2004-05

(May 23, 2005) Mark Odgers of Emory University was named the national Senior Player of the Year by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association. Earlier this month, he was honored as the regional winner. Last week, Odgers helped Emory to its fourth consecutive appearance in the NCAA national semifinals. The Eagles finished third after losing to the eventual national champion. Odgers is the first Emory player ever to win this national award. He had a 17-5 record in singles this season and 22-6 in doubles. Odgers was the No. 1 seed in the NCAA singles championship and part of the No. 2 seed in the NCAA doubles championship. He became the first Emory player to earn All-America honors all four years in both singles and doubles. He was ranked 17th in the nation among Division III singles players and fifth among doubles pairings with teammate Alex Jacobs. Odgers is first in school history for most career doubles wins and second in career doubles win percentage. He is 10th all-time at Emory for career singles wins and 20th for career singles win percentage.

(May 9, 2005) Patrick Redmond won both of his matches to help Emory University advance to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division III national tournament. In a matchup of the top two ranked teams in the region, Redmond won his singles and doubles matches as Emory came away with a 4-0 win against Washington & Lee (Va.). Redmond, ranked No. 44 in the nation in Division III singles, was a winner at No. 5 singles, 6-3, 6-2. He teamed up with Jesse Ferlianto for an 8-5 win at No. 2 doubles. Redmond has a career singles record of 42-14. He earned All-America honors last season after winning the ITA regional singles championship.

(April 25, 2005) Emory University freshman Hardy Ehlers earned wins in both doubles and singles matches to help the Eagles, ranked second in the nation, defeat Piedmont College (Ga.). Playing in the No. 5 position, Ehlers won 6-2, 6-3 in his second singles dual-match of the season. In the No. 3 doubles match, Ehlers and teammate Mark Odgers won 8-1. Ehlers is 5-1 in singles matches this season with his only loss coming in tournament play to an Emory teammate.

(April 18, 2005) Emory University junior Jesse Ferlianto won all six of his singles and doubles matches last weekend to help the Eagles capture their 16th consecutive University Athletic Association championship. Ferlianto did not drop a set in his three singles matches, playing in the No. 5 position, to give him a streak of 11 consecutive wins. He has not lost a singles match since February 26 and has dropped only one set in that time. Ferlianto and partner Patrick Redmond won all three of their doubles matches improving to 11-4 as a pair this season.

(April 11, 2005) Emory University junior Patrick Redmond won both of his singles matches last weekend including the deciding match in Emory's victory over the No. 4 team in the nation. Redmond, ranked No. 34 in the nation, defeated the No. 19 player in the nation to help the Eagles defeat UC Santa Cruz. With the team's NCAA Division III undefeated streak on the line, Redmond battled to a third set tiebreaker eventually winning, 6-4, 4-6, 7-6(5), to clinch the win for the Eagles. Redmond also defeated an opponent from the University of San Francisco, a Division I team, 6-1, 7-5, helping the Eagles to a 5-2 win.

(March 28, 2005) Emory University senior Alex Jacobs won all of his matches last weekend, including a doubles match against the No. 1 ranked pair in the nation, to help lead the Eagles to two wins over nationally ranked teams. Playing in the No. 1 doubles position, Jacobs and partner Mark Odgers, the No. 5 ranked pair in the nation, defeated the nation's top ranked doubles pair, 8-4, in a match against Kalamazoo College (Mich.). Jacobs won in the third singles position, 6-4, 6-1, helping Emory to a 5-2 win against Kalamazoo, the No. 16 ranked team in the nation. The next day, Odgers and Jacobs topped a doubles pair from DePauw University (Ind.), 8-4. Jacobs won his singles match, 6-7 (8), 6-4, 7-5, as the Eagles defeated the No. 21 team in the nation, 6-1. Jacobs is undefeated in dual singles matches this season with a 6-0 record. His career singles winning percentage of .851 (63-11) is on pace to beat the previous record of .792. He has already been named a doubles All-American for the fourth season in a row as an Intercollegiate Tennis Association regional doubles champion.

(March 21, 2005) Mark Odgers won a singles match and two doubles matches helping Emory University win all three of its matches last week in Hawaii, all against ranked NCAA Division II and III teams. Odgers defeated the No. 31 player in the nation in Division III, 6-1, 6-2, in the first singles position helping Emory to a 6-1 over Bowdoin College, ranked No. 14 in the nation. In the same match, he and partner Alex Jacobs won their doubles match defeating the 19th ranked pair in the nation, 8-2. Odgers and Jacobs, who are ranked No. 5 nationally in Divison III, also won 8-4 against a pair from University of Hawaii in Hilo, the 29th ranked team in Division II. Odgers' only loss of the week came in the No. 1 singles match against the No. 10 ranked player nationally in Division II. Odgers won the second set and lost the third in a tiebreak, 2-6, 6-3, 6-7 (4), against his opponent from Hawaii Pacific University, the No. 32 ranked team in Division II. Odgers is ranked No. 17 in the nation in Division III singles and has already earned All-America status this season as an Intercollegiate Tennis Association regional doubles champion.

(March 14, 2005) Emory University's Josh Rubens won both of his matches against the No. 18 ranked team in the nation. Rubens was a 6-0, 6-2 winner at No. 6 singles and an 8-4 winner at No. 2 doubles along with teammate Tyson Ramsay. He helped Emory, ranked No. 3 in the nation, defeat Washington (Md.), 7-0. This was Rubens's fourth consecutive singles win against a national top-20 team. In those four matches, he did not drop a set, nor did he lose more than two games in any of those sets. For the season, he has a 9-3 record in singles and a 9-4 record in doubles. Rubens is ranked 44th in the nation in singles and 11th in the region.

(Feb. 28, 2005) Senior Mark Odgers won all three of his singles matches, including one against the top ranked player in the nation, to help Emory University capture its second straight Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Indoor National Championship. Playing in the No. 2 singles position after missing the previous week's matches due to sickness, Odgers lost only seven games in singles play with all three opponents coming from teams ranked in the top 10 nationally in NCAA Division III. Odgers, who is ranked No. 17 in the nation, won 6-0, 6-1, and 6-2, 6-2, in the quarterfinals and semifinals, respectively. In the finals, the Eagles, ranked No. 3 in the nation, faced California-Santa Cruz, ranked No. 4 in the nation, with Odgers paired against the No. 1 player in the nation, Kevin Casey. Odgers defeated Casey dropping only two games, 6-1, 6-1. Odgers and his doubles partner Alex Jacobs, the fifth ranked pair in the nation, won two out of three matches. Odgers and Jacobs defeated a pair from Gustavus Adolphus (Minn.), the No. 3 ranked duo in the nation, 8-2, and beat a duo from Santa Cruz, 8-6, in the finals.

(Oct.18, 2004) Emory University sophomore Yoji Masuoka finished in third place in the singles draw at the ITA national championship defeating a nationally ranked player. After a win in the quaterfinals Masuoka fell in the semifinals to the eventual champion. In the third-place match against a player ranked No. 32 in the nation at the end of last season, Masuoka won a close match 5-7, 6-2, 7-6 prevailing in the third set tiebreaker 9-7. Masuoka qualified for the national championship by winning the ITA regional championship. As a regional champion Masuoka is ensured All-American status.

(Sept. 27, 2004) Yoji Masuoka lost only two sets in six matches en route to winning the singles draw of Intercollegiate Tennis Association regional championship. Despite entering the tournament unseeded, Masuoka beat the second, third, fourth and sixth seeded players on the way to the championship. Masuoka and partner Patrick Redmond reached the semi-final in the doubles draw before losing to the top-seeded pair and eventual champion. Masuoka reached the singles semi-finals of the same tournament last year and was 10-1 in singles matches last season, playing mostly in the No. 5 or 6 position. His win assures Masuoka All-American status for this year and earns him a spot in the ITA National Small College Tennis Championships Oct. 14-17 in Fort Myers, Fla.