Corkery is the nation's ninth-ranked player and the 2004 NCAA Doubles Champion. He booked his spot at the National Indoors by beating U of Washington's Alex Slovic to win the Wilson/ITA Northwest Regionals. The Stanford number one had held a career-high ATP Ranking of 493 in October 2003.

As it turned out, Corkery lost to Duke's Ludovic Walter, the second-ranked player in all of NCAA, in the semis, 7-6(3), 6-4, whom Martin had taken out in the quarterfinals of the Mideast Regionals. Walter, who reached the semis and the quarters at the National Indoors in the previous two years, went down against UCLA's fourth-seeded, Benjamin Kohlloeffel, in the final, 7-5, 6-1.

According to Martin, he was definitely playing some of his best tennis during the Mideast Regionals and was in the zone for much of the match against Walter, and later against Rylan Rizza in the semis, bearing in mind that the Mideast is one of the toughest regionals to qualify from. "My forehand was really clicking that day and I managed to hit winners from all parts of the court. It was unreal," said the HK under-18 number one.

Before graduating from Berkeley last year, Wayne Wong defeated KC Corkery, 6-2, 7-6, in his school's 5-2 loss to Stanford in a dual match in February.

Byrnes was the 2004 Big 12 Player of the Year at the No. 5 singles position and he qualified for this year's National Indoors by winning the Wilson/ITA Central Regionals where he defeated NCAA No. 49 and fellow OSU teammate, Tomas Bohunicky, 7-5, 6-1 in the final. Like Martin, he beat four nationally ranked players in the Regionals and, in addition, he became the first unseeded player to capture the Central Regionals.

Kohlloeffel, Walter, Slovic, and Bohunicky are just four of many foreigners currently honing their skills in collegiate tennis in America. Names from the past such as Kevin Curran (Texas), Guy Forget, Michael Pernfors (Georgia), Paul Haarhuis (Florida State & Armstrong Atlantic), Byron Black (UCLA), have all used their time and experience in the US to springboard themselves to better and brighter things on the pro circuit.

Again, more recently, a great many foreign names could be found littered on the winners lists or the top half of the NCAA Rankings, such as former UCLA number one, Tobias Clemens of Germany; Harsh Mankad of India (Minnesota); 2004 NCAA number one, Catalin Gard of Romania (Mississippi); Benedikt Dorsch of Germany (Baylor); Alex Vlaski (Washington) of Serbia & Montenegro; and Izak Van Der Merwe of South Africa, etc.

In fact, of the present Top-25 ranked men in the entire NCAA, over half (thirteen to be exact) are non-US players. Four of them are ranked in the Top-10 - Duke's Ludovic Walter (France) at two; UCLA's Kohlloeffel (Germany) at three; Virginia Commonwealth's Arnaud Lecloerec (France) at eight; and Pepperdine's Pedro Rico of Spain at ten.

Players from the territory who had competed in NCAA Division I tennis include Pat Hy (UCLA), Mark Bailey (Kentucky), Rolf Harrison (Princeton), Sven Koehler (Duke), John Hui (Pepperdine), Jackie Fu (Yale) and most recently, Wayne Wong (Berkeley), who became the first HK representative (men) to play at the number one singles spot for a Division I school in the US.

Results
2005 Wilson/ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships
The Racquet Club, Columbus, Ohio
4-9 November 2005

MEN'S SINGLES

First Round
Martin Sayer (Radford) d. Daniel Byrnes (OSU) 3-6 6-2 6-3

Second Round
(7)KC Corkery (Stanford) d. Martin Sayer (Radford) 6-2 6-4