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Women’s Tennis Preview: No. 30 Houston, No. 6 USC
02.27.2014 | Women's Tennis
Longhorns continue six-match home stand this weekend against the Cougars and Trojans.
WHAT: No. 26 Texas (3-6) resumes dual-match play this week when it hosts No. 30 Houston (7-1) and No. 6 USC (7-2).
WHEN:
No. 26 Texas vs. No. 30 Houston – Friday, Feb. 28 – 2:30 p.m. CT
No. 26 Texas vs. No. 6 USC – Sunday, March 2 – Noon CT
WHERE: Penick-Allison Tennis Center – Austin, Texas
LIVE SCORING: Available at TexasSports.com
LAST MEETING vs. HOUSTON: Texas defeated Houston by a 9-0 count on March 31, 1996 in Austin. Texas holds a 20-0 all-time advantage against Houston.
LAST MEETING vs. USC: USC defeated Texas by a 7-0 count on March 12, 2013 in Los Angeles. USC leads the all-time series, 15-7.
I.T.A. NATIONAL RANKINGS (Texas only)
Singles
16. Breaunna Addison
76. Ratnika Batra
106. Elizabeth Begley
Doubles
40. Breaunna Addison/Pippa Horn
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 UT freshman to do so.
The Boca Raton, Fla., native became the first Texas 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 singles ranking last fall and ranks 106th in the latest ITA singles poll.
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 (RAHT-nick-ah BAHT-rah) 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. Freshman Neda Koprcina is Croatia's reigning under-18 national champion.
