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Quick FactsLocation: Chapel Hill, N.C.Chartered: 1789Enrollment: 25,480 (15,844 undergraduates)Chancellor: James MoeserDirector of Athletics: Dick BaddourSeniorAssociate A.D. for Olympic Sports: Beth MillerAffiliation: NCAADivision IConference: Atlantic CoastNickname: Tar HeelsMascot: Rameses the RamSchool Colors: Carolina Blue and WhiteAthletic Department Web Site: www.TarHeelBlue.com

Carolina Men’s TennisHead Coach: Sam Paul (Presbyterian ‘83)Record at UNC: 138-78, 9 yearsOffice Phone: (919) 962-6060Assistant Coaches: Ian Williams (Harvard ‘98); Don Johnson(North Carolina ‘90)Home Facility: Cone-Kenfield Tennis CenterCourts: Hard Courts, 6 indoor and 12 outdoorSeating Capacity: 2,000Tennis Center Phones: (919) 962-6060/6161/6363Tennis Center Fax: (919) 962-2604Administrative Assistant: Andrew ParkerAcademic Advisor: Marisa BrnardicHead Athletic Trainer: Sally MaysGraduate Assistant Trainers: Kyle Momsen, Doug Halverson,Danielle WildermanUndergraduate Trainer: Bridgette CouncilPrimary Care Physicians: Tom Brickner, Mark BooherOrthopaedist: Louis Almekinders

UNC Athletic CommunicationsMen’s Tennis Media Contact: Dave Lohse, Associate AthleticCommunications DirectorEmail Address: [email protected]’s Office Phone: (919) 962-7257Lohse’s Home Phone: (919) 967-7272Lohse’s Cell Phone: (919) 641-4128Athletic Communications Office Fax: (919) 962-0612Mailing Address: P.O. Box 2126, Chapel Hill, NC 27515Shipping Address: Sports Information, 300 Skipper Bowles Drive,Chapel Hill, NC 27514Associate Athletic Director for Communications: SteveKirschner; Assistant Athletic Communications Directors: KevinBest, Matt Bowers, Dana Gelin,David Tinson; AdministrativeAssistant: Lee Snyder; Interns: Scott MacDonald, DavidApplegate

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Supporting UNC Men’s TennisThe University of North Carolina and Nike extended their agreement for

eight more years beginning in July 2002. The agreement provides eachvarsity team with shoes, apparel, equipment bags and other products. Italso provides $100,000 annually to the Chancellor's A c a d e m i cEnhancement Fund for undergraduate teaching and $100,000 annually tothe athletic department to reward Olympic sport programs and coaches foracademic and athletic excellence.

Table of Contents2003 Team Captains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Front Cover2003 Team Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Inside Front CoverContents, Quick Facts, Credits, Website Info, Nike Info . . . . . . .12003 Roster, Opponents Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22003 Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32003 Preview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4The 2003 Tar Heels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Head Coach Sam Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11Assistant Coaches Ian Williams & Don Johnson . . . . . . . . . . .122002 Season Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132002 Season Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14Carolina Tennis Program Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15Student-Athlete Development & Academic Support . . . . . . . . .16Year by Year Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17Records Against Opponents, Year by Year ACC Records . . . . .18Conference Champions in Singles and Doubles . . . . . . . . . . . .19All-America Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20Award Winners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23Carolina Tennis History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24All-Time Letter Winners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29ACC Top 50 Honorees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30The University of North Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31Educational Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32Returning Starters, 2003 Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Back Cover

2003 Men’s Tennis BrochurePlayer headshots, team pictures and current

player action photos by Jeff Camarati. KevinCox, Grant Halverson, John Gardiner, BradSmith, Dan Sears and Andrew Parker con-tibuted photographs to the brochure. Coversdesigned by Diana Palmer The 2003 mediaguide was edited by Dave Lohse, AssociateDirector of Athletic Communications.Assistance was also provided by AndrewParker, administrative assistant for the men’stennis program.

www.TarHeelBlue.comMedia and fans can follow the Carolina men’s tennis team and the

rest of the UNC athletic program from anywhere in the world on theofficial web site of North Carolina athletics.

TarHeelBlue.com offers schedules, rosters, results, features andmore for all 28 of Carolina’s varsity sports.

The Old Well

Name Yr. Ht. Wt. Hometown (High School)Ben Aiken** Jr. 6-0 165 Lookout Mountain, Tenn. (Baylor School)#Greg Archer*** Sr. 6-3 175 Beachwood, N.J. (Toms River South)Geoff Boyd* So. 6-1 178 Atlanta, Ga. (Boca Raton Prep, Fla.)Jonathan Janda* So. 6-1 185 Shelby, N.C. (Naples, Fla.)Jeremy Ledford Jr. 6-3 160 Flat Rock, N.C. (Hendersonville)#Trystan Meniane*** Sr. 6-0 170 Martinique, France (Palmer Academy, Fla.)Andy Metzler* Jr. 5-10 155 Kansas City, Mo. (Rockhurst)Nick Monroe** Jr. 5-10 155 Olathe, Kan. (Pembroke Hills)P.J. Petrides Fr. 5-11 180 Chapel Hill, N.C. (Durham Academy)Brad Pomeroy Fr. 6-1 175 Asheville, N.C. (Asheville)Derek Porter Fr. 6-1 180 Coral Springs,Fla. (Boca Raton Prep)Daniel Pinchbeck* So. 5-10 165 Edmondson Park, New South Wales (New Braunfels, Texas)*Letters Earned; #Co-CaptainHead Coach: Sam Paul; Assistant Coach: Ian Williams; Assistant Coach: Don Johnson; Administrative Assistant: Andrew Parker

Roster by ClassFreshmen Sophomores Juniors SeniorsP.J. Petrides Geoff Boyd Ben Aiken Greg ArcherBrad Pomeroy Jonathan Janda Jeremy Ledford Trystan MenianeDerek Porter Daniel Pinchbeck Andy Metzler

Nick MonroePronuncation Guide

Aiken AY-kinJanda JAN-duhTrystan Meniane TRIS-tin MEN-ee-ohnPetrides PUH-tree-duss

2003 Opponent InformationSchool Match Date SID Phone Number Men’s Tennis SID Contact Men’s Tennis Head CoachStanford January 17-19 650-723-0996 Scott Leykam Dick GouldUSC January 17-19 213-740-3808 Vicky Hammond Peter SmithPepperdine January 17-19 310-506-4333 Michael Zapolski Adam SteinbergPrinceton January 31 609-258-5701 Warive Amir Glenn MichibataGeorgia February 2/January 17-19 706-542-6306 Jenn Garrett Manuel DiazUT-Chattanooga February 7 423-425-2122 Anne Wehun Carlos GarciaWashington February 9 206-543-2230 Erin Rowley Matt AngerMaryland February 15 301-314-7068 Julie Baronas Jim LaittaVirginia CommonwealthFebruary 19/March 13-16 804-828-8496 Josh Lehman Paul CostinAuburn February 23 334-844-9900 Mendy Nestor Eric ShoreGardner-Webb February 28 704-406-3981 Phil Perry Mike GriffinCharlotte March 9 704-687-6313 Brent Stastny Jim BoykinFresno State March 13-16 559-278-2509 Jake Bragonier Brad DancerIndiana State March 13-16 812-237-4159 Ace Hunt Peter MagnussonMiddle Tennessee State March 13-16 615-898-5270 Jo Jo Freeman Dale ShortNotre Dame March 13-16 574-631-7516 Chris Masters/Bo Rottenborn Bob BaylissRice March 13-16 713-348-5637 Michael Shockley Ron SmarrTulane March 13-16 504-314-7271 John Sudsbury Robert KleinHarvard March 13-16 617-495-2206 Jennifer Correa David FishWilliam & Mary March 13-16 757-221-3368 Dan Wakely Peter DaubFurman March 13-16 864-294-3062 James Goodlet Paul ScarpaBoise State March 13-16 208-426-3438 Lori Hays Jim MoortgatBrown March 13-16 401-863-2219 Chirs Humm Jay HarrisSouth Alabama March 13-16 251-460-7035 Mark Wasik Scott NovakUAB March 13-16 205-934-7920 Katie O’Brien Derek TarrSouth Carolina March 20 803-544-3947 Craig Puckett Kent DeMarsGeorgia Tech March 23 404-894-5445 Jeremy Noel Kenny ThorneClemson March 29 864-656-1924 Sam Blackman Chuck KrieseWake Forest April 1 336-758-5640 Bill Newton Jeff ZinnFlorida State April 4 850-644-5653 Jeff Clark Dwayne HultquistVirginia April 6 434-982-5500 Steve Kirkland Brian BolandDuke April 9 919-684-2614 Art Chase Jay LapidusNC State April 13 919-515-1179 Pat Norris Jon Choboy

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Day Date Opponent/Tournament Site Time

Fri.-Sun. 1/17-19 ACC Indoor Championships Winston-Salem, N.C. All dayFri.-Sun. 1/17-19 National Collegiate Tennis Classic Las Vegas, Nev. All day

(Stanford, USC, Pepperdine, Georgia, UNC, Duke)Friday 1/31 Princeton Chapel Hill 6 p.m.Sunday 2/2 Georgia Chapel Hill 1 p.m.Friday 2/7 Tennessee-Chattanooga Chapel Hill 5 p.m.Sunday 2/9 Washington Chapel Hill 1 p.m.Saturday 2/15 Maryland College Park, Md. 11 a.m.Wednesday 2/19 Virginia Commonwealth Richmond, Va. 2:30 p.m.Sunday 2/23 Auburn Chapel Hill 1 p.m.Friday 2/28 Gardner-Webb Chapel Hill 3 p.m.Sunday 3/9 Charlotte Charlotte 1 p.m.Thurs.-Sun. 3/13-16 Blue Grey Championships Montgomery, Ala. TBA

(Fresno State, Indiana State, Middle Tennessee State, Notre Dame, Rice,Tulane, Tulsa, Harvard, Virginia Commonwealth, William & Mary, Furman,Boise State, Brown, South Alabama, UAB, UNC)

Thursday 3/20 South Carolina Chapel Hill 2:30 p.m.Sunday 3/23 Georgia Tech Atlanta, Ga. 12 p.m.Saturday 3/29 Clemson Clemson, S.C. 1 p.m.Tuesday 4/1 Wake Forest Winston-Salem, N.C. 4:30 p.m.Friday 4/4 Florida State Chapel Hill 3 p.m.Sunday 4/6 Virginia Chapel Hill 1 p.m.Wednesday 4/9 Duke Chapel Hill 3 p.m.Sunday 4/13 NC State Cary, N.C. 1 p.m.Thurs.-Sun. 4/17-20 ACC Championship Millbrook Park, Raleigh, N.C. TBAFri.-Sun. 5/9-11 NCAA Regional TBA TBASat.-Mon. 5/17-26 NCAA Championships Athens, Ga. TBAAll times listed are for the Eastern Time Zone.Men's tennis home matches are played at Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center.

2003 SCHEDULE


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2003 CAROLINA OUTLOOK


Defending Atlantic Coast Conference champion North C a r o l i n aenters the 2003 men’s tennis season with a veteran team that could wellbring home another title to Chapel Hill. UNC returns eight lettermenand welcomes four outstanding newcomers as Coach Sam Paul hopes tolead the Tar Heels to their 11th NCAA Tournament bid in the past 12seasons.

The 2002-2003 school year marks the 50th year of Atlantic CoastConference competition in all sports and Carolina has enjoyed moresuccess in men’s tennis than in any other sport. With last year’s ACCtitle UNC has now won 25 of the first 49 championships decided in thesport.

With a strong returning cast, the Tar Heels look to add to that legacyin 2003. However, Paul must replace one of the best players in the ACC,Marcio Petrone, the lone loss to graduation from last year’s squad whichfinished with a 19-6 record overall (7-1 in ACCdual matches) and sweptthe ACC Tournament title. Petrone, a three-time All-ACC selection andthe Most Valuable Player of the 2002 ACC Tournament, was 26-8 in sin-gles and 19-8 in doubles as a senior. He won the clinching match in sixof UNC’s 19 victories a year ago.

Carolina goes into the 2003 season ranked 26th nationally in theOmni Hotels Collegiate Tennis Rankings administered by theIntercollegiate Tennis Association. The Tar Heels will face a schedulethat will be among the most difficult in the nation. Of Carolina’s 17 dualmatches, 11 will be against opponents ranked by the ITA. This groupincludes #6 Georgia, #11 Duke, #15 Auburn, #16 Vi rg i n i aCommonwealth, #20 Washington, #22 South Carolina, #23 Wa k eForest, #44 Georgia Tech, #50 Florida State, #55 Virginia and #75Princeton. UNC will also play in the Blue Grey Championships inMontgomery, Ala. in a field where 15 of the 16 teams are ranked by theITA.

The Tar Heels will be led in 2003 by four letter winners who startedin singles last season. Senior Trystan Meniane of Martinique, Franceenters the season ranked #17 in the nation in the ITA singles rankings.This past fall he advanced to the quarterfinals of the ITA Indoor NationalSingles Championships in Dallas, the farthest a Tar Heel has advancedin that tournament since 1993. A year ago Meniane played #2 singlesfor the Tar Heels with a record of 26-11 in singles and 24-9 in doubles.He had four match clinching wins, second most on the team, includingthe victory that lifted the Tar Heels past Georgia Tech in the ACC cham-pionship match.

Other returning starters in singles include junior Nick Monroe ofOlathe, Kan., junior Andy Metzler of Kansas City, Mo., sophomoreG e o ff Boyd of A t l a n t a , Ga. and freshman Daniel Pinchbeck ofEdmondson Park, New South Wales. Both Monroe and Metzler wereAll-Atlantic Coast Conference selections last season. Monroe, whoplayed #4 singles last season, enters this season ranked #61 in singles bythe ITA. He was 23-11 in singles and 21-17 in doubles last season.

Metzler, who transferred to Carolina prior to last season from Kansas,had a great sophomore year. He finished 25-10 in singles and had threematch winners. He played most of the season at the #6 singles spot.Boyd, who teamed last season with Meniane in doubles, played most ofthe 2002 campaign at the #5 singles spot. He was 16-16 overall in sin-gles and 21-17 in doubles. Pinchbeck, whose sister Kate play on the TarHeels’ women’s team, was a pleasant find for the 2002 Heels. Hestepped right into the lineup and played great all season, finishing up atthe #3 spot in the lineup. He had an overall singles record of 23-4,including a 21-2 mark in dual matches. His overall doubles record was22-8.

In addition to the five returning singles starters, the Tar Heels alsoreturn three other letter winners, all of whom are capable of steppinginto a void in the lineup. Senior Greg Archer of Beachwood, N.J., hadan outstanding junior season playing doubles with Petrone, finishing 15-7 overall, mostly at the #1 spot. The other two letter winners are juniorBen Aiken of Lookout Mountain, Tenn. and sophomore Jonathan Jandaof Shelby, N.C.

Coach Paul also welcomes four outstanding newcomers who willcompete for spots in the starting lineup this year. Freshman DerekPorter of Coral Springs, Fla. comes to Carolina after being ranked in theTop 30 in the Boys 18s singles and in the Top 15 in the Boys 18s dou-bles. Brad Pomeroy, a freshman from Asheville, N.C., was a three-timehigh school state champion at T.C. Roberson High School. Other new-comers are junior Jeremy Ledford of Flat Rock, N.C., who made theteam as a walkon, and freshman P.J. Petrides of Chapel Hill, N.C.

“I think we have the nucleus for another strong team this season,”says Coach Paul. “It is very difficult to replace a dominant #1 playerlike Marcio Petrone, however. The other players in our lineup will haveto step up their games for us this year. And we are playing one of themost difficult schedules in the nation. But our players enjoying playingother good teams. They look forward to the challenge. We will have towork hard to defend our ACC title since will be a hunted team this year.”

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Ben AikenJunior6-0. 165Lookout Mountain, Tenn.The Baylor SchoolGeneral—A junior who struggled with injuriesmuch of the last two years...two-time letterman …looks to take advantage of an increased role with the

team this season...sonof Bill and A n nAiken...was bornMarch 30, 1982 inC h a t t a n o o g a ,Tenn....has one brother,William, who is a sen-ior at UNC...named tothe A C C A c a d e m i cHonor Roll as both afreshman and sopho-more...serves on theathletic department’sS t u d e n t - A t h l e t eAdvisory Council thisy e a r...elected to theU n d e rgraduate HonorCourt at UNC...a mem-ber of Chi Psi fraternity.As a Junior - -Reached the singlesfinal of the GrootMemorial Invitationaland the semifinals ofthe Top of the HillCollegiate KickoffClassic in his singlesflight.As a Sophomore --Picked up his first sin-gles victory at UNCwith a win over DregoOrbegos of South

Carolina State 6-4; 6-4 at the USC Fall Invitational...finished with a 2-3singles record.As a Freshman — Battled injuries throughout the fall which kept himout of fall competition … came back in the spring and played two sin-gles matches and one doubles match in tournament play.Prep—A four year varsity letter winner in tennis and a two-year letter-man in cross country at the Baylor School in Chattanooga, graduating inMay 2000...as a freshman there he teamed with former Tar Heel playerChad Riley. ‘01, on the Baylor tennis squad…team captain intennis...led Baylor to the state tennis title in 1997 as a freshman and thestate runnerup position in 1999 in his junior season…was the doublesstate runnerup in 1999…also ran cross country two years and was on thestate championship team in 1999 and the runnerup team in 1998…fin-ished third in the state individually in cross country in 1999 and wasvoted All-State…voted best male senior athlete by Baylor coaches in2000…was also voted the best all-around male senior by the faculty in2000...a National Honor Society member for two years.Personal Information:Full Name: Benjamin Abernathy AikenCollege Major: International Studies (minor in business)Hobbies: Guitar, fly fishing, mountain biking, skiing, kayakingAthlete most admired: Lance ArmstrongPost-school ambition: Medical School

Biggest Sports Thrill: Representing the University of North CarolinaFavorite Book: AWalk in the Woods by Bill BrysonFavorite Movie: A River Runs Through ItFavorite Foods: Pasta, Ice CreamPerson Who Has Had The Greatest Influence On Your AthleticCareer: My fatherFavorite TV Shows: 60 Minutes, That 70s ShowBen Aiken’s Career RecordSeason Singles Doubles2000-01 0-2 2-22001-02 2-3 0-0Fall 2002 7-4 2-3Career Totals 9-9 4-5

Greg ArcherSenior6-3, 175Beachwood, N.J.Toms River South High SchoolGeneral — Three-year letter winner...2003 co-cap-tain...son of Greg and Susan Archer...has one brotherand one sister...was born June 20, 1981...his fatherplayed college basketball.As a Junior -- Had a great year in doubles for the ACC champion TarHeels, going 15-7...was 7-2 at #1 doubles and 8-4 at #2 doubles withMarcio Petrone...that team reached as high as #51 in the national rank-ings...was 1-3 in singles matches.As a Sophomore – Posted a 3-0 singles record at #6 singles for the TarHeels and was 8-8 in dual matches at the #5 spot...ACC #5 singles run-ner-up in 2001...finished the season with a 16-14 overall singles record… teamed with Marcio Petrone to finish as the ACC #2 doubles runner-sup … finished 11-3 with Petrone in overall doubles play.As a Freshman—Provided great doubles success with 13 overall dou-bles wins…teamed with Assaf Drori to beat VCU’s nationally ranked #1doubles team in UNC’s win over the Rams…posted an impressive 11-5overall singles record including three wins at the NC State FallInvitational and a 5-0 dual match mark… rallied from a set down todefeat South Carolina’s Jeff Bergman in UNC’s 4-3 victory over theGamecocks.Prep —A highly-rankedjunior player who playedfour years of varsity ten-nis at Toms River SouthHigh School … was astate semifinalist as ajunior and a finalist as asenior … a four- t i m efirst-team A l l - C o u n t yselection and a two-timefirst-team A l l - S t a t eselection … was rankedby the United StatesTennis Association in theTop 50 in Boys’ 16s and18s … was ranked No. 1in the Middle States forBoys 16s … elected tothe Shore ConferenceAll-Century Team …also played basketballand baseball in highschool and was a mem-ber of the math club …his father played college

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One of the most outstanding all-aroundathletes at North Carolina, junior BenAiken excels both on the court and in theclassroom.

Greg Archer developed into one of the topdoubles players in the country last season.

basketball.Personal Information:Full Name: Gregory Scott ArcherCollege Major: JournalismHobbies: Watching Carolina basketball, playing basketballAthlete most admired: Isaiah ThomasPost-school ambition: Work in the sports industryBiggest Sports Thrill: Winning the 2002 ACC championshipFavorite Book: Last Man StandingFavorite Movie: Pulp FictionFavorite Food: SteakPeople Who Have Had The Greatest Influence On Your AthleticCareer: My parentsFavorite TV Show: ESPN SportscenterGreg Archer’s Career RecordSeason Singles Doubles1999-2000 11-5 13-142000-01 16-14 13-82001-02 1-3 15-7Fall 2002 4-6 2-3Career Totals 32-28 43-32

Geoff BoydSophomore6-1, 178Atlanta, Ga.Boca Raton Prep (Boca Raton, Fla.)General – Returning starter in singles and dou-bles...was born April 7, 1982 in Atlanta, Ga....son ofDavid Boyd and Carol Anne Ney...has one brotherand two sisters...his stepbrother played tennis at the University ofGeorgia … his father played basketball for Georgia State University andhas won four state championships as a high school basketball coach.As a Freshman -- Finished his freshman year with an overall singlesrecord of 16-16...played primarily at #5 singles in the dual match sea-son...went 5-3 ACC matches at #5...had a 21-17 record overall in dou-bles...reached as high as #29 in the nation playing doubles with NickMonroe...teamed with Trystan Menaine for a 6-2 doubles mark...won sixof 10 tiebreakers...had three match-clinching wins.Prep – An outstanding all-around athlete...his high school tennis teamwent undefeated during his prep career… he never lost a tennis match inhigh school… was named one of the top 20 scholar athletes in Florida… ranked #12 in the National 18s in 2001 … was named Athlete of the

Year at Boca Raton Preparatory School … All-State selection in tennis… all-time leading scorer in school history in basketball … first playerto have his jersey number retired at his school … made the Boca HoopsAll-Star team … second-team all-state in basketball … started for thesoccer team as a seniorPersonal Information:Full Name: David Geoffrey BoydCollege Major: Business or EconomicsHobbies: Fishing, hanging out with friends and familyPost-school ambition: Play pro tennisFavorite Book: The Thin Red LineFavorite Movie: GladiatorFavorite Foods: CinnabonGeoff Boyd’s Career RecordSeason Singles Doubles2001-02 16-16 21-17Fall 2002 1-3 2-2Career Totals 17-19 23-19

Jonathan JandaSophomore6-2, 180Shelby, N.C.Naples High School (Naples, Fla.)General – Returning letterman for the Tar Heels…was born August 20, 1983...son of Jim and JanetJanda...has one brother and one sister.As a Freshman -- Had a 2-4 singles record in his freshman year...hada 2-1 mark in doubles...won four of his five tiebreakers...had a win over#103 Alex Bose of Duke at the ACC Indoor Championships.Prep – Won the Tar Heel Qualifier to advance to Southerns in the sum-mer of 2001 … ranked in the Top 25 of the USTA Boy’s 16s … attend-ed Naples High School in Naples, Fla., graduating in May 2001.Personal Information:Full Name: Jonathan William Janda

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Sophomore Geoff Boyd finished his high school career withoutlosing a singles match. He was ranked 12th in the boys 18’s com -ing out of high school.

Jonathan Janda had an outstanding freshman year for the TarHeels in 2002 and looks to make a bigger impact in the lineup inthe coming season.

College Major: CommunicationsHobbies: Playing golf, lifting weights, taking napsAthlete most admired: Pete SamprasFavorite Book: The Mental Game of TennisFavorite Movie: Office SpaceFavorite Foods: Pumpkin Pie, MilkPeople Who Have Had The Greatest Influence On Your AthleticCareer: My parentsFavorite TV Show: SeinfeldJonathan Janda’s Career RecordSeason Singles Doubles2001-02 2-4 2-1Fall 2002 2-6 5-3Career Totals 4-10 7-4

Jeremy LedfordJunior6-3, 160Flat Rock, N.C.Hendersonville High SchoolGeneral – Made the team as a walkon thisyear...was born October 8, 1982 in Hendersonville,N.C....is the son of Ralph and Vicki Ledford...hastwo sistersP rep – Graduated in June 2000 from Hendersonville HighSchool...played tennis for four years and basketball for four years andran four years of cross country there...he won individual state highschool championships at the I-Alevel in both 1999 and 2000 while alsoplaying on state championship teams both years...finished fourth in thestate cross country meet in 1998.Personal Information:Full Name: Jeremy William LedfordCollege Major: ChemistryHobbies: Skiing, playing with his dog “Zoe”Athlete most admired: Lance ArmstrongPost-school ambition: DentistryFavorite Book: Hannibal by Thomas HerisFavorite Movies: Gladiator, Braveheart, Ferris Bueller’s Day OffFavorite Food: ItalianPerson Who Has Had The Greatest Influence On Your AthleticCareer: Robbie PhaffmanFavorite TV Show: Seinfeld

Trystan MenianeSenior6-0, 170Martinique, FrancePalmer Academy (Tampa, Fla.)General —Three-time letterman...2003 co-captain...heads into the season ranked #17 nationally in sin-gles, #3 in the region… son of Phillipe and JoelleMeniane.As a Senior-- Went 5-1 in the Omni Hotels Mideast Championships toadvance to the finals, beating two ranked opponents along theway...earned a bid to the ITA Indoor Nationals where he upset #27Rameez Junaid of Auburn and #30 Roger Anderson of Georgia Tech toadvance to the quarterfinals...that’s the farthest any UNC player hasadvanced in that tournament since 1993.As a Junior -- One of the top players in the nation last season...was#118 in the final ITA singles rankings...finished the season with a 26-11singles record...played most of the season at #2 singles, going 11-7 atthat spot...finished the year 24-9 overall in doubles...was 16-6 with

Daniel Pinchbeck including 12-4 in dual matches...also went 6-2 withGeoff Boyd...went 5-3 in tiebreakers...clinched four matches includingthe ACC championship match victory over Georgia Tech...the highestranked opponent he beat was #58 Michael Yani of Duke, 7-6, 6-2.As a Sophomore – Finished with a team-high 20 wins in singles …ACC #4 singles runnerup in 2001… was 6-2 in ACC dual match play inthe #4 flight … posted a 16-7 doubles record overall… teamed with

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Trystan Meniane reached the quarterfinals of the ITA I n d o o rNational Singles Tournament this past fall in Dallas, Texas.

Trystan Meniane had the match clinching point in UNC’s 4-3 winover Georgia Tech in the 2002 ACC championship match.

Chad Riley to win the ACC #3 Doubles Championship with a 5-2 record… earned four wins during ITA All-American Pre-Qualifying.As a Freshman—Finished as the runnerup in the ACC Flight #5 sin-gles…posted a singles mark of 21-12 … his 21 singles victory werethird best total on the team…also tied for the team lead in tiebreakerwins with seven...won nine singles matches in three sets, includingcomebacks in four matches after he had lost the first set…clinched theTar Heels’ upset over #16 VCU with a 7-6, 6-7, 6-1 win over MatsNorin…rallied to beat Marko Gojanovic 6-7, 6-3, 6-2 in UNC’s 4-3 vic-tory over Clemson in the ACC Tournament semifinals…earned one ofUNC’s two wins against Tennessee in the 2nd round of the NCAATournament…went 10-7 in doubles play…teamed with junior DavidCheatwood for seven of his 10 doubles wins… won three matches withCheatwood to earn a spot in qualifying for the ITA All-AmericanChampionships…earned a position on the ACC Academic Honor RollPrep — A 1999 graduate of the Palmer Academy in Tampa, Fla. … Heplayed tennis, soccer, basketball and cricket there … Received the100% effort award in 1998.Personal:Full Name: Trystan Nicolas MenianeCollege Major: Journalism and Mass CommunicationPost school ambition: To become an actor.Athletes you most admire: Spud WebbTrystan Meniane’s Career RecordSeason Singles Doubles1999-2000 21-12 10-72000-01 20-11 15-72001-02 26-11 24-9Fall 2002 9-4 6-1Career Totals 76-38 55-24

Andy MetzlerJunior5-10, 155Kansas City, Mo.Rockhurst High SchoolGeneral – Returning letterman...transferred fromUniversity of Kansas after his freshman year...was

b o r nDecember 8, 1981 inKansas City, Mo....is theson of Rob and MarciaMetzler...has three broth-ers and one sister… hisg r a n d f a t h e r, RobertM e t z l e r, played footballfor Notre Dame...nick-named “Spiderman.”As a Junior -- Won hisflight championship in sin-gles at the Top of the HillKickoff Collegiate Classicand the Groot MemorialInvitational...went 3-1 inprequalifying at the A l l -American Championships.As a Sophomore -- AnAll-ACC selection...2002ACC champion at #6 sin-gles with a 6-2 mark...was25-10 overall insingles...had an outstand-ing 8-1 record ijn tiebreak-ers...had three match

clinching wins includingin both matches againstWake Forest...had winsover #66 Romain Judd ofFlorida State and #83William Lee ofHarvard...finished astrong fall season with a6-2 record … won theSouth Carolina FallInvitational singleschampionship in hisflight by defeating PaulGoode of UNCGreensboro 6-3; 6-1 inthe championshipmatch...named to the2002 A C C A c a d e m i cHonor Roll...winner ofthe 2002 BaldridgeIntegrity Award.As a Freshman (atKansas) – Ranked #11

in doubles play and #16in singles in the centralregion … Big XIIConference runnerup in#6 singles and #3 dou-bles … finished secondon the KU team in sin-gles wins … awardedmen’s tennis scholar ath-lete of the year award asa freshman Jayhawk…made the Dean’s Listboth semesters of his

freshman yearPrep – Four-time state champion at Rockhurst High School...graduatedin May 2000...won the 2000 Missouri state high school singles champi-onship and was the runnerup in 1999...was the state doubles runnerup in1998…named to the first team Kansas City All-Metro team all fouryears…selected as the Kansas City All-Metro Player of the Year as ajunior and a senior … a member of the National Honor Society … grad-uated Magna Cum Lauda with a GPA over 4.0 … editor of the All-American and All-Missouri school paper and the Prep News.Personal Information:Full Name: Andrew Mackay MetzlerCollege Major: BusinessHobbies: Golf, writing, photographyAthletes most admired: Lance Armstrong, RudyPost-school ambition: Raise a familyBiggest Sports Thrill: Winning the 2002 ACC championshipFavorite Book: Lord of the RingsFavorite Movie: Shawshank RedemptionFavorite Food: Pasta, Ice Grilled CheesePeople Who Has Had The Greatest Influence On Your AthleticCareer: My parentsFavorite TV Shows: Friends, The SimpsonsAndy Metzler’s Career RecordSeason Singles Doubles2000-01 20-17 17-182001-02 25-10 5-2Fall 2002 10-4 2-2Career Totals 55-31 24-22

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Andy Metzler was named to the All-ACCTeam in 2002 in his first year at UNC.

Andy Metzler clinched both of UNC’swins over Wake Forest in 2002.

Nick MonroeJunior5-10, 155Olathe, Kan.Pembroke Hills High SchoolGeneral – Two-time letterman...heads into the sea-son ranked #61 in the nation in singles....is ranked#3 in the region in singles and #2 in the region indoubles with Daniel Pinchbeck...was born April 12, 1982 in OklahomaCity, Okla....son of Ben and Felicia Monroe...has one sister...his fatherwas a basketball player at Langston University.As a Junior-- Went 3-1 in the prequalifying phase of the All-AmericanChampionships...also went 4-1 in the Omni Hotels Mideast RegionChampionships, reaching the semifinals.As a Sophomore -- Named to the 2002 All-ACC Team...posted an over-all singles record of 23-11...went 7-1 in the ACC...had a 21-17 recordoverall in doubles, including a 6-2 mark at #2 with DanielPinchebck...reached as high as #29 in the nation in doubles with Geoff

Boyd...was named the A C C Player of the Week on April 15,2000...advanced to the fourth round of the ITA All-America Pre-Qualifying tournament.As a Freshman – Had second most singles wins on the team with 18 …17 of his 18 wins were in straight sets...finished with an overall singlesrecord of 18-13… the highest ranked opponent he defeated was #84ranked William Barker (Rice), 6-2, 6-2 … won his first seven matchesin the spring season.Prep—Graduated in 2000 from Pembroke Hills High School...one ofthe top-ranked junior players in Missouri…was ranked as the #1 playerin the USTA’s Missouri Valley Section…played #1 at the Boys TeamIntersectionals…won the prestigious Easter Bowl singles Championshipin the Boys’14s…ranked #3 in the USTA Boys’16s doubles…reachedthe semifinals in doubles at Kalamazoo…earned the SportsmanshipAward at multiple USTA events…member of the national team threeyears in a row.Personal Information:Full Name: Benjamin Nicholas MonroeCollege Major: CommunicationsAthlete most admired: Arthur AshePost-school ambition: Professional Tennis/Sports AgentBiggest Sports Thrill: Winning the 2002 ACC championshipFavorite Book: Days of GraceFavorite Movie: GladiatorFavorite Food: Macaroni and CheesePerson Who Has Had The Greatest Influence On Your AthleticCareer: My fatherFavorite TVShow: SeinfeldNick Monroe’s Career RecordSeason Singles Doubles2000-01 18-13 10-172001-02 23-11 21-17Fall 2002 9-5 10-2Career 50-29 41-36

P.J. PetridesFreshman5-11, 180Chapel Hill, N.C.Durham AcademyG e n e r a l — Talented newcomer to the Tar Heelteam...was born February 28, 1984 in Tampa, Fla....isthe son of Sam and Laura Petrides...has one sis-ter...his father played football at Ohio State.Prep — Graduated on June 6, 2002 from Durham Academy...played onthe tennis team there for six years...also played basketball and ran crosscountry in high school...four-time All-Bay Conference selection in ten-nis...two-time All-County selection...was named first-team All-State andcaptained the tennis team as a senior...president of National Latin HonorSociety and Latin Club in high school.Personal Information:Full Name: Peter Jamison PetridesCollege Major: UndecidedHobbies: Golf and video gamesAthletes most admired: Walter Payton, Jerry Rice, Barry BondsPost-school ambition: Sports agentFavorite Books: The Godfather, The 16th RoundFavorite Movies: American History X, Dead Poets SocietyFavorite Food: Bo’s chickenPerson Who Has Had The Greatest Influence On Your AthleticCareer: My fatherFavorite TV Show: ESPN Sportscenter

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Nick Monroe earned All-Atlantic Coast Conference honors as asophomore in 2002.

Junior Nick Monroe heads into the 2003 spring season ranked #61in the nation in singles.

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Daniel PinchbeckSophomore5-10, 165Edmondson Park, New South Wales,AustraliaBraunfels High School (NewBraunfels, Texas)General – A returning lettermanwho had a great freshman yearfor Carolina...heads into the 2003season ranked #2 in the region indoubles with Nick Monroe and#29 in the Mideast Region in sin-gles...was born October 9, 1983in Sydney, New South Wales...isthe son of Neil and SuePinchbeck...has four sisters,including Kate, a senior on theUNC women’s tennis team...hisfather was a professional tennisplayer.As a Freshman -- Posted an out-standing 23-4 singlesrecord...was undefeated in theA C C in singles play, going 8-0...also excelled in doubles with a22-8 overall mark, including a16-6 record with Tr y s t a nMeniane and a 6-2 mark with Geoff Boyd...cliched wins over Rice andVCU with his singles wins...was named the ACC Player of the Week onMarch 11, 2002...had straight sets wins over #103 Jason Zimmerman ofDuke and #112 Marton Ott of VCU...lost only two matches in the dualmatch season...won his first 10 of the season, then went 1-2, then fin-ished with a 10-match winning streak...won 18 of his 21 dual matchesvictories in straight sets.Prep – Graduated from New Braunfels High School in New Braunfels,Texas in May 2001...selected for the 2000 Australian High SchoolNational Tennis Team … Ranked as #1 player in Australia under 18-years old...captain of the New South Wales State Tennis Team.Personal Information:Full Name: Daniel William PinchbeckCollege Major: CommunicationsAthlete most admired: Don JohnsonBiggest Sports Thrill: Winning the 2002 ACC championshipFavorite Movie: BraveheartFavorite TV Show: The SimpsonsDaniel Pinchbeck’s Career RecordSeason Singles Doubles2001-02 23-4 22-8Fall 2002 3-2 6-2Career Totals 26-6 26-10

Brad PomeroyFreshman6-1, 175Asheville, N.C.T.C. Roberson High SchoolG e n e r a l — A top newcomer to the Tar Heelteam...was born August 29, 1984 in A s h e v i l l e ,N.C....is the son of Bill and Cindy Pomeroy...hasone brother and one sister.As a Freshman -- Reached the finals of his flight in singles at the Top

of the Hill Collegiate Classic.P rep — Graduated in May 2002 from T.C. Roberson HighSchool...played tennis four years there and soccer two years...was athree-time state high school singles champion in 2000, 2001 and2002...played on high school team which won a state title in2001...ranked #1 in North Carolina and #5 in the South in the Boys18s....graduated with high honors, earning a 4.0 grade point average.Personal Information:Full Name: William Bradford PomeroyCollege Major: BusinessHobbies: Golf, basketball, fishing, soccerAthletes most admired: Arthur Ashe, Jimmy ConnorsFavorite Book: A Farewell To ArmsFavorite Movie: Office SpaceFavorite Food: Ice Cream SandwichesPerson Who Has Had The Greatest Influence On Your AthleticCareer: My fatherFavorite TV Show: The SimpsonsBrad Pomeroy’s Career RecordSeason Singles DoublesFall 2002 3-2 4-2

Derek PorterFreshman6-1, 180Coral Springs, Fla.Boca Raton PrepGeneral —Top flight newcomer to the UNC tennisprogram...ranked in the Top 30 in singles and Top 15in doubles in the Boys 18s...was born April 4, 1984 inMedford, N.J....the son of Ron and Doris Porter...has one brother...nick-named Rock or Rocko...his father Ron was a professional football play-er with the Eagles, Colts and Vikings and was ateammate of UNC head football coach JohnBunting in Philadelphia...a linebacker, he playedin two Super Bowls.Prep — Graduated in June 2002 from BocaRaton Preparatory...played golf, basketball, base-ball, soccer and tennis there...captained the tennisteam his senior year...was named first-team All-State in tennis as a junior and senior...captainedthe basketball team as a senior...also captainedthe soccer team for four years...was the leadinggoal scorer as a junior and senior in Division IIAhigh school soccer in the state...named to Who’sWho In America...won the championship at theNational Open in El Paso in April 2001...playedon Florida State high school championship teamsin 2000 and 2001, going 50-0 and voted #1 highschool team in the U.S.Personal Information:Full Name: Derek Michael PorterCollege Major: UndecidedHobbies: All sports, movies, partiesAthlete most admired: Donovan McNabbPost-school ambition: Pro tennis playerFavorite Movie: RoundersFavorite Food: Outback SteakhousePerson Who Has Had The Greatest Influence On Your AthleticCareer: My coach Pierre ArnoldFavorite TV Show: FriendsDerek Porter’s Career RecordSeason Singles DoublesFall 2002 3-1 1-2

Daniel Pinchbeck had an overalldoubles record of 22-8 duringhis freshman season.

The University of NorthC a r o l i n a ’s tradition ofexcellence in men’s tenniscontinues under Sam Paul,now in his 10th year as headcoach of the Tar Heels.

The 41-year-old nativeof Lancaster, S.C., has beenuniting the winning reputa-tion of UNC men’s tenniswith his adroit skills for coaching and recruitingsince he was named the head men’s tennis coachin April 1993, making North Carolina one of themost talented and respected programs in thenation. He holds a career head coaching recordat UNC of 138-78, including a 53-19 mark inAtlantic Coast Conference dual matches.

He is also the only head men’s tennis coachin the Atlantic Coast Conference to have tutoredthree players who are now ranked in the Top 500in the world in men’s singles — Don Johnson(UNC Class of ’90), David Caldwell (UNCClass of ’96), and Tripp Phillips (UNC Class of’00).

The past several years have been busy onesfor Coach Paul as he took on extra duties as per-sonal coach for UNC alumnus Don Johnsonduring his magnificent recent runs in doubles at

Wimbledon and the U.S. Open. Paul accompa-nied Johnson, who serves as an assistant coachfor the Tar Heels, to both tournaments asJohnson and his doubles partner Jared Palmerclaimed the doubles title at Wimbledon in 2001and finished as the runnerups at the U.S. Openthe same year.

Paul, who hadbeen an assistant coachfor the Tar Heel pro-gram for four yearsfrom 1989-93, tookover for legendarycoach Allen Morris,who guided Carolinatennis fortunes for 13years from 1980-93.Last season, Pauldirected his Tar Heelsto an 19-6 dual matchrecord and the AtlanticCoast Conferencechampionship, the25th in school history.UNC also earned its 10th NCAA Tournamentbid in the last 11 seasons.

Paul has been awarded for his coachingability, as he was selected the Atlantic CoastConference Coach of the Year in 1996, 2000 and2002. The 1996 Tar Heels amassed a 21-5 over-all record, went undefeated in the ACC regularseason and saw five players complete individual20-win seasons. Senior David Caldwellreceived ACC Player of the Year honors for thethird consecutive season and won the flight No.1 singles title for the third straight season - bothleague firsts. The 2000 Heels compiled an 18-6mark, reached the NCAA Tournament regionalfinals, and had three players earn ACC flightchampionship honors. Senior Tripp Phillipsearned All-America distinction as he advancedto the NCAAquarterfinals. Last season the TarHeels had one of their most glorious seasons inrecent memory as UNC went 19-6 overallagainst a brutal schedule and won the ACC titlefor the first time since 1992 with a stirring 4-3

championship match victoryover Georgia Tech.

An excellent tennismind with an eye not onlyon the present but on thefuture, Paul has continued toput together strong sched-ules that must be countedamong the most difficult inthe country. A tactician atheart, he takes an interest inthe details of the game —the weaknesses of oppo-nents and the little improve-ments in his own team’splay that pay big dividendsin performance.

Paul came to ChapelHill in September 1989 afterserving as the Director ofTennis and the head men’s

and women’s tennis coach at the University ofRichmond for two years, where he won honorsas the Colonial Athletic Association’s Women’sTennis Coach of the Year in both 1988 and 1989.His women went 11-11 in his first year at thehelm, finishing third in the CAA, and improvedto 14-7 in 1989, second place in the CAA. The

1989 team was also ranked in the region Top 10.Working with a non-scholarship men’s pro-

gram at Richmond, Paul led the Spiders to a 12-9 mark and third-place league finish in his sec-ond year.

During Paul’s four years as the Carolinaassistant, UNC was 82-29 overall in dual match-es, 26-3 in Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season dual matches and 10-2 in A C CTournament dual matches. Paul assisted on

teams which won ACC Tournament titles in1990 and 1992, were the ACC Tournament run-nersup in 1991 and 1993 and won the confer-ence’s regular-season championship in 1991 and1992. All four teams Paul worked with atCarolina as an assistant to Coach Morris wereranked in the Top 25 in the nation by theIntercollegiate Tennis Association.

The 1992 Carolina team reached the quar-terfinals of the NCAATournament and the 1993squad was in the NCAA Tournament Final 16.Since Paul took over as UNC’s head coach theTar Heels have made the NCAA Tournamentfield every year but one.

HEAD COACH SAM PAUL


Coach Paul’s Highlights at North Carolina*Paul enters his 14th season at North Carolina. He came to

Chapel Hill as an assistant coach in 1989 and became headcoach in 1993.*Paul earned his 100th career victory by defeating #23 Notre

Dame on March 25, 2000.*Paul is second among active ACC coaches with a 63.6%

career winning percentage.*North Carolina has finished in the top three in the ACC

standings in 13 of the last 14 years.*In 10 of the last 12 years, Carolina’s #1 singles player has

earned All-America honors and/or participated in the NCAAsingles championship.

Head Coach Sam PaulEducation:Presbyterian College (1893, B.S. in Applied Psychology)College Coaching:• University of South Carolina, Assistant Coach, 1983-86• Trinity University, Assistant Coach, 1986-87• University of Richmond, Director of Tennis, 1987-89• University of North Carolina, Assistant Coach, 1989-93;Head Coach, 1993-presentRecognition:• 1996 ACC Coach of the Year• 1996 Region II Coach of the Year• 1996 National Coach of the Year Finalist• 2000 ACC Coach of the Year• 2000 Region II Coach of the Year• 2000 National Coach of the Year Finalist• 2002 ACC Coach of the Year

Sam PaulHead Coach

138-78 at UNC53-19 in ACC Matches

10th Season at North Carolina

Coach Sam Paul and Carolina tennislegend Vic Seixas, Wimbledon and U.S.Open champion

During his time at Carolina, the Tar Heelshave also had remarkable success in the RolexI TA Collegiate Championships. A C a r o l i n aplayer has competed in the national singlesindoor competition eight of the past 12 years,most recently Trystan Meniane in 2002. In fact,in 1993, former assistant coach and two-timeAll-America selection Roland Thornqvist wonthe grand slam event in Minneapolis, Minn.

In addition to his collegiate coaching expe-rience, Paul has worked with ATP Tour playersJ.J. Jackson, Don Johnson and Chris Woodruff,all of whom trained in Chapel Hill.

Paul graduated from Presbyterian Collegein Clinton, S.C., in May 1983 with a Bachelorof Science degree in applied psychology. Healso played tennis for the Blue Hose for twoyears. In addition, he has a 1981 Associate ofArts degree with a concentration in businessfrom Anderson (S.C.) College. He played tennisthere as a freshman and sophomore.

In addition to coaching at Richmond, Paulalso served as an assistant coach for the tennisteams at Trinity University in San Antonio,Texas for one year and at the University ofSouth Carolina for three years.

Paul is also beginning his 12th year as campdirector of the annual Carolina Tar Heel TennisCamps. Those camps are held each summer.

Ian Williams, a for-mer standout tennis playerat Harvard University andthe University of Te x a sjoined UNC men’s tenniscoach Sam Paul’s staff asthe chief assistant coachlast fall.

“I’m honored to beassociated with a programthat excels both on the tennis court and sees itsstudent-athletes suceed academically at UNCand go on to pursue great careers,” saysWilliams.

Williams earned his Bachelor of A r t sdegree in economics from Harvard in June1998. His academic work there focused on fis-cal and monetary policy and labor economics.Williams was awarded the Harvard CollegeScholarship for academic achievement from1996-98 and was a Dean’s List student the sameyears there.

Williams initially attended Harvard from1990-92 and played varsity tennis for theCrimson before taking a leave of absence toattend the University of Texas, where he

enjoyed considerable success wearing the BurntOrange. Williams was a singles finalist at the1993 Intercollegiate Tennis Association A l l -America Championships and reached as high as#6 in the national rankings after that. His .700winning percentage is the 20th best in UThisto-ry. He helped leads the Horns to the 1993 SWCchampionship and the 1994 SouthwestConference co-championship.

He helped lead the Longhorns to a pair ofNCAA Tournament appearances. In 1993, UTreached the semifinals before falling toSouthern Cal 5-0. In his senior year, UTreached the quarterfinals before losing to USCyet again, this time 4-2.

Williams finished his career in Austin witha 63-27 record in singles, which is the 27th mostwins by a Longhorn in school history, despitethe fact he played only two years there. Heposted a 41-10 record in 1993, including a 6-0Southwest Conference record. The 41 winswere the third most in a season in school histo-ry behind NCAA champion Steve Bryan (53)and Jonny Levine (43). Williams opened thefollowing season as the #22 ranked singles play-er in the country.

After leaving Texas, Williams played onthe Association of Tennis Professionals WorldTour in 1994-95. Won the doubles title of the1995 Trofeo Cuidad de Quito ATP Challengeand holds career wins over Nicholas Lapenti ofEcuador, Gustavo Kuerten of Brazil (1997 and2000 French Open singles champion), GeorgeBastl of Switzerland, Mahesh Bhupathi of India,formerly #1 in the world in doubles, and BobBryan of the United States.

As a freshman at Harvard in 1991, heplayed #4 singles and finished 16-8 in singles..That season he led Harvard to the Ivy Leaguetitle and an appearance in the NCAATournament. As a sophomore, he played #5singles and #3 doubles for Harvard in theN C A A Championships where Harvardadvanced to the second round after winning itsfirst-ever NCAA Tournament match.

After graduating from Harvard in 1998,Williams worked for four years with the invest-ment bank Deutsche Banc Alex.Brown as anassociate in the global private equity group. Heworked those four years in the Baltimore andBoston offices, where he focused on corporatefinance for venture capital companies. While inBaltimore in he was a roommate of former UNCAll-America swimmer Eric Fehr. Williams issingle and lives in Chapel Hill.

Don Johnson is in hisfifth season as the Ta rH e e l s ’ volunteer assistantcoach.

R e c e n t l y, Don Johnsonhas distinguished himselfas one of the world’s bestdoubles players. In 2001 heteamed with Jared Palmerto win the doubles title atWimbledon, finish as the runnersup at the U.S.Open and represent the United States Davis CupTeam. Palmer and Johnson competed for theU.S. in Davis Cup play against India inWinston-Salem, N.C. in October 2001 In 2002,he teamed with Palmer to reach the semifinals atWimbledon and the quarterfinals at the U.S.Open..

Johnson surpassed the $1 million dollar markin earnings in 2001 and had his most successfulseason winning five ATP Tour Master’s Seriestitles. Johnson’s biggest victories have includedthe 2000 Wimbledon Mixed Doubles title, hisfirst grand slam title and the World DoublesChampionships, considered professional tennis’fifth major. In the World DoublesChampionship, Johnson teamed with SouthAfrica’s Piet Norval. Johnson’s other victoriesin 2000 were Mexico City (with Byron Black),Estoril (Portugal), Nottingham (England) andBasel (Switzerland). In June 2000 Johnsonteamed with Kimberly Po to win theWimbledon Mixed Doubles Championships 6-2, 7-6 over Australia’s Lleyton Hewitt and KimClijisters. It was the first grand slam title of anykind for Po and Johnson who lost the U.S. Openfinal the year before

Johnson has won 14 AT P Tour Master’sSeries titles and has made the finals seven othertimes in the last four years. The majority ofJohnson’s early success was achieved with fel-low American Francisco Montana. Johnson andMontana advanced to the Quarterfinals of theFrench Open in 1996 and 1998 and the semifi-

nals of the 1998 World DoublesChampionships. In 1998, Johnson’sdoubles ranking rose to #6 in the world.

Johnson is a 1990 graduate of theUniversity of North Carolina. Heplayed tennis at UNC for four years. Asa senior he was named first team All-Atlantic Coast Conference and heplayed #2 singles on a team which wonthe Tar Heels’ first Atlantic CoastConference championship in 12 years.

ASSISTANT COACHES


Kimberly Po and Don Johnson atWimbledon 2000 after winning mixed dou -bles championship

Ian WilliamsAssistant CoachFirst season at North Carolina(Harvard, 1998)

Don JohnsonAssistant CoachFifth season at North Carolina

(North Carolina, 1990)

The University of North Carolina men’s ten-nis team had one of those dream seasons in2002 that are often thought about but rarelyrealized. And Carolina’s road to the AtlanticCoast Conference championship was hardly aconventional one.

When Coach Sam Paul gathered his troopstogether for the first time in the fall of 2001 hecertainly had high hopes for the upcomingcampaign. But there were also plenty of ques-tions as well. The Tar Heels were 11-9 the pre-vious season and they squeezed into the NCAATournament with an impressive late-season runof victories. But gone from that team were apair of three-year starters. Both DavidCheatwwod and Chad Riley had graduated.

Still, Paul sensed he had the makings of agood team. Senior Marcio Petrone returned asa reliable #1 player and other returning singlesstarters included junior Trystan Meniane andsophomore Nick Monroe. Paul then began tofine tune the rest of the lineup. FreshmenDaniel Pinchbeck and Geoff Boyd quicklyshowed their worth and sophomore transferAndy Metzler battled junior Greg Archer forthe last spot in the lineup. Metzler earned thatspot in singles and Paul chose Archer to teamwith Petrone at the #1 doubles spot. As theseason wore on Paul eventually settled on alineup of Petrone at #1, Meniane at #2,Pinchbeck at #3, Monroe at #4, Boyd at #5,Metzler at #6, Petrone and Archer at #1 dou-bles, Monroe and Pinchbeck at #2 doubles and

Meniane and Boyd at #3 doubles.The Tar Heels started the season by playing

seven of their first nine matches indoors andeight of their first nine at home. UNC went 7-2 in those matches but both losses were of theheartbreaking variety. Carolina lost both to#20 Texas and #31 South Carolina by 4-3scores and losses in the doubles point hurt

UNC in both matches.The Tar Heels then traveled to Montgomery,

Ala. to play in the Blue Grey Championshipsand their season nearly came unraveled. UNCwent 1-2 on the trip with a win over William &Mary and losses to Harvard and Tulsa.

At 8-4, the Tar Heels were at a crossroadsbut they had eight days off before their nextmatch. UNC beat Georgia Tech and Brown by4-3 scores on back-to-back days and each daythe Heels had to win four singles matches afterdropping the doubles point. This seemed toenergize UNC which would win 11 of 12matches starting with the match against Techon March 24. After beating Tech and Brown,UNC downed Clemson 5-2 on March 29 andthen it ran off three straight wins over teams inthe Top 30 of the nation.

The Tar Heels beat Virginia Commonwealth,ranked #15, for the third straight year with a 5-2 win in Chapel Hill on March 31. On April 3the Heels again had to rally fromlosing the doubles point to win akey match. Andy Metzler’s win insingles gave the Heels a 4-3 winover #23 Wake Forest. Three dayslater in Tallahassee, Fla., the TarHeels routed #29 Florida State 6-1.

That set up a key match inDurham against 11th-ranked Dukeon April 10. The Tar Heels had notbeaten Duke since 1996 and bothteams went into the match undefeat-ed in the ACC. Playing a gutsymatch the Heels almost pulled off ashocking upset but fell by the nar-rowest of 4-3 margins.

The Tar Heels rebounded fromthe loss with a pair of road ACCwins at Maryland and Virginia to setthemselves up as the A C CTournament’s #2 seed with a 7-1conference record. Beginning play

at Millbrook Park in Raleigh, N.C. on April 19,the Tar Heels faced Virginia for the secondtime in five days but easily dispatched theCavaliers 4-0. The following day UNC met#23 ranked Wake Forest and for the secondtime in the 2002 season sophomore AndyMetzler won the decisive singles match as theHeels beat the Deacons 4-2 to advance to thechampionship match.

The #49 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets hadupset top-seeded Duke in the semifinals to setup a final between UNC, which was seeking itsfirst ACC title since 1992, and Tech, which hadnever won the conference crown. With thescore tied at 3-3, Meniane provided the deci-sive point as he outlasted David Wright of Techby a 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 score at #2 singles.

U N C finished the season 19-6 overall.Petrone earned ACC Tournament MVP honorsand was joined on the A l l - A C C Team byMonroe and Metzler.

2002 SEASON REVIEW


The Tar Heel men’s and women’s tennis teams celebrate their ACC championships afterhard fought 4-3 victories over Georgia Tech and Duke, respectively.

Trystan Meniane, who clinched UNC’svictory over Georgia Tech in the ACCchampionship match, receives his ACCtitle winning award and a hug from TarHeel athletic director Dick Baddour.

Tar Heel head coach Sam Paul runs to greet his teamafter Trystan Meniane won the deciding point in NorthCarolina’s 4-3 victory over Georgia Tech for the 2002ACC championship.

2002 RESULTS AND STATISTICS


Overall Record: 19-6, ACC RegularSeason 7-1, 2nd place; Ranked #26 by Intercollegiate Tennis Association; 2002 AtlanticCoast Conference Tournament Champion; Home: 12-1• Away: 3-2 • Neutral: 4-3 • Indoors: 7-1 • Outdoors: 12-5; HeadCoach: Sam Paul • Assistant Coaches: Marc Schwartz, Don JohnsonDual Match ResultsDate Opponent W/L Score Indoors/ Dbls. Pt. Record

Outdors Winner1/31/02 Davidson W 7-0 In Yes 1-0 2/1/02 Texas (#20) L 3-4 In 1-12/6/02 Furman (#65) W 5-2 In Yes 2-12/9/02 West Virginia W 7-0 In Yes 3-12/11/02 Campbell W 7-0 In Yes 4-12/23/02 at South Carolina (#31) L 3-4 Out 4-23/2/02 Charlotte (#64) W 6-1 In Yes 5-23/3/02 Rice (#33) W 5-2 In Yes 6-23/7/02 NC State W 7-0 Out Yes 7-2, ACC 1-03/14/02 *vs. Harvard (#44) L 2-4 Out 7-33/15/02 *vs. Wm. & Mary (#54) W 4-0 Out Yes 8-33/16/02 *vs. Tulsa (#46) L 1-4 Out 8-43/24/02 Georgia Tech (#50) W 4-3 Out 9-4, ACC 2-03/25/02 Brown (#55) W 4-3 Out 10-43/29/02 Clemson W 5-2 Out Yes 11-4, ACC 3-03/31/02 Va. Commonwealth (#15) W 5-2 In Yes 12-44/3/02 Wake Forest (#23) W 4-3 Out 13-4, ACC 4-04/6/02 at Florida State (#29) W 6-1 Out Yes 14-4, ACC 5-04/10/02 at Duke (#11) L 3-4 Out 14-5, ACC 5-14/13/02 at Maryland W 7-0 Out Yes 15-5, ACC 6-14/14/02 at Virginia W 6-1 Out Yes 16-5, ACC 7-14/19/02 #vs. Virginia W 4-0 Out Yes 17-54/20/02 #vs. Wake Forest (#23) W 4-2 Out Yes 18-54/21/02 #vs. Georgia Tech (#49) W 4-3 Out Yes 19-55/11/02 @vs. Virginia Tech (#39) L 2-4 Out 19-6Record When Winning Doubles Point: 16-0Record When Losing the Doubles Point: 3-5; *at the Blue/Gray Classic in Montgomery, Alabama; #2002 AtlanticCoast Conference Tournament in Raleigh, N.C.; @NCAA Regional at Knoxville, Tenn.Individual Singles ResultsPlayer #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Tour. ACC Overall CareerBen Aiken 2-3 1-2 2-3 2-5Greg Archer 0-1 1-2 0-1 1-3 28-22Geoff Boyd 2-2 1-1 7-9 1-0 5-4 9-6 16-16 16-16Jonathan Janda 2-4 2-1 2-4 2-4Trystan Meniane 11-7 2-0 1-0 3-0 9-4 10-6 26-11 67-34Andrew Metzler 3-0 3-2 9-5 10-3 11-5 25-10 45-27Nicholas Monroe 3-3 5-2 7-2 8-4 11-4 23-11 41-24Marcio Petrone 20-4 6-4 12-2 26-8 67-35Daniel Pinchbeck 10-1 5-1 6-0 2-2 10-1 23-4 23-4ACC Reg.-Season Singles Matrix #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6Marcio Petrone 7-1Trystan Meniane 4-4Daniel Pinchbeck 6-0 2-0Nicholas Monroe 2-0 5-1Geoff Boyd 5-3Andrew Metzler 6-2Doubles MatrixTeam Tie- vs.

#1 #2 #3 Tourn. breakers Ranked ACC OverallArcher/Petrone 7-2 8-4 0-1 0-0 2-3 5-3 15-7Boyd/Monroe 6-7 0-4 9-4 0-2 3-4 5-6 15-15Janda/Meniane 2-1 1-0 1-0 2-1 2-1Metzler/Petrone 4-1 0-0 0-1 0-1 4-1Meniane/Pinchbeck 12-4 4-2 3-1 0-1 3-1 16-6Metzler/Hilkey 1-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-1Monroe/Pinchbeck 6-2 0-0 0-0 1-0 6-1 6-2Meniane/Boyd 6-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 6-1 6-2ACC Reg.-Season Doubles Matrix #1 #2 #3Boyd-Monroe 0-2 0-2Petrone-Archer 4-2 1-1Meniane-Pinchbeck 3-0Monroe-Pinchbeck 3-1Meniane-Boyd 3-1Miscellaneous Singles Statistics

vs. Ranked Match ClinchingPlayer Tiebreakers 3-Set Matches Overall Doubles Opponents Victories Ben Aiken 1-1 0-0 0-0 0-0Greg Archer 1-1 1-1 15-7 0-0Geoff Boyd 6-4 3-4 21-17 0-1 3 (Davidson, Campbell, Brown)Jonathan Janda 4-1 1-2 2-1 1-0Trystan Meniane 5-3 4-5 24-9 1-1 4 (W.Virginia, W & M, Md., Ga. Tech in ACC)Andrew Metzler 8-1 4-4 5-2 2-0 3 (Furman. Wake Forest, Wake Forest in ACC)Nicholas Monroe 4-3 3-4 21-17 0-2 1 (Charlotte)Marcio Petrone 1-2 4-2 19-8 7-4 6 (NC State, Ga. Tech, Clemson, FSU, Virginia, Virginia in

ACC)Daniel Pinchbeck 2-1 3-2 22-8 2-1 2 (Rice, VCU)Team and Individual ITA Rankings

1/8/02 1/30/02 2/13/02 2/20/02 2/27/02 3/6/02 3/13/02 3/20/02 3/27/02 4/3/02 4/10/02 4/17/02 4/24/02North Carolina #33 #34 #36 #36 #40 #33 #34 #44 #40 #29 #25 #25 #23

5/1/02 5/31/02#23 #26

SINGLES AND DOUBLES RANKINGS9/13/01 12/11/01 2/22/02 3/6/02 3/20/02 4/3/02 4/17/02 4/24/02 5/1/02 5/31/02

Marcio Petrone #62 #73 --- #122 -- #53 #34 #36 #31 #38Trystan Meniane -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- #110 #118Boyd/Monroe -- #29 #33 #41 -- -- -- -- -- --Archer/Petrone -- -- -- -- -- #51 -- -- -- --

Marcio Petrone

Daniel Pinchbeck

Trystan Meniane

A Collection of Facts and FiguresAbout The Consistency ofCarolina’s Men’s Tennis ProgramOver the past 14 seasons, the North Carolina men’stennis program has had at least one player namedAll-ACC every year and in 12 of those 14 yearsthe Tar Heels have had multiple players named tothe All-ACC Team.1989 Don Johnson

David Pollack1990 Don Johnson

Bryan Jones1991 Chris Mumford

Roland Thornqvist1992 Joe Frierson

Bryan JonesChris MumfordRoland Thornqvist

1993 David CaldwellCooper PulliamRoland Thornqvist

1994 David CaldwellBrint Morrow

1995 David CaldwellBrint Morrow

1996 David CaldwellBrint MorrowRob Tedesco

1997 Tripp PhillipsPaul HarsanyiRob Tedesco

1998 Rob TedescoTripp PhillipsAdam Seri

1999 Assaf Drori2000 Tripp Phillips

Marcio Petrone

2001 Marcio Petrone2002 Marcio Petrone

Nick MonroeAndy Metzler

CAROLINAMEN’S TENNIS UNDER COACH SAM PAUL(assistant coach and head coach)

UNC VS. ACC OPPONENTS SINCE 1990Wins Losses Pct.

Clemson 14 5 .737Duke 6 13 .316Florida State 14 2 .875Georgia Tech 16 4 .800Maryland 14 1 .933N.C. State 16 0 1.000Virginia 11 5 .688Wake Forest 12 2 .857Total 103 32 .763

ALL-TIME ACC CHAMPIONSHIPSTotal

1.North Carolina 252. Clemson 113. Duke 104. Maryland 25. N.C. State 2

NCAA TOURNAMENT APPEARANCES1992 (Quarterfinals), 1993 (Final 16), 1994 (Final 16), 1995, 1996(Final 16), 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002

NATIONALRANKINGS(Highest Ranking Achieved During the Season)

Ranking1990 #241991 #171992 #81993 #171994 #191995 #181996 #161997 #201998 #272000 #162001 #262002 #23

CAROLINA TENNIS TRADITION


The 2002 Carolina men’s tennis team was one of the best inschool history. Led by ACC Tournament Most Valuable PlayerMarcio Petrone the Tar Heels went 19-6 and won the ACCTournament championship for the first time since 1992 whileadvancing to the NCAA Tournament for the 10th time in the last11 years. Carolina finished 26th in the nation in the final ITApoll as head coach Sam Paul was named ACC coach of the year.

Tripp Phillips gained first team All-America honors for the TarHeels in 2000.

Brint Morrow

Rob Tedesco

Cooper Pulliam

Chris Mumford

2003 University of North CarolinaMen’s Tennis Quick Facts

University InformationLocation: Chapel Hill, N.C.Chartered: 1789Enrollment: 25,480Chancellor: James MoeserDirector of Athletics: Dick BaddourSeniorAssoc. A.D./Olympic Sports: Beth MillerAffiliation: NCAADivision IConference: Atlantic Coast Nickname: Tar HeelsMascot: Ramses The RamColors: Carolina Blue & WhiteAthletic Department web site: www.TarHeelBlue.comCarolina Men’s Tennis Head Coach and Director of Tennis: Sam Paul (Presbyterian, ’83)Record at North Carolina: 138-78 (9 years)Assistant Coaches: Ian Williams (Harvard ‘98), Don Johnson (NorthCarolina, ’90)Home Facility: Cone-Kenfield Tennis CenterCourts: Hard Courts, 6 Indoor and 12 OutdoorSeating Capacity: 2,000Tennis Center Phones: (919) 962-6060/6161/6363Tennis Center Fax: (919) 962-2604Tennis CenterAdministrative Assistant: Andrew ParkerHead Athletic Trainer: Sally MaysTeam InformationStarters Returning/Lost: 5/1Lettermen Returning/Lost: 8/1Top Returnees: Geoff Boyd (#5 Singles in 2002), Trystan Meniane(#2 Singles in 2002), Daniel Pinchbeck (#3 Singles in 2002), AndyMetzler (#6 Singles in 2002)Top Newcomers: Derek Porter, Fr., Coral Springs, Fla.; BradPomeroy, Asheville, N.C.2002 Dual Match Record: 19-62002 Conference Regular Season Record: 7-12002 Conference Regular Season Finish: Second Place2002 ACC Tournament Finish: 2002 ACC Champions2002 National ITA Poll Finish: 26th2002 NCAA Tournament Finish: NCAAFirst RoundAll-Time Men’s Tennis Record: 1,323-314-8All-Time ACC Record: 274-63Sports InformationAssociate SID (Men’s Tennis): Dave LohseLohse’s email: [email protected]; [email protected]’s Direct Phone: (919) 962-7257Office Phone / fax: (919) 962-2123/0612Mailing Address: P.O. Box 2126, Chapel Hill, NC 27515Overnight Address: Dean Smith Center, 300 Skipper Bowles Drive,Chapel Hill, NC 27514

Athletic Director’s Scholar-Athlete AwardWinners for Men’s Tennis

1986 Kevin Anderson1987 Jeff Chambers1988 David Kessler1989 David Pollack1990 James Krege1991 Bryan Jones1992 Bryan Jones1993 Roland Thornqvist1994 Cooper Pulliam1995 Brint Morrow

1996 Brint Morrow1997 Jon Balch1998 Sean McDermott1999 Tripp Phillips2000 Tripp Phillips2001 David Cheatwood2002 Marcio Petrone

Student-Athlete Development:A Priority at North Carolina

At North Carolina, athletes are still first and foremost students. Whilemost universities make that claim, Carolina student-athletes prove it.Carolina placed 249 student-athletes on the Atlantic Coast ConferenceAcademic Honor Roll for the 2001-2002 school year.

Included on that list were Ben Aiken and Andy Metzler of the TarHeel men’s tennis team.

These figures are a direct result of the emphasis placed on academicsby the North Carolina athletic department.

In October 1986, North Carolina opened the doors to its new Student-Athlete Development Center, located at the east end of Kenan Stadium,adjacent to Kenan Fieldhouse. This 10,000-square-foot, state-of-the-artacademic center boasts an impressive array of facilities for the benefit ofall Tar Heel student-athletes in the 28-sport program.

Included in the building, which is convenient to classrooms anddorms, is a full assortment of computers, several study rooms, a lan-guage lab with tape players, seven tutorial rooms, a large classroom thatcan be divided into two smaller ones and a 128-seat auditorium used forseminars and lectures. The Center features the latest and most up-to-datecomputer systems.

“Our goal is to assist our student-athletes in making sound academicdecisions,” says Robert Mercer, Director of Academic Support Services.“By providing our student-athletes direction and support with their stud-ies and their graduation planning, we are helping them to realize theirfull potential while attending the University and after they have gradu-ated.”

The academic staff teaches necessary study skills, such as note-takingand time management. Tutors are available during a supervised studyhall, which is open Sunday through Thursday evenings. The building isavailable to student-athletes from 8 a.m. to midnight during the weekand from 7:30 p.m. to midnight on Sundays. In any given week it is esti-mated that at least half of UNC’s 700 student-athletes use the Center.

With a commitment to academic excellence soundly in place at theUniversity of North Carolina, the Student-Athlete Development Centerbecomes a vitally useful tool for helping with the education of student-athletes … and for proving that “student” does indeed belong as a pre-fix to the word “athlete” at Carolina.

“We expect our tennis players do not only represent Carolina well onthe court but in the classroom as well,” says Tar Heel head coach SamPaul. “I’m proud of the way our kids do the job in the classroom. Lastyear both Ben Aiken and Andy Metzler had outstanding years for usboth on the court and in the classroom. That’s what we expect of ourstudent-athletes and I’m proud that out kids consistently do a good jobof balancing tennis and academic work. Most kids who play collegetennis will not make money as pros so getting their degree while here isof utmost importance.”

CAROLINA TENNIS TRADITION


David CheatwoodMarcio Petrone Tripp Phillips

Year-by-YearTeam Results, 1908-presentCarolina has had 80 winning seasons, seven losing

seasons and five with an even record.Overall SouthernNational CarolinaYear Record Conference Finish Head Coach1908 2-0 None1909 2-1 None1910 6-0 None1911 No Team1912 2-1 None1913 0-0 None1914 0-1 None1915 No Team1916 1-1 None1917 2-0 None1918 1-1 None1919 No Team1920 0-2 None1921 0-2 None1922 8-0-2 None1923 7-0 None1924 3-1-1 None1925 6-3 None1926 6-0-1 None1927 6-2-1 None1928 10-1 John Kenfield1929 7-1 John Kenfield1930 10-0-1 Champion John Kenfield1931 14-0 Champion John Kenfield1932 14-0 Champion John Kenfield1933 14-0 Champion John Kenfield1934 15-1 John Kenfield1935 18-1 John Kenfield1936 16-0 Champion John Kenfield1937 18-0 Champion John Kenfield1938 14-2-1 John Kenfield1939 19-0 Champion John Kenfield1940 16-0 Champion John Kenfield1941 18-0 Champion John Kenfield1942 14-1 Champion John Kenfield1943 7-1 Champion John Kenfield1944 2-2 Champion John Kenfield1945 3-4 John Kenfield1946 10-1 John Kenfield1947 21-1 John Kenfield1948 19-1 3rd (t) John Kenfield1949 23-1 8th John Kenfield1950 22-2 Champion John Kenfield1951 20-5 Champion John Kenfield1952 24-2 John Kenfield1953 23-0 Champion John KenfieldSouthern Conference Totals 15 Championships*Carolina fielded no team in 1911, 1915 and 1919.Year Record ACC Finish Natl. Finish Head Coach1954 22-2 1st John Kenfield1955 21-1 1st John Kenfield1956 18-1-1 1st Ham Strayhorn1957 8-9 2nd Vladimir Cernik1958 11-2 1st Vladimir Cernik1959 12-3 1st Don Skakle1960 14-2 1st Don Skakle1961 15-6 1st Don Skakle1962 22-1 1st Don Skakle1963 18-1 1st 10th (t) Don Skakle

1964 16-2 2nd Don Skakle1965 20-0 1st Don Skakle1966 19-1 1st Don Skakle1967 19-1 1st Don Skakle1968 17-2 2nd Don Skakle1969 19-1 2nd Don Skakle1970 18-0 1st 20th (t) Don Skakle1971 22-2 2nd 10th (t) Don Skakle1972 17-3 1st 5th (t) Don Skakle1973 24-1 1st 11th (t) Don Skakle1974 19-3 1st 7th Don Skakle1975 23-2 1st 25th (t) Don Skakle1976 21-2 1st 13th (t) Don Skakle1977 22-2 1st 14th Don Skakle1978 23-5 2nd (t) 18th Don Skakle1979 15-10 6th Don Skakle1980 23-5 4th Don Skakle1981 18-10 5th (t) Allen Morris1982 15-11 3rd (t) Allen Morris1983 22-6 2nd Allen Morris1984 22-11 4th Allen Morris1985 19-13 2nd (t) Allen Morris1986 14-16 3rd (t) Allen Morris1987 21-5 2nd (t) Allen Morris1988 14-14 8th Allen Morris1989 17-9 3rd Allen Morris1990 19-8 3rd 24th Allen Morris1991 20-7 1st 17th Allen Morris1992 25-5 1st 8th Allen Morris1993 18-9 2nd 17th Allen Morris1994 16-9 2nd (t) 19th (t) Sam Paul1995 14-11 3rd (t) 33rd (t) Sam Paul1996 21-5 1st 16th Sam Paul1997 13-8 3rd (t) 36th Sam Paul1998 15-10 2nd 49th Sam Paul1999 11-14 5th (t) 63rd Sam Paul2000 18-6 2nd 21st Sam Paul

2001 11-9 2nd (t) 36th Sam Paul2002 19-6 2nd 26th Sam PaulTotals 1323-314-8, 25 Atlantic Coast Conference ChampionshipsCarolina’s ACC Tournament Championship Years1954, 1995, 1956, 1958. 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966,1967, 1968 (Co-Champion), 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975,1976, 1977, 1978 (Co-Champion), 1990, 1992, 2002Overall Records By CoachCoach Years Record Pct. ACCNo Coach 1908-27 52-15-5 .757John Kenfield 1928-55 434-30-2 .933 10-0Ham Strayhorn 1956 18-1-1 .925 6-0Vladimir Cernik 1957-58 19-11 .633 11-1Don Skakle 1959-80 418-55 .884 132-14Allen Morris 1981-93 244-124 .663 62-29Sam Paul 1994-present 138-78 .639 53-19Totals 1,323-314-8 .807 274-63

Carolina’s Coaching Tree

YEAR BY YEAR RECORDS


John Kenfield Don Skakle Allen Morris Sam Paul

North Carolina All-TimeRecords

Carolina has the advantagein 130 of the 157 all-timeseries. The Tar Heels trailin 22 series and are tied in

five.

Carolina holds the winningedge over all eight ACC

opponents.

The Tar Heels lead theACC with a conferencewinning percentage of

81.3%.

Carolina’s 25 ACCChampionships are themost of any ACC team.

Alabama 5-3Amherst 11-0Appalachian State 6-0Arizona 0-2Arizona State 0-1Arkansas 1-1Arkansas-Little Rock 2-2Army 10-0Auburn 2-4Ball State 2-0Barton 2-0Baylor 2-0Boston College 2-0Brown 10-0Bucknell 2-0California-Irvine 2-2Campbell 4-0Catawba 1-0Catholic 2-0Charlotte 12-0Cincinnati 6-0Citadel 4-0Clemson 37-19Colby 1-0Colgate 1-0Cornell 11-0Dana 1-0Dartmouth 23-2Davidson 60-1-2Dayton 1-0Delaware 1-0Drake 1-0Duke 83-26East Carolina 7-0Eastern Kentucky 4-0Edinboro 1-0Elon 6-0Florida 4-14Florida State 21-5Fresno State 1-1

Furman 29-1-1Georgetown 9-0-1George Washington 9-0Georgia 5-8Georgia Southern 1-0Georgia Tech 25-11Gettysburg 1-0Guilford 14-0Hampden-Sydney 1-0Hampton 5-1Harvard 44-10Haverford 7-0High Point 5-0Houston 3-1Illinois 4-2Indiana 4-1Iowa 5-0Iowa State 1-0Jacksonville 1-0Johns Hopkins 3-0Johnson C. Smith 1-0Kalamazoo 13-1-1Kansas 1-0Kent 1-0Kentucky 3-1Lafayette 1-0Lehigh 5-0Long Beach State 0-1Louisiana State 2-0Loyola (Md.) 1-0Maryland 49-8Maryville (Tenn.) 1-0Massachusetts 3-0MIT 17-0McNeese State 0-1Miami (Fla.) 6-18Miami (Ohio) 2-0Michigan 8-0Michigan State 24-2Middle Tennessee State 1-0Minnesota 1-2Mississippi 2-2Mississippi State 0-1Murray State 1-0Navy 10-4Nebraska 2-1New Mexico 2-1New York University 6-0UNC Asheville 8-0UNC Greensboro 3-0UNC Wilmington 1-0NC State 73-5North Texas 1-0Northwestern 3-0Notre Dame 11-6Oglethorpe 1-0Ohio State 2-0Ohio University 5-0Oklahoma 0-1Oklahoma State 1-0Old Dominion 7-0Pennsylvania 5-0Penn State 17-0Pepperdine 0-4Presbyterian 26-1

Princeton 21-10Purdue 3-0Randolph-Macon 2-0Rhode Island 1-0Rhodes 1-0Rice 4-2Richmond 9-0Roanoke 1-0Rollins 6-3Rutgers 1-0Rutgers-Newark 1-0San Diego 1-2South Carolina 36-16-1South Florida 2-1The University of the South 4-0Southern California 0-4Southern Illinois 2-0Southern Methodist 0-3Southwestern La. 1-2Springfield 7-0St. John’s (Md.) 1-0St. John’s (N.Y.) 2-0Swarthmore 6-1Temple 1-0Tennessee 9-6Tennessee-Chattanooga 2-0Tennessee Tech 1-0

Texas 2-11Texas A&M 1-8Texas Christian 5-6Toledo 11-0Trinity (Texas) 3-2Tulane 2-0-1Tulsa 1-2UCLA 0-3Utah 3-0Vanderbilt 2-0Virginia 69-15Virginia Commonwealth 5-5VMI 0-2Virginia Tech 14-1Wake Forest 78-8Washington & Lee 7-1Wayne State 1-0Wesleyan 2-0West Virginia 17-3Western Michigan 2-0Wichita State 1-0William & Mary 18-6Williams 58-5Wisconsin 5-0Wofford 2-0Yale 33-5-1

RECORDS AGAINST OPPONENTS


Regular Season ACCRecords

1954 5-01955 5-01956 6-01957 5-11958 6-01959 7-01960 7-01961 7-01962 7-01963 7-01964 6-11965 7-01966 7-01967 7-01968 6-11969 6-11970 7-01971 6-11972 6-01973 6-01974 6-01975 6-01976 6-01977 6-01978 4-2

1979 1-51980 4-31981 3-41982 4-31983 6-11984 4-31985 5-21986 4-31987 5-11988 0-71989 5-21990 5-21991 6-01992 8-01993 7-11994 6-21995 6-21996 8-01997 5-31998 6-21999 3-52000 6-22001 6-22002 7-1Total 274-63

Southern Conference SinglesChampions1933 — Wilmer Hines1936, 1937 — RamsayPotts1940 — Harris Everett1941 — Zan Carver1942 — Harris Everett1948 — Vic Seixas1951 — John Ager1952, 1953 — Del Sylvia

Atlantic CoastConferenceSinglesChampions1955 — TommyBradford1958 — Bob Bortner1960 — Bruce Sylvia1962, 1963, 1964 — George Sokol1965 — #1, O.H. Parrish; #2, Bronson VanWyck; #3, Nat West; #5, Tom Chewning1966 — #2, Bronson Van Wyck; #3, BobDavis; #4, Tom Chewning; #5, Nat West; #6,Ken Oettinger1967 — #1, Gene Hamilton; #3, Bronson VanWyck; #4, Tom Chewning; #5, SmokeySwenson1969 — #2, Joe Dorn; #3, Jimmy Corn; #4,Fred Rawlings; #5, Allen Lassiter; #6, Mike Kernodle1970 — #1, Lee Langstroth; #2, FreddieMcNair; #3, Eddie Shelton; #4, Jimmy Corn;#5, Fred Rawlings1971 — #1, Freddie McNair; #2, JimmyCorn; #3, Forrest Simmons; #4, RichieMcKee; #6, Mike Kernodle1972 — #1, Freddie McNair; #2, JimmyCorn; #3, Richie McKee; #4, John McNair1973 — #4, Rich Hardaway; #6, TommyDixon1974 — #3, Billy Brock; #4, Tommy Dixon;#5, Joe Garcia; #6, Dave Oberstein1975 — #1, Billy Brock; #2, Joe Garcia; #3,Tommy Dixon; #5, Dave Oberstein1976 — #3, Earl Hassler; #4, Dave Oberstein;#5, Junie Chatman; #6, Cliff Skakle1977 — #3, Junie Chatman; #4, Cliff Skakle;#5, Jon Kraut; #6, Gary Taxman1978 — #2, Junie Chatman1983 — #2, Ron Erskine; #5, Ken Whitaker1984 — #2, Wayne Hearn1985 — #2, Jeff Chambers1990 — #6, Thomas Tanner1991 — #1, Roland Thornqvist; #6, ChrisMumford1992 — #2, Bryan Jones; #5, Chris Mumford;#6, Joe Frierson1993 — #1, Roland Thornqvist; #2, David

Caldwell; #5, Brint Morrow; #6, CooperPulliam1994 — #1, David Caldwell; #2, BrintMorrow1995 — #1, David Caldwell; #6, David Britt1996 — #1, David Caldwell; #2, RobTedesco; #3, Brint Morrow; #6, Tony Thomas1997 — #3, Paul Harsanyi; #4, Tony Thomas1998 — #3, Adam Seri2000 — #3, David Cheatwood; #4, MarcioPetrone; #6 Chad Riley2001 – #3. David Cheatwood

SouthernConferenceDoublesChampions1931 — Hinkey Hendlinand Ed Yeomans1933 — Wilmer Hinesand Lenoir Wright1936, 1937 — RamsayPotts and Eddie Fuller1940 — W.H. Rawlingsand C.F. Rider1941, 1942 — M.P. Anthony and HarrisEverett1949 — Vic Seixas and Clark Taylor1951 — John Ager and Bob Luxenberg1952 — Herb Browne and Bobby Payne1953 — Tommy Bradford and DonThompson

Atlantic Coast ConferenceDoubles Champions1955 — Tommy Bradford and Herb Browne1956 — Tommy Bradford and John Foster1958 — Steve Bank and Bob Bortner1959 — Geoffrey Black and Ben Keys1960 — Ben Keys and Bruce Sylvia1961 — Bruce Sylvia and Keith Stoneman1962 — Bitsy Harrison and Ted Hoehn1963 — George Sokol and Keith Stoneman1964 — Ted Hoehn and O.H. Parrish1965 — #1, O.H. Parrish and Bronson VanWyck; #2, Andy Goddard and Ken Oettinger;#3, Tom Chewning and Nat West1967 — #2, Gene Hamilton and Bill Trott;#3, Smokey Swenson and Bronson Van Wyck1968 — #2, Gene Hamilton and Bill Trott1970 — #1, Joe Dorn and Freddie McNair;#2, Lee Langstroth and Forrest Simmons; #3,Jimmy Corn and Fred Rawlings1971 — #1, Richie McKee and FreddieMcNair; #2, Jimmy Corn and Rich Hardaway;#3, Joe Garcia and Forrest Simmons1972 — #1, Richie McKee and FreddieMcNair1973 — #2, Tommy Dixon and RichHardaway; #3, Billy Brock and ForrestSimmons1974 — #2, Tommy Dixon and RichHardaway

1975 — #1, Billy Brock and Tommy Dixon1976 — #3, Junie Chatman and Cliff Skakle1978 — #2, Cliff Skakle and Gary Taxman1986 — #2, David Pollack and JimmyWeilbaecher1990 — #3, Joe Frierson and Bryan Jones1991 — #2, Andre Janasik and Sean Steinour;#3, Joe Frierson and Thomas Tanner1993 — #1, Roland Thornqvist and DarylWyatt; #3, David Caldwell and Brint Morrow1996 — #2, Tony Thomas and Tripp Phillips;#3, Rob Tedesco and Paul Harsanyi2001 — #3, Trystan Meniane and Chad Riley

The Southern Conference decided a sole sin-gles champion throughout Carolina’s mem-bership in the league. In addition to those list-ed, Carolina also won individual singleschampionships in 1935, 1938, 1939 and 1942but research has been unable to attach thenames of the champions to those years.

The Southern Conference decided a sole dou-bles championship team throughoutCarolina’s membership in the league. In addi -tion to those listed, Carolina also won individ-ual doubles championships in 1922, 1923,1935, 1938 and 1942 but research has beenunable to attach the names of the championsto those years.

The Atlantic Coast Conference decided solesingles and doubles champions from 1954 to1964. Since 1965, ACC champions have beendetermined by flight.

CONFERENCE SINGLES & DOUBLES CHAMPIONS


Wilmer Hones

Bobby Payne

David Cheatwood won ACC sin -gles titles in 2000 and 2001

Bitsy Grant, 1931When asked near the end of his tenure in 1955to rate the best at Carolina all-time, the veterantennis coach John Kenfield chose Bitsy Grantto head up the list. Bryan “Bitsy” Grant cameto Carolina as a freshman in 1929 and wasnamed an All-America in 1931. Ranked ashigh as #3 nationally in men’s singles duringhis post-Carolina career, Grant played on fourU.S. Davis Cup teams and won three U.S.Tennis Association national clay court champi-onships. Grant’s leadership helped the 1931team finish undefeated and capture theSouthern Conference title.

Wilmer Hines, 1933Carolina’s top player in 1933, Wilmer Hineswon the Southern Conference singles title andcombined with Lenoir Wright to win the dou-bles crown. He also was named an A l l -America that year. The Tar Heels, in fact, wonthe Southern Conference crown every year ofHines’career at Carolina, never losing a matchand tying only one for a combined overallrecord of 52-0-1. After leaving Carolina, Hineswent on to win the Italian Open championship.A great all-around athlete, Hines also letteredin basketball three times and captained the1933 UNC basketball squad that finished witha 12-5 record.

Vic Seixas, 1948Regarded by most as the greatest player inCarolina’s tennis history, Vic Seixas was alsoone of the great players in American tennis his-tory. Seixas was named an All-America in1948, and went on to an impressive profes-sional career. Seixas won the Wimbledon sin-

gles championship in 1953 and also won theU.S. Open championship in 1954. While atCarolina, Seixas, who played under the leg-endary John Kenfield from 1947-49, won theSouthern Conference singles title in 1948 andfinished as the runner-up in both 1947 and1949. He teamed with Clark Taylor to capturethe league doubles crown in 1949. In 1948, heentered the NCAA Tournament as the top seed,and won five matches in the tournament beforedropping the championship match to the then-No. 1 ranked player. That same year in theNCAA championships, Seixas, who came toCarolina after four years of Army Air Forceduty, was the seventh-ranked men’s singlesplayer in the U.S. amateur ranks. By 1952, hehad attained the #1 singles ranking amongAmericans. The 55 Davis Cup singles matchesthat he played in are the most of any Americanplayer in history, and his 75 U.S. Open men’ssingles victories were a record that stood untilbroken by Jimmy Connors in 1985.

George Sokol, 1963Named an All-America in singles as a junior in1963, George Sokol had a distinguished tenniscareer at Carolina. He was the Tar Heels’ firstdominant presence in the Atlantic CoastConference, which began selecting a singleschampion in 1954. From 1954 to 1964, theACC chose a sole singles champion beforegoing to individual flight titles thereafter.Sokol won three of those titles, in 1962, 1963and 1964. Sokol also won an outright ACCdoubles title in 1963, with partner KeithStoneman.

Freddie McNair, 1970-73The only Carolina player to win All-Americahonors throughout his four years in ChapelHill, Freddie McNair probably ranks asCarolina’s finest player behind Vic Seixas.While at Carolina, McNair combined withRichie McKee to reach the NCAA doublesfinals in 1973. In the Atlantic CoastConference, he won three individual singlestitles in 1970, 1971 and 1972 and three doublestitles, one with Joe Dorn in 1970 and two withMcKee in 1971 and 1972. He went on to havea distinguished professional career, attainingthe world’s #1 doubles ranking with teammateSherwood Stewart in the late 1970s.

Richie McKee, 1972-1974Charlotte, N.C., native Richie McKee wonmuch fame playing collegiate tennis, earningAll-America honors insingles as a sophomore,junior and senior. The sonof teaching pro DickMcKee, who reached thefinals at Wimbledon aftera career at the Universityof Miami, McKee’s play-ing improved with eachyear he spent at Carolina.He became known asmuch for his quiet on-the-court manner as forhis tennis talent. A team captain, McKee and

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Bitsy Grant and Wilmer Hines

George Sokol

Freddie McNair

Vic Seixas

doubles partner Freddie McNair reached theNCAAdoubles finals in 1973, and the two wonthe 1971 and 1972 Atlantic Coast Conferencedoubles titles. In singles, McKee won twoACC titles, at #4 in 1971 and #3 in 1972.

Billy Brock, 1976A Coach Don Skakle protege, Billy Brock wasa member of four Atlantic Coast Conferencechampionship teams atCarolina and was an All-America in singles in1976.Brock, known for hisbaby-faced appearanceand slight build, was apowerhouse on the courtand a member of NorthCarolina teams that lostonly eight dual matches in his four-year career,including four undefeated seasons in the ACC.The Tar Heels finished as high at seventh in1974 in the national polls, as Brock won twoACC individual flight singles titles, at #3 in1974 and #1 in 1975, and also took home adoubles title in 1975 with partner TommyDixon. One of the Norfolk, Va., native’s great-est wins was a second-round 1974 NCAATournament upset of 12th-seeded Steve Mottof UCLA. Down a set, then-freshman Brockwent on to win nine straight games from thefavored Bruin, and won the final sets, 6-0 and6-1. Brock reached the third round of the tour-nament.

Jeff Chambers, 1985The only Carolina player in history to receivean NCAA singles invitation each of his fouryears as a Tar Heel, Chambers attended theNCAA Tournament in 1984, 1985, 1986 and

1987. He was named anAll-America in singles in1985 after capturing theACC individual flightchampionship at #2 sin-gles and going 26-8 over-all. Chambers also attend-ed the NCAATournamentin doubles three times,missing only in 1986. The

St. Petersburg, Fla., native was a three-timeAll-Atlantic Coast Conference selection. Heenjoyed his highest national ranking in doubleswith partner Wayne Hearn in 1985, as the pairreached the No. 24 slot in the ITA poll.

Bryan Jones, 1992One of two Carolina players in history to benamed the Atlantic Coast ConferenceTournament Most Valuable Player, BryanJones received that honor and many more in1992 as the senior tri-captain led the Tar Heelsto one of the school’s most successful seasons,setting a school record for team wins (25-5).

Jones also was named the ACC Player of theYear in 1992 and helped lead the team to the1992 ACC Tournament Championship. It wasthe second such championship for UNC duringJones’tenure, as Carolina also won the covet-ed trophy in 1990 when Jones was a sopho-more. The Tar Heels finished the 1992 confer-ence regular season undefeated at 8-0 andplaced four players on the All-ACC team,including Jones, who also earned the honor in1990. The Kings Mountain, N.C., native wasnamed an All-America selection in singlesafter finishing with a 35-7 overall record, wasnamed the ITA Region II Volvo Tennis/SeniorPlayer of the Year and reached the secondround of the NCAA Tournament. Jones, whoalso won the flight #2 ACC singles title in1992, was a member of a senior class that sawits team reach the quarterfinals of the NCAATournament and finish eighth nationally in theITA poll — the best finish for Carolina since1974. Over four years as a Tar Heel, Joneshelped the team reach the championship matchof the ACC Tournament each year.

Chris Mumford, 1992A member of the 1992 Atlantic CoastConference Tournament championship team,Chris Mumford was one ofthree Tar Heels to benamed All-Americas onthat squad — the most ofany Carolina team in histo-ry. Mumford had a spec-tacular year in 1992, cap-turing All-America honorsin doubles with teammateRoland Thornqvist aftercompleting a 15-7 season at the #1 position.

The pair were quarterfinalists at the NCAAChampionships and finished the season ranked14th in the ITA poll. Mumford enjoyed All-ACC honors in 1992, the second such honor inhis career, as the Richmond, Va., native cap-tured the flight #5 ACC singles title with a 7-1conference record. Over his four-year career,Mumford was a member of a senior classwhich helped lead the Tar Heels to an 81-29overall record and a 24-4 record in the ACC.After being unranked as freshmen, they ledCarolina to national rankings of 24th in theirsophomore year, 17th in their junior year andeighth in their senior year, and led Carolina in1990 to its first ACC crown since 1978. The1992 team’s NCAA Tournament bid was alsothe first since 1978 for the Tar Heels, as thatsquad went on to become quarterfinalistsnationally and set a school record with 25wins.

Roland Thornqvist, 1992-1993Arguably the most accomplished tennis playerever to wear Carolina blue and white, 1993UNC graduate Roland Thornqvist was the #1singles and #1 doubles player at Carolina forthree straight years. The Farsta, Sweden, nativewas named an All-American in both singlesand doubles by the ITA in both 1992 and 1993.His greatest accomplishment, however, waswinning the Rafael Osuna SportsmanshipAward in both 1992 and 1993. He is the firstplayer in the history of college tennis to winthe prestigious honor twice. As a junior, he also

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Bryan Jones

RolandThornqvist

won the Region II Arthur Ashe Jr. / H e a dSportsmanship Award. In 1993, he captured thesingles title in the Rolex/ITA National IndoorChampionships, one of the collegiate grandslams; was named to the Rolex Collegiate All-Star Team; was the ITA Region II SeniorPlayer of the Year and the Atlantic CoastConference Player of the Year. Thornqvist wasthe ACC champion at #1 singles in both hissophomore and senior years and he won the #1doubles crown as a senior, with Daryl Wyatt. Athree-time All-ACC selection, Thornqvist co-captained the Tar Heel team as a senior andqualified for the NCAA Tournament in singlesthree years and in doubles twice. He was aquarterfinalist in singles in both 1992 and1993, and in doubles in 1992. Prior to comingto Carolina, he won the 1990 NAIA nationalchampionship in both singles and doubles as afreshman at Elon College and was named afirst-team Volvo All-America and the NAIANational Tennis Player of the Year, compiling asingles record of 37-0. Thornqvist also wasnamed by USA Today as its collegiate athleteof the year for the state of North Carolina in1990. After spending a year on the ATP Tourfollowing graduation from Carolina in 1993,Thornqvist was an assistant coach for the TarHeels in 1995 and 1996. He left the program tobecome the head women’s tennis coach at theUniversity of Kansas, but returned to the NorthCarolina tennis program in 1998 as the headcoach of the women’s team.

Daryl Wyatt, 1993Although he spent only one year as a memberof the Tar Heel tennisteam, Washington, D.C.,native Daryl Wyatt madehis time in a Carolina uni-form count. The first blackm e n ’s tennis player atUNC since Junie Chatmanin 1978, Wyatt was superbin doubles with partnerRoland Thornqvist as afreshman in 1993. The pairwent undefeated in Atlantic Coast Conferenceplay that season, going 8-0 against conferencefoes on a team that never lost during ACC reg-ular season play, and finished at 24-6 overall,winning All-America honors from the ITA.Wyatt and Thornqvist also captured the ACCindividual doubles title at the #1 position, andqualified for NCAA doubles competition,advancing to the second round. Wyatt was 32-11 overall in singles play and finished ACCsingles competition at 6-2.

David Caldwell, 1994-1995Two-time All-American David Caldwell left alegacy at Carolina that will be difficult tomatch by any future Tar Heel. The Richmond,Va., native came to UNC as one of the mostdecorated junior tennis stars in the country,

having been ranked in the top five nationally.At North Carolina, he continued his winningways, becoming the only Atlantic CoastConference men’s tennis player to earn ACCPlayer of the Year honors three times, in 1994,1995 and 1996. Caldwell was named an ITAAll-American in singles as both a sophomoreand a junior, and was a doubles All-Americanwith partner Brint Morrow as a junior.Caldwell was 16-0 in ACC singles as a juniorand a senior, and is the only player to ever winthree individual ACC flight titles at #1 singles.He won the 1995 Rafael Osuna SportsmanshipAward and was the Region II Head/ArthurAshe Jr. Sportsmanship Award recipient. The1996 Region II Men’s Tennis Player of theYear, Caldwell received NCAAsingles invita-tions in 1994, 1995 and 1996 and was anNCAA quarterfinalist in 1995. A three-timeAll-ACC selection, he compiled a 11 6 - 4 1(.737) record over his four years as a Tar Heeland finished his ACC career with a 32-5 (.865)record in singles and a 27-10 (.730) record indoubles. Caldwell, a 1996 Carolina graduate,was both the 1993 Region II ITA RookiePlayer of the Year and the 1994 Penn/ITANational Player to Watch.

Brint Morrow, 1995A consistently strong performer for the TarHeels over his four years in Chapel Hill, BrintMorrow was named All-American in doublesin 1995 with partner David Caldwell, the tan-dem having gone 26-10 over the season andreceiving an NCAA doubles invitation thatseason. A 1996 Carolina graduate whose fatherplayed tennis at Carolina in 1961, Morrow wasa three-time All-Atlantic Coast Conferenceselection. He won three individual ACC sin-gles flight championships and one doubleschampionship. Morrow captured the flight #3doubles title with Caldwell and the flight #5singles crown in 1993 as a freshman, the flight

#2 singlestitle as as o p h o m o r e ,and wentu n d e f e a t e din confer-ence playin 1995 towin theflight #3singles titleas a senior.He alsowas therecipient ofthe 1995B l u e / G r a yClassic Sportsmanship Award after competingin that prestigious tournament in Montgomery,Ala.

Tripp Phillips, 2000An intense competitor and valued team leader,Tripp Phillips, of Charlotte, NC, earned All-America status his senior season. After return-ing from a medical redshirt, Phillips had anoutstanding senior campaign, posting a stellar25-6 singles record from the #1 singles posi-tion. Phillips collected impressivevictoriesover nationally #1 ranked Daniel Anderson and#3 Shuon Madden. Phillip’s intense leadershipcarried the Heels to a second place ACC finishand a #16 national ranking. Phillips dominat-ing 12-2 record against ACC competetionearned him runner-up honors at #1 singles.However, Phillips saved his best performanceof the year for last as he advanced to the quar-

terfinals of the NCAA C h a m p i o n s h i p s .Phillips performance elevated him in the ITArankings as he finished 2000 ranked #12nationally in singles. Phillips career and char-acter were honored as he received the presti-gious Patterson Medal and the John Va nNostrand Award. He and UNC soccer playerLorrie Fair won the 1999-2000 PattersonMedals. He was the first tennis player so hon-ored since Vic Seixas in 1949-50.

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Brint Morrow

Tripp Phillips and fellow 1999-2000Patterson Medal winner Lorrie Fair

David Caldwell

All-Atlantic Coast Conference Selections1984 — Wayne Hearn; 1985 — Jeff Chambers,Wayne Hearn, Eddie Stewart; 1986 — JeffChambers; 1987 — Jeff Chambers, DonJohnson, Eddie Stewart; 1989 — Don Johnson,David Pollack; 1990 — Don Johnson, BryanJones; 1991 — Chris Mumford, RolandThornqvist; 1992 — Joe Frierson, BryanJones, Chris Mumford, Roland Thornqvist;1993 — David Caldwell, Cooper Pulliam,Roland Thornqvist; 1994 — David Caldwell,Brint Morrow; 1995 —David Caldwell, BrintMorrow; 1996 — DavidCaldwell, Brint Morrow,Rob Tedesco; 1997 —Tripp Phillips, PaulHarsanyi, Rob Te d e s c o ;1998 — Rob Te d e s c o ,Tripp Phillips, Adam Seri;1999 – Assaf Drori; 2000 –Tripp Phillips, MarcioPetrone; 2001 – Marcio Petrone; 2002 -- AndyMetzler, Nick Monroe, Marcio Petrone.

ACC Player of the Year1985 — Wayne Hearn; 1992 — Bryan Jones;1993 — Roland Thornqvist; 1994 — DavidCaldwell; 1995 — David Caldwell; 1996 —David Caldwell

ACC Player of the The WeekMarch 12, 2001--Chad Riley; April 3, 2001--David Cheatwood; April 16, 2001--ChadRiley; March 11, 2002--Daniel Pinchbeck;April 1, 2002--Marcio Petrone; April 15,2002--Nick Monroe; April 21, 2002--MarcioPetrone.

MVPof ACC Championship1990 — Don Johnson; 1992 — Bryan Jones;2002 -- Marcio Petrone.

ACC Rookie of the Year1994 — Paul Harsanyi; 1999 - Bjorn Rencken

ACC Coach of the Year1983, 1990, 1992 — Allen Morris; 1996, 2000,2002 — Sam Paul

Alphonso C. Smith Sportsmanship Award 1974 — Richie McKee; 1977 — Earl Hassler;1980 — Gary Taxman

ITA Region II Senior of the Year1992 — Bryan Jones; 1993 — RolandThornqvist; 1996 — David Caldwell

ITA Region II Rookie-of-the-Year1989 — Bryan Jones; 1993 — David Caldwell

Region II Arthur Ashe Jr. SportsmanshipAward1990 — Don Johnson; 1992 — RolandThornqvist; 1995 — David Caldwell

ITA Region II Player to Watch1994 — David Caldwell

ITA Region II Coach of the Year1992 — Allen Morris; 1996 — Sam Paul2000 - Sam Paul

Rafael Osuna Sportsmanship Award1992, 1993 — Roland Thornqvist; 1995 —David Caldwell

ITA National Indoor Singles Champion1993 — Roland Thornqvist

ITA National Player to Watch1994 — David Caldwell

ITA Nationally Ranked Singles Players1984 — Wayne Hearn,53rd; Jeff Chambers, 63rd;1985 — Wayne Hearn,31st; Jeff Chambers, 43rd;Eddie Stewart, 95th; 1986— Jeff Chambers, 80th;David Pollack, 105th;1987 — Jeff Chambers,74th; 1989 — DavidPollack, 64th; DonJohnson, 90th; 1990 —Bryan Jones, 59th; Don Johnson, 60th; 1991— Woody Webb, 58th; Roland Thornqvist,66th; Andre Janasik, 95th; 1992 — RolandThornqvist, 7th; Bryan Jones, 20th; WoodyWebb, 79th; 1993 — Roland Thornqvist, 4th;David Caldwell, 74th; 1994 — DavidCaldwell, 14th; Brint Morrow, 67th; PaulHarsanyi, 91st; 1995 — David Caldwell, 12th;Brint Morrow, 37th; 1996 — David Caldwell,21st; Brint Morrow, 91st; 1997 — Tr i p pPhillips, 41st; 1998 — Tripp Phillips, 69th;2000— Tripp Phillips, 12th; 2002--MarcioPetrone, 38th; Trystan Meniane, 118th.

ITA Nationally-Ranked Doubles Teams1984 — Jeff Chambers and Wayne Hearn,28th; 1985 — Jeff Chambers and Wa y n eHearn, 24th; 1986 — Jeff Chambers and MarkDeMattheis, 47th; 1987 — Jeff Chambers andEddie Stewart, 28th; 1989 — Don Johnson andDavid Pollack, 22nd; 1991 — Andre Janasikand Sean Steinour, 33rd; 1992 — ChrisMumford and Roland Thornqvist, 14th; 1993— Roland Thornqvist and Daryl Wyatt, 10th;1994 — David Caldwell and Brint Morrow,21st; 1995 — David Caldwell and BrintMorrow, 9th; 1996 — David Caldwell andBrint Morrow, 27th; 1998 — Rob Tedesco andTony Thomas, 48th

NCAA Tournament Singles Participants1983 — Ron Erskine; 1984 — Jeff Chambers,Wayne Hearn; 1985 — Jeff Chambers, WayneHearn; 1986 — Jeff Chambers; 1987 — JeffChambers; 1990 — Bryan Jones; 1991 —Roland Thornqvist; 1992 — Bryan Jones,Roland Thornqvist; 1993 — RolandThornqvist; 1994 — David Caldwell; 1995 —David Caldwell, Brint Morrow; 1996 — DavidCaldwell; 1997 — Tripp Phillips; 1998 —Tripp Phillips; 2000 — Tripp Phillips; 2002--Marcio Petrone.

NCAA Tournament Doubles Participants1984 — Jeff Chambers and Wayne Hearn;1985 — Jeff Chambers and Wayne Hearn;1987 — Jeff Chambers and Eddie Stewart;1992 — Chris Mumford and RolandThornqvist; 1993 — Roland Thornqvist andDaryl Wyatt; 1994, 1995, 1996 — DavidCaldwell and Brint Morrow

MVPof H.E. Butt Tennis Championships1993 — Roland Thornqvist

MVPof Blue/Gray Tennis Championships1993 — Roland Thornqvist

Blue/Gray Classic Sportsmanship Award1995 — Brint Morrow

Tournament ChampionshipsDavid Cheatwood, 2001 Ralph W h i t t i k a rCollegiate in Richmond, Va.

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Paul HarsanyiACC Rookie of theYear, 1994

Assaf Drori

David Pollack

Marcio Petrone was named theMost Valuable Player of the2002 ACC Tournament

The University of North Carolina men’stennis program began the decade of the1990s in grand style and the success hascarried over into the New Millennium aswell.

Over the course of the past 13 seasons,the Tar Heels have claimed five AtlanticCoast Conference regular-season or tour-nament championships (1990, 1991,1992, 1996, 2002); earned seven final Top25 national rankings from theIntercollegiate Tennis Association (1990,1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 2000); andmerited 10 spots in the NCAA Te a mTournament field (1992, 1993, 1994,1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001,2002).

The results of the past baker’s dozenyears have been cause for celebration forTar Heel head coach Sam Paul and hisplayers. Carolina’s proud tennis programregained momentum in the 1990s from itsearly years. It seems only appropriate thatthe first decade of the 21st century matchthe accomplishments long associated withthe sport of tennis in Chapel Hill.

Carolina has always had an especiallyrich tradition in the sport of tennis, featur-ing a long list of great coaches, playersand teams. Over the past 95 years, UNCteams have compiled a phenomenal won-loss record that would be difficult to rivalin all of college athletics.

The Tar Heels’ overall dual-matchrecord stands at 1,323-314-8, a winningpercentage of .807. Since the first TarHeel team was fielded in the spring of

1908, 80 of 92 North Carolina teams haveposted winning records, five have had.500 seasons and seven have had losingrecords and during three of those years,the University fielded no team at all. Inonly four of the seven losing seasons didthe team actually play more than twomatches, finishing 3-4 in 1945, 8-9 in1957, 14-16 in 1986 and 11-14 in 1999.Nineteen of the 92 teams have finishedtheir campaigns undefeated, the latest in1970 with an 18-0 mark. During the late1930s and early 1940s, Carolina teams puttogether a 67-match winning streak, a col-legiate record in its time and since brokenonly by William & Mary in 1949.

Nineteen Carolina teams have finishedthe season ranked among the nation’s Top25 teams, topped by a tie for third place atthe 1948 NCAA Championships. T h eUniversity of North Carolina also playedhost to the 71st National Collegiate TennisChampionships in 1955 on the CampusCourts in Chapel Hill. Since the NCAAwent to a team tournament format in 1977,Carolina has made the NCAA field on 12occasions — in 1977, 1978, 1992, 1993,1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001and 2002.

Success in the Atlantic CoastConference has also been the rule of theday during Carolina’s vaunted tennis his-t o r y. Since the conference’s formationduring the summer of 1953, Tar Heelteams have won a total of 25 league cham-pionships, including 23 outright crowns.In fact, in 49 years of Atlantic Coast

Conference competition, the Tar Heelshave finished out of the upper divisiononly four times and have been either firstor second in 37 of those 49 years. The TarH e e l s ’ cumulative regular-season dual-match ACC record stands at an amazing274-63, a winning percentage of .813.Carolina players have also won 86 ACCsingles championships and 37 doublestitles.The Birth of Tar Heel Tennis

The roots of tennis competition at theUniversity of North Carolina date back to1884 when the University Tennis Clubwas founded. In 1894, the club beganintercollegiate competition in the sport. Itwas not until 1908, however, that letterswere first awarded and the sport wasgranted varsity status at the University.From 1908 through 1927, the team func-tioned without a head coach and in 1911,1915 and 1919 no team was fielded at all.

That changed in 1927, however, as JohnKenfield arrived as head coach and TarHeel tennis fortunes began to soar quick-ly. Kenfield answered an ad placed by theUniversity Athletic Association in theAmerican Lawn Tennis Journal, seekingC a r o l i n a ’s first full-time tennis coach.K e n f i e l d ’s decision to respond to thequery proved to be a stroke of luck forCarolina.

Kenfield, then 35 years old, was work-ing in Chicago as both a tennis instructorat the Lake Shore Country Club in afflu-ent, suburban Glencoe, Ill., and as a vicepresident of the Curtiss Candy Company,an enterprise he’d helped organize. Whileat Curtiss, Kenfield named the Baby Ruthcandy bar, one of the biggest sellers of alltime. The young candy company wanted acatchy name for its new confectionerytreat to compete with the popular O’Henrybar of its leading competitor. Babe Ruthwas then at the height of his career withthe New York Yankees and Kenfield wrotethe Bambino, asking for his permission toname the candy bar after him. Ruth sentback a royalty figure which the fledglingcompany couldn’t afford. Kenfield thensuggested “Baby Ruth” as an alternatename because no royalties would havebeen involved. The name was adopted, thecandy bar was a smash hit, Curtiss mademillions and the rest, as they say, is histo-ry. Kenfield’s first year as head coach was1928 and until his retirement after the1955 season, his teams wrote a ratherremarkable success story during his 28-

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John Kenfield

Bitsy Grant

year coaching tenure. Ten of his 28 teamsfinished their seasons unbeaten and hisoverall coaching record was 434-30-2 fora remarkable winning percentage of .933.His teams averaged a 16-1 record eachyear during his 28 seasons on the Hill.Ruling the Roost in the SouthernConference

Carolina also dominated tennis in theold Southern Conference, beginning withthe league’s founding prior to the 1921-22school year and running through 1953when the ACC was founded. UnderKenfield, Carolina teams won SouthernConference team championships on 15occasions in 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933,1936, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942,1943, 1944, 1950, 1951 and 1953.Kenfield also coached 13 SouthernConference individual singles championsand 13 doubles teams which won leaguetitles. Prior to Kenfield’s arrival on cam-pus, Carolina also won SouthernConference doubles titles in 1922 and1923, giving the school 15 doubles cham-pionships in all.

Kenfield tutored some of the mostaccomplished players in Carolina tennishistory. The first great player was Bryan“Bitsy” Grant of Atlanta, Ga., who came

to UNC as a freshman in 1929. Rumor hasit that Grant was actually enrolled atCarolina for three months before Kenfieldknew he was on campus. Once discov-ered, Grant blossomed quickly, beingnamed an All-America selection in 1931.

Ranked as high as #3 nationally in men’ssingles during his post-collegiate career,Grant played on four U.S. Davis Cupteams and won a trio of U.S. TennisAssociation national clay court champi-onships.

Grant and sophomore Wilmer Hinesplayed together on Carolina’s 1931 team,which finished undefeated and won theSouthern Conference title. Two yearslater, Hines succeeded Grant as UNC’stop player, winning the SouthernConference singles title in 1933 and com-bining with Lenoir Wright to win the dou-bles crown. Hines was also named an All-American that year. After playing atCarolina, Hines went on to win the ItalianOpen championship. Ironically, Hines wasmore than merely a great tennis player. Healso lettered in basketball three times andcaptained the 1933 UNC basketball squadwhich finished with a 12-5 record.

In the late 1930s and early 1940s,Kenfield’s top players included RamsayPotts, Archie Henderson, Harris Everettand Zan Carver. Potts, who graduated in1937 and was also a two-time letterman inbasketball at Carolina, made the NCAAsingles semifinals while at UNC. That wasin 1936 when the National Intercollegiate

Championships were held atNorthwestern University in Evanston, Ill.That same year, Potts was ranked #3 in thefinal national collegiate singles rankings.

Carolina was so dominant during thattime in Southern Conference warfare

under Kenfield’s tutelage that in 1936,UNC had all four semifinalists in theSouthern Conference Te n n i sChampionships.

Henderson, a native Chapel Hillian,swept the singles titles of four of the sixtournaments in which he played in 1940and in the process beat all of the topAmerican players of the time with theexception of the legendary Jack Kramer.In 1940, Everett won the SouthernConference singles championship. A yearlater, he won the league doubles crownwhile teaming with M.P. A n t h o n y.Everett, who was also a native of ChapelHill, improved his national ranking to11th in 1940 after he beat both GermanDavis Cup star Henner Henkle and WelbyVan Horn at the Forest Hills nationals. In1941, Carver gave up his Tar Heel footballcareer to concentrate solely on tennis. Hebeat out Everett for the number one spoton the Carolina team and then downed histeammate for the Southern Conferencesingles title. That same season, Carver losta tough three-set match (7-5 in the third)to Joe Hunt, who would go on to claim thesingles title that year at the U.S. Open inForest Hills.Seixas Becomes a Tennis Legend

Near the end of his coaching tenure,Kenfield was asked to pick the all-timeCarolina tennis team. The veteran mentorchose Grant #1, Hines #3, Henderson #4,Carver #5 and Everett #6. The man in thesecond spot was the legendary Vic Seixas,an All-America selection in 1948. Seixas



Vic Seixas

The 1965 Tar Heels

had a storybook career at Carolina, win-ning the Southern Conference singles titlein 1948, finishing as the runnerup in both1947 and 1949 and teaming with ClarkTaylor to capture the league doublescrown in 1949. Seixas, a Philadelphia, Pa.native, came to the University after fouryears of Army Air Force duty duringWorld War II. In 1948, he entered theNCAA Tournament as the top seed. Hewon five matches in the tournamentbefore dropping the championship match6-4, 1-6, 7-5, 6-1 to Harry Likas of theUniversity of San Francisco, who wasthen #1 in the national singles rankings,one spot ahead of Seixas. The same yearat the NCAA Championships, Seixas andTaylor were seeded third in the doublestournament despite their seventh-placestanding in the national doubles rankings.The duo won a pair of matches before los-ing to the brother team of Evert and Evertfrom Notre Dame, 6-3, 6-8, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3in the quarterfinals. During his senior yearin 1949, Seixas was the seventh-rankedmen’s singles player in the U.S. amateurranks.

Seixas went on to have a star-studdedcareer after graduating from Carolina. By1952, he had attained the #1 singles rank-ing among Americans and he won theWimbledon singles championship in 1953and the U.S. Open title in 1954. The 55Davis Cup singles matches he played inare more than any American player in his-tory. His 75 U.S. Open men’s singles vic-tories were a record that stood until bro-ken by Jimmy Connors in 1985.Skakle Leads UNC To UnequaledSuccess in the ACC

Carolina continued to have great

teams during the 1950s. In the summer of1953, UNC became a member of theAtlantic Coast Conference and from1955-1959, four different men piloted theprogram as head coach. Kenfield retiredafter the 1955 season with Ham Strayhornserving as the head coach in 1956 andVladimir Cernik in 1957 and 1958.

With Don Skakle’s arrival as UNC’shead coach in 1959, the second great erain North Carolina tennis began. A contem-porary of Seixas who also played on UNCteams in the late 1940s, Skakle led histeams to total domination of the AtlanticCoast Conference during his 22 seasons ashead coach. His teams won a total of 18ACC titles, including 16 crowns outright.On nine occasions the Tar Heels finishedamong the nation’s Top 25 teams. Overall,Skakle’s teams had a 418-55 dual-matchrecord in 22 seasons, including a 132-14mark in the ACC.

Among Skakle’s great players wereGeorge Sokol, who won a trio of ACCsingles titles from 1962-64, while beingnamed an All-America in his junior year;Freddie McNair, Carolina’s only four-time All-America selection, who wonthree ACC #1 doubles crowns and threeACC singles titles (two at #1 and one at#2); Richie McKee, McNair’s doublespartner who was an All-America selectionthree times and the winner of two ACCsingles championships and two leaguedoubles crowns; and Billy Brock, a 1976All-America who won a pair of confer-ence crowns in both singles and doubles.McNair probably ranks as Carolina’sfinest player since Seixas left campus in1949 and before Roland Thornqvist andDavid Caldwell’s arrival in the ’90s.While at Carolina, McNair combined withMcKee to reach the NCAA doubles finalsin 1973 at Princeton, N.J., even though theduo had been upset in the finals of theACC Tournament the same year. McNairwent on to have a distinguished profes-sional career, attaining the world’s #1doubles ranking with teammate SherwoodStewart in the late 1970s. In fact, McNairwon the 1976 French Open doubles titlewhile teaming with Stewart.Allen Morris and the Rebirth ofCarolina Tennis

When Skakle passed away from natu-ral causes on the eve of the A C CTournament in 1980, Carolina tennis suf-fered its first leadership void in over twodecades. The University hired A l l e nMorris, a great tennis player in his ownright, to become only the fifth head coach

in school history. Morris was named ACCCoach of the Year three times during histenure — in 1983, 1990 and 1992. Duringthe 1984 campaign, UNC reached a majormilestone when the school won its 1,000thdual match in history. The victory came inSan Antonio, Texas, as the Tar Heels upsetsixth-ranked Trinity University, 5-4.

M o r r i s ’ top players included JeffChambers, Wayne Hearn, Don Johnson,Bryan Jones and Roland Thornqvist. AnAll-America in 1985, Chambers earnedfour NCAA Tournament singles invita-tions and three NCAAdoubles bids, miss-ing only in doubles in 1986. Hearn wasthe ACC Player of the Year in 1985 and hemade the NCAA Tournament in both sin-gles and doubles twice. Although he nevermade the NCAA Tournament, Johnsonwas a consistent player who was namedthe 1990 ACC Tournament Most ValuablePlayer after leading the Tar Heels to theirfirst conference crown in 12 years.Johnson has gone on to have a distin-guished doubles career in the professionalranks, winning several major tournamentsand consistently being ranked in the Top10 in the world in doubles.A Stellar 1992 for the Heels

Jones and Thornqvist helped lead the1992 squad to remarkable success on thecourt. Thornqvist was named a first-team



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All-America in both singles and doubles,and Jones, a senior from Kings Mountain,N.C., took All-America honors in singlesas the 1992 Tar Heels set a school recordfor victories in a season during their 25-5campaign. Carolina finished eighth in thefinal Intercollegiate Tennis A s s o c i a t i o npoll and made the NCAA Tournamentfield for the first time since 1978, beating#8 TCU in the round of 16 before losing tothird-seeded UCLA in the quarterfinals.Carolina also claimed the ACC regular-season and tournament championships in1992.

Jones was named ACC Player of theYear, MVP of the ACC Tournament andRegion II Senior Player of the Year in1992, and he advanced to the secondround of the NCAA To u r n a m e n t .Thornqvist finished the season rankedseventh nationally in singles and reachedthe quarterfinals of the NCAATournament in both singles and doubles,playing the latter with Chris Mumford, anAll-America selection in his own right.Thornqvist also was honored with theRafael Osuna Award given nationally forsportsmanship by the ITA.

That seemed only a prelude toThornqvist’s senior season. Finishing 36-6 in singles and 24-6 in doubles, theSwedish native was ranked fourth nation-ally in singles and 10th in doubles at theseason’s end. Thornqvist captained the1993 UNC team to a 17th-place ITA pollranking and the Final 16 of the NCAATournament, beating Harvard in the first

round of the tournament before falling toeventual NCAA champion SouthernCalifornia in the round of 16.

I n d i v i d u a l l y, Thornqvist won theRafael Osuna Sportsmanship Award fromthe ITA for the second straight year, thefirst player in the history of college tennisto win the award more than once. He cap-tured ACC titles at #1 singles and #1 dou-bles, was named to the All-ACC Team forthe third straight year and was the ACCPlayer of the Year and the ITA Region IISenior Player of the Year.

As a senior, Thornqvist won the ITAnational indoor singles championship,beating Georgia’s Mike Sell in the finalsat Minneapolis. He was also an NCAATournament singles quarterfinalist for thesecond straight season and he was namedthe MVP of both the H.E. ButtChampionships and the Blue/GrayChampionships.

Carolina’s success has continued sinceSam Paul took over for Allen Morris afterthe latter resigned in 1993 to become ath-letic director at his alma mater,Presbyterian College.

Paul has led the Tar Heels to NCAATournament bids in 1994, 1995, 1996,1997, 1998, 2000, 2001 and 2002.

Carolina reached NCAA regional finals in1994, 1996 and 2000 and was one winshort in each case from reaching the tour-nament’s Final 16.

Paul has tutored several All-America

players at Carolina, including DavidCaldwell, Brint Morrow and Tr i p pPhillips. Caldwell and Phillips were both

outstanding singles players and bothadvanced far into the NCAA Tournamentseveral times. Phillips reached the quar-terfinals of the NCAA Tournament in2000 and later that year he was named thewinner of the Patterson Medal asCarolina’s outstanding senior athlete. Hewas the first tennis player so named sinceVic Seixas.

Carolina has finished either first, sec-ond or third in the ACC standings in everyyear under Paul’s tutelage with the excep-tion of 1999 when the Tar Heels werefifth. The 2002 team, led by seniorMarcio Petrone as tournament MVP, wonC a r o l i n a ’s 25th A C C championship inschool history.Carolina and the College Tennis Hall ofFame

Six Tar Heel tennis greats areenshrined in the Collegiate Tennis Hall ofFame in Athens, Ga. Vic Seixas wasinducted in 1984, Bitsy Grant in 1985,John Kenfield in 1986, Don Skakle in1991, Allen Morris in 1993 and FreddieMcNair in 2001.

Carolina has had several inducteesinto the North Carolina Tennis Hall ofFame, the most recent being Skakle in1986.

Morris has been inducted into theNorth Carolina Tennis Hall of Fame, theNorth Carolina Sports Hall of Fame, theSouthern Tennis Hall of Fame and theCollegiate Tennis Hall of Fame.

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B B B BBach, Robbie 1982-84Baggs, H. 1930Baity, Ed 1945Balch, Jon 1994-97Bank, Stephen 1956-58 Barnett, R.W. 1932Black, Geoffrey 1957-59Boesch, B.W. 1944Bolen, Zack 1992-93Booker, John 1951-52Bortner, Robert 1956, 1958Bowman, Hugh 1950Boyd, Alexander 1986Boyd, Geoff 2002Brabham, Wells 1991-94Bradford, Thomas 1953-56Breziner, Aron 1998-2001Bristol, L.F. 1938Bristow, John 1988-89Britt, David 1995-98Brock, Billy 1973-76Brooks, Guy 1975-76, 1978Brown, Peter 1978Browne, H.T. 1930Browne, Herbert 1952-55Brownlow, Tyne 2000-01Buchanan, Francis 1951Buford, Tiger 1979-81Burchfield, Brian 1986-87

C C C CCahall, W.L. 1943Caldwell, David 1993-96Carl, Neal 1977-79Carlton, John 1961-62Carroll, Darcy 1982Carver, A.H. 1940-41Causey, Phillip 1959Chambers, Jeff 1984-87Chatman, Junie 1975-78Cheatwood, David 1998-2001Chewning, Tom 1965-67Clark, Lloyd 1958Clark, R.E. 1939Cocke, Stanley 1961-63Cordon, J.T. 1935Corn, William 1969-72Correll, William 1972-74Coss, Jonathan 1985-86Covington, Dick 1928Craig, Beverly 1983-85Crawford, Douglas 1969

D D D DDalrymple, T.E. 1928Dameron, Edgar 1946Dameron, Lasley 1949-50Daniels, Sam 1946Davis, Mac 1945

Davis, Robert 1966-68DeGray, Edward 1935-36Dell, Julian 1956DeMattheis, Mark 1984-87Dickson, David 1979Dillard, J.R. 1932-33Disco, Ray 1979-82Dixon, Thomas 1973-76Dorn, Joseph 1968-70Drori, Assaf 1999-2000Dukes, John 1971Durrill, Cole 1991-92Duval, Charles 1951Dwight, Edward 1979

E E E EEarly, D.E. 1939Elix, Ben 1999-2000Erskine, Ron 1981-84Evans, Carl 1964Everett, H.W. 1940-42

F F F FFarrell, Frank 1936-38Fenichell, Chris 1978-81Finnegan, Thomas 1987Fitzsimons, Mike 1986-89Flanagan, Jewett Flagg 1974Fleming, Shawn 1994-96Floren, Lennart 1965Foreman, John 1936-38Foster, John 1956Freeman, S.R. 1941Frierson, Joe 1989-92Fuller, Edward 1936-37, 1939Fuller, Lawrence 1991

G G G GGarcia, Joseph 1971, 1973-75Goddard, Davis 1965-66Goldberg, Jon 1992Gordon, Eric 1995-1997Gragg, W.H. 1938-39Graham, E.K. 1930-31Grant, Bitsy 1931-32Grass, Michael 1998-99Green, Robert 1953-56Griffin, Carter 1987-89Grigg, John 1980-83Gruner, Stanley 1946-49Gustafson, Bruce 1953-56

H H H HHackney, C.W. 1944Hamilton, Gene 1966-68Hammerstein, James 1950Handel, Samuel 1952-53, 1955Hansel, William 1960Happer, Mills 1958-60Hardaway, Richard 1971-74Harden, Charles 1941Harper, Ryan 1994Harris, Harvey 1933-35Harrison, John 1962-63Harrison, John 1967Harsanyi, Paul 1994-97Hassler, Earl 1975-78Hearn, Wayne 1984-85Heier, Jeffrey 1979Henderson, Archibald 1935-37Henderson, Richard 1962-64Hendlin, H.H. 1930-31Hendrix, M.P. 1942-43Henry, Tal 1978Herring, Horace T. 1974Hewitt, Robert 1952

Hilkey, Max 2000-01Hill, Chris 1993-96Hill, Gregg 1998Hines, Robert 1978-80Hines, Wilmer 1931-33Hobbs, S.H. 1942Hoehn, Edward 1962-64Holderness, Richard 1966-67Holley, C.E. 1934Holmes, Mark 1986-87Holmes, William 1963Holtermann, Jan 1988Huckabee, Jimbo 1992Hudgins, Daniel 1956Hutton, Brett 1993-94

I I I IIngram, James 1948Izlar, Bill 1951-53

J J J JJacobus, Robert 1957Jagoe, W.H. 1944Janasik, Andre 1988-91Janda, Jonathan 2002Jeffress, E.B. 1937Jensen, John 1968-69Johnson, Don 1987-90Johnson, R.U. 1944Johnson, Thomas 1979-81Jones, Bryan 1989-92Jones, J.L. 1934Jones, Kirby 1961-63Jordan, Melville 1946

K K K KKang, Jason 1998Karson, Jamieson 1977-79Keel, Koley 1985-86Kenfield, John 1947Kerdasha, Ronald 1952-55Kernodle, Michael 1969, 1971Kessler, David 1986-89Keys, Bennette 1958-60Kraut, Jon 1975-78Krege, James 1987-90

L L L LLambeth, Charles 1951Langstroth, Lee 1968-70Lanier, Andrew 1990-92Lassiter, Allen 1968-70Lawch, R.C. 1944Leitch, Robert 1973Legum, Louis 1961-62Levitan, Walter 1933-35Lidskog, Fred 1996-97Lipson, Nate 1996Liskin, Philip 1930-31Livingston, Frank 1957Lockett, Frank 1959-60Long, Donald 1965Ludwig, Ken 1980-83Luxenberg, Robert 1950-51

M M M MMaass, Harold 1942-43, 1946MacArthur, Charles 1970-72Makepeace, Richard 1958Markham, J.E. 1942-43Markham, John 1965-66Marks, D.W. 1943Matisso, A.P. 1944McDermott, Sean 1995-98McGeachy, Neil 1988McGlinn, J.A. 1934

McIver, Frank 1957McKee, Richard 1971-74McLean, Jim 1982-83McNab, Adam 1993, 1996McNair, Bruce 1976McNair, Freddie 1970-73McNair, John 1972-73Mears, William 1968-69, 1971Meir, Victor 1990-91Meniane, Trystan 2000-02Merritt, W.E. 1928-30Meserole, W.B. 1939-40Metzler, Andrew 2002Milton, Cecil 1952Minor,W.T. 1934-35Miscall, Lawrence 1955Monroe, Nicholas 2001-02Morgan, David 1932-34Morgan, David 1961-62Morris, Ray 1943-44, 1947-48Morrow, Brint 1993-96Morrow, Peter 1961Mumford, Chris 1989-92Murphy, T.L. 1940Myers, Peter 1963-64

N N N NNeill, D.H. 1941Newsome, Albert 1957Nichols, Dave 1945Nicholson, James 1946-47Norwood, John 1928-29

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In keeping with the University of NorthCarolina’s tradition of offering quality facili-ties for its student-athletes, the University ded-icated an indoor/outdoor tennis facility adja-cent to the A.E. Finley Golf Course on N.C.Highway 54 in Chapel Hill in September 1992.

The Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center, whichtook four years to come to fruition, was thecrowning jewel in a decade-long campaign toimprove the athletic facilities at the University.

The tennis center, located off Skakle Drive,was dedicated Saturday, Sept. 12, 1992, with acrowd of more than 1,000 Carolina tennisenthusiasts in attendance. Paul Hardin, then-chancellor of the University, and JohnSwofford, the athletic director at the time, offi-cially dedicated the structure and named thefacility that now serves as the home of the TarHeels’men’s and women’s tennis programs.

The facility is named for Ceasar Cone II, a1928 alumnus of the University who playedtennis at Carolina and was a great benefactor ofthe school throughout his life. Cone went on tofound Cone Mills in Greensboro, N.C., one ofthe most successful textile manufacturing enti-ties in the South. The center also bears thename of John Kenfield, the legendary Tar Heeltennis coach who compiled a sterling record of434-30-2 in dual-match play from 1928-55.Kenfield’s teams won 15 Southern Conferencechampionships and two Atlantic CoastConference team championships during histenure. He coached the likes of Bitsy Grant,Wilmer Hines and Vic Seixas at UNC and his1948 team finished third in the nation.Kenfield was Carolina’s first-ever full-timetennis coach, and he took over the reins of theUNC team in time to coach Ceasar Cone II inhis senior season in 1928.

Fund-raising on the Cone-Kenfield TennisCenter was completed in early 1991 and con-struction on the facility began in the spring ofthat year.

Bill Moore of Raleigh, N.C., chaired the

fund-raising committee that helped bring thefacility to fruition. Other members of theTennis Fundraising Committee were CliffAlphin of Dunn, N.C., Billy Armfield ofMadison, N.C., Kelly Bowles of Greensboro,N.C., Herb Browne of Charlotte, N.C., TomChewning of Richmond, Va., Jim Corn ofLattimore, N.C., Lyons Gray of Wi n s t o n -Salem, N.C., Kitty Harrison of Chapel Hill,N.C., Katherine Hogan of Raleigh, N.C., PaulHoolahan of New Orleans, La., Allen Morris ofClinton, S.C., M.W. Peebles, Jr. of Petersburg,Va., Moyer Smith of Chapel Hill, N.C., SueWalsh of Durham, N.C., Keith Stoneman ofCharlotte, N.C., John Swofford of Greensboro,N.C., and Ernie Williamson of Chapel Hill,N.C.

The $2 million complex includes:• Six indoor and 12 outdoor, lighted, hard

surface tennis courts• Indoor spectator viewing on the upper level

of the indoor center

• Men’s and women’s varsity dressing facil -ities

• Public and visitor dressing facilities• Fully-equipped weight-training rooms for

both varsity teams• An alley for coaches behind each set of

indoor courts• Offices and public restrooms on the upper

level of the center core• Indoor area of approximately 47,500

square feet• Air conditioning for the indoor area• Halide lighting on all courts• Indirect lighting on the indoor courtsThe center has been put to good use in its

first 11 years of existence. The first exhibitionmatches were played at the dedication cere-monies, prior to the UNC-Furman footballgame

Since then, Carolina’s men’s tennis squadhas hosted at least one tournament at the tenniscenter each of the past 11 falls. From 1992 to2002, Carolina hosted the Tar HeelInvitational, an outdoor tournament featuringregional teams from the Southeastern UnitedStates, and the Josephine Groot Invitational.

In November 1992, the Tar Heels werenamed the host institution for the ITASoutheast Region Indoor Singles and DoublesChampionships, which features the top men’ssingles and doubles players from the SoutheastRegion. North Carolina has hosted the RegionII championships each fall since then for a totalof 11 seasons. Winners of the SoutheastRegion Championships advance to the ITAnational indoor tournaments each year.

In 1994, a memorabilia area was created onthe upper level of the center core of the Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center. The brainchild ofDirector of Tennis Sam Paul, the memorabiliaarea was the work of Dave Lohse of the UNCsports information office and graphic designerClay Carmichael of Carrboro, N.C.

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Eleven University of North Carolinaplayers were included on the list of the 50greatest Atlantic Coast Conference men’stennis players of all time, announced inSeptember 2002 by the ACC Office. UNC'srepresentatives were diverse in nature andincluded nine All-America selections as wellas six players who played professional ten-nis.

Among the Tar Heel selections wereprofessional doubles stars Freddie McNairand Don Johnson, the latter a two-timeWimbledon doubles titlist. All 11 players onthe list won ACCchampionships either indi-vidually or as a team. All earned collegiateAll-America honors save Johnson and O.H.Parrish, who were both outstanding playersin the ACC ranks. 2000 UNC alumnus TrippPhillips was the first UNC men’s tennis play-er to win the Patterson Meda l w inner in ahalf century. The Patterson Medal goes toUNC’s outstanding senior athlete.

"I'm very proud of the large number ofUNC student-athletes named to the team,"said Sam Paul, whose tenure at UNC asass istant and head tennis coach dates to1989. "This is an amazingly representativelist and includes players who have beendominant forces both in the ACC and on thenational scene."

Fo l lowing is the complete l i st of TarHeel honorees:

was a Coach Don Skakle protege, wasa member of four Atlantic CoastConference championship teams at Carolinaand was an All-America in singles in 1976.Brock was a powerhouse on the court and amember of North Carolina teams that lostonly eight dual matches in his four-yearcareer, including four undefeated seasons inthe ACC. Brock won two ACC individualflight singles titles, at #3 in 1974 and #1 in1975, and also took home a doubles title in1975 with partner Tommy Dixon.

was a two-time All-American David Caldwell left a legacy atCaro l ina that w i l l be d i f f icu l t to match byany future Tar Heel. At North Carolina, hecontinued his winning ways, becoming theonly Atlantic Coast Conference men’s ten-

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