Carmen Herea

Height:
5-7
Class:
Sophomore
Hometown:
Bucharest, Romania
Major:
Interested in Government

Pronunciation: eh-RAY-uh

• 2025 Second Team All-SEC
• 2025 SEC All-Freshman Team
• Joined the team in August 2024
• Signed her commitment to compete for The University of Texas Women's Tennis program in April 2024

AS A FRESHMAN (2024-25)
• Posted a 16-7 singles record in the spring with an 14-6 mark in dual matches, including 1-0 at No. 1, 2-4 at No. 2, 4-0 at No. 3, 5-2 at No. 4 and 2-0 at No. 5
• Notched a 15-11 doubles record in the spring with a 15-10 mark in dual matches, including 4-4 at No. 2 and 11-6 at No. 3
• Was 3-0 in doubles dual matches with Vivian Ovrootsky, 5-5 with Salma Drugdova, 4-3 with Eszter Meri and 3-2 with Sabina Zeynalova
• Had a high singles ranking of No. 20 on Mar. 18 and finished No. 37
• Won seven straight singles matches from February 28 to March 23
• Clinched overall matches over Maryland, No. 70 Arkansas, No. 73 Mississippi State and No. 21 South Carolina (Apr. 13)
• Clinched doubles dual matches over No. 3 Oklahoma State, No. 53 TCU, No. 12 Oklahoma, No. 70 Arkansas, Missouri, No. 7 Tennessee (Mar. 28), No. 42 Kentucky and No. 73 Mississippi State
• Notched six ranked singles wins over No. 10 Elza Tomase of Tennessee, No. 64 Emma Staker of No. 12 Oklahoma, No. 28 Merna Refaat of No. 11 Auburn, No. 102 Tilwith Di Girolami of No. 9 LSU, No. 58 Kaitlyn Carnicella of No. 21 South Carolina (Apr. 13) and No. 55 Kaitlyn Carnicella of No. 23 South Carolina (Apr. 17)
• Posted two ranked doubles dual match wins over No. 53 Salakthip Ounmuang and Gloriana Nahum of No. 12 Oklahoma and No. 90 Aysegul Mert and Hayden Mulberry of No. 1 Georgia
• Won five straight doubles dual matches from March 28 to April 13

Fall 2024
• Posted a 7-2 record in singles and 1-2 mark in doubles
• Finished the fall No. 28 in the ITA singles rankings
• Won six-straight matches to emerge from prequalifying and reach the singles round of 32 at the ITA All-American Championships
• Posted three consecutive wins over ranked opponents at the ITA All-Americans, including No. 66 Florentine Dekkers of LSU (6-3, 0-6, 6-2), No. 113 Parra Romero of Florida State (7-5, 6-2), and No. 73 Eleana Yu of Duke (7-6 (2), 6-3)
• One of her two defeats came to No. 12 Julie Fliegner of Michigan, 7-5, 6-4
• Competed in the ITA Conference Masters Championships in Rome, Ga.

BEFORE TEXAS
• Career high juniors ranking of No. 82
• Reached WTA career highs of No. 885 in singles and No. 1135 in doubles
• Reached the singles final of the 2023 W15 Heraklion in Greece, which was her second pro final after advancing to that stage at the W15 Kursumlijska Banja in Serbia in June of 2022
• Played in The Junior Championships at Wimbledon in 2023
• In juniors, won two singles titles and six doubles championships
• Claimed two junior singles titles in Romania, including the J3 Timisoara in 2022 and the J5 Bucharest in 2021
• In doubles, won the J1 Sanxenxo in Spain, J3 Timisoara, and J3 Loughborough in England in 2022, along with the J3 Haifa in Israel, and the J5 Targu Jiu and J4 Bistrita in Romania in 2021
• Made four other doubles finals topped by the J1 Pancevo in Serbia