2019 Texas Women's Tennis

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We play Tech tomorrow 

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Texas sweeps Tech. We’ll play either OKST or KU tomorrow for the big 12 title 

[Aleemay 304]

and KU it is! They've got a big home support boost

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And we went to the wire with KU in Austin. Should be a tight one that will go either way 

[Aleemay 304]

Men's final currently playing indoors. If women go indoors too, bigger advantage to Kansas

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KU wins 4-2. Selection show 8 days away

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Ooof tennis didn’t have a good day 

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The switch to indoors did not do us any favors. Fingers crossed we dont have to be moved indoors during the NCAA's

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Bianca is going to squeeze in an ITF clay court event next week. I feel like she's overdoing it.

[spystud13 2371]

^ She lost 3 & 4 to a HS senior in R1. 

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Most of the conference tournaments have concluded and the selection show is Monday. If aggy doesn't host, I think the committee may send them to Texas especially since we lost to KU and that may put us around the 9 or 10 seed. I'll predict we will host 2. TAMU, 3. Rice, and 4. Central Arkansas

[Aleemay 304]

Central Arkansas will most likely be sent to OK State.

Loss to Kansas hurts pretty badly since the NCAA is changing to a new format this year where there'll be a super regional situation for the sweet sixteen. Thus the top 8 seeds get to host until the elite 8. If Texas were to get to the sweet sixteen, most likely to be sent to face UCLA or Vandy

Edited April 29, 2019 by Aleemay

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Darn I didn't know that. I always thought it was silly to send 16 mens teams and 16 womens teams to the national championship site. 8 & 8 makes more sense, just like softball/baseball

Edited April 29, 2019 by perfectchaos007

[Aleemay 304]

LIU Brooklyn, A&M, Rice

Almost the same regional as last year haha

Oh and Miami (OH) is in. Congrats to alumni Bree Addison who's the Assistant there.

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Tough draw. Just one seed away from hosting a super regional. And if we pull through and win @ Vandy, we are rewarded by playing #1 overall Georgia.

Edited April 29, 2019 by perfectchaos007

[Aleemay 304]

24 minutes ago, Aleemay said:

LIU Brooklyn, A&M, Rice

Almost the same regional as last year haha

Oh and Miami (OH) is in. Congrats to alumni Bree Addison who's the Assistant there.

Should also mention Illinois State is in too and Dani Wagland is the grad assistant there

[Aleemay 304]

Post season stuff:

-Turatis and Granic make all Big 12s and have berths to the NCAA individual championships. I'm not too sure if Bianca will play though. She has to take advantage of her high ITF ranking (top 20) before her points from last year drop off.

-Anna, Petra, and Katie are champions at their lines

-Article on Petra: https://www.dailytexanonline.com/2019/05/02/croatian-champion-overcomes-homesickness-to-lead-longhorns

-Pretty tough regional for Texas. A&M is the 2nd highest ranked second seed. Rice would have also been a second seed if tennis wasn't so focused on saving money and busing teams to nearby regionals. To that end, I would rate A&M vs. Rice as a toss up.

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aggy beat Rice 4-3 just like in last year's first round. Hopefully we sweep aggy tomorrow just like we did last year's 2nd round

[Aleemay 304]

Rice had three match points

Texas wins the dub points. Interesting to see Poluta in instead of the flatter hitting Markovic. Poluta does have steady hands.

[Aleemay 304]

Bagels everywhere....

To put in perspective of the disparity-

A&M and Rice took over 3 and half hours to play

Texas didn't even need half that time

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I figured Joffe just decided to give Markovic the day off. I bet she'll be in the lineup in place of Spasojevic tomorrow

[LTtxfan 49402]

No.9 Longhorns (19-4) advance to host No. 18 Texas A&M in the NCAA Second Round on Sunday, May 5 at Noon CT.

Will these matches be on TV today??

 

Beat those Aggys today..

Hook'em 🤘

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Aggy leads 1-0 after doubles. We have not found answers in doubles all year.

[LTtxfan 49402]

7 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

Aggy leads 1-0 after doubles. We have not found answers in doubles all year.

Are you there watching...... Or is there some way to see or follow online??

Thx for update....

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Not looking good guys. We lost 4 out of 6 first sets. Markovic isn’t playing today so maybe she is injured


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Wow aggy crushed us 4-1. Biggest upset of the tournament


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[Aleemay 304]

46 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

Wow aggy crushed us 4-1. Biggest upset of the tournament


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Actually, I would think UNLV (ranked 76) beating Tech (ranked 26) is the biggest upset.

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4 minutes ago, Aleemay said:

Actually, I would think UNLV (ranked 76) beating Tech (ranked 26) is the biggest upset.

Yeah that was the biggest on paper but it was a neutral site. Texas has had such a great record outdoors at home over the past 2 years with Pepperdine as our only loss I believe. Aggy coming in and beating us 4-1 was nearly unthinkable 

[Aleemay 304]

hmmm...I guess it depends on how you slice it. As I mentioned earlier with how tough the regional was, Texas vs. A&M vs. Rice regional would never have happened in a sport like basketball where priority is given to balancing out the draw. A&M beat Vanderbilt this year (which they'll face in the next round) whereas UNLV did not beat a single tournament team this year until yesterday.

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1 hour ago, perfectchaos007 said:

Wow aggy crushed us 4-1. Biggest upset of the tournament


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Dang..... 😠

[perfectchaos007 6711]

Stanford wins back to back titles. Houston native Janice Shin clinches it for them. 

 

Bianca, Anna, and Petra play in the individual tournament this week. Weird to see Bianca go from the #1 seed last year to unseeded this year

[Aleemay 304]

LOL I think I could hear the Turatis cheering the men's team on today through the broadcast

[Aleemay 304]

High school state tournament was last week: Future walk-on Gabby Cusano won the 6A doubles title.

Other results with UT ties:

Avery Zavala (brother of 2010 grad Josh Zavala) made the singles semis, unable to defend his 6A title from last year

Kiana Graham (sister of recent soccer grad Nakia Graham) made the mixed 6A finals beating Keegan McCain (UTSA signee and daughter of former coach Patty Fendick McCain) in the semis

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Oh wow a clear creek kid won the boys. clear creek used to be in our district and they were always tough (but not quite as tough as clear lake)

[Aleemay 304]

Anna advances beating Whittle of Gonzaga. Whittle is no slouch- 8th seeded, won the ITA national championships in the fall, and was ranked number one for the early part of the year

[spystud13 2371]

Granic beat a girl from Penn in straights. 

Doesn’t appear Bianca has played yet. 

[Aleemay 304]

Oh wow in a long 2 hours match and the last match on court, Bianca wins on a point penalty after her opponent smacks a ball out of frustration well outside of the grounds- she was understandably mad and pure exhausted with the way Bianca was grinding (it's all good, they hugged at the net)

Perfect record on the day for the trio

Edited May 21, 2019 by Aleemay

[Aleemay 304]

Petra lost 3 and 4 to Vandy's #1. Overall, I think it was a pretty good season for her. Won the Freeman tournament, conference line champion, got her first individual bid to NCAAs and even won her first round match, etc. Also was limited by being in a boot through the indoor part of the season.

[spystud13 2371]

Anna lost 5-7 in the third. 

Bianca up at 5:00. 

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They're showing Bianca v. Jokic on tennis channel right now LIVE

[spystud13 2371]

Plenty of good seats still available. 

[spystud13 2371]

She drops the first in a breaker. 

This is some very low-quality tennis. 

[perfectchaos007 6711]

Bianca definitely not at her best. Kinda the story of her season really, compared to her sophomore year

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Turati lost in straights. Individual tournament is over for the Lady Horns

Edited May 22, 2019 by perfectchaos007

[Aleemay 304]

Summer updates-

Labrana is in Mexico. So-so results so far in singles (has played three tournies). Just made the doubles finals so will be taking home some hardware. Will be facing against a Mexican team consisting of this year's Vandy Number 1 and Baylor Number 2 in the finals.

Turatis are in the entry list for the later part of the month. Anna is signed up to play in Tunisia and Bianca will play a 25k in Italy.

Also ITA kickoff weekend draft happened. Texas was the last site to fill up. LSU, Tech, and Iowa. Tech has some pretty good recruits coming in and I think they can beat LSU.

Teams really picked on Kansas as being the 'weak link.' Understandable as they're losing four of their starting six.

Edited June 7, 2019 by Aleemay

[Aleemay 304]

Labrana loses in a super tiebreaker of the doubles final

Currently, I think Labrana is the best non rising senior on the team

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20 minutes ago, Aleemay said:

Labrana loses in a super tiebreaker of the doubles final

Currently, I think Labrana is the best non rising senior on the team

How close is Marta to being healthy? She played ahaed of Labrana pre injury

[Aleemay 304]

Anna just won a pro title with friend and Florida State player Touly in Tunisia! Also made semis in the singles.

Bianca played in a higher tier tournament and also had a good showing

[spystud13 2371]

I sincerely appreciate your enthusiasm, but an ITF doubles title is so, so incredibly nothing. 

[Aleemay 304]

Another week and another doubles runner up for Anna (this time with an OU partner)! 😊

Both twins are also in their singles finals tomorrow. Bianca should have a new career high ranking regardless of the outcome of tomorrow's final.