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PLAYER PROFILES
Gabby O’Gorman
Senior Gunnedah, N.S. Wales, Australia
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Major: Nutrition
2019-20 SPRING SEASON- JUNIOR: Played in 10 singles and 10 doubles matches. Earned wins in five singles and three doubles matches. Spring season shortened due to COVID-19 pandemic.
2019 FALL: Participated in three tournaments, including 11 singles and eight doubles matches. Advanced to the singles semifinals at the ITA Regionals before losing to eventual champion Natasha Subhash. Earned two doubles wins with Olivia Rohrbacher and one with Frederikke Svarre.
2018-19 SPRING SEASON- SOPHOMORE: Appeared in 22 singles and 21 doubles matches. Finished with 12 singles wins including victories over conference foes Iowa, Nebraska, Michigan State, and Minnesota. O’Gorman and Olivia Rohrbacher finished the spring season with a team-high 15 doubles victories.
2018 FALL: Appeared in four tournaments, racking up 13 singles and 11 doubles appearances. In her first tournament of the fall season at the Racquet Club Collegiate Invitational, O’Gorman advanced to the quarterfinals, falling to the eventual champion, Tyler Junior College’s Anna Brogan, 6-2, 6-3. O’Gorman and Chelsea Sawyer are tied for a team-high five doubles wins as a pair.
2017-18 SPRING SEASON- FRESHMAN: Competed in 19 singles matches and 16 doubles matches in the spring. Went 5-6 in No. 1 singles and went 4-5 in doubles conference matches.Defeated teams on two top-50 ranked squads in No. 25 UCF and No. 50 Purdue in doubles.
2017 FALL: Had a team-high five singles wins in the fall. Tied for second most singles appearances on the team with 10. Went 5-5 in singles and 4-4 in doubles over three tournaments. Took Meible Chi, ranked T100, of Duke, to the tiebreaker losing in a close 4-6, 6-3, 1-0 match.
JUNIOR CAREER: O’Gorman holds achievements as the winner of the Monte Carlo Junior Open in 2014 and runner up at Australian Grass Court Championships at Mildura. O’Gorman was a three-time New South Wales Pizzey Cup National Champion and was a captain in 2016. Additionally, she was a three-time Australian Merit Team member.
O’Gorman’s Career Statistics
Season Singles (Conf.) Doubles (Conf.)
2019-20 5-5 (0-1) 3-6 (0-1)
Fall 2019 2-8 (0-0) 3-5 (0-0)
2018-19
Fall
2017-18
Fall 2017
Olivia Rohrbacher
Senior Sandusky, Ohio
Major: Kinesiology
2019-20 SPRING SEASON- JUNIOR: Played in three singles and three doubles matches. Earned one singles and one doubles win both coming against Iowa State. Spring season shortened due to COVID-19 pandemic.
2019 FALL: Appeared in four tournaments, including 12 singles and 12 doubles matches. Led the team in both singles and doubles victories with six in each category. Earned doubles victories with four different partners, including Gabby O’Gorman, Olivia Ryan, Gracey Hirsch, and Frederikke Svarre.
2018-19 SPRING SEASON- SOPHOMORE: Competed in 20 singles and 20 doubles matches. Won five singles matches highlighted by a win over Minnesota. Rohrbacher and Gabby O’Gorman ended the season with a team-high 15 doubles victories.
2018 FALL: Competed in 11 singles and a team-high 14 doubles matches across four tournaments. Paired with three different doubles partners in the fall, Rohrbacher owns the highest number of doubles wins on the team with nine overall. At ITA Regionals, Rohrbacher and Frederikke Svarre advanced to quarterfinals in the doubles main draw. When paired with Olivia Ryan, the duo tied for most wins as a doubles duo with five.
2017-18 SPRING SEASON- FRESHMAN: Competed in seven singles matches and 10 doubles matches in the spring. Went 1-2 in Big Ten singles matches and 2-2 in conference doubles matches. Clinched a match win over Towson, 4-3, with a dominating 6-1, 6-0 win against Alexa Martinez on court No. 5.
2017 FALL: Did not compete.
JUNIOR CAREER: Ranked as high as No. 20 in the US for her recruiting class, Rohrbacher holds a 146-5 record in high school, along with being a three-time captain. She holds multiple achievements including the 2015 New Balance High School National Champion, 2016 North West Ohio Tennis Association player of the year, four-time conference MVP and champion and four-time sectional and district champion. Rohrbacher was also an OHSAA silver and gold Racket Award Winner.
Rohrbacher’s Career Statistics
Season Singles (Conf.) Doubles (Conf.)
2019-20
(1-2) 5-5 (2-2)
Career 19-34 (2-13) 36-23 (8-6)
Frederikke Svarre
Senior Copenhagen, Denmark
Major: Communications
2019-20 SPRING SEASON- JUNIOR: Competed in 10 singles and 10 doubles matches. Won five singles and two doubles matches, highlighted by a singles win against Big Ten rival Indiana. Spring season shortened due to COVID-19 pandemic.
2019 FALL: Appeared in four tournaments, including 11 singles and ten doubles matches. Tied for second on the team with five singles victories. Finished with four doubles victories, ending the fall on a three game win streak in doubles play.
2018-19 SPRING SEASON- SOPHOMORE: Played in 22 singles and 22 doubles matches. Led team with a total of 13 singles wins highlighted by a win over Northwestern. Svarre and Chelsea Sawyer ended the season with 12 doubles victories over six Big Ten rivals.
2018 FALL: Appeared in 13 singles matches and 12 doubles matches across four tournaments. Svarre’s doubles play was highlighted at ITA Regionals when she and Olivia Rohrbacher racked up four wins to advance to the quarterfinals. With eight doubles wins Svarre is tied for second most doubles wins on the team.
2017-18 SPRING SEASON- FRESHMAN: Competed in 21 singles matches and 14 doubles matches in the spring. Took on four nationally ranked opponents. Recorded a win at No. 1 singles against Indiana, defeating Madison Appel, 6-4, 6-7 (4-7), 5-3, retired in Big Ten singles action.
2017 FALL: Appeared in 13 singles matches, which was the most on the team. Had 10 doubles appearances over her four tournaments, with the second most doubles wins on the team with five. Picked up the most doubles wins of any pair with partner Hanna Wikberg, with five. Advanced to the round of 16 doubles at ITA Regionals, falling to the tournament’s No. 1 seed, with partner Wikberg.
JUNIOR CAREER: Holds many achievements including earning her first two WTA ranking points in 2015 and earned her third WTA ranking point this year, also appeared on the world-ranking list. Svarre is also the 2014, 18U Danish Junior Champion in singles and the 2015, 18U Danish Junior Champion in singles and mixed doubles.