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Year-by-YearTeam Results,1908-present

Carolina has had 79 winning seasons, seven losingseasons and five with an even record.

Overall SouthernNational CarolinaYear Record Conference Finish Head Coach1908 2-0 None1909 2-1 None1910 6-0 None1912 2-1 None1913 0-0 None1914 0-1 None1916 1-1 None1917 2-0 None1918 1-1 None1920 0-2 None1921 0-2 None1922 8-0-2 None1923 7-0 None1924 3-1-1 None1925 6-3 None1926 6-0-1 None1927 6-2-1 None1928 10-1 John Kenfield1929 7-1 John Kenfield1930 10-0-1 Champion John Kenfield1931 14-0 Champion John Kenfield1932 14-0 Champion John Kenfield1933 14-0 Champion John Kenfield1934 15-1 John Kenfield1935 18-1 John Kenfield1936 16-0 Champion John Kenfield1937 18-0 Champion John Kenfield1938 14-2-1 John Kenfield1939 19-0 Champion John Kenfield1940 16-0 Champion John Kenfield1941 18-0 Champion John Kenfield1942 14-1 Champion John Kenfield1943 7-1 Champion John Kenfield1944 2-2 Champion John Kenfield1945 3-4 John Kenfield1946 10-1 John Kenfield1947 21-1 John Kenfield1948 19-1 3rd (t) John Kenfield1949 23-1 8th John Kenfield1950 22-2 Champion John Kenfield1951 20-5 Champion John Kenfield1952 24-2 John Kenfield1953 23-0 Champion John KenfieldSouthern Conference Totals 15 Championships*Carolina fielded no team in 1911, 1915 and 1919.Year Record ACC Finish Natl. Finish Head Coach1954 22-2 1st John Kenfield1955 21-1 1st John Kenfield1956 18-1-1 1st Ham Strayhorn1957 8-9 2nd Vladimir Cernik1958 11-2 1st Vladimir Cernik1959 12-3 1st Don Skakle1960 14-2 1st Don Skakle1961 15-6 1st Don Skakle1962 22-1 1st Don Skakle1963 18-1 1st 10th (t) Don Skakle1964 16-2 2nd Don Skakle

1965 20-0 1st Don Skakle1966 19-1 1st Don Skakle1967 19-1 1st Don Skakle1968 17-2 2nd Don Skakle1969 19-1 2nd Don Skakle1970 18-0 1st 20th (t) Don Skakle1971 22-2 2nd 10th (t) Don Skakle1972 17-3 1st 5th (t) Don Skakle1973 24-1 1st 11th (t) Don Skakle1974 19-3 1st 7th Don Skakle1975 23-2 1st 25th (t) Don Skakle1976 21-2 1st 13th (t) Don Skakle1977 22-2 1st 14th Don Skakle1978 23-5 2nd (t) 18th Don Skakle1979 15-10 6th Don Skakle1980 23-5 4th Don Skakle1981 18-10 5th (t) Allen Morris1982 15-11 3rd (t) Allen Morris1983 22-6 2nd Allen Morris1984 22-11 4th Allen Morris1985 19-13 2nd (t) Allen Morris1986 14-16 3rd (t) Allen Morris1987 21-5 2nd (t) Allen Morris1988 14-14 8th Allen Morris1989 17-9 3rd Allen Morris1990 19-8 3rd 24th Allen Morris1991 20-7 1st 17th Allen Morris1992 25-5 1st 8th Allen Morris1993 18-9 2nd 17th Allen Morris1994 16-9 2nd (t) 19th (t) Sam Paul1995 14-11 3rd (t) 33rd (t) Sam Paul1996 21-5 1st 16th Sam Paul1997 13-8 3rd (t) 36th Sam Paul1998 15-10 2nd 49th Sam Paul1999 11-14 5th (t) 63rd Sam Paul2000 18-6 2nd 21st Sam Paul

2001 11-9 2nd (t) 36th Sam PaulTotals 1303-308-8, 24 Atlantic Coast Conference ChampionshipsCarolina’s ACC Tournament Championship Years1954, 1995, 1956, 1958. 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966,1967, 1968 (Co-Champion), 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975,1976, 1977, 1978 (Co-Champion), 1990, 1992Overall Records By Coach

Coach Years Record Pct. ACC

No Coach 1908-27 52-15-5 .757

John Kenfield 1928-55 434-30-2 .933 10-0

Ham Strayhorn 1956 18-1-1 .925 6-0

Vladimir Cernik 1957-58 19-11 .633 11-1

Don Skakle 1959-80 418-55 .884 132-14

Allen Morris 1981-93 244-124 .663 62-29

Sam Paul 1994-present 119-72 .623 46-18

Totals 1,303-307-8 .807 267-62

Carolina’s Coaching Tree

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John Kenfield Don Skakle Allen Morris Sam Paul

North Carolina All-TimeRecords

Carolina has the advan-tage in 130 of the 157 all-time series. The Tar Heelstrail in 22 series and are

tied in five.

Carolina holds the winningedge over all eight ACC

opponents.

The Tar Heels lead theACC with a conferencewinning percentage of

81.2%.

Carolina’s 24 ACCChampionships are themost of any ACC team.

Alabama 5-3Amherst 11-0Appalachian State 6-0Arizona 0-2Arizona State 0-1Arkansas 1-1Arkansas-Little Rock 2-2Army 10-0Auburn 2-4Ball State 2-0Barton 2-0Baylor 2-0Boston College 2-0Brown 9-0Bucknell 2-0California-Irvine 2-2Campbell 3-0Catawba 1-0Catholic 2-0Charlotte 11-0Cincinnati 6-0Citadel 4-0Clemson 36-19Colby 1-0Colgate 1-0Cornell 11-0Dana 1-0Dartmouth 23-2Davidson 59-1-2Dayton 1-0Delaware 1-0Drake 1-0Duke 83-25East Carolina 7-0Eastern Kentucky 4-0Edinboro 1-0Elon 6-0Florida 4-14Florida State 20-5Fresno State 1-1

Furman 28-1-1Georgetown 9-0-1George Washington 9-0Georgia 5-8Georgia Southern 1-0Georgia Tech 23-11Gettysburg 1-0Guilford 14-0Hampden-Sydney 1-0Hampton 5-1Harvard 44-9Haverford 7-0High Point 5-0Houston 3-1Illinois 4-2Indiana 4-1Iowa 5-0Iowa State 1-0Jacksonville 1-0Johns Hopkins 3-0Johnson C. Smith 1-0Kalamazoo 13-1-1Kansas 1-0Kent 1-0Kentucky 3-1Lafayette 1-0Lehigh 5-0Long Beach State 0-1Louisiana State 2-0Loyola (Md.) 1-0Maryland 48-8Maryville (Tenn.) 1-0Massachusetts 3-0MIT 17-0McNeese State 0-1Miami (Fla.) 6-18Miami (Ohio) 2-0Michigan 8-0Michigan State 24-2Middle Tennessee State 1-0Minnesota 1-2Mississippi 2-2Mississippi State 0-1Murray State 1-0Navy 10-4Nebraska 2-1New Mexico 2-1New York University 6-0UNC Asheville 8-0UNC Greensboro 3-0UNC Wilmington 1-0NC State 72-5North Texas 1-0Northwestern 3-0Notre Dame 11-6Oglethorpe 1-0Ohio State 2-0Ohio University 5-0Oklahoma 0-1Oklahoma State 1-0Old Dominion 7-0Pennsylvania 5-0Penn State 17-0Pepperdine 0-4Presbyterian 26-1

Princeton 21-10Purdue 3-0Randolph-Macon 2-0Rhode Island 1-0Rhodes 1-0Rice 3-2Richmond 9-0Roanoke 1-0Rollins 6-3Rutgers 1-0Rutgers-Newark 1-0San Diego 1-2South Carolina 36-15-1South Florida 2-1The University of the South 4-0Southern California 0-4Southern Illinois 2-0Southern Methodist 0-3Southwestern La. 1-2Springfield 7-0St. John’s (Md.) 1-0St. John’s (N.Y.) 2-0Swarthmore 6-1Temple 1-0Tennessee 9-6Tennessee-Chattanooga 2-0Tennessee Tech 1-0

Texas 2-10Texas A&M 1-8Texas Christian 5-6Toledo 11-0Trinity (Texas) 3-2Tulane 2-0-1Tulsa 1-1UCLA 0-3Utah 3-0Vanderbilt 2-0Virginia 67-15Virginia Commonwealth 4-5VMI 0-2Virginia Tech 14-0Wake Forest 76-8Washington & Lee 7-1Wayne State 1-0Wesleyan 2-0West Virginia 16-3Western Michigan 2-0Wichita State 1-0William & Mary 17-6Williams 58-5Wisconsin 5-0Wofford 2-0Yale 33-5-1

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Regular Season ACCRecords

1954 5-01955 5-01956 6-01957 5-11958 6-01959 7-01960 7-01961 7-01962 7-01963 7-01964 6-11965 7-01966 7-01967 7-01968 6-11969 6-11970 7-01971 6-11972 6-01973 6-01974 6-01975 6-01976 6-01977 6-01978 4-2

1979 1-51980 4-31981 3-41982 4-31983 6-11984 4-31985 5-21986 4-31987 5-11988 0-71989 5-21990 5-21991 6-01992 8-01993 7-11994 6-21995 6-21996 8-01997 5-31998 6-21999 3-5200 6-22001 6-2Total 267-62

Southern Conference SinglesChampions1933 — Wilmer Hines1936, 1937 — RamsayPotts1940 — Harris Everett1941 — Zan Carver1942 — Harris Everett1948 — Vic Seixas1951 — John Ager1952, 1953 — DelSylvia

Atlantic CoastConferenceSinglesChampions1955 — TommyBradford1958 — Bob Bortner1960 — Bruce Sylvia1962, 1963, 1964 — George Sokol1965 — #1, O.H. Parrish; #2, Bronson VanWyck; #3, Nat West; #5, Tom Chewning1966 — #2, Bronson Van Wyck; #3, BobDavis; #4, Tom Chewning; #5, Nat West; #6,Ken Oettinger1967 — #1, Gene Hamilton; #3, Bronson VanWyck; #4, Tom Chewning; #5, SmokeySwenson1969 — #2, Joe Dorn; #3, Jimmy Corn; #4,Fred Rawlings; #5, Allen Lassiter; #6, Mike Kernodle1970 — #1, Lee Langstroth; #2, FreddieMcNair; #3, Eddie Shelton; #4, Jimmy Corn;#5, Fred Rawlings1971 — #1, Freddie McNair; #2, JimmyCorn; #3, Forrest Simmons; #4, RichieMcKee; #6, Mike Kernodle1972 — #1, Freddie McNair; #2, JimmyCorn; #3, Richie McKee; #4, John McNair1973 — #4, Rich Hardaway; #6, TommyDixon1974 — #3, Billy Brock; #4, Tommy Dixon;#5, Joe Garcia; #6, Dave Oberstein1975 — #1, Billy Brock; #2, Joe Garcia; #3,Tommy Dixon; #5, Dave Oberstein1976 — #3, Earl Hassler; #4, Dave Oberstein;#5, Junie Chatman; #6, Cliff Skakle1977 — #3, Junie Chatman; #4, Cliff Skakle;#5, Jon Kraut; #6, Gary Taxman1978 — #2, Junie Chatman1983 — #2, Ron Erskine; #5, Ken Whitaker1984 — #2, Wayne Hearn1985 — #2, Jeff Chambers1990 — #6, Thomas Tanner1991 — #1, Roland Thornqvist; #6, ChrisMumford1992 — #2, Bryan Jones; #5, Chris Mumford;#6, Joe Frierson

1993 — #1, Roland Thornqvist; #2, DavidCaldwell; #5, Brint Morrow; #6, CooperPulliam1994 — #1, David Caldwell; #2, BrintMorrow1995 — #1, David Caldwell; #6, David Britt1996 — #1, David Caldwell; #2, RobTedesco; #3, Brint Morrow; #6, Tony Thomas1997 — #3, Paul Harsanyi; #4, Tony Thomas1998 — #3, Adam Seri2000 — #3, David Cheatwood; #4, MarcioPetrone; #6 Chad Riley2001 – #3. David Cheatwood

SouthernConferenceDoublesChampions1931 — Hinkey Hendlinand Ed Yeomans1933 — Wilmer Hinesand Lenoir Wright1936, 1937 — RamsayPotts and Eddie Fuller1940 — W.H. Rawlings and C.F. Rider1941, 1942 — M.P. Anthony and HarrisEverett1949 — Vic Seixas and Clark Taylor1951 — John Ager and Bob Luxenberg1952 — Herb Browne and Bobby Payne1953 — Tommy Bradford and DonThompson

Atlantic Coast ConferenceDoubles Champions1955 — Tommy Bradford and Herb Browne1956 — Tommy Bradford and John Foster1958 — Steve Bank and Bob Bortner1959 — Geoffrey Black and Ben Keys1960 — Ben Keys and Bruce Sylvia1961 — Bruce Sylvia and Keith Stoneman1962 — Bitsy Harrison and Ted Hoehn1963 — George Sokol and Keith Stoneman1964 — Ted Hoehn and O.H. Parrish1965 — #1, O.H. Parrish and Bronson VanWyck; #2, Andy Goddard and Ken Oettinger;#3, Tom Chewning and Nat West1967 — #2, Gene Hamilton and Bill Trott;#3, Smokey Swenson and Bronson Van Wyck1968 — #2, Gene Hamilton and Bill Trott1970 — #1, Joe Dorn and Freddie McNair;#2, Lee Langstroth and Forrest Simmons; #3,Jimmy Corn and Fred Rawlings1971 — #1, Richie McKee and FreddieMcNair; #2, Jimmy Corn and RichHardaway; #3, Joe Garcia and ForrestSimmons1972 — #1, Richie McKee and FreddieMcNair1973 — #2, Tommy Dixon and RichHardaway; #3, Billy Brock and ForrestSimmons1974 — #2, Tommy Dixon and Rich

Hardaway1975 — #1, Billy Brock and Tommy Dixon1976 — #3, Junie Chatman and Cliff Skakle1978 — #2, Cliff Skakle and Gary Taxman1986 — #2, David Pollack and JimmyWeilbaecher1990 — #3, Joe Frierson and Bryan Jones1991 — #2, Andre Janasik and Sean Steinour;#3, Joe Frierson and Thomas Tanner1993 — #1, Roland Thornqvist and DarylWyatt; #3, David Caldwell and Brint Morrow1996 — #2, Tony Thomas and Tripp Phillips;#3, Rob Tedesco and Paul Harsanyi2001 — #3, Trystan Meniane and ChadRiley

The Southern Conference decided a sole sin-gles champion throughout Carolina’s mem-bership in the league. In addition to those list-ed, Carolina also won individual singleschampionships in 1935, 1938, 1939 and 1942but research has been unable to attach thenames of the champions to those years.

The Southern Conference decided a sole dou-bles championship team throughoutCarolina’s membership in the league. In addi-tion to those listed, Carolina also won indi-vidual doubles championships in 1922, 1923,1935, 1938 and 1942 but research has beenunable to attach the names of the championsto those years.

The Atlantic Coast Conference decided solesingles and doubles champions from 1954 to1964. Since 1965, ACC champions have beendetermined by flight.


Wilmer Hones

Bobby Payne

David Cheatwood won ACC sin -gles titles in 2000 and 2001

Bitsy Grant, 1931When asked near the end of his tenure in 1955to rate the best at Carolina all-time, the veter-an tennis coach John Kenfield chose BitsyGrant to head up the list. Bryan “Bitsy” Grantcame to Carolina as a freshman in 1929 andwas named an All-America in 1931. Ranked ashigh as #3 nationally in men’s singles duringhis post-Carolina career, Grant played on fourU.S. Davis Cup teams and won three U.S.Tennis Association national clay court champi-onships. Grant’s leadership helped the 1931team finish undefeated and capture theSouthern Conference title.

Wilmer Hines, 1933Carolina’s top player in 1933, Wilmer Hineswon the Southern Conference singles title andcombined with Lenoir Wright to win the dou-bles crown. He also was named an A l l -America that year. The Tar Heels, in fact, wonthe Southern Conference crown every year ofHines’career at Carolina, never losing a matchand tying only one for a combined overallrecord of 52-0-1. After leaving Carolina, Hineswent on to win the Italian Open championship.A great all-around athlete, Hines also letteredin basketball three times and captained the1933 UNC basketball squad that finished witha 12-5 record.

Vic Seixas, 1948Regarded by most as the greatest player inCarolina’s tennis history, Vic Seixas was alsoone of the great players in American tennis his-tory. Seixas was named an All-America in1948, and went on to an impressive profes-sional career. Seixas won the Wimbledon sin-

gles championship in 1953 and also won theU.S. Open championship in 1954. While atCarolina, Seixas, who played under the leg-endary John Kenfield from 1947-49, won theSouthern Conference singles title in 1948 andfinished as the runner-up in both 1947 and1949. He teamed with Clark Taylor to capturethe league doubles crown in 1949. In 1948, heentered the NCAATournament as the top seed,and won five matches in the tournament beforedropping the championship match to the then-No. 1 ranked player. That same year in theNCAA championships, Seixas, who came toCarolina after four years of Army Air Forceduty, was the seventh-ranked men’s singlesplayer in the U.S. amateur ranks. By 1952, hehad attained the #1 singles ranking amongAmericans. The 55 Davis Cup singles matchesthat he played in are the most of any Americanplayer in history, and his 75 U.S. Open men’ssingles victories were a record that stood untilbroken by Jimmy Connors in 1985.

George Sokol, 1963Named an All-America in singles as a junior in1963, George Sokol had a distinguished tenniscareer at Carolina. He was the Tar Heels’ firstdominant presence in the Atlantic CoastConference, which began selecting a singleschampion in 1954. From 1954 to 1964, theACC chose a sole singles champion beforegoing to individual flight titles thereafter.Sokol won three of those titles, in 1962, 1963and 1964. Sokol also won an outright ACCdoubles title in 1963, with partner KeithStoneman.

Freddie McNair, 1970-73The only Carolina player to win All-Americahonors throughout his four years in ChapelHill, Freddie McNair probably ranks asCarolina’s finest player behind Vic Seixas.While at Carolina, McNair combined withRichie McKee to reach the NCAA doublesfinals in 1973. In the Atlantic CoastConference, he won three individual singlestitles in 1970, 1971 and 1972 and three dou-bles titles, one with Joe Dorn in 1970 and twowith McKee in 1971 and 1972. He went on tohave a distinguished professional career,attaining the world’s #1 doubles ranking withteammate Sherwood Stewart in the late 1970s.

Richie McKee, 1972-1974Charlotte, N.C., native Richie McKee wonmuch fame playing collegiate tennis, earningAll-America honors insingles as a sophomore,junior and senior. The sonof teaching pro DickMcKee, who reached thefinals at Wimbledon aftera career at the Universityof Miami, McKee’s play-ing improved with eachyear he spent at Carolina.He became known asmuch for his quiet on-the-court manner as forhis tennis talent. A team captain, McKee and


Bitsy Grant and Wilmer Hines

George Sokol

Freddie McNair

Vic Seixas

doubles partner Freddie McNair reached theNCAA doubles finals in 1973, and the twowon the 1971 and 1972 Atlantic CoastConference doubles titles. In singles, McKeewon two ACC titles, at #4 in 1971 and #3 in1972.

Billy Brock, 1976A Coach Don Skakle protege, Billy Brock wasa member of four AtlanticCoast Conference cham-pionship teams at Carolinaand was an All-America insingles in 1976.Brock, known for hisbaby-faced appearanceand slight build, was apowerhouse on the courtand a member of NorthCarolina teams that lost only eight dual match-es in his four-year career, including four unde-feated seasons in the ACC. The Tar Heels fin-ished as high at seventh in 1974 in the nation-al polls, as Brock won two ACC individualflight singles titles, at #3 in 1974 and #1 in1975, and also took home a doubles title in1975 with partner Tommy Dixon. One of theNorfolk, Va., native’s greatest wins was a sec-ond-round 1974 NCAA Tournament upset of12th-seeded Steve Mott of UCLA. Down a set,then-freshman Brock went on to win ninestraight games from the favored Bruin, andwon the final sets, 6-0 and 6-1. Brock reachedthe third round of the tournament.

Jeff Chambers, 1985The only Carolina player in history to receivean NCAA singles invitation each of his fouryears as a Tar Heel, Chambers attended theNCAA Tournament in 1984, 1985, 1986 and

1987. He was named anAll-America in singles in1985 after capturing theACC individual flightchampionship at #2 sin-gles and going 26-8 over-all. Chambers also attend-ed the NCAA Tournamentin doubles three times,missing only in 1986. The

St. Petersburg, Fla., native was a three-timeAll-Atlantic Coast Conference selection. Heenjoyed his highest national ranking in doubleswith partner Wayne Hearn in 1985, as the pairreached the No. 24 slot in the ITA poll.

Bryan Jones, 1992One of two Carolina players in history to benamed the Atlantic Coast ConferenceTournament Most Valuable Player, BryanJones received that honor and many more in1992 as the senior tri-captain led the Tar Heelsto one of the school’s most successful seasons,setting a school record for team wins (25-5).

Jones also was named the ACC Player of theYear in 1992 and helped lead the team to the1992 ACC Tournament Championship. It wasthe second such championship for UNC duringJones’tenure, as Carolina also won the covet-ed trophy in 1990 when Jones was a sopho-more. The Tar Heels finished the 1992 confer-ence regular season undefeated at 8-0 andplaced four players on the All-ACC team,including Jones, who also earned the honor in1990. The Kings Mountain, N.C., native wasnamed an All-America selection in singlesafter finishing with a 35-7 overall record, wasnamed the ITA Region II Volvo Tennis/SeniorPlayer of the Year and reached the secondround of the NCAA Tournament. Jones, whoalso won the flight #2 ACC singles title in1992, was a member of a senior class that sawits team reach the quarterfinals of the NCAATournament and finish eighth nationally in theITA poll — the best finish for Carolina since1974. Over four years as a Tar Heel, Joneshelped the team reach the championship matchof the ACC Tournament each year.

Chris Mumford, 1992A member of the 1992 Atlantic CoastConference Tournament championship team,Chris Mumford was one ofthree Tar Heels to benamed All-Americas onthat squad — the most ofany Carolina team in histo-ry. Mumford had a spec-tacular year in 1992, cap-turing All-America honorsin doubles with teammateRoland Thornqvist aftercompleting a 15-7 season at the #1 position.

The pair were quarterfinalists at the NCAAChampionships and finished the season ranked14th in the ITA poll. Mumford enjoyed All-ACC honors in 1992, the second such honor inhis career, as the Richmond, Va., native cap-tured the flight #5 ACC singles title with a 7-1conference record. Over his four-year career,Mumford was a member of a senior classwhich helped lead the Tar Heels to an 81-29overall record and a 24-4 record in the ACC.After being unranked as freshmen, they ledCarolina to national rankings of 24th in theirsophomore year, 17th in their junior year andeighth in their senior year, and led Carolina in1990 to its first ACC crown since 1978. The1992 team’s NCAA Tournament bid was alsothe first since 1978 for the Tar Heels, as thatsquad went on to become quarterfinalistsnationally and set a school record with 25wins.

Roland Thornqvist, 1992-1993Arguably the most accomplished tennis playerever to wear Carolina blue and white, 1993UNC graduate Roland Thornqvist was the #1singles and #1 doubles player at Carolina forthree straight years. The Farsta, Sweden,native was named an All-American in both sin-gles and doubles by the ITA in both 1992 and1993. His greatest accomplishment, however,was winning the Rafael Osuna SportsmanshipAward in both 1992 and 1993. He is the firstplayer in the history of college tennis to winthe prestigious honor twice. As a junior, he


Bryan Jones

RolandThornqvist

also won the Region II Arthur Ashe Jr./HeadSportsmanship Award. In 1993, he capturedthe singles title in the Rolex/ITA NationalIndoor Championships, one of the collegiategrand slams; was named to the RolexCollegiate All-Star Team; was the ITA RegionII Senior Player of the Year and the AtlanticCoast Conference Player of the Ye a r.Thornqvist was the ACC champion at #1 sin-gles in both his sophomore and senior yearsand he won the #1 doubles crown as a senior,with Daryl Wyatt. A three-time All-ACC selec-tion, Thornqvist co-captained the Tar Heelteam as a senior and qualified for the NCAATournament in singles three years and in dou-bles twice. He was a quarterfinalist in singlesin both 1992 and 1993, and in doubles in 1992.Prior to coming to Carolina, he won the 1990NAIA national championship in both singlesand doubles as a freshman at Elon College andwas named a first-team Volvo All-America andthe NAIA National Tennis Player of the Year,compiling a singles record of 37-0. Thornqvistalso was named by USA Today as its collegiateathlete of the year for the state of NorthCarolina in 1990. After spending a year on theATP Tour following graduation from Carolinain 1993, Thornqvist was an assistant coach forthe Tar Heels in 1995 and 1996. He left theprogram to become the head women’s tenniscoach at the University of Kansas, but returnedto the North Carolina tennis program in 1998as the head coach of the women’s team.

Daryl Wyatt, 1993Although he spent only one year as a memberof the Tar Heel tennisteam, Washington, D.C.,native Daryl Wyatt madehis time in a Carolina uni-form count. The first blackm e n ’s tennis player atUNC since Junie Chatmanin 1978, Wyatt was superbin doubles with partnerRoland Thornqvist as afreshman in 1993. T h epair went undefeated in Atlantic CoastConference play that season, going 8-0 againstconference foes on a team that never lost dur-ing ACC regular season play, and finished at24-6 overall, winning All-America honorsfrom the ITA. Wyatt and Thornqvist also cap-tured the ACC individual doubles title at the #1position, and qualified for NCAA d o u b l e scompetition, advancing to the second round.Wyatt was 32-11 overall in singles play andfinished ACC singles competition at 6-2.

David Caldwell, 1994-1995Two-time All-American David Caldwell left alegacy at Carolina that will be difficult tomatch by any future Tar Heel. The Richmond,Va., native came to UNC as one of the mostdecorated junior tennis stars in the country,

having been ranked in the top five nationally.At North Carolina, he continued his winningways, becoming the only Atlantic CoastConference men’s tennis player to earn ACCPlayer of the Year honors three times, in 1994,1995 and 1996. Caldwell was named an ITAAll-American in singles as both a sophomoreand a junior, and was a doubles All-Americanwith partner Brint Morrow as a junior.Caldwell was 16-0 in ACC singles as a juniorand a senior, and is the only player to ever winthree individual ACC flight titles at #1 singles.He won the 1995 Rafael Osuna SportsmanshipAward and was the Region II Head/ArthurAshe Jr. Sportsmanship Award recipient. The1996 Region II Men’s Tennis Player of theYear, Caldwell received NCAA singles invita-tions in 1994, 1995 and 1996 and was anNCAA quarterfinalist in 1995. A three-timeAll-ACC selection, he compiled a 11 6 - 4 1(.737) record over his four years as a Tar Heeland finished his ACC career with a 32-5 (.865)record in singles and a 27-10 (.730) record indoubles. Caldwell, a 1996 Carolina graduate,was both the 1993 Region II ITA RookiePlayer of the Year and the 1994 Penn/ITANational Player to Watch.

Brint Morrow, 1995A consistently strong performer for the TarHeels over his four years in Chapel Hill, BrintMorrow was named All-American in doublesin 1995 with partner David Caldwell, the tan-dem having gone 26-10 over the season andreceiving an NCAA doubles invitation thatseason. A 1996 Carolina graduate whose fatherplayed tennis at Carolina in 1961, Morrow wasa three-time All-Atlantic Coast Conferenceselection. He won three individual ACC sin-gles flight championships and one doubleschampionship. Morrow captured the flight #3doubles title with Caldwell and the flight #5singles crown in 1993 as a freshman, the flight

#2 singlestitle as as o p h o m o r e ,and wentu n d e f e a t e din confer-ence play in1995 to winthe flight#3 singlestitle as as e n i o r. Healso wasthe recipi-ent of the1 9 9 5B l u e / G r a yClassic Sportsmanship Award after competingin that prestigious tournament in Montgomery,Ala.

Tripp Phillips, 2000An intense competitor and valued team leader,Tripp Phillips, of Charlotte, NC, earned All-America status his senior season. After return-ing from a medical redshirt, Phillips had anoutstanding senior campaign, posting a stellar25-6 singles record from the #1 singles posi-tion. Phillips collected impressivevictoriesover nationally #1 ranked Daniel Andersonand #3 Shuon Madden. Phillip’s intense lead-ership carried the Heels to a second place ACCfinish and a #16 national ranking. Phillipsdominating 12-2 record against ACC compete-tion earned him runner-up honors at #1 singles.However, Phillips saved his best performanceof the year for last as he advanced to the quar-

terfinals of the NCAA C h a m p i o n s h i p s .Phillips performance elevated him in the ITArankings as he finished 2000 ranked #12nationally in singles. Phillips career and char-acter were honored as he received the presti-gious Patterson Medal and the John Va nNostrand Award. He and UNC soccer playerLorrie Fair won the 1999-2000 PattersonMedals. He was the first tennis player so hon-ored since Vic Seixas in 1949-50.


Brint Morrow

Tripp Phillips and fellow 1999-2000Patterson Medal winner Lorrie Fair

David Caldwell

All-Atlantic Coast Conference Selections1984 — Wayne Hearn; 1985 — JeffChambers, Wayne Hearn, Eddie Stewart; 1986— Jeff Chambers; 1987 — Jeff Chambers,Don Johnson, Eddie Stewart; 1989 — DonJohnson, David Pollack; 1990 — DonJohnson, Bryan Jones; 1991 — ChrisMumford, Roland Thornqvist; 1992 — JoeFrierson, Bryan Jones, Chris Mumford,Roland Thornqvist; 1993 — David Caldwell,Cooper Pulliam, Roland Thornqvist; 1994 —David Caldwell, BrintMorrow; 1995 — DavidCaldwell, Brint Morrow;1996 — David Caldwell,Brint Morrow, RobTedesco; 1997 — Tr i p pPhillips, Paul Harsanyi,Rob Tedesco; 1998 — RobTedesco, Tripp Phillips,Adam Seri; 1999 – AssafDrori; 2000 – Tr i p pPhillips, Marcio Petrone; 2001 – MarcioPetrone

ACC Player of the Year1985 — Wayne Hearn; 1992 — Bryan Jones;1993 — Roland Thornqvist; 1994 — DavidCaldwell; 1995 — David Caldwell; 1996 —David Caldwell

ACC Player of the The WeekMarch 12, 2001--Chad Riley; April 3, 2001--David Cheatwood; April 16, 2001--ChadRiley

MVPof ACC Championship1990 — Don Johnson; 1992 — Bryan Jones

ACC Rookie of the Year1994 — Paul Harsanyi; 1999 - Bjorn Rencken

ACC Coach of the Year1983, 1990, 1992 — Allen Morris; 1996, 2000— Sam Paul

Alphonso C. Smith Sportsmanship Award 1974 — Richie McKee; 1977 — Earl Hassler;1980 — Gary Taxman

ITA Region II Senior of the Year1992 — Bryan Jones; 1993 — RolandThornqvist; 1996 — David Caldwell

ITA Region II Rookie-of-the-Year1989 — Bryan Jones; 1993 — David Caldwell

Region II Arthur Ashe Jr. SportsmanshipAward1990 — Don Johnson; 1992 — RolandThornqvist; 1995 — David Caldwell

ITA Region II Player to Watch1994 — David Caldwell

ITA Region II Coach of the Year1992 — Allen Morris; 1996 — Sam Paul2000 - Sam Paul

Rafael Osuna Sportsmanship Award1992, 1993 — Roland Thornqvist; 1995 —David Caldwell

ITA National Indoor Singles Champion1993 — Roland Thornqvist

ITA National Player to Watch1994 — David Caldwell

ITA Nationally Ranked Singles Players1984 — Wayne Hearn, 53rd; Jeff Chambers,63rd; 1985 — Wa y n eHearn, 31st; JeffChambers, 43rd; EddieStewart, 95th; 1986 — JeffChambers, 80th; DavidPollack, 105th; 1987 —Jeff Chambers, 74th; 1989— David Pollack, 64th;Don Johnson, 90th; 1990— Bryan Jones, 59th; DonJohnson, 60th; 1991 — Woody Webb, 58th;Roland Thornqvist, 66th; Andre Janasik, 95th;1992 — Roland Thornqvist, 7th; Bryan Jones,20th; Woody Webb, 79th; 1993 — RolandThornqvist, 4th; David Caldwell, 74th; 1994— David Caldwell, 14th; Brint Morrow, 67th;Paul Harsanyi, 91st; 1995 — David Caldwell,12th; Brint Morrow, 37th; 1996 — DavidCaldwell, 21st; Brint Morrow, 91st; 1997 —Tripp Phillips, 41st; 1998 — Tripp Phillips,69th — Tripp Phillips, 12th; 2000

ITA Nationally-Ranked Doubles Teams1984 — Jeff Chambers and Wayne Hearn,28th; 1985 — Jeff Chambers and Wa y n eHearn, 24th; 1986 — Jeff Chambers and MarkDeMattheis, 47th; 1987 — Jeff Chambers and

Eddie Stewart, 28th; 1989 — Don Johnson andDavid Pollack, 22nd; 1991 — Andre Janasikand Sean Steinour, 33rd; 1992 — ChrisMumford and Roland Thornqvist, 14th; 1993— Roland Thornqvist and Daryl Wyatt, 10th;1994 — David Caldwell and Brint Morrow,21st; 1995 — David Caldwell and BrintMorrow, 9th; 1996 — David Caldwell andBrint Morrow, 27th; 1998 — Rob Tedesco andTony Thomas, 48th

NCAA Tournament Singles Participants1983 — Ron Erskine; 1984 — Jeff Chambers,Wayne Hearn; 1985 — Jeff Chambers, WayneHearn; 1986 — Jeff Chambers; 1987 — JeffChambers; 1990 — Bryan Jones; 1991 —Roland Thornqvist; 1992 — Bryan Jones,

Roland Thornqvist; 1993 — RolandThornqvist; 1994 — David Caldwell; 1995 —David Caldwell, Brint Morrow; 1996 — DavidCaldwell; 1997 — Tripp Phillips; 1998 —Tripp Phillips; 2000 — Tripp Phillips

NCAA Tournament Doubles Participants1984 — Jeff Chambers and Wayne Hearn;1985 — Jeff Chambers and Wayne Hearn;1987 — Jeff Chambers and Eddie Stewart;

1992 — Chris Mumford and RolandThornqvist; 1993 — Roland Thornqvist andDaryl Wyatt; 1994, 1995, 1996 — DavidCaldwell and Brint Morrow

MVPof H.E. Butt Tennis Championships1993 — Roland Thornqvist

MVPof Blue/Gray Tennis Championships1993 — Roland Thornqvist

Blue/Gray Classic Sportsmanship Award1995 — Brint Morrow

Tournament ChampionshipsDavid Cheatwood, 2001 Ralph W h i t t i k a rCollegiate in Richmond, Va.


Paul HarsanyiACC Rookie of theYear, 1994

Assaf Drori

David Pollack

Tar Heel All-America Tripp Phillips anddoubles partnerAndrew Niskor after win -ning professional doubles tournament inMexico last year

The University of North Carolina men’stennis program began the decade of the1990s in grand style and the success hascarried over into the New Millennium aswell.

Over the course of the past 12 seasons,the Tar Heels have claimed four AtlanticCoast Conference regular-season andtournament championships (1990, 1991,1992, 1996); earned seven Top 25 nation-al rankings from the IntercollegiateTennis Association (1990, 1991, 1992,1993, 1994, 1996, 2000); and meritednine spots in the NCAA Te a mTournament field (1992, 1993, 1994,1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001).

The results of the past dozen years havebeen cause for celebration for Tar Heelhead coach Sam Paul and his players.Carolina’s proud tennis program regainedmomentum in the 1990s from its earlyyears. It seems only appropriate that thefirst decade of the 21st century match theaccomplishments long associated with thesport of tennis in Chapel Hill.

Carolina has always had an especiallyrich tradition in the sport of tennis, featur-ing a long list of great coaches, playersand teams. Over the past 94 years, UNCteams have compiled a phenomenal won-loss record that would be difficult to rivalin all of college athletics.

The Tar Heels’ overall dual-matchrecord stands at 1,303-308-8, a winningpercentage of .807. Since the first TarHeel team was fielded in the spring of1908, 79 of 94 North Carolina teams have

posted winning records, five have had.500 seasons and seven have had losingrecords. During three of those years, theUniversity fielded no team at all. In onlyfour of the seven losing seasons did theteam actually play more than two match-es, finishing 3-4 in 1945, 8-9 in 1957, 14-16 in 1986 and 11-14 in 1999. Nineteenof the 92 teams have finished their cam-paigns undefeated, the latest in 1970 withan 18-0 mark. During the late 1930s andearly 1940s, Carolina teams put together a67-match winning streak, a collegiaterecord in its time and since broken onlyby William & Mary in 1949.

Nineteen Carolina teams have finishedthe season ranked among the nation’s Top25 teams, topped by a tie for third place atthe 1948 NCAA Championships. T h eUniversity of North Carolina also playedhost to the 71st National CollegiateTennis Championships in 1955 on theCampus Courts in Chapel Hill. Since theNCAAwent to a team tournament formatin 1977, Carolina has made the NCAAfield on 11 occasions — in 1977, 1978,1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997,1998, 2000 and 2001.

Success in the Atlantic CoastConference has also been the rule of theday during Carolina’s vaunted tennis his-t o r y. Since the conference’s formationduring the summer of 1953, Tar Heelteams have won a total of 24 leaguechampionships, including 22 outrightcrowns. In fact, in 48 years of Atlantic

Coast Conference competition, the TarHeels have finished out of the upper divi-sion only four times and have been eitherfirst or second in 36 of those 48 years. TheTar Heels’ cumulative regular- s e a s o ndual-match ACC record stands at anamazing 267-62, a winning percentage of.812. Carolina players have also won 86ACC singles championships and 37 dou-bles titles.The Birth of Tar Heel Tennis

The roots of tennis competition at theUniversity of North Carolina date back to1884 when the University Tennis Clubwas founded. In 1894, the club beganintercollegiate competition in the sport. Itwas not until 1908, however, that letterswere first awarded and the sport wasgranted varsity status at the University.From 1908 through 1927, the team func-tioned without a head coach and in 1911,1915 and 1919 no team was fielded at all.

That changed in 1927, however, asJohn Kenfield arrived as head coach andTar Heel tennis fortunes began to soarquickly. Kenfield answered an ad placedby the University Athletic Association inthe American Lawn Tennis Journal, seek-ing Carolina’s first full-time tennis coach.K e n f i e l d ’s decision to respond to thequery proved to be a stroke of luck forCarolina.

Kenfield, then 35 years old, was work-ing in Chicago as both a tennis instructorat the Lake Shore Country Club in afflu-ent, suburban Glencoe, Ill., and as a vicepresident of the Curtiss Candy Company,an enterprise he’d helped organize. Whileat Curtiss, Kenfield named the Baby Ruthcandy bar, one of the biggest sellers of alltime. The young candy company wanted acatchy name for its new confectionerytreat to compete with the popularO’Henry bar of its leading competitor.Babe Ruth was then at the height of hiscareer with the New York Yankees andKenfield wrote the Bambino, asking forhis permission to name the candy bar afterhim. Ruth sent back a royalty figurewhich the fledgling company couldn’tafford. Kenfield then suggested “BabyRuth” as an alternate name because noroyalties would have been involved. Thename was adopted, the candy bar was asmash hit, Curtiss made millions and therest, as they say, is history. Kenfield’s firstyear as head coach was 1928 and until hisretirement after the 1955 season, histeams wrote a rather remarkable success


John Kenfield

Bitsy Grant

story during his 28-year coaching tenure.Ten of his 28 teams finished their seasonsunbeaten and his overall coaching recordwas 434-30-2 for a remarkable winningpercentage of .933. His teams averaged a16-1 record each year during his 28 sea-sons on the Hill.Ruling the Roost in the SouthernConference

Carolina also dominated tennis in theold Southern Conference, beginning withthe league’s founding prior to the 1921-22school year and running through 1953when the ACC was founded. UnderKenfield, Carolina teams won SouthernConference team championships on 15occasions in 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933,1936, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942,1943, 1944, 1950, 1951 and 1953.Kenfield also coached 13 SouthernConference individual singles championsand 13 doubles teams which won leaguetitles. Prior to Kenfield’s arrival on cam-pus, Carolina also won SouthernConference doubles titles in 1922 and1923, giving the school 15 doubles cham-pionships in all.

Kenfield tutored some of the mostaccomplished players in Carolina tennishistory. The first great player was Bryan

“Bitsy” Grant of Atlanta, Ga., who cameto UNC as a freshman in 1929. Rumor hasit that Grant was actually enrolled atCarolina for three months before Kenfieldknew he was on campus. Once discov-ered, Grant blossomed quickly, being

named an All-America selection in 1931.Ranked as high as #3 nationally in men’ssingles during his post-collegiate career,Grant played on four U.S. Davis Cupteams and won a trio of U.S. TennisAssociation national clay court champi-onships.

Grant and sophomore Wilmer Hinesplayed together on Carolina’s 1931 team,which finished undefeated and won theSouthern Conference title. Two yearslater, Hines succeeded Grant as UNC’stop player, winning the SouthernConference singles title in 1933 and com-bining with Lenoir Wright to win the dou-bles crown. Hines was also named an All-American that year. After playing atCarolina, Hines went on to win the ItalianOpen championship. Ironically, Hineswas more than merely a great tennis play-er. He also lettered in basketball threetimes and captained the 1933 UNC bas-ketball squad which finished with a 12-5record.

In the late 1930s and early 1940s,Kenfield’s top players included RamsayPotts, Archie Henderson, Harris Everettand Zan Carver. Potts, who graduated in1937 and was also a two-time letterman inbasketball at Carolina, made the NCAA

singles semifinals while at UNC. Thatwas in 1936 when the NationalIntercollegiate Championships were heldat Northwestern University in Evanston,Ill. That same year, Potts was ranked #3 inthe final national collegiate singles rank-

ings.Carolina was so dominant during that

time in the Southern Conference warfareunder Kenfield’s tutelage that in 1936,UNC had all four semifinalists in theSouthern Conference Te n n i sChampionships.

Henderson, a native Chapel Hillian,swept the singles titles of four of the sixtournaments in which he played in 1940and in the process beat all of the topAmerican players of the time with theexception of the legendary Jack Kramer.In 1940, Everett won the SouthernConference singles championship. A yearlater, he won the league doubles crownwhile teaming with M.P. A n t h o n y.Everett, who was also a native of ChapelHill, improved his national ranking to11th in 1940 after he beat both GermanDavis Cup star Henner Henkle and WelbyVan Horn at the Forest Hills nationals. In1941, Carver gave up his Tar Heel foot-ball career to concentrate solely on tennis.He beat out Everett for the number onespot on the Carolina team and thendowned his teammate for the SouthernConference singles title. That same sea-son, Carver lost a tough three-set match(7-5 in the third) to Joe Hunt, who wouldgo on to claim the singles title that year atthe U.S. Open in Forest Hills.Seixas Becomes a Tennis Legend

Near the end of his coaching tenure,Kenfield was asked to pick the all-timeCarolina tennis team. The veteran mentor


Vic Seixas

The 1965 Tar Heels

chose Grant #1, Hines #3, Henderson #4,Carver #5 and Everett #6. The man in thesecond spot was the legendary Vic Seixas,an All-America selection in 1948. Seixashad a storybook career at Carolina, win-ning the Southern Conference singles titlein 1948, finishing as runnerup in both1947 and 1949 and teaming with ClarkTaylor to capture the league doublescrown in 1949. Seixas, a Philadelphia, Pa.native, came to the University after fouryears of Army Air Force duty. In 1948, heentered the NCAA Tournament as the topseed. He won five matches in the tourna-ment before dropping the championshipmatch 6-4, 1-6, 7-5, 6-1 to Harry Likas ofthe University of San Francisco, who wasthen #1 in the national singles rankings,one spot ahead of Seixas. The same yearat the NCAA Championships, Seixas andTaylor were seeded third in the doublestournament despite their seventh-placestanding in the national doubles rankings.The duo won a pair of matches before los-ing to the brother team of Evert and Evertfrom Notre Dame, 6-3, 6-8, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3in the quarterfinals. During his senior yearin 1949, Seixas was the seventh-rankedmen’s singles player in the U.S. amateurranks.

Seixas went on to have a star-studdedcareer after graduating from Carolina. By1952, he had attained the #1 singles rank-ing among Americans and he won theWimbledon singles championship in 1953and the U.S. Open title in 1954. The 55Davis Cup singles matches he played inare more than any American player in his-tory. His 75 U.S. Open men’s singles vic-tories were a record that stood until bro-

ken by Jimmy Connors in 1985.Skakle Leads UNC To UnequaledSuccess in the ACC

Carolina continued to have greatteams during the 1950s. In 1954, UNCbecame a member of the Atlantic CoastConference and from 1955-1959, four dif-ferent men piloted the program as headcoach. Kenfield retired after the 1955 sea-son with Ham Strayhorn serving as thehead coach in 1956 and Vladimir Cernikin 1957 and 1958.

With Don Skakle’s arrival as UNC’shead coach in 1959, the second great erain North Carolina tennis began. A contem-porary of Seixas who played on UNCteams in the late 1940s, Skakle led histeams to total domination of the AtlanticCoast Conference during his 22 seasonsas head coach. His teams won a total of 18ACC titles, including 16 crowns outright.On nine occasions the Tar Heels finishedamong the nation’sTop 20 teams. Overall,Skakle’s teams had a 418-55 dual-matchrecord in 22 seasons, including a 132-14mark in the ACC.

Among Skakle’s great players wereGeorge Sokol, who won a trio of ACCsingles titles from 1962-64, while beingnamed an All-America in his junior year;Freddie McNair, Carolina’s only four-time All-America selection, who wonthree ACC #1 doubles crowns and threeACC singles titles (two at #1 and one at#2); Richie McKee, McNair’s doublespartner who was an All-America selectionthree times and the winner of two ACCsingles championships and two leaguedoubles crowns; and Billy Brock, a 1976All-America who won a pair of confer-ence crowns in both singles and doubles.

McNair probably ranks as Carolina’sfinest player since Seixas left campus in1949 and before Roland Thornqvist andDavid Caldwell’s arrival in the ’90s.While at Carolina, McNair combined withMcKee to reach the NCAAdoubles finalsin 1973 at Princeton, N.J., even thoughthe duo had been upset in the finals of theACC Tournament the same year. McNairwent on to have a distinguished profes-sional career, attaining the world’s #1doubles ranking with teammate SherwoodStewart in the late 1970s. In fact, McNairwon the 1976 French Open doubles titlewhile teaming with Stewart.Allen Morris and the Rebirth ofCarolina Tennis

When Skakle passed away from natu-ral causes on the eve of the A C CTournament in 1980, Carolina tennis suf-

fered its first leadership void in over twodecades. The University hired A l l e nMorris, a great tennis player in his ownright, to become only the fifth head coachin school history. Morris was named ACCCoach of the Year three times during histenure — in 1983, 1990 and 1992. Duringthe 1984 campaign, UNC reached a majormilestone when the school won its1,000th dual match in history. The victorycame in San Antonio, Texas, as the TarHeels upset sixth-ranked Tr i n i t yUniversity, 5-4.

M o r r i s ’ top players included JeffChambers, Wayne Hearn, Don Johnson,Bryan Jones and Roland Thornqvist. AnAll-America in 1985, Chambers earnedfour NCAA Tournament singles invita-tions and three NCAAdoubles bids, miss-ing only in doubles in 1986. Hearn wasthe ACC Player of the Year in 1985 and hemade the NCAA Tournament in both sin-gles and doubles twice. Although he nevermade the NCAA Tournament, Johnsonwas a consistent player who was namedthe 1990 ACC Tournament Most ValuablePlayer after leading the Tar Heels to theirfirst conference crown in 12 years.Johnson has gone on to have a distin-guished doubles career in the professionalranks, winning several major tournamentsand consistently being ranked in the Top


Don Skakle Bryan Jones

10 in the world in doubles.A Stellar 1992 for the Heels

Jones and Thornqvist helped lead the1992 squad to remarkable success on thecourt. Thornqvist was named a first-teamAll-America in both singles and doubles,and Jones, a senior from Kings Mountain,N.C., took All-America honors in singlesas the 1992 Tar Heels set a school recordfor victories in a season during their 25-5campaign. Carolina finished eighth in thefinal ITA poll and made the NCAATournament field for the first time since1978, losing to third-seeded UCLA in thequarterfinals. Carolina also claimed theACC regular-season and tournamentchampionships in 1992.

Jones was named ACC Player of theYear, MVP of the ACC Tournament andRegion II Senior Player of the Year in1992, and he advanced to the secondround of the NCAA To u r n a m e n t .Thornqvist finished the season rankedseventh nationally in singles and reachedthe quarterfinals of the NCAATournament in both singles and doubles,playing the latter with Chris Mumford, anAll-America selection in his own right.Thornqvist also was honored with theRafael Osuna Award given nationally forsportsmanship by the ITA.

That seemed only a prelude toThornqvist’s senior season. Finishing 36-6 in singles and 24-6 in doubles, theSweden native was ranked fourth nation-ally in singles and 10th in doubles at theseason’s end. Thornqvist captained the

1993 UNC team to a 17th-place ITA pollranking and the Final 16 of the NCAATournament, beating Harvard in the firstround of the tournament before falling toSouthern California in the round of 16.

I n d i v i d u a l l y, Thornqvist won theRafael Osuna Sportsmanship Award fromthe ITA for the second straight year, thefirst player in the history of college tennisto win the award more than once. He cap-tured ACC titles at #1 singles and #1 dou-bles, was named to the All-ACC Team forthe third straight year and was the ACCPlayer of the Year and the ITA Region IISenior Player of the Year.

As a senior, Thornqvist won the ITAnational indoor singles championship,beating Georgia’s Mike Sell in the finalsat Minneapolis. He was also an NCAATournament singles quarterfinalist for thesecond straight season and he was namedthe MVP of both the H.E. ButtChampionships and the Blue/GrayChampionships.

Carolina’s success has continued sinceSam Paul took over for Allen Morris afterthe latter resigned in 1993 to become ath-letic director at his alma mater,Presbyterian College.

Paul has led the Tar Heels to NCAATournament bids in 1994, 1995, 1996,

1997, 1998, 2000 and 2001. Carolinareached NCAA regional finals in 1994,1996 and 2000 and was one win short in

each case from reaching the tournament’sFinal 16.

Paul has tutored several All-Americaplayers at Carolina, including David

Caldwell, Brint Morrow and Tr i p pPhillips. Caldwell and Phillips were bothoutstanding singles players and bothadvanced far into the NCAA Tournamentseveral times. Phillips reached the quar-terfinals of the NCAA Tournament in2000 and later that year he was named thewinner of the Patterson Medal asCarolina’s outstanding senior athlete. hewas the first tennis player so named sinceVic Seixas.

Carolina has finished either first, sec-ond or third in the ACC standings in everyyear under Paul’s tutelage with the excep-tion of 1999 when the Tar Heels werefifth.Carolina and the College Tennis Hall ofFame

Six Tar Heel tennis greats areenshrined in the Collegiate Tennis Hall ofFame in Athens, Ga. Vic Seixas wasinducted in 1984, Bitsy Grant in 1985,John Kenfield in 1986, Don Skakle in1991, Allen Morris in 1993 and FreddieMcNair in 2001.

Carolina has had several inducteesinto the North Carolina Tennis Hall ofFame, the most recent being Skakle in1986.

Morris has been inducted into theNorth Carolina Tennis Hall of Fame, theNorth Carolina Sports Hall of Fame, theSouthern Tennis Hall of Fame and theCollegiate Tennis Hall of Fame.


David Caldwelland BrintMorrow

Allen Morris

Roland Thornqvist

F rom Fetzer To Finley:Johnson's Amazing Ascent Never an All-America, Don Johnson thisweek is everyone's All-America. July 12, 2001By Dave Lohse Associate Athletic CommunicationsDirector

In an era when it becomes all the easier to becynical of sports, last Sunday's doubles win atWimbledon by Americans Don Johnson andJared Palmer provides a breath of fresh air.

Labor disputes, inflated salaries, ridiculousticket and concession prices, college playersleaving early for the pros, high school playersgoing straight to the pros, academic scandals.Yikes. I need a mint. These are so often theheadlines which dominate our sports culture.And people wonder why television ratings aredown and some schools or teams struggle toput fans in the stands.

Then every once in a while somethingcomes along which reminds me of the reason Icontinue to work in college sports after 27years in this profession of college sports infor-mation. Don Johnson provided that tonic to meSunday. His was the latest chapter in a story ofaccomplishments from obscure people like themembers of the UNC women's soccer team oran incredible student-athlete like Sue Walsh ora remarkable coach like Willie Scroggs wholed Tar Heel men's lacrosse team to unheard ofnotoriety in the 1980s.

When Johnson was recruited to NorthCarolina in 1986 by then tennis coach AllenMorris it was expected that he would add somenecessary chutzpah to the Tar Heels' lineup.But no one could have expected that the lankyyoung man from Allentown, Pa. would ever bea Wimbledon champion.

As a sophomore in 1988 the Tar Heels wentwinless--yes winless--in the Atlantic CoastConference. That from a Tar Heel programwhich has hardly ever been anything but firstor second in the ACC every year since 1954. Ayear later Johnson helped lead the Tar Heels to

a magnificent season and a berth in the cham-pionship match of the ACC Tournament beforethey were humbled 8-1 in the finals atClemson by the then ACC dom-inant Tigers of Chuck Kriese.

But a year later things wouldbe different. Johnson played #2singles for the Tar Heels andmade the all-conference team asCarolina claimed its first ACCtitle in 12 years. He won both hissingles match and then clinchedthe championship in doubles asthe Tar Heels upset the defend-ing champion Clemson Tigers 5-3 in the finals at Duke. It wasone of those special moments incollege sports that teach the true value of thepedagogical process. For in the non-revenuesports there is still an emphasis on teachingand learning. And Johnson's Carolina experi-ence was a perfect example of that symbioticrelationship of body, mind and soul thatevolves during the undergraduate years.

Johnson never came close to being an All-America player at Carolina. But that didn'tstop him from working his behind off for overa decade to transform himself into one of thetop doubles players in the world of profession-al tennis. And that feat has taken an enormousamount of work. The life of a touring doublesplayer is in no way glamorous. Matches intournaments can be played at obscene hours toaccomodate the singles stars and the travel isboth expensive and tedious. Not to mentionexhausting.

But somehow Don Johson persevered. Andhe got better and better. He accepted the offerof Tar Heel coach Sam Paul to serve as a vol-unteer assistant coach after Don and his wifeKrista moved back to Chapel Hill a few yearsago. Krista went to medical school and is nowa resident at UNC. Don had something to dowhile living in Carrboro between tournaments.And the couple decided to make Chapel Hilltheir permanent home, just finishing a brand

new house in Chapel Hill where Don has livedmaybe 20 hours so far.

His rankings improved. He won someobscure tournaments. Then a year ago he com-bined with Kimberly Po to win mixed doublesat Wimbledon. Through several not uncom-mon changes in men's doubles partners hisgame matured more and this past winter hewon the world doubles title in India.

Just a few short months ago he and JaredPalmer of the Stanford Class of 1991 wereboth in need of partners. They decided to giveit a shot. Eight tournaments later they havewon five titles culminating with a win atWimbledon last Sunday. Their victory createsa dilemma for U.S. Davis Cup coach PatrickMcEnroe as the Americans prepare for aSeptember match in Winston-Salem. Does hestick with the Bryan brothers or go to the pair-ing of Johnson and Palmer?

Monday night Don returned to Chapel Hill.He needed to leave town again Tuesday to goto Philadelphia in his native state to play

World Team Tennis. But a celebration wasplanned in his honor at Top of the HillRestaurant at 7:30 p.m. A hard core group offriends and family were there to meet him.And I invited the media with the help of tennisadministrative assistant Andrew Parker.Several reporters showed. As Don finished hisinterviews he turned to thank me for setting thegig up. The guy has just won Wimbledon andhe's thanking me.

So publicly I want to thank Don Johnson inthis little corner of the world wide web. Notjust for representing his alma mater in smash-ing fasion, even wearing a Carolina warmup tothe victory stand to meet the Duke and theDuchess of Kent. But also for providing uswith one of those moments where we becomeless jaded about sports, even though that feel-ing may be fleeting. We will continue to readheadlines that disturb us. And then anotherDon Johnson like story will come along andwarm our hearts.

And maybe best of all Don got to sleep inhis new house on Monday night. It was a welldeserved respite. And as his head hit the pillowhe dreamed in stark reality about being a backto back Wimbledon champion. Sweet dreamsDon.


Jared Palmer and Carolina alumnus and current assistant coach Don Johnson battletheir way to the 2001 Wimbledon doubles title.

Accepting the Wimbledon hardware

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M M M MMaass, Harold 1942-43, 1946MacArthur, Charles 1970-72Makepeace, Richard 1958Markham, J.E. 1942-43Markham, John 1965-66Marks, D.W. 1943Matisso, A.P. 1944McDermott, Sean 1995-98McGeachy, Neil 1988McGlinn, J.A. 1934McIver, Frank 1957McKee, Richard 1971-74

McLean, Jim 1982-83McNab, Adam 1993, 1996McNair, Bruce 1976McNair, Freddie 1970-73McNair, John 1972-73Mears, William 1968-69, 1971Meir, Victor 1990-91Meniane, Trystan 2000-01Merritt, W.E. 1928-30Meserole, W.B. 1939-40Milton, Cecil 1952Minor,W.T. 1934-35Miscall, Lawrence 1955Monroe, Nicholas 2001Morgan, David 1932-34Morgan, David 1961-62Morris, Ray 1943-44, 1947-48Morrow, Brint 1993-96Morrow, Peter 1961Mumford, Chris 1989-92Murphy, T.L. 1940Myers, Peter 1963-64

N N N NNeill, D.H. 1941Newsome, Albert 1957Nichols, Dave 1945Nicholson, James 1946-47Norwood, John 1928-29

O O O OOberstein, David 1974-77Oettinger, Kenneth 1964-66Ord, J.W. 1942

P P P PPaley, Donald 1943, 1946Palmore, J.I. 1930Parrish, Oscar 1963-65Payne, Bobby 1952-55Peck, D.D. 1943-44Peck, Stanley 1957Petrone, Marcio 2000-01Phillips, Tripp 1996-2000Pollack, David 1985-88Potts, Ramsay 1936-37Potts, Dek 1977, 1979-81Prosper, Darren 1990Pulliam, Cooper 1990, 1992-94Pulliam, Jay 1983-85

R R R RRawlings, Frederick 1968-70Rawlings, W.H. 1938-40Rencken, Bjorn 1999Rice, Charles 1947-50Rice, E.B. 1940Ricks, Thomas 1959-61Rider, C.F. 1938-40Riley, Chad 1999-2001Robinson, Gordon 1936-37Robinson, P.F. 1941Rood, Carlton 1937-39Rood, R.W. 1938-39Rosenkampff, Brad 1985Rowe, Roy 1945Ruotolo, Thomas 1978

S S S SSanders, Richard 1961Sapp, Richard 1952Sarner, Josh 1981-84Saunders, Eric 1996-98Scott, Bill 1928-29Scott, Randall 1988-89

Seixas, Vic 1947-48Seri, Adam 1998Shaffer, Charles 1962-64Shapiro, M.M. 1929Sheridan, James 1980-82Shettle, William 1960Shivar, William 1967-69Shoaf, David 1959Shoneman, John 1969Shore, Frank 1935-36Shuford, H.S. 1932-33Simmons, Mitchell 1970-73Skakle, Cliff 1975-78Skakle, Don 1946-48Smith, Canie 1957Smith, Stanley 1953Sokol, George 1962-64Stackhouse, Glenn 1960Stanley, Robert 1986Steinour, Sean 1990-93Steward, Pawling 1957Stewart, Eddie 1983-85, 1987Stoneman, Hubert 1961-63Stubbs, William 1947Sussman, David 1990-91Swann, Edward 1958Swenson, Bruce 1966-68Swigart, Donald 1946Sylvia, Bruce 1959-61Sylvia, Delmer 1951-53

T T T TTanner, Thomas 1988-91Tate, Robert 1969Taxman, Gary 1977-80Taylor, Clark 1947-50Tedesco, Robert 1995-98Tendler, Paul 1978Thomas, Tony 1995-98Thompson, Donald 1953-56Thornqvist, Roland 1991-93Trott, William 1966-68Troutman, Mark 1979-80Tuttle, Clifford 1945

V V V VVan Winkle, Frederick 1957Van Wyck, Frederic 1965-67

W W W WWaddell, C.E. 1928-29Wadden, T.A. 1942Wadsworth, James 1965-67Walker, John 1957Weathers, Bill 1945Webb, Woody 1991-93Weilbaecher, Derek 1987-88Weilbaecher, James 1986-88Wellford, H.W. 1944Weesner, Richard 1933West, Douglas 1965-67Whitaker, Ken 1981-83Wilder, Cleo 1945-46, 1948-49Willis, Richard 1933-35Wilson, S.L. 1928Winstead, James 1949-50Wright, L.C. 1931-33Wyatt, Daryl 1993

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