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2008 Roster & Schedule Name Class Hometown High School Kyle Baker RS Fr. Acworth, Ga. Harrison Benjamin Carlotti Sr. Paris, France Lycee Lafontaine Andrew Crone So. Hickory, N.C. Hickory Sandeep Daiya Sr. Acworth, Ga. Harrison Clay Donato So. Transfer Toronto, Ontario Pendleton School Taylor Fogleman Jr. New Orleans, La. Jesuit Lenny Gullan RS Sr. Cape Town, South Africa Saddlebrook Academy Philip Gullan Sr. Cape Town, South Africa Pendleton School Stefan Hardy So. Santa Maria, Calif. Righetti Tristan Heinrich Sr. Boise, Idaho Boise Chris Kearney So. Irvine, Calif. Mater Dei Will Plyler Sr. Raleigh, N.C. Broughton Jeff Schroeder Sr. Raleigh, N.C. Leesville Road David Stone Sr. Greensboro, N.C. Page Maclane Wilkison So. Charlotte, N.C. Charlotte Latin Karl Wishart Sr. Baden-Baden, Germany Klosterschulevom Heiligen Grab Coaches & Support Staff Sam Paul - Head Men's Tennis Coach Tripp Phillips - Assistant Coach Jay Lewandowski - Racquet Technician Dave Lohse - Men's Tennis Athletic Communications Sally Mays - Head Athletic Trainer Kym Orr - Academic Advisor Andrew Parker - Men's Tennis Administrative Assistant Pronuncation Guide Benjamin Carlotti car-LOTT-ee Sandeep Daiya DIE-yuh Clay Donato duh-NOT-toe Lenny Gullan GULL-en Philip Gulan GULL-en Stefan Hardy STEFF-on Chris Kearney KERR-nee Karl Wishart WIH-shart 2008 University of North Carolina Men’s Tennis Schedule Date Opponent Site Time 01/29/08 vs. Campbell Chapel Hill, N.C. 3:00 p.m. ET vs. North Carolina Central Chapel Hill, N.C. 7:30 p.m. ET 02/01/08 vs. Charlotte Chapel Hill, N.C. 3:00 p.m. ET vs. James Madison Chapel Hill, N.C. 7:30 p.m. ET 02/03/08 vs. Rice Chapel Hill, N.C. 12:00 p.m. ET 02/10/08 at Ohio State Columbus, Ohio 12:00 p.m. ET ITA Team Indoors 02/15/08 ITA Team Indoors Seattle, Wash. TBA 02/16/08 ITA Team Indoors Seattle, Wash. TBA 02/17/08 ITA Team Indoors Seattle, Wash. TBA 02/18/08 ITA Team Indoors Seattle, Wash. TBA 02/24/08 vs. VCU Chapel Hill, N.C. 4:00 p.m. ET 02/26/08 vs. Auburn Chapel Hill, N.C. 2:30 p.m. ET 03/12/08 vs. Navy Jacksonville, Fla. 4:00 p.m. ET 03/18/08 vs. Wake Forest Chapel Hill, N.C. 3:00 p.m. ET 03/21/08 at Florida State Tallahassee, Fla. 5:00 p.m. ET 03/23/08 at Miami Coral Gables, Fla. 12:00 p.m. ET 03/28/08 at Maryland College Park, Md. 3:00 p.m. ET 03/30/08 at Boston College Chestnut Hill, Mass. 11:00 a.m. ET 04/02/08 vs. North Carolina State Chapel Hill, N.C. 3:00 p.m. ET 04/04/08 vs. Virginia Chapel Hill, N.C. 4:00 p.m. ET 04/06/08 vs. Virginia Tech Chapel Hill, N.C. 1:00 p.m. ET 04/09/08 at Duke Durham, N.C. 3:00 p.m. ET 04/11/08 vs. Georgia Tech Chapel Hill, N.C. 3:00 p.m. ET 04/13/08 vs. Clemson Chapel Hill, N.C. 1:00 p.m. ET ACC Championship 04/17/08 ACC Championship Altamonte Springs, Fla. TBA 04/18/08 ACC Championship Altamonte Springs, Fla. TBA 04/19/08 ACC Championship Altamonte Springs, Fla. TBA 04/20/08 ACC Championship Altamonte Springs, Fla. TBA 2008 UNC MEN’S TENNIS • PAGE 2 Senior Benjamin Carlotti Senior Will Plyler
Lenny Gullan joined fellow senior David Stone at No. 1 doubles in 2007. Senior David Stone finished 2007 with 60 career doubles victories. Senior Will Plyler recorded a 17-8 singles mark in 2006-07. Senior Benjamin Carlotti was a 2007 All- ACC selection. 2008 UNC Tennis Dual Match Season Outlook Coming off back-to-back record-shattering seasons, the University of North Carolina men’s tennis team is well positioned to make another sustained run at conference, regional and national honors in 2008. The Tar Heels begin their challenging dual-match season with five consecutive matches at home beginning January 29 before hitting the road for matches at Ohio State and at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Team Nationals in Seattle, Wash. The Tar Heels will begin their ACC season at home against Wake Forest on March 18 after meeting the likes of Rice, Ohio State, VCU and Auburn in the nonconference part of the schedule. Head coach Sam Paul’s 2007 team was instrumental in winning its head mentor ACC Coach of the Year accolades for the fifth time in his career and Intercollegiate Tennis Association Mideast Region Coach of the Year honors for the fourth time since the 1996 season. Coach Paul was also a national coach of the year finalist for the fourth time in the past 12 years. Carolina finished 2007 campaign with a scintillating 24-4 overall ledger and a sterling 9-2 mark in the Atlantic Coast Conference regular season. Carolina’s 11 overall victories against ACC opponents last year was a school record. All this came after losing four seniors from the singles starting lineup to graduation following the 2006 campaign, including first-team All-Americas Brad Pomeroy and Raian Luchici. Carolina came back to win 24 matches last season with a team that included only one senior – Sebastian Guejman – on the Tar Heels’ 15-man roster. The Tar Heels won their first 20 matches of the season, reached the ACC Tournament finals for the first time since 2002 and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Carolina also earned its 15 NCAA Tournament bid in the past 16 years. UNC has participated in the NCAA Tournament every year since 1992 except for 1999. Carolina returns 14 of 15 lettermen in 2008 and adds a pair of talented newcomers to the roster. Returning singles starters from 2007 are headed by senior Benjamin Carlotti of Paris, France, an All- Atlantic Coast Conference selection last yea who played at the No. 1 singles spot. Carlotti finished the season with 22 overall singles wins, including eight over nationally-ranked opponents. Sophomores Chris Kearney of Irvine, Calif. and Stefan Hardy of Santa Maria, Calif. were both incredible starters as freshmen while sharing the No. 2 and No. 3 starting positions. Hardy played at the No. 2 spot 15 times and No. 3 spot 12 times and compiled a 22-7 overall ledger. He won honors as the Intercollegiate Ten- nis Association Mideast Region Rookie of the Year. Kearney was named the Atlantic Coast Conference’s Freshman Player of the Year for 2007 after the Californian finished with an overall singles record of 24-9. Kearney was 6-4 at No. 2 and 8-2 at No. 3 during the dual match season. Besides the big three at the top of the Tar Heel lineup, three other Tar Heels with significant returning starting experience in singles include junior Taylor Fogleman of New Orleans, La., senior Will Plyler of Raleigh, N.C. and senior Karl Wishart of Baden-Baden, Germany. Senior David Stone of Greensboro, N.C. also figures in the mix for a starting singles position as does sophomore Clay Donato, a native of Toronto, Ontario and a transfer from Texas A&M University who started for the Aggies in their singles lineup last year. Fogleman led the Tar Heels in overall singles victories last year with 26, of which 16 were in dual matches. Playing primarly at No. 6 singles, Plyler, a two-year starter, finished 17-8 overall. Wishart was 5-2 at No. 6 singles last year while seeing his first significant playing time in the Tar Heel singles grouping. Carolina is expected to utilize doubles combinations that feature Taylor Fogleman and Chris Kearney, Stefan Hardy and Clay Donato and Lenny Gullan and David Stone. Fogleman and Hardy were a brilliant 22-4 last year and went on to win the ITA Mideast Region indoor doubles championship this past October. The duo then reached the semifinals of the national indoors in November. Stone and Gullan return for their third season together as starters in doubles. The tandem played at No. 1 doubles last year and finished with a 20-16 overall record. Hardy teamed with Sebastian Guejman at No. 2 doubles last year with that highly successful doubles team going 19-5 overall. Doubles play was crucial for the Tar Heels in 2007 as it went 24-0 in matches in which they won the doubles point and 0-4 in matches in which they did not. UNC won seven matches decided by 4-3 scores and another four in which the final score was 4-2. North Carolina finished the season ranked No. 10 in the ITA rankings, its highest finish since going to the NCAA quarterfinals under legendary coach Allen Morris in 1992. UNC reached the No. 5 ranking on both April 3 and April 10, 2007, marking its highest-ever in-season ranking. UNC begins the 2008 campaign at the No. 10 spot in which it finished last year. Senior Karl Wishart entered this year with a 31-12 career singles mark. Junior Taylor Fogleman led Carolina with 26 singles win in 2006-07. Chris Kearney won ACC Rookie of the Year in 2007, the first Tar Heel since 1999. Stefan Hardy was 21-6 in dual-match singles last year. 2008 UNC MEN’S TENNIS • PAGE 3
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