TENNESSEE 2012 LADY VOL TENNIS MATCH TEN
#10 TENNESSEE [6-3] AT INDIANA [7-1] FEB. 17, 2012 /// IU TENNIS CENTER /// BLOOMINGTON, IND.
PROJECTED LINEUPS TENNESSEE
INDIANA
Head Coaches: Mike Patrick & Sonia Hahn-Patrick
Head Coach: Lin Loring
Name (Rank) 1. Pluskota/Williams (21)
2012 Total (Dual) 6-2 (6-2)
Have won six of last seven...Ranked in newest ITA poll for first time.
2. Boren/Toti (2)
20-3 (9-0)
Name (Rank) 1. Chupa/Klyczek
2012 Total (Dual) 12-8 (6-1)
2. Fujimoto/Vertesheva
20-4 (6-2)
Have won five of six...Provided doubles-point clincher twice, including vs. #12 NU - an 8-0 shutout.
3. Hureau/Kauss
JESSE GRACE
DOUBLES
3. Henderson/Szekely
5-1 (5-1)
Name (Rank) 1. Natalie Pluskota (36)
2012 Dual 9-8 (1-3)
Name (Rank) 1. Leslie Hureau
2012 Total (Dual) 8-5 (4-1)
2. Brynn Boren (34)
13-9 (5-4)
2. Evgeniya Vertesheva
14-6 (5-3)
3. Kata Szekely (37)
12-4 (5-2)
3. Carolyn Chupa
9-5 (3-2)
4. Caitlyn Williams
4-3 (4-3)
4. Katie Klyczek
18-2 (7-1)
21 22 27 28
5. Sarah Toti
11-6 (5-3)
5. Alecia Kauss
10-8 (5-2)
FEBRUARY
6. Joanna Henderson
7-4 (5-2)
6. Kayla Fujimoto
13-4 (6-0)
Have won five of six...Provided doubles-point clincher twice, including vs. #12 NU - an 8-0 shutout.
7-3 (5-1)
SINGLES In search of 50th career win.
Leads team with 13 singles wins...Has dropped two matches to ranked opponents after winning five straight.
Three of five wins are ranked, including No. 30 Lindsey Hardenbergh (UVa) & No. 16 Lauren McHale (UNC)...Lost 2 straight. Made debut after recovering from shoulder surgery in fall...In search of first consecutive wins...3-0 in weekend openers. Toti has won five of last six matches...9 of 11 overall victories in straight sets...Provided two match-clinching points. Has won a team-high five straight...Down a set and 2-0 in the second, came back vs. NU to clinch latest win for UT.
THE STORYLINES ROAD SWING
• Tennessee will play its first true road match of the season at Indiana on Friday, starting a three-match road swing. UT has won three straight road-openers. • UT’s upcoming road foes are a combined 8-1 at home.
LATEST ITA RANKINGS (FEB. 16)
• Tennessee jumped up seven spots and is ranked 10th in the latest Campbell/ITA College Tennis Rankings, released Thursday. It marks UT’s highest ranking since the Lady Vols were 10th on Feb. 18, 2010. • Tennessee is the only school with three tandems in the Top 25 of doubles, led by No. 2 Brynn Boren and Sarah Toti, while three Lady Vols are ranked in the Top 40 of singles. Check out the rankings on the top right of the second page.
y SCORING SYSTEM
SEC FRESHMAN OF THE WEEK (X’s 3)
• Sarah Toti has been recognized as the Southeastern Conference’s Freshman of the Week in each the first three weeks of the season. • Toti is the first women’s tennis student-athlete to earn any kind of player of the week distinction three weeks in a row. She matched doubles partner Brynn Boren’s UT record of three overall freshman of the week awards, which Boren accomplished in 2011. • The Las Vegas, Nev., native is the fifth Lady Vol in UT history to earn the honor. Pluskota garnered the recognition twice as a rookie. • Toti earned her third straight SEC honor after winning three doubles matches to extend her winning streak to 12, including a pair of doubles-point clinchers. Toti also won in singles for the fifth time in the last six tries, notching a pivotal victory to help UT defeat No. 12 Northwestern.
New to the college game? All that matters is which team gets to four points first. In dual matches, teams first play a best-of-three doubles competition. Whichever team wins two of the three matches earns one point. Teams then play six singles matches, each worth one point. The team that takes four of the seven total available points wins the match. (Note: Doubles matches are eight-game pro sets. Singles matches are best-of-three sets.)
SCHEDULE /// 2012 SEASON JANUARY
3 5 10 11 12 17 19 25
MARCH 2 4 9 11 21 23 25 30
APRIL
1 6 8 14 19-22
vs. #9 Virginia1 vs. #4 North Carolina1 #58 UC Davis^ #22 Tulsa^
L, 4-3 L, 5-2 W, 5-0 W, 4-0
#24 Notre Dame #10 Michigan vs. #5 Baylor+2 vs. #16 USC+2 vs. #12 Northwestern+2 at Indiana at Ohio State at UCF
W, 6-1 W, 5-2 W, 4-0 L, 1-4 W, 4-3 1:30 p.m. Noon Noon
Florida* South Carolina* at Ole Miss* at Mississippi State* at UNLV at LSU* Arkansas* at Vanderbilt*
5 p.m. 1 p.m. 4 p.m. 2 p.m. 1 p.m. 4 p.m. 1 p.m. 5 p.m.
at Kentucky* Noon Auburn* 5 p.m. Alabama* 1 p.m. at Georgia* Noon 3 SEC Championships TBD
MAY
11-12 NCAA First & Second Rounds 17-28 NCAA Championships: Final Site4 23-28 NCAA Championships: Singles/Doubles4 ^ ITA Kick-Off; *SEC match, + ITA National Indoors 1 Flushing, N.Y.; 2Charlottesville, Va.; 3Oxford, Miss.; 4 Athens, Ga.