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COACH LEACH GOTTESLEBEN:
"Patrick is a very talented player and when he
has his mind set on winning, he has the ability to beat anyone. We expect
big things from him in his last year."
1999: Gottesleben earned All-American honors in doubles with Roman Kukal and was USC's No. 1 singles player as a 1999 junior ... He also made the 1999 All-Pac-10 second team ... In singles, he went 16-12 overall and 14-10 in dual matches ... Patrick lost in the NCAA Championships first round to Aaron Marchetti of Virginia Tech ... He also reached the quarterfinals of the Pac-10 Tournament ... He ended the season at No. 59 in the national rankings after being ranked at No. 69 in the preseason ... In doubles, Gottesleben was 17-11 overall and 14-10 in duals ... He and Kukal went 16-9 overall and 13-8 in duals, mostly at the No. 1 slot, and had a final national ranking of No. 20 ... The pair reached the quarterfinals of the NCAA Championships, defeating Ronald Kloppert and Robert Samuelsson of Tulane, Jason Cook and Brandon Kramer of UCLA and Kelly Gullett and John Hui of Pepperdine before losing to Nenad Toroman and Goseth Williams of Tulsa ...
1998: Gottesleben was a stand-out throughout the singles ladder as a 1998 sophomore ... He went 18-10 overall and 15-8 in dual matches ... He most commonly played No. 2 singles (7-4) or No. 3 (5-4) but also filled in at No. 1 twice and won both matches ... He had a season-best five-match winning streak ... In doubles, he went 17-9 overall and 15-7 in dual matches ... He and Akram Zaman went 12-7 overall, 10-5 in dual matches, 8-4 at the No. 2 position and 2-0 at the No. 1 position ... Gottesleben also teamed with George Bastl (4-2) and Christoph Poehler (1-0) ... He was No. 32 in the preseason singles rankings ...
1997: As a 1997 freshman, Gottesleben moved into the No. 2 spot in the Trojan singles lineup in 1997 and had a 20-3 dual match record (22-5 overall, 8-2 in Pac-10 play) ... He was ranked No. 47 in the final singles rankings ... He was named to the 1997 All-Pac-10 first team ... In doubles, he was 10-2 with Johannes Mueller, 8-2 with Akram Zaman and 0-1 with Kyle Spencer for an overall 18-5 doubles record ... Patrick competed internationally in various International Tennis Federation junior tournaments ... He was ranked among the top five junior players in Germany ... He prepped at the Schillerschule School in Waldorf ...
PERSONAL: His father, Wolfgang, is a tennis instructor in Germany ... Patrick is a bu
