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Women’s Tennis Preview: ITA Kick-Off Weekend
01.21.2016 | Women's Tennis
Longhorns open 2016 dual-match season at four-team event in Tuscaloosa.
WHAT: Texas opens the 2016 dual-match season with the annual ITA Kick-Off Weekend event, which consists of 15 four-team tournament sites across the country. The winners of the 15 two-round tournaments advance to next month's ITA National Team Indoor Championship at The University of Wisconsin.
WHERE: Roberta Alison Baumgardner Tennis Facility (indoors) – Tuscaloosa, Alabama
SCHEDULE
Saturday, Jan. 23
No. 40 Texas vs. No. 45 Purdue – 2 p.m. CT
Sunday, Jan. 24
No. 40 Texas vs. No. 15 Alabama or Pennsylvania – 10 a.m. or 2 p.m.
LIVE SCORING (same link for all matches)
http://www.rolltide.com/livestats/w-tennis/xlive.htm
ITA Rankings (Texas players only)
Singles
16. Breaunna Addison
Doubles
28. Breaunna Addison/Dani Wagland
LAST TIME OUT
Texas won four singles and doubles matches last weekend at the Miami Spring Invite, its final individual singles and doubles event of the season before kicking off dual-match play.
Senior Breaunna Addison won both of her singles contests and added a doubles win with sophomore Dani Wagland. As a result, the Big 12 Conference selected Addison as the league's Women's Tennis Player of the Week.
LAST SEASON AT THE ITA KICK-OFF WEEKEND
Texas ventured to Vanderbilt and played the Nashville site of the 2015 ITA Kick-Off Weekend event. The Longhorns led off with a 4-3 win over DePaul before falling to the host Commodores the next day.
MORE ON THE LONGHORNS
First-year head coach Howard Joffe and second-year assistant coach Courtney Dolehide welcome four starters back from the 2015 squad that finished with a No. 37 national ranking.
Two-time All-America senior Breaunna Addison returns at the top of the singles lineup after earning All-Big 12 honors in singles and doubles last season.
The 2014 Big 12 Player of the Year has qualified for the NCAA Championships' 64-player singles draw each of her three seasons as a Longhorn, and she reached the event's semifinals as a first-semester freshman in 2013.
Sophomore Dani Wagland earned All-Big 12 doubles honors alongside Addison last season, and junior Neda Koprcina is a former Big 12 champion at No. 4 singles.
UT also returns senior Lana Groenvynck and welcomes newcomers Chelsea Crovetti, Daniella Roldan and Katie Poluta.
Players Mentioned
