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April 22, 2010

 

WHAT:  No. 19 Texas (13-4, 8-1 Big 12) concludes the regular season this weekend at Missouri (6-14, 1-8 Big 12) and Colorado (10-10, 3-6 Big 12).

WHEN/WHERE: 
Texas at Missouri – Friday, April 23 – 5 p.m. Central – Green Tennis Center, Columbia, Mo.
Texas at Colorado – Sunday, April 25 – Noon Central – South Campus Courts, Boulder, Colo.

LAST MEETINGS vs. MISSOURI/COLORADO:  Texas defeated Colorado by a 6-1 count on April 3, 2009 in Austin.  UT knocked off Missouri by a 5-2 count on April 5, 2009 in Austin.

LAST TIME OUT:  Texas improved to 8-1 in league play with a 5-2 win at Texas A&M on Tuesday, April 20 in the State Farm Lone Star Showdown.  The victory secured a first-round bye for the Horns at next week’s Big 12 Championships in Austin. 

ITA RANKINGS UPDATE
Singles
23. Aeriel Ellis (Texas)
56. Krista Damico (Texas)
63. Vanja Corovic (Texas)

Doubles
51. Vanja Corovic/Aeriel Ellis (Texas)

LONGHORNS MOVE UP IN ITA TEAM RANKINGS

Texas moved from No. 20 to No 19 in this week’s ITA team rankings, marking its highest position since January 2009. 
 
Texas moved into the ITA top-25 at No. 20 on April 13 on the strength of its 6-1 victory over then-No. 5 Northwestern on April 10.  It marked UT’s first victory over an ITA top-five opponent since February 2006, when the Horns knocked off Georgia Tech at the ITA National Team Indoor Championship. 

ELLIS TABBED BIG 12 CO-PLAYER OF THE WEEK
The Big 12 Conference selected Texas freshman Aeriel Ellis on Tuesday, April 13 as its women’s tennis co-player of the week after she went undefeated in singles and doubles in the Horns’ win over No. 5 Northwestern.  Ellis shared the award with Texas A&M’s Nazari Urbina.

Ellis upset Northwestern’s 13th-ranked Maria Mosolova at No. 1 singles to clinch the Longhorns’ 6-1 victory over the fifth-ranked Wildcats.  Ellis also helped the Horns clinch the doubles point when she teamed up with Vanja Corovic to post an 8-5 win over NU’s 23rd-ranked duo of Lauren Lui and Mosolova at No. 1 doubles.

LANCASTER CONTINUES DOMINANCE OF BIG 12 FOES
Texas senior Sarah Lancaster maintained her excellence in conference play over the weekend with a pair of wins over Nebraska’s Stefanie Weinstein and Iowa State’s Tessa Lang.  Now at 9-0 in Big 12 play this season, Lancaster boasts a 37-1 record in Big 12 regular season matches through her four seasons in Austin.   

THE 2009-10 LONGHORNS
Under fifth-year head coach Patty Fendick-McCain, the Longhorns return five of six singles and doubles starters from the 2009 squad that reached the finals at the Big 12 Championships and the round of 32 at the NCAA Championships.

Corovic returns after earning All-Big 12 singles honors in each of her three seasons in Austin.  Senior Sarah Lancaster posted a 19-3 dual-match record last season and went unbeaten in conference play.  Lancaster has won 13 of her last 14 singles contests.   

Sophomore Krista Damico brought a 13-4 overall fall singles record into the dual-match season.  Damico was selected as the Big 12 Conference Women’s Tennis Player of the Week on April 6 after going 4-0 in her singles and doubles contests at Oklahoma State and Oklahoma. 

Freshman Aeriel Ellis turned in a fall season that produced appearances in the main singles draws at the ITA All-American Championships and the ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships.  Ellis totaled a 16-5 singles mark in the fall.