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No. 21 Women’s Tennis Preview: West Virginia and Iowa State
03.30.2017 | Women's Tennis
WHAT: No. 21 Texas (8-6, 2-2 Big 12) takes to the road this weekend for Big 12 Conference matches at West Virginia and Iowa State.
WHEN/WHERE
No. 21 Texas (8-6, 2-2 Big 12) at West Virginia (4-9, 0-3 Big 12)
Friday, March 31 – 3:30 p.m. ET
Mountaineer Tennis Courts - Morgantown, W.V.
Live Scoring: http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=161495
No. 21 Texas (8-6, 2-2 Big 12) at Iowa State (15-4, 1-2 Big 12)
Sunday, April 2 – 10 a.m. CT
Forker Tennis Courts – Ames, Iowa
Live Scoring: http://www.statbroadcast.com/events/statbroadcast.php?t=1&gid=iast
ITA NATIONAL RANKINGS (as of March 21, Texas players)
Singles
37. Bianca Turati
84. Petra Granic
99. Neda Koprcina
Doubles
51. Petra Granic/Dani Wagland
LAST TIME OUT
Texas defeated TCU by a 4-0 count on Sunday (March 26) in Austin.
MORE ON THE LONGHORNS
Second-year Texas head coach Howard Joffe returns five veterans from the 2015-16 squad that reached the round of 16 (third round) at the NCAA Championships and ranked No. 20 in the final ITA team poll.
All-Big 12 senior Neda Koprcina totaled a 21-2 dual-match record – including a 14-1 mark at No. 2 singles – last season as a junior. Koprcina clinched the Longhorns' 4-2 upset win at ninth-seeded Duke in the second round of the 2016 NCAA Championships.
Junior Dani Wagland posted 12 dual-match wins last season including a team-best eight wins at No. 3 singles. Katie Poluta joined the Longhorns last season from South Africa and totaled a 12-8 dual-match record. Her classmate Daniella Roldan added eight dual-match singles wins, and Chelsea Crovetti chipped in three singles victories.
UT welcomes four newcomers in the form of Anna and Bianca Turati of Italy, Petra Granic of Croatia and Madison Cleff of Colleyville, Texas.
Granic won her first tournament title in September when she secured the Flight 2A event at the Rice Invitational in Houston.
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