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State tennis champion as a junior.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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State tennis champion as a junior.<\/p>\n

State runner-up as a senior, playing through a painful wrist injury. Bryan Assi didn\u2019t regret the journey either time. If he had rested that right wrist over the weekend, he wouldn\u2019t have felt the severe pain with every serve, every forehand and backhand. He had to know, can I beat Koji Ho in this championship match?<\/p>\n

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Ho, a Punahou sophomore, was ready, staving off a second-set surge for a 6-3, 7-5 win over Assi on Saturday morning. Ho spent the half-hour after the match on his back suffering with body cramps. Assi\u2019s wrist was maxed out and in need of rest time, but Hilo\u2019s first state champion since 2004 was at peace. He spent every moment after the match reuniting with friends and competitors from across the state.<\/p>\n

Not a trace of bitterness. Ho will never forget the battle.<\/p>\n

\u201cBryan\u2019s quality made me play so much better because I had to. His forehand is just so dangerous, I have to be on defense,\u201d Ho said.<\/p>\n

Hilo coach Wayne Yamada considers Assi one of one.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew him when he was 9 or 10. He came through the (junior tennis) system. We could all see the raw talent he had. He had to work on some things. The competitiveness got to him at times. Being that young and wanting to be great drove him to where he is,\u201d Yamada said.<\/p>\n

Yamada was a longtime girls tennis coach at Hilo but oversees the boys program as well as of this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I took this job on and knew he would play this year as a senior, I wanted to know, what can I help him with? But there\u2019s nothing I can do that he doesn\u2019t already know,\u201d Yamada said.<\/p>\n

Assi, Yamada notes, is constantly in self-correcting, self-coaching mode.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s saying (to himself), \u2018I can\u2019t miss that.\u2019 \u2018This is unacceptable.\u2019 I thought maybe I would help him be a better person off the court, but he is already there. His family is so good. They\u2019re the epitome of good parents,\u201d Yamada said.<\/p>\n

Assi has much to look forward to. Since the day he joined his older brother, Gil, and mother, Julienne, to practice at Lincoln Park, he has stacked hundreds of thousands of reps. He was 6 when he started playing in 12-under tournaments in Hilo. After more than a decade, he has played in roughly 40 mainland tournaments, accompanied by his father, a Hilo High School teacher.<\/p>\n

The exposure and work ethic have paid off. He will play at Yale next season, eight years after Gil began playing at Dartmouth.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the kind of long-shot scenario that doesn\u2019t work in most households, but the Assi family doesn\u2019t compromise its standards. Bryan has a cumulative GPA of 4.15.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m grateful. Sometimes, kids are scared to go far. You need to push them to do better,\u201d said Bryan\u2019s mother, Julienne. \u201cTake AP classes. You have to be ready for college.\u201d<\/p>\n

The family was in the midst of a grand adventure, the move of a lifetime. Bryan was born in the U.S., but the Assi family returned to Ivory Coast. When they left Abidjan, a massive city in Ivory Coast, they landed in New York City.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, it\u2019s a lot of fragments of memories. I was pretty sad to leave and go so far,\u201d Bryan said.<\/p>\n

That stay turned out to be temporary, just two months in the Big Apple.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew York was cold,\u201d Hippolyte said.<\/p>\n

Hilo, it turns out, had the kind of weather and vibe that reminded him of home.<\/p>\n

Julienne Assi loves big cities but trusted her husband on this decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was my husband who said, \u2018Let\u2019s go to New York.\u2019 He wants the best for his kids. I trust him,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen we moved to Hilo, I wanted to go back the same day. I was used to a big city. We were in Mountain View. It was scary. Night time, you hear the birds. I start crying. I want to go back. I wake up in the morning. He said, \u2018Stay here. Try.\u2019 I decided to stay, but it took me long. One week. Two weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gil played soccer in Puna for one year but asked his mother about going back to tennis.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said, \u2018I don\u2019t have any money for tennis,\u201d Julienne said.<\/p>\n

Hiring a trainer was not going to happen. They adopted the approach taken by sisters Serena and Venus Williams with their father, Richard. Gil\u2019s mother became his unofficial trainer, even though she knew almost nothing about tennis.<\/p>\n

\u201cGil said, \u2018I\u2019ll teach you how to train me.\u2019 We had tennis books. My husband brought a lot of books from the library. We\u2019ll see what we can do,\u201d Julienne recalled.<\/p>\n

Bryan Assi was 4 when he first picked up a tennis racquet.<\/p>\n

Not a toddler racquet. Not a junior racquet.<\/p>\n

At 6, Bryan was using that adult racquet, which was about as big as he was.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was using a leftover racquet from his brother. We didn\u2019t have money for another one,\u201d Julienne said.<\/p>\n

There were stints with football, soccer and basketball. Every time, he returned to full-time devotion on the tennis court.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has always been a good student and tennis player. He\u2019s focused. He keeps practicing and practicing. Working hard. He doesn\u2019t play around,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

All he wanted was to beat Gil on the court. It wasn\u2019t going to happen. Gil was 12. Then a pause with the move to the islands. At 14 Gil resumed tennis. Bryan was 6.<\/p>\n

While Gil stacked reps at Lincoln Park, Bryan was Velcro, insisting on tagging along.<\/p>\n

\u201cOoh, he was jumping any way when he was a baby. One day he put his hand in the fan. We had to take him to the hospital,\u201d Julienne said. \u201cIt was not too bad.\u201d<\/p>\n

Every time Bryan lost to his brother, devastation. Tears. Meltdown. Gil is the classic older brother who did nothing but practice hard every day while little brother saw him as the Goliath nemesis on the court.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would play on a mini court and he wanted to win so bad, he would cry on the court if he started losing. He would immediately jump for happiness if he won a single point,\u201d Gil recalled. \u201cHe would wander off and look for adults who were triple his size to play practice matches so he could use what he had just learned. He kept on doing that and next thing we knew, he was progressively getting better each and every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The big challenge in a charming town like Hilo is numbers. Getting everyday reps was not a problem. Finding competition was tougher.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was hard for him to find someone to hit with. We didn\u2019t know anybody in Hilo, so it was hard,\u201d Julienne said.<\/p>\n

The non-stop training began to bear the fruit of success. After Gil departed for Dartmouth, Bryan kept climbing. The adventures of father and son, Hippolyte and Bryan, on the road, had more ups than downs.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlaying tennis on the Big Island, there\u2019s no big tournaments, no (college) coaches coming over to watch him play. So we have to travel,\u201d Hippolyte said. \u201cWe went to a tournament in Michigan. We had the last flight, but the tournament ended at 10 at night. So we slept at the airport until the first flight (in the morning).\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the kicker.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen he went to class that morning.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was on a trip during December 2024, when Bryan\u2019s world transformed. He and his doubles partner were seeded eighth in a national tournament in Orlando, Fla.<\/p>\n

\u201cI played with my friend from Punahou, Sibby Rodi. We won the doubles championship. Honestly, from the beginning I was pretty sure we could win the whole thing,\u201d Bryan said. \u201cAfter that, I really started to focus on doubles a lot. I think I can do well in both (doubles and singles). I want to be better at singles, but my doubles is solid.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the peak-performance moment in Orlando, college opportunities continued to open up. Bryan played high school tennis for the first time that spring as a junior. It was a proud moment for the Vikings, whose last state champion was Andy Narido Jr. in 2004.<\/p>\n

Having a teacher on campus whose son is the newest state champion is even better.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy dad is my period-six teacher. He teaches nursing, bedside manner, all of that. He was a pharmacist back in the day,\u201d Bryan said. \u201cIn class, I call him Mr. Assi. He told me to call him that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The long trips, the constant push for tougher competition, the development day to day, deeply rooted by family.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s how you learn,\u201d Hippolyte said. \u201cThat\u2019s how you grow.\u201d<\/p>\n

The routine was regimented.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight after he finishes school, he gets a quick snack, and they\u2019re on the tennis court 3 to 6 p.m. every day, Monday to Friday,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

What keeps the relentless routine going?<\/p>\n

\u201cMy wife loves tennis,\u201d Hippolyte said. \u201cShe wakes up, and it\u2019s tennis. When you love something, you can learn so easy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bryan concurs.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe always has tennis on the TV,\u201d he said. \u201cEvery day.\u201d<\/p>\n

After a couple of summer tournaments, Bryan will leave Hilo for Yale in late July. He knows about Yale\u2019s talent and depth. Cracking the lineup and playing is a possibility as a freshman.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope so. My main focus is development. They qualified for the NCAA Tournament for the first time in years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Yale is in New Haven, Conn. Gil is in graduate school at Dartmouth. His tennis career is over, but he still swings a racquet recreationally.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe loves tennis. He still plays,\u201d Bryan said. \u201cHe jokes that he can beat me, but I\u2019d beat him now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hilo, after all these years, acclimating from big-city life on two continents, has grown on him.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we got here, I remember that it was quiet and it felt really empty. It was so different. Then I ended up enjoying it a lot more,\u201d Bryan said. \u201cI prefer Hilo now.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the state tourney at Patsy T. Mink Central Oahu Regional Park last week, he stepped in as a doubles partner.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said, \u2018Coach, I want to try and play doubles so we can win.\u2019 After the match, I found out he didn\u2019t take over the match because he didn\u2019t want to disrespect the other player\u2019s family,\u201d Yamada said. \u201cHe knows winning isn\u2019t the most important thing. Bryan is a likable kid. He respects the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

This season, Hilo had 11 boys and 10 girls on the tennis teams.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have so many fun memories of Bryan,\u201d teammate Anwar Genz said. \u201cMy favorite one was during one of our matches. It was the deciding match to see which team would win and I was super scared. Bryan supported me the whole time, cheering for me every time I won a point. He was super excited for me after I won the match.\u201d<\/p>\n

These days, Gil Assi can see eye to eye with Bryan, eight years younger.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, I would say he\u2019s OK as a brother. A bit annoying. But seriously, he has a big heart and is one of the kindest people I know,\u201d Gil said. \u201cAlways willing to lend a hand and very considerate.\u201d<\/p>\n

From a tennis-only perspective, there\u2019s a case to be made that playing junior and high school tennis on Oahu the past four years would have been better. Bryan doesn\u2019t see it that way. In fact, he sounds like a young Andre Ilagan, who worked relentlessly at Kalakaua District Park courts with his father before and while he starred at Farrington. Ilagan went on to play at UH and is currently playing professionally.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe court at Lincoln Park where I grew up playing, playing until 9 p.m., it got a little run down, but it\u2019s my home court,\u201d Bryan said. \u201cMy tennis wouldn\u2019t be where it is today if I wasn\u2019t here. In Hilo, there\u2019s less to do, so every day we\u2019re on the tennis court. Hilo has blessed me.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

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