TreyYates
- height 6-2
- class Senior
- High school Dunwoody
Junior (2017)
Finished with a record of 11-9 … Went 6-4 in singles SEC Conference play … Doubles record of 14-10 … Majority of matches paired with Ryotaro Matsumura going 9-7 … Also paired with Gus Benson with a record of 5-3 … Had a four-match winning streak in SEC play, beating players from Auburn, No. 21 Mississippi State, No. 26 South Carolina and NO. 45 Vanderbilt … Had a doubles ranked win over No. 40 J.C. Aragone and Henrik Wiersholm of No. 1 Virginia.
Went 13-10 in singles play ranging from the second to sixth court … Played primarily on the fourth (4-5) and fifth (5-3) courts … Went 6-5 in SEC singles matches … Earned a 6-9 record in fall matches … Went 4-4 in doubles matches, pairing with Kevin Lai and William Bushamuka, playing between the second and third courts.
Freshman (2015)
Strung together a 12-9 record in singles play while going 4-4 in SEC matches … Played in spots between No. 2 and No. 6, playing mostly at No. 4 and No. 5 … Went 7-5 in fall play … Went 4-6 in doubles play, teaming up with Charles Minc and Nils Ellefsen, playing at both No. 2 and No. 3 … Named to All-SEC Academic honor roll.
Trey Yates joins Kentucky as a blue-chip recruit from Dunwoody, Ga. Yates is slotted No. 16 in the national rankings according to TennisRecruiting.net and No. 2 in the southeast region. Yates is an impressive 23-10 all-time against 5-star recruits and 20-0 against 4-star and below players nationally. Yates is Kentucky’s first blue-chip rated recruit since All-American Eric Quigley (2009-12), who now leads the program in career wins. Yates also was ranked No. 1 in the southeast in recent times.