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Bianca Turati wins Round of 32 singles match at ITF Hilton Head pro event
09.25.2018 | Women's Tennis
Junior All-American tops WTA No. 971 Alice Garcia (Brazil) in straight sets on Tuesday.
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — University of Texas Bianca Turati recorded a 6-3, 7-5 victory against Alice Garcia (Brazil) in the Round of 32 at the ITF (International Tennis Federation) pro circuit event at Van Der Meet Shipyard Racquet Club. Garcia is currently ranked No. 971 in the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) world singles rankings.
Turati advances to Thursday's Round of 16 at Hilton Head Island. She will play the winner of Wednesday's match between Denise-Antonela Stoica (Romania) and Tiphanie Fiquet (France).
In the opening set during Tuesday's match, Garcia jumped out to a 3-0 advantage before Turati stormed back to win the next six consecutive games. Garcia again grabbed a 3-0 lead in the second set, but Turati responded to win three straight games to tie the set at 3-3. After the players split the next four games to move to 5-5, Turati held serve before breaking Garcia to finish the match.
Turati is No. 1 in the Oracle/ITA preseason women's collegiate national singles rankings. The 2018 Big 12 Conference Player of the Year posted a 28-4 overall singles mark and ended her sophomore season at No. 3 in the final Oracle/ITA Division I singles rankings. Turati spent nearly three months atop the ITA women's single rankings and produced a 16-2 dual-match record for the Longhorns at the No. 1 singles position in 2018. She became the first UT player to top the ITA singles rankings since Kelly Pace in 1995.
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