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  1. Both Turati's win! Bianca will improve her career high ranking (top 450).

    Fernanda wins in Chile too, taking advantage of her WC by beating another WC. This is her third tournament victory with points, meaning she should get a WTA ranking in the next few weeks.

  2. Ehhh... I wouldn't put too much emphasis on rankings right now. Not all teams have competed full roster or are at full taper. Stanford is still the de facto number 1.

    But in good news the number 4 recruit Olivia Bray just verballed (class of 2020).

  3. 19 hours ago, spystud13 said:

    And on that note... 

     

     

    Ouch. At least he'll have not much to defend next year. He has too much talent to drop even lower. Even Tomic is going to finish in the top 100 this year after a major slump/meltdown.

    Sock was really close to coming to UT if he hadn't turned pro. With all the success he has had, looks like he made the right choice.

  4. 6 hours ago, perfectchaos007 said:

    Bianca drew #140 Claire Liu in the first round. Claire was a very accomplished junior player. I think she won one of the slams 

    Yeah Claire won Wimbledon, beating Ann Li (who has also decided to turn pro instead of going to college). Not to downplay that, but Bianca did beat Galfi who won the US Open Juniors three years ago.

    Bianca lost first set before rain came. Play is to finish tomorrow.

  5. Bianca just beat the former world junior number 1 today. She'll also have a new career high when this tournament's points are added! Pretty good considering she is not playing a full pro schedule.

    I know on the other page I had doubts about Bianca going pro, but I wouldn't be surprised now if she decides to go pro after this spring season (based on other players who forewent their final year)

  6. Christian and Harrison wins the doubles championship on a double fault 11-9 in the third and after saving a match point! (One of the Tech players sure was mad after the match throwing his racquet, balls, hat, shoes, and towel. I think he ran out of things to throw.)

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 5 hours ago, Js1 said:

    Caya's 19 kill match gives her 1,001 kills in her career.   Not unlikely she will finish in the top 10 in kills, considering she's at 1,001 now (168) and she averaging 416.5 per season so far.   If he stays on that same pace, she will finish ahead of Faucette and Eckerman after her RS Senior year.  Her k/ps so far would put her in the top 10. 

    For all the shit she got last year, Shook is most likely going to finish top 10 in assists in her career if she remains the primary setter for 2 more years (much to our chagrin). 

    At minimum, Shook needs to finish in the top 2 for setting if she's going to be the starting setter all four years. No other Texas setter (other than Moriarty) was the starter for four years! 

  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 3 minutes ago, texasstrong12 said:

    I don't either. Maybe both are injured? 

    For a second, I thought we played Oklahoma State on Sunday but it's not until next Friday. So that's good. We won't get a result against TCU or Oklahoma State without Grosso and Regan. 

    https://www.canadasoccer.com/canada-soccer-set-to-open-pre-tournament-camp-in-texas-ahead-of-2018-concacaf-women-s-championship-p161809

    Does this mean they're gone for the whole period Sep 20 to Oct 1st!? If they do get selected for World Cup qualifying, they'll be gone for essentially another two weeks until Oct 17th.

  13. Berg drew some attention to herself too during that last play, opening up a bit of space for Billups to run through the box. Feel really bad for the defender mishitting the clearance (we've all had those moments).

    What kind of activities does Canada have this weekend? Don't see any matches on their schedule.

  14. 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).

  15. 1 hour ago, sunset87 said:

    The only facet of the match that UT was the equal to Stanford was hitting...that's it.  Against elite competition it becomes painfully obvious that this team is consistently inferior in serving, passing and setting.  Against Stanford they were also out blocked by a large margin, which is a little unusual. But the same thing happened against Wiscy. Of course a good setter can make blockers look bad.

    The new libero looks pretty good, especially for a freshman.  Why doesn't Elliot recruit a few liberos, let them compete for the libero position and move the others to DS? You can't win with just a bunch of big athletic hitters. They've got a least 2 or 3 sitting on the bench that will rarely see the court for their entire careers.  Elliot's teams are consistently out classed against high level competition in the other fundamentals of the game. I mean he's a good recruiter and coach but he has some blind/weak spots that need some introspection.

    That's the problem. Elliot does recruit liberos...McCoy, Brooks, Yogi, Palmer, Olschwanger, Rounsaville, Hahn, etc. were all recruited specifically for the libero position competition. While a lot were walk ons, they were all highly touted. Go to the archives of volleytalk and every year it's the same- posters getting all excited and singing the praises of the next defensive recruit (before coming onto campus and not panning out). Even Olschwanger was honored as a 'Defensive Dandy' by PrepVolleyball magazine. McCoy was one of the top 2 liberos of her class. Petersen has been recruited since 2015, back when she was just a sophomore in high school. I know the current Stanford libero Hentz was also recruited by Texas.

    Thus the problem is development, which brings the spotlight on Sullivan- the defensive coach.

    Actually, the libero position is pretty unstable on the national team. I think the US is going to go with a converted OH into L at this World Championships in Japan this year.

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  16. The weird thing is that one of the critical passers of the 2012 championship team Sha'dare McNeal didn't even play back row until her senior year of high school!

    Somehow Elliot, Rockwell, and Sullivan were able to develop her passing and defense skills during her four years

     

  17. 3 minutes ago, PittsburghTiger said:

    On Saturday, many tennis fans witnessed an emotional, gut-wrenching conclusion to the U.S. Open. They also witnessed exactly what women of color lifting each other up looks like—even during personal devastation.

    In this case, 20-year-old Naomi Osaka, who was born in Japan to a Japanese mother and Haitian father, won her first ever Grand Slam title by defeating her tennis idol, Serena Williams. But the mood in the wake of the game was hardly celebratory.

    For many, the joy for Osaka’s hard-won victory was soured by the way Williams was treated during the match. During the second set, the chair umpire, Carlos Ramos, gave Williams a game penalty after he said that she had accrued three violations: receiving coaching, smashing a racket in frustration, and then verbally abusing the umpire after the initial penalties.

    Williams refuted two of the three penalties, growing angry at the notion that the umpire thought she was cheating by receiving advice from her coach. “I don’t cheat to win, I’d rather lose,” she said. As she tried to defend herself against the umpire’s call of verbal abuse minutes later, after she called him a “thief,” she was heard saying: “There are a lot of men out here who have said a lot of things and do not get that punishment. Because I am a woman you are going to take this away from me? That is not right.”

    The crowd loudly booed U.S. Open officials after the match, leaving Osaka in tears as she stood on the podium, awaiting her trophy. When given the mic, Williams used her platform not to trash talk the umpire or the U.S. Open, or lament her loss, but to ask the crowd to stop booing and instead use the moment to celebrate Osaka’s victory. “Let’s make this the best moment we can and we’ll get through it,” she said. “Let’s give everyone the credit where credit’s due.”

    For her part, Osaka spent much of her victory lap thanking her parents and praising Williams, saying that it was an honor and dream to play her in such a high-stakes game. In a post-match interview, Williams said that during the trophy ceremony she looked at Osaka, and thought, “I definitely don’t want her to feel like that.”

    The U.S. Open final is the latest in a series of recent moments that have left fans of women’s tennis outraged. Just last week at the U.S. Open, Alize Cornet was penalized for briefly taking her shirt off in order to turn it around, after realizing that it was backwards. Many tennis fans ridiculed the call, noting that male tennis players take their shirts off frequently without getting in trouble.

    And only a few weeks ago, the French Open said it would introduce a dress code that would ban outfits like the catsuit worn by Williams during the French Open—a suit she wears to prevent blood clots, after a pulmonary embolism in 2011 left her “on her death bed,” Williams said at the time.

    “It will no longer be accepted,” the French Tennis Federation President Bernard Giudicelli said. “One must respect the game and the place.”

    Taking a game away from Williams for using the word “thief” during such a high-stakes match is unlikely to do much to quash the notion  that a double standard exists between men and women in today’s competitive tennis field. And the stakes of that double standard can feel even higher for women of color. The support for Williams on Saturday—and throughout her career—comes not just from appreciation for her rare talent, but in part because some fans have an enduring memory of how difficult it is for women of color to make it in expensive, mostly white sports.

    To see Williams’s comeback after a traumatic birth stymied over seemingly minor infractions seems unnecessary and malicious. To see the devastation that those penalties wrought on two women of color at the top of their sport, during what should have been a joyous time, is heartbreaking.

    During a post-game interview Williams was undeterred: “I’m here to fight for women’s rights and women’s equality,” she said. “The fact that I have to go through this is an example. Maybe it didn’t work out for me, but it’s going to work out for the next person.”

    Superstar athletes are rarely as generous, or as classy, or as outright talented as Serena Williams was on Saturday. The events of the U.S. Open show both how difficult it can be for women of color to be accepted as they are, and just how thoroughly she has rejected the status quo. Being the best may not be enough to take home the Grand Slam trophy, but Williams is winning at something much more consequential.

    We want to hear what you think about this article. Submit a letter to the editor or write to letters@theatlantic.com.

    https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/09/a-heart-breaking-grand-slam/569704/

    What BS is this? Those infractions ARE NOT minor

    And it's not the word 'thief' that sparked the third violation. It was the constant tirade during the whole changeover that included the threat of never being allowed to officiate her match again.

    Williams has threatened to shove a ball down official's throats, told umpires that they're ugly, and has made the statement along the lines of 'you better not see me in the hallway'

    She is not classy at all compared to the likes of Li Na, Kvitova, Halep, etc.

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  18. I'm just laughing at the whole banning catsuit is racist thing? Stupid people can never bother to do research. Anne White had her similar outfit banned back in 1985 Wimbledon.

    Also Williams really doesn't need the outfit to prevent blood clots, she's running around, sprinting side to side. That is more than enough in preventing clots.

  19. 19 minutes ago, spystud13 said:

     

     

     

    That very last sentence is so key. The fucking chair NEVER thought Serena was “cheating”, but her fucking coach was most definitely coaching. She should rage at Patrick. 

    Absolutely. I also want to stress this is NOT the first time a player is penalized without the player directly knowing about coaching. Serena should know the rules, she's been on tour for over a decade

     

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/tennis/2996254/Adidas-International-Hingis-advances-despite-warning.html

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