University of Nevada Athletics

Reno, Nev. The Nevada men’s and women’s tennis teams received historic news when the Intercollegiate Tennis Association release the 2007-08 Regional Rankings earlier this month.

The Wolf Pack women’s tennis, led by third-year coach Sylvain Malroux, had two players receive high rankings as sophomore Maria Mizyuk came in at the No. 10 spot in singles. In doubles, Mizyuk and junior Caroline Bailly were ranked fourth in the Northwest Region rankings, which includes Cal, Stanford, Fresno State, Washington and Oregon, among other schools.

For the first time in more than a decade, the Nevada men’s team has a singles player in the ITA West Regional Rankings as sophomore Laurent Garcin debuted at No. 27. Garcin recorded 10 wins during the fall season and scored victories over a pair of players who are ranked in the top 20. Garcin also made the finals of two singles events the Chandler Cup hosted by Cal and the Pacific Fall Invitational.

The Wolf Pack men compete in the tough West Region, which includes schools from Nevada, California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona and Hawaii.

The complete regional rankings are below:

1. Susie Babos, Cal
2. Jessica Nguyen, Stanford
3. Anastasia Petukhova, Fresno State
4. Melanie Gloria, Fresno State
5. Bojana Bobusic, Cal
6. Cristina Visico, Cal
7. Tinesta Rowe, Fresno State
8. Carolyn McVeigh, Stanford
9. Renata Kucerkova, Fresno State
10. Maria Mizyuk, Nevada
11. Katrina Zheltova, Sacramento State
12. Hilary Barte, Stanford
13. Jessica Hoath, St. Mary's
14. Claire Ilcinkas, Cal
15. Brittany Blalock, Cal Poly
16. Ekaterina Burduli, Washington State
17. Marion Ravelojaona, Cal
18. Celia Durkin, Stanford
19. Lindsay Burdette, Stanford
20. Wing-Yau (Venise) Chan, Washington

1. Rowe/Gloria, Fresno State
2. Kuckerkova/Petukhova, Fresno State
3. Wong/Blalock, Cal Poly
4. Bailly/Mizyuk, Nevada
5. Babos/Kusano, Cal
6. Cossou/Ilcinkas, Cal
7. Barte/Nguyen, Stanford
8. Durkin/Burdette, Stanford
9. Burduli/Kamendova, Washington State
10. Schrifis/Zheltova, Sacramento State
11. Bobusic/Dillon, Cal
12. Tanzer/Doolittle, Portland
13. Brady/Markhoff, Cal Poly
14. Ardies/Simpson, Washington
T15. Powaska/Rolly, Oregon
T15. Ravelojaona/Visico, Cal

Rank Player School
1 Alex Clayton Stanford University
2 Robert Farah Univ. of Southern California
3 Bassam Beidas Pepperdine
4 Andre Begemann Pepperdine
5 Haythem Abid UCLA
6 Richard Wire Stanford University
7 Thomas Liversage Univ. of San Diego
8 Mathieu Dehaine UCLA
9 Matt Bruch Stanford University
10 Kaes Van't Univ. of Southern California
11 Harel Srugo UCLA
12 Dean Jackson Univ. of San Diego
13 Claudio Christen Univ. of Arizona
14 Andy Kuharszky University of Washington
15 Gary Sacks Univ. of Southern California
16 James Lemke Pepperdine
17 Rudolf Siwy Fresno State
18 Sascha Heinemann Univ. of Hawaii, Manoa
19 Kiryl Harbatsiuk Sacramento State
20 Andreas Weber Univ. of Hawaii, Manoa
21 Pierre Mouillon California
22 Omar Altmann Pepperdine
23 Bozhidar Katsarov California
24 Jaak Poldma Univ. of Southern California
25 Juan Rebaza Arizona State University
26 Kallim Stewart California
27 Laurent Garcin Univ. of Nevada
28 Philip Therp UC Santa Barbara
29 Mirko Zapletal Fresno State
30 Victor Lamm UC Irvine