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No. 25 Women’s Tennis Preview: No. 27 Kansas and Kansas State
04.19.2017 | Women's Tennis
Longhorns wrap regular season this weekend, host Kansas in Senior Day match on Friday.
WHAT: No. 25 Texas contests its final matches of the regular season this weekend when it hosts Kansas and Kansas State. The Kansas match will serve as Senior Day for the Longhorns, who will honor Neda Koprcina after the match. Free tacos will be available to fans attending Friday's match against the Jayhawks.
WHEN/WHERE
No. 27 Kansas (12-7, 4-3 Big 12) at No. 25 Texas (10-7, 4-3 Big 12)
Friday, April 21 – 4 p.m. CT
Whitaker Courts
215 W. 51st St.
Austin, Texas
Live Scoring: http://sidearmstats.com/texas/wtennis/xlive.htm
Kansas State (10-12, 2-5 Big 12) at No. 25 Texas (10-7, 4-3 Big 12)
Sunday, April 23 – 11 a.m. CT
Whitaker Courts
215 W. 51st St.
Austin, Texas
Live Scoring: http://sidearmstats.com/texas/wtennis/xlive.htm
ITA NATIONAL RANKINGS (as of April 18, Texas players)
Singles
40. Bianca Turati
72. Petra Granic
79. Neda Koprcina
Doubles
53. Petra Granic/Dani Wagland
84. Petra Granic/Bianca Turati
SENIOR SALUTE
Senior Neda Koprcina has won her last seven singles decisions and is unbeaten in her last nine singles matches dating back to March 5. Koprcina hasn't dropped a match since March 4 at Stanford, when she pushed the Cardinal's 41st-ranked Caroline Doyle to three sets before falling 6-4 in the third.
Koprcina hasn't dropped a conference singles match since her sophomore season.
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.
Bianca Turati has held the top spot in the Longhorns' singles lineup all season. She boasts four wins over top-100 opponents. Her only three losses in league play have come at the hands of ITA national top-10 opponents.
Granic has won her last three singles decisions and hasn't lost a match since March 24. She won her first tournament title in September when she secured the Flight 2A event at the Rice Invitational in Houston.
Anna Turati is unbeaten in league play (2-0) and hasn't lost a match since March 4 at Stanford.
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