Anton Stryhas
| Year: | Sr. |
| Height: | 6-1 |
| Weight: | 170 |
| Hometown: | Minsk, Belarus |
| Previous School: | Olympic Reserve College |
2010 Season
Became the first player in school history to be named first team all-Big Sky Conference four times...named the Sacramento State Senior Student-Athlete of the Year, an award that is voted on by all the coaches in the athletics department and is based upon the athlete’s performance on and off the field...also a second team academic all-district selection as announced by CoSIDA (College Sports Information Directors of America)...recipient of the Big Sky's Scholar-Athlete award, given to one male and one female from each of the Big Sky’s nine institutions based on their athletic and academic performance during the 2009-10 school year...named the Big Sky Player of the Week on March 30, the sixth time during his career he has earned the award...went 16-9 in singles play and 15-10 in doubles play despite battling an assortment of injuries throughout the season...in singles, he was 4-5 at No. 1 and 12-4 at No. 2...won 12 of his final 15 singles matches of the season, including a 10-match winning streak from March 6-April 9...posted a 6-4, 6-0 victory at No. 2 in the Big Sky Tournament championship match...played doubles with four different partners throughout the year, and concluded the season with Holden Ching where the tandem went 8-4 at the No. 2 spot...was ranked as high as 43rd in the nation in doubles play with Kiryl Harbatsiuk early in the season...Stryhas’ four-year career duals records include 72-19 (.791) in singles play and 66-26 (.717) in doubles play.
2009 Season
Named first team all-Big Sky for the third straight season...despite a nagging injury that affected his backhand a good portion of the season, Stryhas went 14-5 in singles play, including 1-3 at No. 1, 11-2 at No. 2 and 2-0 at No. 3...because of the injury, Stryhas was dropped to the No. 3 slot in the team’s lineup the last portion of the season...combined with teammate Kiryl Harbatsiuk to become the first Hornet doubles team to advance to the NCAA Doubles Championships...at the NCAA postseason tournament, the duo reached the second round (Round of 16) after upsetting second-ranked and No. 3 seed Neal Skupski and Michael Venus of LSU by the score of 7-6 (9), 7-6 (5)...lost in the second round of the tournament to North Carolina’s Clay Donato and Taylor Fogleman (ranked 17th in the nation) by the score of 6-3, 7-6 (3)...Stryhas/Harbatsiuk went 15-7 in dual matches (all at No. 1 in the Hornets’ lineup), and were ranked as high as 30th in the nation during the spring.
2008 Season
Named the Big Sky Conference MVP after completing one of the more impressive seasons in school history...became the fourth Hornet men’s tennis player to receive most valuable player accolades, joining Xavier Barajas-Smith (2007), Sherif Zaher (2001-02) and Jason Weiss (1998)...finished the spring season with a 22-1 record in singles play at both the team’s Nos. 1 and 2 spots in the lineup...in fact, he won each of his last 20 matches of the season...the 20-match singles winning streak had been a school record until teammate Kiryl Harbatsiuk broke the record in 2010...went 11-0 at No. 1, 10-1 at No. 2 and 1-0 at No. 3...eighteen of his 22 singles victories came in straight sets, including 6-3, 6-1 and 6-2, 6-0 victories at the Big Sky Tournament...his only loss of the spring came in three sets on Feb. 9 against Sam Tadevosian of Loyola Marymount...teamed with Harbatsiuk to go 18-4 in doubles play at No. 1...combined, Stryhas posted a 40-5 dual-match record in singles and doubles play...overall, including the fall season, he went 30-5 in singles play and 23-7 in doubles action.
2007 Season
Named first team all-Big Sky after posting a team-best 20-4 record in singles play and an 18-5 record in doubles play...19 of his 20 singles victories came in straight sets...primarily the Hornets’ No. 2 player, he went 3-1 at No. 1, 16-3 at No. 2, and 1-0 at No. 3...won eight of his last nine and 14 of the last 16 singles matches...named Big Sky Player of the Week on March 7 and April 3...advanced to the second round of qualifying at the All-American Championships during the fall.
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