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Aleemay

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Stanford just won the tourney. Shows how much missing one player (Melissa Lord) makes such a difference.

Still a really great season for the Horns. Two Big 12 titles. A top 10 finish.  The top 3 players combined for under 8 losses and the freshmen showed a lot of spark.

Let's see how the Turati's do in the individual tournament!

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1 hour ago, perfectchaos007 said:

Anna won her first round but Bianca lost. Bianca needs a month long break from tennis honestly. The season has worn her out and this month she has played like a player who's a bit fatigued. 

Bianca got a rough draw. Opponent was underseeded as Stefani was playing Fed Cup and pro tournaments during the season. Stefani is a former top 10 junior player and is currently ranked about 150 places higher than Bianca in the WTA rankings. Also close to top 200 in doubles rankings. Will almost certainly have a pro career.

Anna vs. Anna tomorrow! After beating another Anna in the first round. Lol

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The ITA draft for indoors just finished

https://www.slam.tennis/ita/draft/2019/ncaaw

As coaches choose where they play, you can get a feeling of which teams coaches want to avoid and others who they think they can beat for next season.

Texas was the last regional to fill up. Will play Middle Tennessee State. Baylor (surprising) and Wichita State will be the other teams.

Other teams that coaches had no confidence of beating are Stanford, Vanderbilt, Pepperdine, etc.....the usual powerhouses

On the flip side, Oklahoma State and Northwestern were targeted very early. All spots filled up before the eighth call out! 

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Summer tennis has started...Bojana is in the 25K qualifying right now in South Carolina

She beat Emily Fanning, who just played #1 at Kentucky and performed admirably in the tough SEC

Next up is against Gail Brodsky, journey woman on the tour

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Turati's are in Romania this week and have reached the doubles final!

Will face Mitu (former top 100 player) and Mandlik (teenage daughter of a four time Grand Slam champion and Hall of Famer Hana Mandlikova)

Also playing in this tourney is Tech signee Stoica

In Big 12 coaching news:

-Iowa State finally got a new coach. He was the Tech Assistant Coach this year

-KState head coach left to take the new HC position at Colorado.

-OK State's assistant coach Hayley Carter has left her position to turn pro. Program

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Aleemay

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Yes it's a big win for Bianca. Molinaro has yet to turn pro (will graduate from HS in 2019 and decide later in the next year) so she's one of the top recruits in the world.

Should also be noted Anna has reached a new personal best ranking at 766.

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Initial impression of the schedule is that it's a really tough one. Basically all the same opponents from last year with the exception of Pepperdine (in place of Florida) and Rice (in place of Texas State and UTRGV). Big 12 will be tougher next year as Baylor returns almost everyone, Kansas and OU have highly ranked recruits that can change the programs, and TCU is rumored to get the highest ranked unsigned player from class of 2018. Got to win more indoor matches this year.

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Somehow missed this...

http://www.iowastatedaily.com/sports/title-ix-complaint-filed-against-iowa-state-university-by-women/article_87978128-597b-11e8-b9f4-37468ef5d0d2.html

Regardless of this incident, head coach was likely going to be gone after season ended after being perennial bottom dwellers and poor recruiting. Assistant coach usually get lets go too when HC is gone. AC has left a trail of destruction behind her wherever she goes (disaster at Bowling Green when she was the HC).

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Prequalifying is going on in Malibu for the ITA All Americans

Got to watch the freshmen Tijana play both singles and doubles. Wow- Joffe has recruited another stud. Has a nice serve (including a nasty kicker for a second serve) and along with her Balkan counterparts, hits a lot of aggressive groundstrokes. A bit more topspin compared to Granic and Markovic. Really good mover. Struggles a bit with low balls as expected for tall players.

 

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Bianca wins the ITF 15k at Hilton Head. Beat current college player Mikulskyte (Kentucky, ranked 91) and Bayerlova (Washington State, ranked 17). Unfortunately, these wins don't count for ITA ranks. Looks like Bianca is playing the pro circuit for the next several weeks, skipping most of the fall college tournaments and will most likely start the spring without a rank.

Really encouraging results from the pre qualifying. Tijana won 3 and is now in qualifying draw. Marta took the number one recruit of 2018 to three sets. In addition, Bojana is faster this year (still needs to work on her defensive shots though).

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So the lower lineup played at Baylor this weekend. Pleased to see Labrana and Poluta win the doubles title. Labrana also got second and beat Hinojosa in the quarters (this is great because Hinojosa played line 2/3 last year at Baylor).

Also as a sidenote: the player that beat Marta and Labrana is Maria Genovese. Genovese was a tennis prodigy and I think signed a six figure contract with Under Armour at the age of 13. Pretty big deal winning the Orange Bowl for her age group and had a top 100 junior ranking as only a 15 year old. Then injury and politics got in the way. Glad she's still playing tennis albeit at the JUCO level. Probably will have to go to an NAIA school after this year.

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Damn I was going to say let’s recruit her since we have farmed players from TJC before, but if she signed that UA contract her amateur status is ruined.  That money is tempting, but there’s a reason why most tennis prodigies wait to the last minute Before their freshman year of college to decide to go pro or not 

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53 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

The UT website says she won that third set tiebreaker 10-7. Was there a typo?

I was going off our twitter but it appears they deleted it and said 10-7. Not sure how you mess that up? Drunk?

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Really good weekend for the Horns at ITA Regionals. Anna vs. Bojana in the final. A bit worried about Marta- saw that she's in crutches

Interesting win: Fernanda beating Jayci Goldsmith. I alluded to this a couple years ago on the other board, but I know that Jayci took a recruiting visit to Texas (before Labrana had committed). Don't know if Joffe passed on Jayci though.

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