2020-21 Men's Tennis Roster
Brian Cernoch
- Height:
- 6-0
- Weight:
- null
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Rockville, Md.
- High School:
- Florida Virtual School
2022-23 SEASON
Final Rankings: No. 43 singles, No. 39 doubles
Third-team All-ACC choice in singles ... Competed as a graduate student and finished the season with an overall record of 12-10 ... Went 11-10 at the No. 1 singles slot ... Earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Singles Championship, where he lost in the Round of 64 ... Missed the Fall season ... Teamed with freshman Benjamin Kittay and went 12-7 in doubles, primarily at the No. 2 slot ... He and Kittay finished the season ranked No. 39 in doubles ... Cernoch and Kittay earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Doubles Championship ... Cernoch and Ryan Seggerman reached the finals of the ITA All-American Championship in Tulsa, Okla., in the fall.
2021-22 SEASON
Final Rankings: No. 25 singles, No. 28 doubles
Earned All-America honors in singles for the first time in his career ... Won the ITA Carolina Region Most Improved Senior Award ... First-team All-ACC pick ... Reached the Round of 16 in the NCAA Singles Championship ... Posted an overall record (Fall and Spring) of 29-13, including a 22-13 Spring mark and 12-3 in ACC dual matches ... Went 10-6 versus ranked opponents, including 1-2 vs. Top 10, 3-0 vs. No. 11-25 and 4-2 vs. No. 26-50 ... Went 11-4 at No. 1 singles and 8-0 at No. 2 singles ... Was named ACC Player of the Week after he came from behind to beat No. 7-ranked Alex Kotzen of Columbia ... Teamed with Mac Kiger and finished 28th nationally in doubles in the final ITA rankings ... The duo went 14-7 at No. 1 doubles and 10-3 in ACC play ... Cernoch & Kiger posted a record of 23-11 overall in the Fall and Spring and 19-7 in the Spring ... The pair rose to as high as No. 4 in the national doubles rankings and received an at-large bid to the NCAA Doubles Championship ... The pair was named ACC Doubles Team of the Week three times during the season ... Won the honor after cruising to a 6-0 win over the nation's seventh-ranked team of Andres Martin and Marcus McDaniel to kick off Carolina's 7-0 day against Georgia Tech ... Also won it after the win over 13th-ranked South Carolina, Cernoch and Kiger defeated the No. 7 doubles team in the nation, Connor Thomson and Daniel Rodrigues, 7-5, to clinch the doubles point ... The duo won the ACC weekly for the first time after it knocked off the No. 2-ranked doubles team in the nation when they downed Justin Boulais and James Trotter of Ohio State, 6-4 ... Cernoch earned a spot on the Academic All-ACC Team for a third time ... Named the 2022 ACC Scholar-Athlete of the Year for men's tennis ... Won UNC Athletic Director's Scholar-Athlete award for men's tennis for 2021-22.
2020-21 SEASON
Final Rankings: No. 66 singles, No. 4 doubles
Posted his second consecutive All-America season in doubles with William Blumberg at No. 1 doubles ... Earned Second-Team All-ACC honors for the second time in a row (2019, 2021) ... MVP of the ITA National Indoor Team Championship ... Clinched every team victory at ITA Indoors for UNC, becoming the second Tar Heel to be named the Most Outstanding Player after Ronnie Schneider in 2016 ... Cernoch went undefeated on the weekend — winning three singles and two doubles matches with the third going unfinished ... He capped the championship with a trophy-clinching victory over No. 74 Nick Stachowiak in straight sets ... Only one of his singles matches during the championship went to a third set — Cernoch defeated Virginia's Goetz 7-6 (8-6), 4-6, 6-2 to send the Heels to the finals ... In doubles at ITA Indoors, Cernoch dominated at No. 1 alongside Blumberg, going 2-0 at No. 1 ... Cernoch went 15-3 overall in dual matches at No. 1 doubles with Blumberg, including 6-1 in ACC regular season competition ... He and Blumberg were the No. 2 overall seed in the NCAA doubles field and advanced to the quarterfinals ... Led UNC in wins in singles with a 22-5 record ... He and Blumberg also led Carolina in doubles wins with 15 ... Named to the Academic All-ACC Team for the second time in his career ... Won the Iron Ram Award from the team's strength & conditioning staff as the men's tennis team's top overall performer in the weight room.
2019-20 SEASON
Final Rankings: No. 13 doubles
Earned All-America honors in doubles, teaming with William Blumberg at No. 1 doubles in dual matches ... Cernoch and Blumberg went 10-2 as a doubles team, including 8-2 at No. 1 and 9-2 in dual matches ... Finished the year ranked No. 4 nationally in doubles after reaching as high as No. 3 in early February ... Also went 16-6 overall in singles, including 11-1 in dual matches (mostly at No. 5 singles) ... Honored as a Tar Heel Scholar-Athlete for his academic performance in the 2019 spring and fall semesters … Earned a spot on the ACC Academic Roll for his work in the classroom
FRESHMAN YEAR (2018-19): Finished the fall season ranked No. 59 in singles ... Ranked No. 7 in the ITA Freshman/Newcomer rankings, released in September ... Reached the consolation semifinal at the ITA Men's All-America Championship in Tulsa, Okla., in October ... Advanced to the main draw there by winning in qualifying, where he knocked off the No. 1 seed
JUNIOR/PREP: Ranked as high as No. 7 by tennisrecruiting.net and as high as No. 40 in ITF world junior rankings ... Played in at the French Open, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open junior draws in 2017 ... Has claimed three victories over players ranked in the world top 10 in the last three years ... Won the 14s National Hard Courts Championship ... Grade A doubles champion and a Grade 1 singles finalist ... Singles finalist as the Easter Bowl in 16s and a doubles finals in 18s ... In the 16s, he won the Carson doubles title and made it to the finals in the 18s ... Swam for RMSC club from ages 4-12 and played soccer for Toca Juniors Football Club from ages 7-12
MORE ON CERNOCH: Son of Petra Cernoch ... Has one older sister
