The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Women's Tennis' Anna Turati, Bianca Turati earn ITA Singles All-America honors
04.28.2020 | Women's Tennis
UT boasts a pair of singles All-Americans for the first time since the 1995 season.
AUSTIN, Texas — University of Texas Women's Tennis seniors Anna Turati and Bianca Turati both earned recognition as 2020 Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Division I Women's Singles All-Americans, the organization announced Tuesday. This marks the first time since the 1995 season that the Longhorns had at least two players claim ITA singles All-America honors in the same year.
The ITA awarded All-America status based on the unpublished, double run of the Oracle ITA Singles and Doubles rankings. A total of 20 singles players and 10 doubles teams received the honor.
Anna Turati, who earned her first career All-America honor, concluded the shortened season at No. 4 in the final Oracle/ITA national singles rankings (March 3). Turati registered a 22-4 overall singles during the 2019-20 season and earned Big 12 Conference Player of the Week accolades on Jan. 14. She posted an 11-1 mark at the No. 2 singles line for the Longhorns in dual-match play in the spring, including three wins against ranked opponents.
In the fall, Anna Turati recorded an 11-3 singles mark against collegiate competition. She advanced to the quarterfinals at the Oracle ITA Masters, the semifinals at the ITA All-American Championships and the championship match at the ITA National Fall Championships. Nine of her 11 wins in the fall came against ITA nationally-ranked opponents, including three Top-10 wins over No. 2 Estela Perez-Somarriba (Miami), No. 5 Kelly Chen (Duke) and No. 7 Sara Daavettila (North Carolina).
Bianca Turati earned her second career ITA singles All-America honor, as she also claimed the accolade in her sophomore season in 2018. Turati, who concluded the shortened season at No. 14 in the final Oracle/ITA national singles rankings (March 3), registered an 11-1 mark at the No. 1 singles spot in the spring and twice earned Big 12 Conference Player of the Week accolades (Feb. 4, Feb. 11). She posted two wins against Top-10 nationally-ranked opponents and five victories against Top-60 opponents.
In the summer and fall, Bianca Turati competed solely in professional tournaments. She won a pair of ITF 25k singles titles, earning her first championship in Tarvisio, Italy in the summer on clay courts. Turati concluded her fall season with a 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 win against WTA No. 438 Katie Volynets (USA) to win the singles crown on hard courts in Malibu, Calif. She also won the 15k singles title at the H-E-B Women's Pro Tennis Open (Oct. 27) in Austin with a three-set victory against Anna Turati in the final, and she paired with Anna to claim the doubles title at the same event.
Texas completed the shortened 2020 dual-match season with an 11-3 record and held the No. 4 spot in the final Oracle/ITA Collegiate Division I team national rankings (March 10).
Texas' All-Time ITA Singles All-Americans
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Year |
Name |
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1982 |
Jane Johnson |
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1984 |
Beverly Bowes |
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1984 |
Kathleen Cummings |
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1985 |
Beverly Bowes |
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1986 |
Anne Grousbeck |
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1987 |
Beverly Bowes |
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1987 |
Anne Grousbeck |
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1988 |
Anne Grousbeck |
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1990 |
Carla Cossa |
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1990 |
Susan Gilchrist |
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1991 |
Susan Gilchrist |
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1992 |
Susan Gilchrist |
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1992 |
Vickie Paynter |
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1993 |
Susan Gilchrist |
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1993 |
Jackie Moe |
|
1993 |
Kelly Pace |
|
1993 |
Vickie Paynter |
|
1994 |
Lucie Ludvigova |
|
1994 |
Kelly Pace |
|
1995 |
Lucie Ludvigova |
|
1995 |
Kelly Pace |
|
1995 |
Farley Taylor |
|
1996 |
Farley Taylor |
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1997 |
Cristina Moros |
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1998 |
Sandy Sureephong |
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1999 |
Sandy Sureephong |
|
2000 |
Janet Walker |
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2011 |
Aeriel Ellis |
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2012 |
Aeriel Ellis |
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2013 |
Breaunna Addison |
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2014 |
Breaunna Addison |
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2016 |
Breaunna Addison |
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2018 |
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2020 |
Anna Turati (shortened season) |
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2020 |
Bianca Turati (shortened season) |
2020 ITA Singles All-Americans
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Name |
School |
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Haley Giavara |
California |
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Kelly Chen |
Duke |
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Katarina Kozarov |
Furman |
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Katarina Jokic |
Georgia |
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Kenya Jones |
Georgia Tech |
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Estela Perez-Somarriba |
Miami (Fla.) |
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Alexa Graham |
North Carolina |
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Sara Daavettila |
North Carolina |
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Cameron Morra |
North Carolina |
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Shiori Fukuda |
Ohio State |
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Iuliia Bryzgalova |
Penn |
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Ashley Lahey |
Pepperdine |
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Mariia Kozyreva |
St. Mary's (Calif.) |
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Michaela Gordon |
Stanford |
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TEXAS |
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TEXAS |
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Abigail Forbes |
UCLA |
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Elysia Bolton |
UCLA |
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Jada Hart |
UCLA |
|
Natasha Subhash |
Virginia |
