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Women’s Tennis Preview: No. 21 Rice
01.25.2015 | Women's Tennis
Longhorns take on Rice in home opener Saturday at the Weller Indoor Tennis Center.
WHAT: After splitting a pair of matches at the annual ITA Kick-Off Weekend event in Nashville, No. 22 Texas (1-1) returns home to meet former Southwest Conference rival No. 21 Rice (1-2).
WHEN/WHERE:
Saturday, Jan. 31 – 1 p.m. CT (admission is free)
Weller Indoor Tennis Center (on the grounds of UT Golf Club)
Austin, Texas
LIVE SCORING
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LAST MEETING vs. RICE: Texas defeated Rice by a 4-1 count on Jan. 26, 2014 at the ITA Kick-Off Weekend event in Austin.
LAST TIME OUT
Texas opened the 2015 dual-match season with a 4-3 win over DePaul (Jan. 24) in the first round of the ITA Kick-Off Weekend event in Nashville. Host Vanderbilt knocked off the Longhorns in the second round (Jan. 25) by a 5-0 count.
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 at the Miami Spring Invite (Jan. 16-18), 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). The freshman tandem posted key singles wins in the Horns' season-opening victory over DePaul.
Players Mentioned
