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Women’s Tennis Preview: No. 7 Duke
02.19.2016 | Women's Tennis
Longhorns continue road swing this weekend at Duke.
WHAT: No. 38 Texas (3-2) continues its midseason road swing this weekend when it visits No. 7 Duke.
WHEN: Sunday, Feb. 21 – 11 a.m. CT
WHERE: Ambler Tennis Stadium - Durham, N.C.
LIVE SCORING
http://www.goduke.com/liveStats/liveStats.dbml?SPID=1840&DB_OEM_ID=4200
LIVE VIDEO
http://www.goduke.com/liveEvents/liveEvents.dbml?SPID=1840&DB_OEM_ID=4200
ITA Rankings (Texas players only)
Singles
8. Breaunna Addison
Doubles
32. Breaunna Addison/Dani Wagland
LAST TIME OUT
Texas suffered a 4-3 defeat last Saturday (Feb. 6) at Rice.
LAST MEETING AGAINST DUKE
Texas and Duke most recently faced off at the 2006 ITA National Team Indoor Championship, where the Longhorns defeated the Blue Devils (4-3) to advance to the tournament championship match.
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 last Wednesday (Feb. 3) 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 21-2 mark in singles play and carries a 5-0 record in dual matches. Addison is nearing the 100-win mark in her three-plus seasons and boasts a 94-28 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 5-0 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.
A LOOK AHEAD
The Longhorns will participate in the Blue-Gray Classic next weekend in Montgomery, Alabama before returning home on March 5 to host Michigan.
Players Mentioned
