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Men’s tennis season comes to disappointing end

Just a year ago, the Georgia men’s tennis team celebrated a second consecutive NCAA Team Championship with a 4-2 victory over the Texas Longhorns.

This season, the Bulldogs were unable to create the same magic, losing to the Longhorns in the quarterfinal round of the 2009 NCAA Men’s Tennis Championships.

Gilchrist leads women’s tennis team to NCAA semifinals

While no one match may ever define the career of Georgia women’s tennis player Nadja Gilchrist, her match Sunday afternoon versus South Carolina in the quarterfinal round of the 2009 NCAA Women’s Team Tennis Championships in College Station, Texas will be one she remembers for quite a while.

Georgia women’s tennis team flawless in NCAA opener

The SEC Champion Georgia women’s tennis team proved to be too strong for South Carolina State, victor of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, in the first round of the 2009 NCAA Tournament.

The second-ranked host Bulldogs of Georgia (24-2) dominated the Lady Bulldogs of South Carolina State 4-0 Saturday in front of a partisan Georgia crowd at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex.

Women’s tennis hopes to update replay

Posted outside the Georgia’s women’s tennis team’s locker room is a small flat-screen television.

The TV plays ESPN’s coverage of the championship point of the Bulldogs’ triumph over Stanford in the 2000 NCAA Championships on a continuous loop.

Head coach Jeff Wallace, who was the engineer behind the only two team titles in 1994 and 2000, admitted he occasionally takes a peek at the TV.

Women’s tennis No. 2 seed

The Georgia women’s tennis team won’t have to leave the Classic City for the first two rounds as it embarks on its quest for a third NCAA team title.

The women learned their fate early Tuesday evening as the NCAA announced the 64-team field. The SEC champion Bulldogs (23-2) are the No.

Wallace recalls tennis history

In 1986, Jeff Wallace took over a Georgia women’s tennis team coming off a 16-20 season.

Since Wallace’s hire, the Georgia women have not looked back. Over the 24 years, Wallace, a former tennis player at Georgia, has led his teams to seven SEC regular-season titles and six SEC Tournament championships, with the most recent coming this past Sunday.

Women’s tennis claims third straight SEC tournament title, Dancevic MVP

The Georgia women’s tennis team captured its third consecutive SEC title and sixth conference championship in program history Sunday.

The top-seeded Bulldogs (23-2) blasted No. 10 Tennessee 4-0 in the finals of the 2009 SEC Tournament in Fayetteville, Ark.

Georgia avenges loss to Florida in SEC semis, 4-2

Heading into their SEC Tournament semifinal matchup versus Florida, the Georgia women’s tennis team had not lost a doubles point in ten straight contests since dropping a close 4-3 match to the Gators on March 13 in Gainesville, Fla, ironically their last loss.

Women’s tennis to defend SEC crown

A year ago, the Georgia women’s tennis team were underdogs, despite heading into the 2008 SEC Tournament as the No. 2 seed.

After all, 2008 regular season champion Florida strolled into the postseason unscathed and unmatched in conference play.

But the Bulldogs, comprised of a promising sophomore class, willed their way through three tough victories, including two thrillers, a 4-3 decision over Arkansas in the semifinals and a 4-3 nail-biter over the arch-rival Gators in the tournament final – with Naoko Ueshima clinching both matches for the Bulldogs.

Women’s tennis stop Alabama 6-1 in SEC quarters

In its quest for their third consecutive SEC Tournament title, the Georgia women’s tennis team ordered T-shirts with the slogan “On Fee for Three.” “Fee” is intended to be slang for the word fire.

After knocking off Alabama 6-1 in Tuscaloosa just three weeks ago, the Bulldogs started off red-hot Friday morning as they advanced past the Crimson Tide in the quarterfinal round of the 2009 SEC Tournament.

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