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Collegiate Invitational
Women’s Tennis preview: USTA Collegiate Invitational
10.30.2013 | Women's Tennis
Three Longhorns head to Portland, Ore., to compete against UCLA, Michigan and Duke, among others.
WHAT: Texas competes in its fourth event of the fall, the USTA Collegiate Invitational.
WHEN: Friday, Nov. 1 through Sunday, Nov. 3 (all day each day)
WHERE: Tualatan Hills Tennis Center – Portland, Ore.
WHO: Juniors Lina Padegimaite and Annat Rabinovich and sophomore Lana Groenvynck will represent the Longhorns this weekend in Portland. In addition to Texas, the event features players from Duke, Michigan, Nebraska, Texas A&M, UCLA and Portland.
TOURNAMENT WEB SITE: http://collegiateinvite.com/2013/
LAST TIME OUT: Sophomore Breaunna Addison and freshman Pippa Horn won the doubles draw at the ITA Texas Regional Championship in Fort Worth. Addison and Horn will compete in next week's ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championship at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, the site of the annual U.S. Open in New York City.
THE 2013-14 LONGHORNS
Under ninth-year head coach Patty Fendick-McCain, Texas returns six student-athletes from the 2012-13 squad that won UT's second consecutive Big 12 Championship and landed at No. 17 in the final ITA team rankings.
As a first-semester freshman last spring, Breaunna Addison became just the third Longhorn ever to reach the singles semifinals at the NCAA Championships and the first freshman to do so.
The Boca Raton, Fla., native became the first UT freshman to earn ITA singles All-America honors since Susan Gilchrist in 1990. Addison tallied 30 singles wins and was selected as the Big 12 Conference Freshman of the Year.
Senior Elizabeth Begley has won two Big 12 individual titles and tallied 62 singles victories in her last two seasons. The Houston native earned her first ITA ranking this month and is featured at No. 124 in singles.
Former Big 12 Freshman of the Year Lina Padegimaite returns after posting 13 dual-match wins last season as a junior. Classmate Annat Rabinovich added a pair of dual-match wins last season.
Texas also returns senior Juliana Gajic and sophomore Lana Groenvynck, who clinched UT's Big 12 Championship semifinal win over Texas Tech last season. Freshman Ratnika Batra (New Delhi, India) reached the second round of the girls' singles draw at the 2012 Roland Garros (French Open) Junior Championships. Freshman Pippa Horn (Norwich, Norfolk, England) competed at the last three Wimbledon Junior Championships.