Juan Melian

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General Info: Southern Conference Player of the Year in 2011 and two-time all-SoCon performer who transferred to Georgia Tech following the spring season of 2011 … Plugged into the middle of Tech[apos]s lineup from the beginning of the spring, and moved up to play the No. 1 and 2 positions as a senior … Named to the ACC Academic Honor Roll each year at Tech.

Went 39-27 in singles in two seasons at Georgia Tech, and compiled a collegiate career mark of 78-37 … Went 19-24 as a doubles player at Tech.

2012-13: – Match-by-Match

Played at the top of Tech[apos]s singles lineup in the spring, going 4-4 at No. 1 and 8-5 at No. 2, and finished the year with a 21-15 overall singles mark and 12-9 in dual matches … Beat two ranked players, No. 52 Bob van Overbeek of Florida and No. 89 Domonic Citrone of Florida State … Played most of his doubles matches with freshman Nathan Rakitt, going 14-11 overall and 9-7 in dual matches.

2011-12: Played in the middle of the Tech lineup, going 6-6 at the No. 3 position, 5-2 at No. 4 in the final four weeks of the season … Paired with Vikram Hundal in doubles early in the spring but gave way to Sebastian Lopez for the last 10 matches … Reached the quarterfinals of the USTA/ITA Southeast Regional in the fall … Posted a 6-3 singles record for the Jackets while ranked 97th nationally … Advanced to the quarterfinals of the USTA/ITA Southeast Regional before falling to Georgia[apos]s Ignacio Taboada (No. 110) … Also posted a 1-3 record in doubles play for Tech … Named to the ACC Academic Honor Roll.

2010-11 (at Georgia Southern): 2011 Southern Conference Player of the Year … Member of SoCon All-Conference first team … Had 22 victories at No. 1 singles for second place all-time for Georgia Southern for wins in singles play in a season … 22-1 record in singles play set team[apos]s all-time best winning-percentage mark (.957) … Closed 2011 season with a 16-match winning streak in singles play … Led the conference in singles with an undefeated 10-0 record (10-0), eight of the 10 wins coming in single sets … Named SoCon Men[apos]s Tennis Player of the Month for March … Awarded SoCon Men[apos]s Tennis Player of the Week honors for matches played April 11-17th.

2009-10 (at Georgia Southern): Named to the 2010 Southern Conference All-Freshman Team … Displayed promising collegiate career during freshman campaign, leading the team in singles victories … Tallied a 14-6 dual singles mark, 5-4 SoCon ledger and 17-9 overall singles record for the season … Saw action at the Nos. 1, 2 and 4 seeds … Went 10-3 at No. 2 and 3-3 at the top singles position … Was 5-1 at the two seed against conference foes … Posted a 2-1 record in tiebreakers … Defeated nationally ranked No. 112 Dusan Miljevic of then-No. 43 Georgia Tech in straight sets, dropping only three games … Won six consecutive straight-set matches during March … Teamed with Gregory Bekkers, Justin Flynn, Alain Garrido and Matthijs Verdam in doubles … Posted a .500 fall mark going 3-3 in singles action, competing in three tournaments … Picked up first collegiate win at the Seminole Invite uprooting Florida State[apos]s Aaron May in a super-tiebreak … Won a tight match in the ITA Southeast Regional over Austin Roebuck of Georgia Tech after suffering a tough loss to Borja Malo of Georgia … Defeated Igor Ogrizek from Radford in the opening round of the Crimson Tide Invitational in straight sets.

Prep: Ranked in Top 115 in Spain … Participated in ITF and Futures world tournaments, taking titles in singles and doubles ITF tournaments … Won the Abama Junior Cup in 2008 … Recorded wins over Top 50 ITF Junior players.

Personal: Full name is Juan Melian Puigventos … Born April 11, 1991 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain … Is the son of Juan Manuel and Elena Melian Puigventos … Majored in Technology Options at Georgia Southern.