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Women’s Tennis Preview: Iowa State, West Virginia
03.20.2014 | Women's Tennis
Longhorns return home to take on the Cyclones and Mountaineers.
WHAT: No. 21 Texas (6-9, 1-1 Big 12) continues conference play this weekend when it hosts Iowa State (8-7, 0-2 Big 12) and West Virginia (3-10, 0-2 Big 12)
WHEN/WHERE:
No. 21 Texas vs. Iowa State
Friday, March 21 – 6 p.m. CT
Penick-Allison Tennis Center – Austin, Texas
LIVE SCORING: TexasSports.com
No. 21 Texas vs. West Virginia
Sunday, March 23 – 11 a.m. CT
Penick-Allison Tennis Center – Austin, Texas
LIVE SCORING: TexasSports.com
LAST MEETINGS vs. IOWA STATE & WEST VIRGINIA: Texas defeated Iowa State by a 7-0 count on March 21, 2013 in Austin. UT defeated West Virginia by a 7-0 margin on March 24, 2013 in Austin.
I.T.A. NATIONAL RANKINGS (Texas only)
Singles
18. Breaunna Addison
89. Ratnika Batra
114. Elizabeth Begley
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. Addison is the Big 12 Conference's highest-ranked singles player at No. 18 nationally.
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 114th 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 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.