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Year: SR
Hometown: Shaker Heights, OH
High School: University School
College: Claremont McKenna
Height: 6'3
Weight: 175
Major: Economics / Psychology
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On Court: All court player who joined the Stags after attaining a top 300 USTA national ranking and top 20 ranking in the Midwest...led his University School team to the Ohio state championship his senior year, clinching a three-set win for the title...finished 3rd in Ohio two years in a row...as a freshman advanced to the singles quarterfinals of the ITA West Regionals, then captured the ITA West Regional and ITA National doubles titles with partner Lawrence Wang...posted a 18-9 record in singles at #5 and a 29-7 record at #1 doubles with Wang...ITA Scholar-Athlete (GPA 3.5 or better), 2nd Team All-SCIAC, Doubles All-American, NCAA Doubles Semifinalist and Ojai Valley Doubles Champion (with Wang)...tied CMS single season doubles team victory record with 29 wins...as a sophomore reached the singles quarterfinals of the ITA West Regionals...went 11-5 in singles and 23-9 at #1 doubles with Wang...reached the NCAA Doubles Quarterfinals...2nd Team All-SCIAC and Doubles All-American...as a junior spent the fall in Salamanca, Spain...returned in the spring to post a 5-2 singles record at positions 4-6, and 24-9 in doubles with Wang and Starr (one match)... won NCAA Div III doubles title with Wang...named an ITA All-American in doubles for third consecutive year and 1st Team All-SCIAC for the first time...earned season ending national doubles ranking of #1...as a senior sits at the top of CMS Tennis Records for matches played and won in a single season and in a career for a doubles team (with Wang)...played ITA West Regionals and went 2-2 in singles and reached the semifinals of the doubles with Wang...ranked #2 in the west and #6 nationally in doubles with Wang for the fall...saw limited singles action in the spring, with wins against Chapman at #6 and La Sierra at #2...completing a singles career record of 38-18 (.679 winning percentage)...played 22 matches with Wang at #1 doubles before partnering E. MacColl and Brockett at #3 doubles in the last month of the season...went 17-13 with all three partners to complete a career that ranks him 2nd all time in matches played and third in matches won for an indivdual doubles player at CMS...19th all time with a .710 winning percentage (93-38) for his career.
Tools: Wilson nSix-One 95 18 x 20 strung with Solinco Tour Bite 16 gauge in the mains and Solinco Pro-Stacked 16 gauge in the crosses at 67 lbs
Personal: Earned Wall-of-Fame honors for being a 1st Team All-SCIAC selection and maintaining a 3.0 GPA during his career at CMS...born in Belgium and is a Belgian citizen...has two sisters, Nathalie, a freshman on the Tufts College women's tennis team, and Erica, a senior at Syracuse University...favorite players are Marat Safin and Roger Federer...likes learning new languages and hopes to work internationally one day...follows the Cleveland Indians and Cavaliers...nicknamed 'Gui-bomb.'
Famous relative or ancestor: Jean Claude Van
Dam
City you like to visit: dubai
Country you would like to explore: australia
Film you could watch over and over: shawshank
redemption
Artist whose work you respect: radiohead
A book you read recently that you liked, and why:
netherland - it was an interesting take on post 9/11 new
york
Where you'd want to live some day and why:
Barcelona: it's a beautiful city, great food, people and
culture
Three people you consider to be geniuses:
Leonardo Da Vinci, Roger Federer, Beethoven
Something most people don't know about you: I
smell everything before i eat it
Something most people wouldn't guess about you: I
want to be a fireman
Three words to describe how others view you:
unfocused, friendly, resourceful
Three things for which you are thankful: my
family, my friends, my life and situation
Something you wish you could learn at the snap of your
fingers: how to fly
Hero(es): Clint Eastwood, Lebron James, Pete
Sampras
Your tennis fantasy: winning a team championship,
and getting the team to play it's very best
Something you like to do which is totally different from
tennis: watch the Discovery Channel
One thing you cook pretty well: bruschetta
Two interesting things you did last summer: lived
in LA with Russell Chidester while interning at Merrill Lynch, got
all-access passes to Countrywide Classic tennis tournament and met
Roddick and Malisse
Person who introduced you to tennis: my
parents
Three jobs you'd do if you don't turn pro:
Discovery Channel show host, wealth management, own a sports bar in
Cleveland
Favorite Breakfast Item: breakfast burrito at
Scorpion Bay in Baja, Mexico
Motto: "no regrets"
Ideal Sunday activity: sleeping in, having
brunch, watching football and playing catch
Something hidden under your bed or in your
closet: a pair of birkenstocks, a pink toga
Three things you admire about your parents: their
selflessness, their work ethic, and their courage
Three favorite childhood toys: brio train sets,
bicycle, legos
Three charities or people to whom you would donate
money: Glimmer of Hope, Red Cross, and Atul Vyas
Scholarship Fund
One piece of wisdom you would pass on to a child:
"learn from the past, don't worry too much about the future"












