April 6 LSU* Athens, Ga. 1 p.m. April 11 at Alabama* Tuscaloosa, Ala. 6 p.m. April 13 at Auburn* Auburn, Ala. 2 p.m. April 18-21 SEC Tournament Nashville, Tenn. TBA May 9-11 NCAA 1st & 2nd Rounds TBA TBA May 15-26 NCAA Championships Athens, Ga. TBA All Times Eastern & subject to change. * SEC match % SEC/Pac-12 Showdown & ITA Kickoff 2014 roster Name Ht. Cl. Hometown / Previous School Garrett Brasseaux 5-7 Sr. Mandeville, La./St. Paul s Eric Diaz 6-2 Jr. Athens, Ga./Msgr. Donovan Paul Oosterbaan 6-7 Fr. Kalamazoo, Mich./Hackett Catholic Central Nathan Pasha 6-3 Jr. Atlanta, Ga./Kaplan Online Hernus Pieters 6-1 Sr. Pretoria, South Africa/Hoerskool Waterkloof Austin Smith 6-1 So. Cumming, Ga./Keystone Ben Wagland 6-3 So. Sydney, Australia/Knox Grammar School Nick Wood 5-10 So. Knoxville, Tenn./Knoxville Catholic Head Coach: Manuel Diaz (26th season) Associate Head Coach: Will Glenn (9th season) Volunteer Coach: Tristan Venables (2nd season) Administrative Assistant: Lynn Steedman Manager: Austin Penman Athletic Trainer: Joe Luzenski No. 35 Georgia vs. No. 46 Georgia Tech Feb. 27, 2014 Athens, Ga. Dan Magill Tennis Complex Match No. 9 OPENING THE OUTDOOR SEASON: The Georgia men s tennis team (3-5) is set to kick off the outdoor portion of the 2014 season when it plays host to in-state rival and No. 46-ranked Georgia Tech on Thurs., Feb. 27 at 2:30 p.m. at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex. The meeting with the Yellow Jackets also serves as the Bulldogs final tune-up before opening SEC play on Sunday on the road at Tennessee. Georgia aims to get back to its winning ways after suffering three tough losses last time out at the ITA National Indoor Championships in Houston Feb. 14-16. Live scoring, live video, and the Georgia Tennis Live Chat will all be available at first serve on Georgiadogs.com. LOOKING AT THE YELLOW JACKETS: No. 46 Georgia Tech enters the match-up at Georgia with an overall record of 6-2, most recently suffering a 6-1 loss in the ACC opener at Florida State on Feb. 22. Carlos Benito leads the way with 17 singles wins, followed by Nathan Rakitt with 14. The 36th-ranked team of Benito and Eduardo Segura stand at 9-2 to pace Tech in doubles action. Georgia and Georgia Tech have already gotten a glimpse of one another earlier this spring, as they met in January at the MLK Invitational. No team scores were recorded at that event, although the Bulldogs swept the five contested singles matches. SERIES HISTORY: Georgia owns a commanding 59-9 all-time record against Tech, most recently coming away with a 5-2 win over the Yellow Jackets last season on the road in Atlanta. Prior to a tight 4-3 loss in 2011, Georgia had won 24 straight matches in the series dating back to 1988. That remains the only Georgia loss to Georgia Tech in the Manuel Diaz era. LAST TIME OUT: The Georgia men s tennis team had the past week off following ITA National Indoors, where the team went 0-3 while dealing with injuries and a player suspension. Entering the outdoor portion of the 2014 season, the Bulldogs are led by Nathan Pasha (22 singles wins) and Austin Smith (21 singles wins) in the stat column. Hernus Pieters has won a team-best three matches in a row. IN THE RANKINGS: The Georgia men s tennis team dropped to No. 35 in the first edition of the computerized ITA poll released this week. The Bulldogs were No. 12 in the previous ranking after opening the season at No. 3 and dropping one spot to No. 4 on Feb. 4. In the singles rankings, Austin Smith is No. 16, followed by Nathan Pasha at No. 30, Ben Wagland at No. 66, Garrett Brasseaux at No. 76, and Nick Wood at No. 100. In doubles, Hernus Pieters and Ben Wagland are ranked No. 14. The Bulldogs in 2014 returned the top five singles players from last year s squad that reached the NCAA semifinals. UGA finished the 2013 season ranked third after the trip to the Final Four.
quick facts Location...Athens, Ga. Enrollment...34,180 Founded...1785 Nickname...Bulldogs Colors...Red & Black Conference... Southeastern (SEC) Facility...Dan Magill Tennis Complex... Henry Feild Stadium/Lindsey Hopkins Indoor Facility President...Jere W. Morehead Athletic Director...Greg McGarity Faculty Athletics Representative... David Shipley MEN S TENNIS STAFF Head Coach...Manuel Diaz (Georgia 75) 26th season Overall Record/Record at Georgia... 588-127 (.822) / same Associate Head Coach... Will Glenn (Georgia 03) 9th season Volunteer Coach... Tristan Venables 2nd season Administrative Assistant...Lynn Steedman Athletic Trainer...Joe Luzenski Strength & Conditioning Coach...Katrin Koch Manager... Austin Penman Office Phone/Fax... 706-542-9348 / 706-542-8062 2013 SEASON IN REVIEW Overall Record... 26-5 SEC Record... 11-1 (1st East/Overall) Postseason... SEC Tournament Champions/NCAA Semifinals Final Ranking... No. 3 (ITA) looking at the bulldogs Starters Returning/Lost... 5/0 Letterwinners Returning/Lost... 6/1 All-Americans Returning/Lost... 2/0 Newcomers...1 (L-R): Nick Wood, Hernus Pieters, Austin Smith, Nathan Pasha, Paul Oosterbaan, Ben Wagland, Eric Diaz, Garrett Brasseaux. RECAPPING THE FALL: Georgia players won three singles titles and reached the final of another fall tournament to start the 2013-14 season. Sophomore Austin Smith led the Bulldogs with 15 wins, including seven against ranked opponents. He reached the quarterfinals of the All-American Championships in Tulsa, Okla., and also made the final of the SEC Fall Classic in Nashville. Nathan Pasha notched 13 wins, including titles at the ITA Southeast Regional Championships at Georgia Tech and the Southern Intercollegiate Championships in Athens. Pasha and Smith represented UGA in the singles draw of the USTA/ITA National Indoor Championships in New York, while senior Garrett Brasseaux was named champion of the Bulldog Scramble in November. In doubles, the team of Hernus Pieters and Ben Wagland led the team with six wins. BULLDOGS PICKED TO WIN SEC AGAIN: The No. 3 Georgia men s tennis team was tabbed to win the Southeastern Conference title in a vote of the league s 13 head coaches released Jan. 16 by the SEC office. Georgia swept the 2013 regular-season and tournament titles before advancing to the NCAA semifinals with a 26-5 (11-1) record. The Bulldogs return the top five singles players from that squad. The preseason coaches poll is compiled using a 13-12-11-10-9-8- 7-6-5-4-3-2-1 tally. Each vote counts as one point. Georgia ended with 155 total points, followed by Tennessee (137), Texas A&M (132), Kentucky (108), and Florida (105) to round out the top five. Georgia leads the SEC in overall conference titles (36) and regularseason crowns (27). COLLEGE MATCHDAY TO VISIT ATHENS THIS SPRING: College Match- Day, a nationwide series spotlighting college tennis, will visit the University of Georgia this spring, according to an announcement on Jan. 29 by the USTA. The weekly series will feature 22 matches on 18 campuses, including 10 matches live on ESPN3. The series will come to Athens for the Georgia women s match against Missouri on March 30 and the UGA men s match against Arkansas on April 4. The Missouri match will also be shown on ESPN3, and a fan experience trailer will be on site. In addition, College MatchDay will be on site for the Georgia-Texas A&M men s match in College Station on March 28, and the match will air on ESPN3. The fan experience trailer is a 53-foot, interactive trailer where fans can engage in a number of activities before and during the match. Each MatchDay that will be live streamed will follow a unique, experimental format, as proposed by an advisory group of NCAA Division I athletic directors. Six singles matches will be played first, and once a team reaches four points and clinches the match, the remaining matches will not be completed. In the case of a 3-3 tie after the singles matches, three doubles matches - played using 10-point super tiebreakers - will be used to determine the winner. The team that wins two of the three doubles matches wins the team match. All MatchDay dual matches will count toward a team s win-loss record both overall and, if applicable, in conference. For MatchDays that will not be live streamed, the teams will not be held to the same experimental format. OOSTERBAAN JOINS BULLDOGS IN JANUARY: Michigan native Paul Oosterbaan joined the Georgia team as an early enrollee, arriving in Athens in January in time for the spring 2014 season. Oosterbaan, who stands at 6-foot-8, earned a wild card into the main draw at the 2013 U.S. Open by winning the boys 18s doubles title at the USTA National Championship earlier this year in Kalamazoo. His other
wins include the Clay Court doubles, boys 16s Winter Nationals singles, Lexington grade 4 ITF singles and the USTA 18s National Open. He has been ranked as high as No. 8 by tennisrecruiting.net and was ranked No. 2 in the country in boys 16s. His father, JP, was a member of the 1989 University of Michigan men s basketball national championship team. GEORGIA TO HOST NCAA TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS AGAIN IN 2017: The University of Georgia will serve as the host site for the 2017 NCAA Division I Men s and Women s Tennis Championships, it was announced by the NCAA in December. The Dan Magill Tennis Complex has played host to the men s NCAA Championships 24 times and the women s NCAA Championships three times, in addition to three combined tournaments for a total of 30, most recently in 2012. UGA will also serve as host in May 2014. The Georgia men s tennis team has won six NCAA titles, including five in Athens. The women claimed the national title in 1994 and at home in 2000. ON DECK: The Bulldogs will open the SEC schedule on Sun., March 2 on the road at Tennessee at 1 p.m. Georgia then returns home for two next weekend, welcoming Mississippi State and Ole Miss on Friday and Sunday, respectively. THE MANUEL DIAZ FILE COACHING 26th season / 588-127 (.822) career record Four NCAA Championships (1999, 2001, 2007, 2008) One of only two active coaches with multiple NCAA Championships (Peter Smith, USC) Coached UGA to its first ITA Team Indoor National Championship in 2006, then went back-to-back, winning another in 2007 Three-time ITA National Coach of the Year (1995, 2001, 07) Six-time ITA Southeast Region Coach of the Year (1991, 92, 95, 2001, 06, 12) Five-time SEC Coach of the Year (1985, 95, 2001, 06, 07) 32 players have received 68 All-America honors 15 SEC regular-season titles, nine SEC Tournament titles (24 total) Finished the season ranked in the Top-5 19 times; finished Top-10 in 21 seasons and Top-25 in all 25 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 76 All-SEC selections Six four-time All-SEC honorees Four Academic All-Americans 44 Academic All-SEC accolades 15 SEC Scholar-Athlete Award winners Three Clayton-Wilhite Scholar-Athlete Award winners Three Joel Eaves Award winners Assistant Coach At UGA under Dan Magill from 1982-84; promoted to Associate Head Coach in 1985; named head coach for 1988-89 season upon Magill s retirement PLAYING DAYS College: University of Georgia (1972-75) Two-time All-American (1974-75) Three-time All-SEC selection (1973-75) Four-straight SEC team titles Seven SEC individual titles No. 6 singles and No. 3 doubles in 1972 No. 1 singles and No. 1 doubles in 1973 No. 2 singles and No. 1 doubles in 1974 No. 1 doubles in 1975 Two-time winner of Southern Collegiate Championships in singles in 1973-74 Southern Collegiate Doubles champion in 1973 Co-Captain of 1975 team that went 20-4 and won the SEC Championship Professional: Played professionally in the U.S., Europe and South America after college Recorded four wins against players ranked in the ATP Top 50 Team Tennis in Germany, 1980-81 Teaching Pro in Atlanta 1978-81 and in Puerto Rico from 1981-82 Puerto Rican Davis Cup Captain from 1992 to 1997 PERSONAL Married to the former Suzanne Rondeau of Toronto, Canada They have three sons: Manuel, III, 25, Eric, 22 (junior on the tennis team), and Alex, 16 Born March 16, 1953 in San Juan, Puerto Rico Graduated from Sacred Heart Academy, 1971
Overall record: 3-5 SEC: 0-0 Region: 0-1 Home: 3-0 Away: 0-1 Neutral: 0-4 Vs. Top 25: 0-5 vs. Last Singles Overall Dual Tour SEC 1 2 3 4 5 6 Ranked Streak 10 Garrett Brasseaux 13-2 3-1 10-1 0-0 -- -- -- 3-1 -- -- 3-0 W1 8-1 Eric Diaz 4-6 1-2 3-4 0-0 -- -- -- 0-1 0-1 1-0 0-0 L2 4-5 Nathan Pasha 22-7 5-3 17-4 0-0 2-1 2-2 1-0 -- -- -- 6-5 W2 7-3 Hernus Pieters 17-9 4-2 13-7 0-0 -- -- -- -- 2-1 1-1 0-3 W3 6-2 Austin Smith 21-9 3-4 18-5 0-0 2-3 1-1 -- -- -- -- 9-7 W1 6-4 Ben Wagland 14-8 2-3 12-5 0-0 -- 0-1 2-2 -- -- -- 2-4 L1 5-4 Nick Wood 10-6 3-2 7-4 0-0 -- 1-0 0-1 1-0 1-1 -- 2-2 W1 5-2 TOTALS 101-50 21-20 80-30 0-0 4-4 4-4 4-3 4-2 3-4 2-3 22-21 PERCENTAGE.669.512.727.000.500.500.571.667.429.400.512 vs. Last Doubles Overall Dual Tour SEC 1 2 3 Ranked Streak 10 Pieters/Wagland 11-6 2-1 9-5 0-0 2-1 -- -- 3-1 W2 5-5 Smith/Wood 3-2 0-0 3-2 0-0 -- -- -- 0-1 L1 3-2 Pasha/Pieters 3-1 0-0 3-1 0-0 -- -- -- 1-1 L1 3-1 Brasseaux/Pasha 7-4 5-1 2-3 0-0 5-1 -- 1-0 W3 6-4 Diaz/Wood 0-2 0-0 0-2 0-0 -- -- -- 0-0 L2 0-2 Brasseaux/Diaz 2-1 0-0 2-1 0-0 -- -- -- 0-0 W1 2-1 Diaz/Smith 6-1 5-1 1-0 0-0 -- -- 5-1 0-0 L1 6-1 Pasha/Wood 2-0 2-0 0-0 0-0 -- 1-0 1-0 0-0 W2 2-0 Pieters/Wood 0-1 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-1 -- -- 0-0 L1 0-1 Diaz/Pieters 0-1 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-1 -- -- 0-1 L1 0-1 TOTALS 34-20 14-6 20-14 0-0 2-3 6-1 6-2 5-5 PERCENTAGE.630.700.588.000.400.857.750.500 Match Results Singles Doubles Rank Date Opponent Result Record SEC Home Away Neutral 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 UGA Opp. J25 Columbia W, 4-2 1-0 0-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 L W L W W uf uf W W 3 43 J26 Stanford W, 4-1 2-0 0-0 2-0 0-0 0-0 W L W W uf uf uf W W 3 40 F1 Southern Cal L, 4-0 2-1 0-0 2-0 0-1 0-0 L L uf uf L uf L L W 3 4 F2 UCLA L, 4-3 2-2 0-0 2-0 0-1 0-1 L L W L W L uf W W 3 2 F6 ETSU W, 7-0 3-2 0-0 3-0 0-1 0-1 W W W W W W W W W 4 67 F14 Texas L, 4-3 3-3 0-0 3-0 0-1 0-2 L L L W L W W W uf 4 10 F15 Florida L, 4-2 3-4 0-0 3-0 0-1 0-3 W W L uf L wo L W L 4 12 F16 Miss. State L, 4-3 3-5 0-0 3-0 0-1 0-4 W W W L wo wo L W wo 4 9 F27 Georgia Tech M2 Tennessee M7 Miss. State M9 Ole Miss M12 Ohio State M14 So. Carolina M16 Florida M21 Kentucky M23 Vanderbilt M28 Texas A&M A4 Arkansas A6 LSU A11 Alabama A13 Auburn A18-21 SEC Champs. M9-11 NCAA Reg. M15-26 NCAA Champs.
ITA Top 25 - Feb. 25 Rank Team Previous 1 Ohio State University 1 2 University of Southern California 2 3 University of Oklahoma 5 4 UCLA 4 5 University of Texas 6 6 University of Notre Dame 10 7 University of Illinois 14 8 Baylor University 7 9 California 9 10 University of Virginia 3 11 University of Tennessee 15 12 North Carolina 23 13 Texas A&M University 8 14 Vanderbilt University 18 15 Boise State University 41 16 Mississippi State University 11 17 Duke University 16 18 Oklahoma State University 25 19 Wake Forest University 20 20 Columbia University 34 21 Clemson University 21 22 University of Florida 13 23 Northwestern University 29 24 North Carolina State 27 25 University of Kentucky 17 IN THE NATIONAL RANKINGS Date Team Smith Pasha Brasseaux Wagland Wood Pieters/Wagland Pieters/Pasha J2 3 12 21 47 48 102 12 59 J21 3 X X X X X X X J29 3 X X X X X X X F4 4 X X X X X X X F11 X 14 20 59 71 109 31 X F18 12 X X X X X X X F25 35 16 30 76 66 100 14 X M4 M11 M18 M25 A1 A8 A15 A22 M1 M27 J4 X = not released that week Dual Match Stats W L All Matches 3 5 Home 3 0 Away 0 1 Netural 0 4 SEC Matches 0 0 Home 0 0 Away 0 0 Neutral 0 0 vs. Ranked Opponents 3 5 No. 1-5 0 2 No. 6-10 0 2 No. 11-25 0 1 No. 26-50 2 0 No. 51-75 1 0 vs. Unranked Opponents 0 0 January 2 0 February 1 5 March 0 0 April 0 0 May 0 0 Sunday 1 2 Monday 0 0 Tuesday 0 0 Wednesday 0 0 Thursday 1 0 Friday 0 1 Saturday 1 2 Indoor 3 3 Outdoor 0 2 Winning Doubles 3 2 Losing Doubles 0 3 Not Playing Doubles 0 0 THE LAST TIME GEORGIA... Won at Home...2/6/14 vs. East Tennessee State, 7-0 Won on the Road... 4/7/13 vs. Arkansas, 4-1 Won At Neutral Site... 5/18/13 vs. Pepperdine (NCAA Championships), 4-2 Lost at Home... 5/20/12 vs. Pepperdine (NCAA Championships), 4-3 Lost on the Road... 1/1/14 vs. Southern Cal, 4-0 Lost At Neutral Site...1/16/14 vs. Mississippi State, 4-3 Earned a Shutout...2/6/14 vs. East Tennessee State, 7-0 Was Shutout... 1/1/14 vs. Southern Cal, 4-0 Won the Doubles Point...2/14/14 vs. Texas Swept the Doubles Point... 3/4/13 vs. William & Mary Lost the Doubles Point... 2/16/14 vs. Mississippi State Recorded Back-to-Back Shutouts...5/10/13 and 5/11/13 (Binghamton and Northwestern) Held a 5-match win streak...3/10/13-5/18/13 (17 matches) Held a 10-match win streak...3/10/13-5/18/13 (17 matches) Held a 15-match win streak...3/10/13-5/18/13 (17 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) Garrett Brasseaux: 1 (Stanford) Eric Diaz: Paul Oosterbaan: Nathan Pasha: Hernus Pieters: 1 (Columbia) Austin Smith: Ben Wagland: 1 (East Tennessee State) Nick Wood: MATCH CLINCHERS