| Ben Chen |
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Senior
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| Hometown:
Spring, Texas
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| High School:
Klein Collins HS
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| Height:
6-1
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| Experience:
3L
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| Records |
| YEAR |
SINGLES |
DOUBLES |
DUAL-SINGLES |
| 2010 |
10-6 |
5-3 |
3-1 |
| 2011 |
16-11 |
17-6 |
7-8 |
| 2012 |
14-11 |
17-9 |
7-5 |
| 2013 |
0-0 |
0-0 |
0-0 |
| Career |
40-28 |
39-18 |
17-14 |
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| Honors |
| • Academic All-Big 12 First Team; 2011 |
AS A JUNIOR (2011-12)
• totaled a 14-11 overall singles record, including a 7-5 mark in dual matches
• registered a 17-9 overall doubles record
• rallied for a 2-6, 6-3, 6-3 win over Texas Tech's Gabriel Wanderley at fifth singles in UT's 4-3 road loss to the Red Raiders
• clinched UT's 4-3 win over Texas A&M in Austin with a 6-2, 3-6, 7-5 victory at sixth singles over the Aggies' Niall Angus; with the team score knotted at three apiece, he rallied from a 5-2 third-set deficit and took the final five games to preserve the win
• defeated Ryan Wiggins of St. Edward's (6-0, 6-0) in UT's 6-0 win over the Hilltoppers
• notched a 6-1, 6-0 win over UT Permian Basin's Meliton Morales
• registered a 6-3, 6-2 win over San Diego's Victor Pugliese at fifth singles in UT's neutral-site loss to the Toreros
• posted a 6-2, 6-1 win over TCU's Will Stein at fifth singles in Texas' 7-0 win over TCU
• made his first dual-match appearance of the season against UT Arlington's Stefan Williams at fifth singles and notched a 6-2, 6-1 win
• posted a 6-3, 6-3 win over Michigan's Barrett Franks at the Key Biscayne Quad
• reached the finals of his singles draw at the Southwest Shootout with wins over Rice's Philipp Seifert (6-3, 6-1) and TCU's Daniel Sanchez (6-1, 6-2)
• notched a 6-3, 6-3 win over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi's Aurelien Tave in the round of 64 at the ITA Texas Regional Championships
• defeated Virginia's Steven Rooda (3-6, 6-2, 1-0 [10-8]) in the qualifying bracket's consolation draw at the ITA All-American Championships
• posted wins over Illinois' Tim Kopinski (7-5, 2-6, 6-3) and Notre Dame's Billy Pecor (6-3, 4-6, 6-3) at the Olympia Fields Fighting Illini Invitational
AS A SOPHOMORE (2010-11)
• posted a 17-12 overall singles record, including an 8-9 mark in dual-match play primarily at No. 4 singles
• notched a 6-3, 6-3 win over Texas Tech's Vitor Manzini in UT's 5-2 win over the Red Raiders
• defeated Baylor's Kiki Grangeiro by a 6-1, 6-2 count in UT's loss to the Bears
• helped Texas to a win over Texas A&M in the Texas Cup with a 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 win over the Aggies' Alexey Grigorov
• clinched UT's 4-3 win at Michigan with a 6-2, 2-6, 6-2 win over the Wolverines' Shaun Bernstein
• helped Texas to season-opening wins over California and Tulsa with victories over the Golden Bears' Nick Andrews (7-6[5], 6-3]) and the Golden Hurricane's Grant Ive (6-4, 6-3)
• went 3-0 at the Key Biscayne Quad, where he posted wins over LSU's Stefan Szacinski (7-5, 4-6, 6-4), Michigan's Shaun Bernstein (6-1, 6-2) and Denver's Andrew Landwerlen (6-3, 6-3)
• notched a 1-6, 6-3, 7-6 win over Florida's Billy Federhofer at the Texas Invitational
• defeated Texas Arlington's David Subirats (6-3, 6-3) in the opening round of the ITA Texas Regional Championship
• won his singles flight at the Rice Fall Invitational with wins over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi's Laurent Montoisy (6-2, 4-6, 6-1), LSU's Julien Gauthier (3-6, 6-3, 7-5) and Rice's Harry Fowler (6-3, 6-4)
AS A FRESHMAN (2009-10)
• posted a 10-6 overall singles record and a 3-1 mark in dual-match play
• defeated Middle Tennessee State's Shaun Waters by a 6-1, 7-5 count to pick up his first career dual-match victory
• defeated UTSA's Daniel Moreiras 6-3, 6-2 in UT's 7-0 victory over the Roadrunners
• knocked off Laredo Community College's Guilherme Narducci 6-2, 6-2 in UT's 7-0 win over the Palominos
• notched a 6-1, 6-0 win over UTSA's Jorge Delgado at the Texas Invitational
• defeated Baylor's Maros Horny (7-5, 6-4) and Texas A&M's John Lewis (3-6, 6-3, 1-0) at the 2009 ITA Texas Regional Championship
• posted a 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 win over Tennessee's Max Stevens at the H-E-B Baylor Intercollegiate
• registered victories over Pepperdine's Finn Tearney (6-1, 3-6, 1-0) and Abilene Christian's Luke Hawk at the Racquet Club Collegiate Invitational
BEFORE TEXAS
• reached the round of 32 in the boys' 18 division at the 2009 USTA Summer National Championships in Kalamazoo, Mich.
• 2009 Texas UIL Class 5A state singles champion
• among high school seniors, ranked as high as No. 18 nationally and No. 1 in the state of Texas by TennisRecruiting.net
• claimed the singles draw in the boys' 18 division at the 2009 Texas Summer Grand Slam event in College Station
PERSONAL
Son of Kent and Kooi-Lee Chen ... has one sister, Becky (27), and one brother, Michael (24) ... born Feb. 7, 1991 in Houston, Texas ... five-time member of the Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll (Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012) ... major is economics.
