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Women’s Tennis Preview: ITA Kick-Off Weekend
01.22.2015 | Women's Tennis
Longhorns head to Vanderbilt for a pair of matches at the annual ITA Kick-Off Weekend event.
WHAT: No. 22 Texas opens dual-match play this weekend at the four-team ITA Kick-Off Weekend event. The team that wins both of its dual matches at the season-opening event in Nashville will earn a berth in next month's ITA National Team Indoor Championship at The University of Virginia.
WHEN:
Saturday, Jan. 24
10 a.m. CT: No. 12 Vanderbilt vs. No. 50 Harvard
2 p.m. CT: No. 22 Texas vs. No. 46 DePaul
Sunday, Jan. 25
10 a.m. CT: Consolation match
1 p.m. CT: Championship match
WHERE:
Brownlee Currey Indoor Tennis Center (five indoor courts)
Nashville, Tennessee
LIVE SCORING
http://www.vucommodores.com/livestats/w-tennis/xlive.htm
PRESEASON I.T.A. NATIONAL RANKINGS
Singles
84. Breaunna Addison
MORE ON THE LONGHORNS
Head coach Danielle Lund McNamara officially took over the Longhorns program after the fall season, and the first-year head coach hired former UCLA All-American Courtney Dolehide as an assistant coach earlier this month. The coaching tandem made its debut with the Longhorns last week at the Miami Spring Invite, where Texas collected nine singles and doubles wins.
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.
Sophomore Ratnika Batra posted an 8-1 mark in conference play last season as a true freshman. Classmates Neda Koprcina and 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. UT welcomes a pair of newcomers in the form of Ryann Foster (Sunrise, Fla.) and Danielle Wagland (Sydney, Australia).
Players Mentioned
