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Women's Tennis Preview: Rice
02.11.2016 | Women's Tennis
Longhorns head to the Bayou City to meet Rice.
WHAT: After winning a couple of home matches last week, No. 38 Texas (3-1) continues 2016 dual-match play on the road this weekend as it visits No. 31 Rice (3-1).
WHEN: Saturday, Feb. 13 – 11 a.m. CT
WHERE:
George R. Brown Tennis Center – Houston, Texas
LIVE SCORING/VIDEO
http://www.riceowls.com/facilities/tennis-livestats.html
ITA Rankings (Texas players only)
Singles
8. Breaunna Addison
Doubles
32. Breaunna Addison/Dani Wagland
LAST TIME OUT
Texas improved to 3-1 with its 7-0 win over UTSA (Feb. 7) in Austin.
LAST MEETING AGAINST RICE
Texas knocked off Rice by a 4-3 count on Jan. 31, 2015 in Austin.
ADDISON JUMPS TO NO. 8 IN LATEST I.T.A. SINGLES RANKINGS
Texas two-time All-America senior Breaunna Addison climbed to No. 8 in the latest ITA singles rankings released Wednesday and became the first Longhorn featured in the ITA top-10 in five years.
Addison, who had ranked as high as No. 10 in the ITA singles rankings as a sophomore, is the first Longhorn among the nation's top-10 since Aeriel Ellis in January of 2011. MORE HERE
The 2014 Big 12 Player of the Year is off to a 20-2 mark in singles play and carries a 4-0 record in dual matches. Addison is nearing the 100-win mark in her three-plus seasons and boasts a 93-28 career singles record.
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. The 2016 squad holds a 3-1 dual-match record with a neutral-site win over Purdue and home wins over Incarnate Word and UTSA.
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 is off to a 3-1 start in dual-match play. Junior Neda Koprcina, a former Big 12 champion at No. 4 singles, is out to a 4-0 start this season in dual matches, where she has split time at Nos. 3 and 4 singles.
UT also returns senior Lana Groenvynck and welcomes newcomers Chelsea Crovetti, Daniella Roldan and Katie Poluta.
Crovetti and Poluta are 2-0 early on in their Texas careers while Roldan has notched a pair of wins at No. 4 singles.
A LOOK AHEAD
Texas hits the road again next weekend when it visits Duke (Feb. 21). The Longhorns will participate in the Blue-Gray Classic the following weekend in Montgomery, Alabama before returning home on March 5 to host Michigan.
Players Mentioned
