This year's ITA Players of the Year represent a vast selection of players and schools and include a freshman and a pair of twins.

Amber Liu certainly made a splash in her freshman year at Stanford and as she became the Women's Player of the Year. In addition to winning the NCAA singles title, Amber reached the quarterfinals of the Riviera All American Championships and helped the Cardinals earn their place in the NCAA team finals. She was also named the ITA National Rookie of the Year. (To learn about Amber as a junior player, read our Talking With Amber Liu article.)

Amer Delic is the first player from Illinois -- and only the second Big Ten player-- to be named the Men's Player of the Year. The junior won the NCAA singles championship and was a finalist in two other ITA Grand Slam tournaments this year -- the Omni National Indoors and the Icy Hot/ITA All-Americans. (The only other players who have reached three national finals in one year are James Blake and Sargis Sargisian.)

Richard and William Barker are the first brother tandem to win the Men's ITA National Doubles Team of the Year. (The doubles award was not yet given out when Bob and Mike Bryan were a top college team in 1998.) The twins, who are juniors at Rice, had a very successful season as they won the Omni Hotels Nationals Indoors and reached at least the semifinals in the three other ITA national events. They finished the year as the number one doubles team in the country.

Christina Fusano and Raquel Kops-Jones of the University of California-Berkeley are this year's Women's National Doubles Team of the Year. They won the title at the NCAA Championships and were semifinalists at the Omni Hotels National Indoors. The duo had also been named National Doubles Team of the Month in both March and April.

Photo: From Top-Amber Liu, Amer Delic, William & Richard Barker; Right-Christina Fusano; Left-Raquel Kops Jones