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No. 11 Women’s Tennis’ Herea named SEC Freshman of the Week
02.05.2025 | Women's Tennis
Herea posted both singles and doubles wins in helping Texas to a 4-3 win over No. 19 NC State for the Longhorns’ second-straight freshman of the week honor.
Austin – Texas Women's Tennis freshman Carmen Herea was named the SEC Freshman of the Week, the conference announced Wednesday. It is her first career conference award, and the second-straight week a Longhorn has earned the honor, following Eszter Meri last week.
Herea, No. 25 in the latest ITA singles rankings, posted both singles and doubles wins in helping Texas to a 4-3 win over No. 19 NC State. Her singles victory came over Kristina Paskauskas, 7-6 (6), 1-6, 6-2, at No. 2 and evened the overall score at 3-3 before the Longhorns won, 4-3. Herea rebounded from a 2-0 deficit in a tiebreaker to take the first set as part of her three-set victory.
She and partner Salma Drugdova had evened the doubles point with a 6-3 win against Anna Zyryanova and Mia Slama before the Wolf Pack took the deciding doubles match in a tiebreaker. Herea and Drugdova moved up to No. 1 against Abilene Christian, but their match was left unfinished with a 4-3 lead.
Herea then did not play singles against the Wildcats. Herea is now 12-4 in singles this year with a 3-1 mark in dual matches. She is also 3-1 in her doubles dual contests.
