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USTA/ITA Texas Regional Championship
Women’s Tennis Preview: USTA/ITA Texas Regional Championship
10.13.2014 | Women's Tennis
Longhorns continue fall tournament play at the annual five-day event featuring in-state schools.
WHAT: Texas competes in its third event of the fall, the annual USTA/ITA Texas Regional Championships. The winners of the singles and doubles draws at this event earn automatic bids into next month's USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships in New York City.
WHEN: Thursday, Oct. 16 – Monday, Oct. 20 (all day each day)
WHERE: Hurd Tennis Center – Waco, Texas
WHO: The annual USTA/ITA Texas Regional Championship features all of the state's NCAA Division I women's tennis schools - Texas, Texas A&M, Baylor, Texas Tech, SMU, TCU, UTSA, North Texas, Lamar, UTEP, UT Arlington, Rice, Houston, Texas State, UT Pan American, Sam Houston State, Stephen F. Austin and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.
PRESEASON I.T.A. NATIONAL RANKINGS
Singles
13. Breaunna Addison
81. Ratnika Batra
112. Neda Koprcina
LAST YEAR AT THE TEXAS REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
Breaunna Addison and Pippa Horn defeated Texas A&M's Stefanie Hristov and Cristina Stancu in the doubles final last season in Fort Worth.
MORE ON THE LONGHORNS
Headed by two-time All-American Breaunna Addison, Texas returns five of six regular singles starters from the 2013-14 team that reached the round of 32 at the NCAA Championships.
With 59 singles wins in her first two seasons, Addison returns for her junior season as the reigning Big 12 Player of the Year. The Boca Raton, Florida, native nailed down her second consecutive All-America honor last spring by way of her national ranking and her two singles wins at the NCAA Championships.
The 81st-ranked Batra posted an 8-1 mark in conference play last season as a true freshman. Koprcina and classmate Pippa Horn won Big 12 singles titles as freshmen last season at Nos. 4 and 5 singles, respectively.
UT also returns former Big 12 Freshman of the Year Lina Padegimaite, senior Annat Rabinovich and junior Lana Groenvynck. Interim head coach Darija Klaic welcomes a pair of newcomers in the form of Ryann Foster (Sunrise, Fla.) and Danielle Wagland (Sydney, Australia).
UT announced last month the appointment of former Yale head coach Danielle Lund McNamara as its new head women's tennis coach effective Nov. 17. McNamara will serve as a volunteer coach during the fall tournament season while the aforementioned Klaic continues as interim head coach.
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