≡ 2009 May News ≡

≡ 5/29/09 ≡ WTT Results, Final Banquet!

The team of Old Age = Wisdom defeated Three and a Half Asians in a thrilling tiebreaker, 15-11! Scores were as follows:

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OAW	vs	3.5Azns
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Ryan Malawy	vs	Ricky Wu	6-0
Ai Takamori	vs	Adeline Yang	4-6
Mark Otten/Chikako Shimura	vs	Andre Michelin/Emily Wu	6-5(2)

Congratulations to the Spring 2009 Champions! Finishing in third place was Love, Peace, and Chicken Grease!

Several awards were distributed after a filling dinner catered by CPK. Awards, and recipients, are as follows:

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2009 UCLA Club Tennis Awards
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Coach, Most Committed	Adeline Yang
Coach, Most Faithful	Mark Otten
Coach, Most Dedicated	Grant Chen
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Player of the year is given to student athletes who have dedicated a significant amount of time to competing for UCLA Club Tennis and acheived exemplary results.
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Male Player of the Year	Kingson Leung
Female Player of the Year	Chikako Shimura
Sportsmanship Award	Truman Lam
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The Scholar Athlete award is endowed to student athletes who have competed every year in attendance at UCLA and maintained an overall GPA of 3.5 or greater. Recipients represented UCLA as members of the Competitive Team in the Regional and/or National tennis tournaments.
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Scholar Athlete	Chikako Shimura
Scholar Athlete	Alex Preece
Scholar Athlete	Andre Michelin
Scholar Athlete	Michael Sims
Scholar Athlete	Alyssa Chen
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The lifetime achievement award is bestowed upon a phenomenal individual who had gone beyond the call of duty to support and lead UCLA Club Tennis in times of need.
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Lifetime Achievement	Emily Watt

≡ 05/22/09 ≡ WTT Semifinals!

Gold bracket
Love, Peace, Chicken Grease	vs	Old Age = Wisdom	16-13
Three and a Half Asians	vs	Three and a Half Degrees	17-15
Silver bracket
JAMS	vs	Zilla	18-5
Flying Penguins	vs	Bay Area Texans
Bronze bracket
FML	vs	One Girl and Three Guys
40 Water	vs	Fishsticks

Old Age=Wisdom and Three and a Half Asians will play for the Championship at 6PM, before the banquet!

Three and a Half Degrees and Love, Peace, Chicken Grease will play for third place at 6PM, before the banquet!

The Club Tennis banquet will be Thursday, May 28th, at 8PM, at Strauss Clubhouse above LATC!!

Gold Semifinals
Love, Peace, Chicken Grease	vs	Old Age = Wisdom
Kyndal Olin	Ai Takamori	6-4
Khoa Truong	Ryan Malawy	2-6
Rhea Escano/Dang Tran	Mark Otten/Chikako Shimura	4-6
		13-16
Three and a Half Asians	vs	Three and a Half Degrees
Ricky Wu	Chris Ho	5-6 (1)
Adeline Yang	Sarah Yang	6-5 (4)
Emily Wu/Bryan Lau	Grant Chen/Kristin Teufel	6-4
		17-15
Silver Semifinals
JAMS	vs	Zilla
Jordan Heitzner	Felina Kelly	6-0
Steven Nguyen	Darren Young	6-1
Amanda Lin/Michael Sims	Nicole Aponte/Bobby Liu	6-4
		18-5

≡ 05/18/09 ≡ WTT Semifinals!

Semifinal matchups are as follows:

Matches to be completed by 5/24/09
Gold bracket
Love, Peace, Chicken Grease	vs	Old Age = Wisdom
Three and a Half Asians	vs	Three and a Half Degrees
Silver bracket
JAMS	vs	Zilla
Flying Penguins	vs	Bay Area Texans
Bronze bracket
FML	vs	One Girl and Three Guys
40 Water	vs	Fishsticks

The final points earned by each team have been listed below!

The Gold/Silver bracket finals will be held on May 28th before the Club Tennis Banquet!

≡ 05/15/09 ≡ WTT Updates

Point Count based on matches won and matches lost.
      Teams that win 2 pool matches automatically advance to the Gold bracket.
      Teams that win 1 pool match automatically advance to the Silver bracket.
      There are three brackets (Gold, Silver, Bronze), each made of four teams.
      Points earned determine seeding within the bracket.

Current Team Point Count
Team	Points	Team	Points
Love, Peace, Chicken Grease	5	Zilla	0.98
Three and a Half Asians	2.59	FML	0.67
JAMS	2.14	Bay Area Texans	0.55
Old Age=Wisdom	1.71	40 Water	0.44
3.5 Degrees	1.31	One Girl and Three Guys	0.40
Flying Penguins	1.11	Fishsticks	0.21

*Teams in gold background will advance to the Gold bracket.

*Teams in gray background will advance to the Silver bracket.

*Teams in bronze background will advance to the Bronze bracket.

≡ 05/14/09 ≡ Summer Tournaments

Looking for somewhere to play over the summer? Want to get that competitive edge? Trying to find a way to impress the CT coaches for 2010?

Then check out and compete in these South Bay tournaments over the summer, or look for a few near you!

RSVP via facebook, and maybe you'll be playing alongside members of UCLA's very own Competitive Team!

≡ 05/02/09 ≡ WTT League!

The WTT League Pools, teams, and contact information is up!

Click here!