USD Men's Tennis 1995

1994 USD TENNIS REVIEW Whew! For Coach Ed Collins the 1994Torero tennisseason is gone and, hopefully, forgotten. It was Collins' first losing season in his 16 years as the Toreros' coach and the first losing season in the his– tory of USO tennis. Although the Toreros took on 17 of the top-SO-ranked teams and lost no matches to unrankedteams,forCollins the season was a disappointment.

1994 San Diego Intercollegiate

Team Champions

"We underachieved," Collins ex- plained. "For a number of reasons we didn't realize our potential."

Ranked #23 in preseason (based, mostly, on a 16-4 record in '93) the Toreros began the spring season with a double header sweep of UCSD and UC Riverside and a O-for-2 outi ng against Stanford and Cal. At the 23rd San Diego lntercollegiates, Fredrik Axsater, Robert Pavliska and J.J. Shobar reached the finals of their respective divisions before the tournament was rained out. At the Arizona Invitational the Toreros lost and won tight matches with U of A and Washington. Against the Huskies, Axsater, Udozorh, Hofmann and Hrdina won key singles matches. In early March the Toreros visited ASU for the Penn National Collegiate Classic.. In the first round USO lost a tough 4-3 match with the host team; Udozorh, Shobar and Hrdina won their singles. In the consolation match USO blanked Northern Arizona 7-0. For the first time in its 8-year history USO lost its own Pro-Kennex Collegiate Classic. The Toreros lost in the final to Southern Methodist in a great college match; the team title was decided by one third set tie-breaker, in the last match on the court. In late March the Toreros flew cross-country to Montgomery, Alabama, to participate in the Blue-Gray National Classic, where they lost a trio of matches to Texas, Alabama-Birmingham and North Carolina. Back on their home courts, the Toreros lost tough dual matches to Utah (3-4), UNLV (3-4) and Harvard (1-6) . In an all-out effort to "end well ," the Toreros put in two solid perfor– mances against rivals UC Irvine and San Diego State. "In both matches we got total efforts," said Collins. At the WCC Championships, held at Pepperdine, USO was a runner– up to Pepperdine for the team title. Axsater and Udozorh lost in the quarters of singles and the teams of Hrdina-Shobar and Axsater-Huarte also fell in the round of 8. At the year-end awards banquet, Hrdina received the Best Overall Award, leading the team with a 17-1 Orecord in singles and a 17-9 record in doubles; he was also part of the Best Doubles Team, with J.J . Shobar. Shobar was voted by his teammates as Most Inspirational, Jeff Greenhut was selected as Most Improved . Axsater received the Sportsmanship Award and was recognized as Team Captain.

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