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 (7-5, 3-0) 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. W, 4-0 March 2 at Tennessee* Knoxville, Tenn. W, 4-0 March 7 Mississippi State* Athens, Ga. W, 4-1 March 9 Ole Miss* Athens, Ga. W, 4-0 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. 16 Georgia (7-5) vs. No. 1 Ohio State (17-1) March 12, 2014 2:30 p.m. Dan Magill Tennis Complex Athens, Ga. Match No. 13 MID-WEEK MATCH-UP: The Georgia men s tennis team (7-5) will play its final nonconference match of the 2014 regular season on Wednesday when it hosts current No. 1 Ohio State (17-1) at 2:30 p.m. at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex. The Bulldogs have won four in a row heading into the mid-week meeting, while their 20-match home winning streak dating back to May 2012 will also be on the line. The match will be played rain or shine, and admission is free. The Bulldogs are 3-0 to start conference play after a pair of victories over Mississippi State and Ole Miss over the weekend. Live scoring, video, and the Georgia Tennis Live Chat will be available beginning shortly before first serve. LOOKING AT THE BUCKEYES: Top-ranked Ohio State - winner of last month s ITA National Team Indoor Championships - suffered its first loss of the season last Friday night, a 4-1 setback at No. 4 Oklahoma on the road in Norman, Okla. It snapped a 17-match win streak for the Buckeyes, which had been good for the best start in program history. Ohio State is now 6-1 away from Columbus in 2014. The team is led by No. 72-ranked Hunter Callahan s 19 singles wins, while Kevin Metka enters with 18 and ninth-ranked Peter Kobelt 17. In doubles, the third-ranked team of Kobelt and Metka lead the way with a 23-5 overall record and a 9-2 mark at No. 1 in dual matches. Herkko Pollanen is also ranked in singles, currently No. 88. Georgia is 11-4 all-time vs. the Buckeyes, suffering a 5-2 loss last season in Columbus. In 2012, the Bulldogs defeated Ohio State 4-3 in Athens. LAST TIME OUT: The Georgia men s tennis team (7-5, 3-0) completed a weekend sweep in SEC action, posting a 4-1 win over No. 17 Mississippi State on Friday and a 4-0 win over Ole Miss on Sunday at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex. Georgia has now won four in a row, and remains perfect at 6-0 on the season at home. The Bulldogs are currently led by Austin Smith s 25 singles victories, while Hernus Pieters is riding a team-leading seven-match singles winning streak. In doubles, Georgia s No. 3 team of Smith and Eric Diaz is 9-1 in dual matches, 3-0 in SEC play, and has won four 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 two weeks ago, then shot up to No. 16 in the March 4 edition following two straight 4-0 wins over Georgia Tech and Tennessee. The Bulldogs opened the season at No. 3 and dropped one spot to No. 4 on Feb. 4. A new edition - team and individual - is expected to be released on Tuesday - in time for the Georgia-Ohio State match. 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 (Georgia, J.D. 80) Athletic Director... Greg McGarity (Georgia 76) Faculty Athletics Representative... David Shipley MEN S TENNIS STAFF Head Coach...Manuel Diaz (Georgia 75) 26th season Overall Record/Record at Georgia... 592-127 (.823) / 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... 5/1 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. DIAZ APPROACHING ANOTHER MILESTONE: Georgia head coach Manuel Diaz - now in his 26th season at the helm - is nearing yet another career milestone. Having entered the season with 585 victories to his name, he now stands with 592 and is just eight shy of the 600-win plateau. Diaz has the ninth-most wins in NCAA Division I men s tennis history, and is second all-time on that list among SEC coaches behind only Bulldog legend Dan Magill, who won 706 matches in 33 seasons from 1955-88. Only eight NCAA Division I men s head coaches in history have won 600 matches in a career. Diaz won his 500th match on March 15, 2010 against Vanderbilt, then snagged No. 550 in a 2012 dual match also against the Commodores. 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 MatchDay, 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 step back into SEC play for good when they hit the road for matches at South Carolina and Florida next weekend. THE MANUEL DIAZ FILE COACHING 26th season / 592-127 (.823) 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: 7-5 SEC: 3-0 Region: 1-1 Home: 6-0 Away: 1-1 Neutral: 0-4 Vs. Top 25: 2-5 vs. Last Singles Overall Dual Tour SEC 1 2 3 4 5 6 Ranked Streak 10 Garrett Brasseaux 15-2 5-1 10-1 2-0 -- -- -- 5-1 -- -- 3-0 W3 7-1 Eric Diaz 4-6 1-2 3-4 0-0 -- -- -- 0-1 0-1 1-0 0-0 L2 4-5 Nathan Pasha 23-7 6-3 17-4 0-0 3-1 2-2 1-0 -- -- -- 6-5 W3 7-3 Hernus Pieters 21-9 8-2 13-7 3-0 -- -- 1-0 1-0 3-1 3-1 0-3 W7 5-2 Austin Smith 25-9 7-4 18-5 3-0 3-3 4-1 -- -- -- -- 11-7 W5 6-4 Ben Wagland 15-8 3-3 12-5 1-0 -- 0-1 3-2 -- -- -- 2-4 W1 3-3 Nick Wood 11-6 4-2 7-4 1-0 -- 1-0 0-1 1-0 1-1 1-0 2-2 W2 4-2 TOTALS 114-50 34-20 80-30 10-0 6-4 7-4 5-3 7-2 4-4 5-3 24-21 PERCENTAGE.695.630.727 1.000.600.636.625.778.500.625.533 vs. Last Doubles Overall Dual Tour SEC 1 2 3 Ranked Streak 10 Pieters/Wagland 12-8 3-3 9-5 1-2 3-3 -- -- 3-2 W1 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 9-5 7-2 2-3 1-1 7-2 -- 1-0 L1 7-3 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 10-1 9-1 1-0 3-0 -- -- 9-1 0-0 W4 9-1 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 41-23 21-9 20-14 5-3 3-5 8-2 10-2 5-6 PERCENTAGE.641.700.588.625.375.800.833.455 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 W, 4-0 4-5 0-0 4-0 0-1 0-4 W W uf W uf uf uf W W 35 46 M2 Tennessee W, 4-0 5-5 1-0 4-0 1-1 0-4 W uf uf uf W W L W W 35 11 M7 Miss. State W, 4-1 6-5 2-0 5-0 1-1 0-4 uf W W W uf W L L W 16 17 M9 Ole Miss W, 4-0 7-5 3-0 6-0 1-1 0-4 uf W uf W uf W W uf W 16 NR 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 - March 4 Rank Team Previous 1 Ohio State University 1 2 University of Virginia 10 3 UCLA 4 4 University of Oklahoma 3 5 University of Southern California 2 6 University of Illinois 7 7 University of Texas 5 8 Texas A&M University 13 9 University of Notre Dame 6 10 Duke University 17 11 North Carolina 12 12 Baylor University 8 13 University of Tennessee 11 14 California 9 15 Oklahoma State University 18 16 University of Georgia 35 17 Mississippi State University 16 18 Vanderbilt University 14 19 North Carolina State 24 20 Boise State University 15 21 Wake Forest University 19 22 University of Kentucky 25 23 Clemson University 21 24 Northwestern University 23 25 University of Memphis 27 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 16 X X X X X X X M11 M18 M25 A1 A8 A15 A22 M1 M27 J4 X = not released that week Dual Match Stats W L All Matches 7 5 Home 6 0 Away 1 1 Netural 0 4 SEC Matches 3 0 Home 2 0 Away 1 0 Neutral 0 0 vs. Ranked Opponents 6 5 No. 1-5 0 2 No. 6-10 0 2 No. 11-25 2 1 No. 26-50 3 0 No. 51-75 1 0 vs. Unranked Opponents 1 0 January 2 0 February 2 5 March 3 0 April 0 0 May 0 0 Sunday 3 2 Monday 0 0 Tuesday 0 0 Wednesday 0 0 Thursday 2 0 Friday 1 1 Saturday 1 2 Indoor 3 3 Outdoor 4 2 Winning Doubles 6 2 Losing Doubles 1 3 Not Playing Doubles 0 0 THE LAST TIME GEORGIA... Won at Home...3/9/14 vs. Ole Miss, 4-0 Won on the Road...3/2/14 at Tennessee, 4-0 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 at Southern Cal, 4-0 Lost At Neutral Site...1/16/14 vs. Mississippi State, 4-3 Earned a Shutout...3/9/14 vs. Ole Miss, 4-0 Was Shutout... 1/1/14 vs. Southern Cal, 4-0 Won the Doubles Point...3/9/14 vs. Ole Miss Swept the Doubles Point... 3/4/13 vs. William & Mary Lost the Doubles Point... 3/7/14 vs. Mississippi State Recorded Back-to-Back Shutouts...2/27/14 and 3/2/14 (Georgia Tech and Tennessee) 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) MATCH CLINCHERS Garrett Brasseaux: 2 (Stanford, Ole Miss) Eric Diaz: Paul Oosterbaan: Nathan Pasha: Hernus Pieters: 2 (Columbia, Tennessee) Austin Smith: 1 (Georgia Tech) Ben Wagland: 2 (East Tennessee State, Mississippi State) Nick Wood: