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Aleemay

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  1. Committee always seems to go straight off the computer rankings (unless the adjacent team has the winning H2H). Texas should mathematically keep the top position in the computer rankings.
  2. Joffe better win Coach of the Year- replacing half your team is no easy feat. He's also not won the award since 2018! Argument could be made for Khirin to win both Freshmen and Player of the Year
  3. Beginning to think Texas was going to choke; it was either the 6th or 7th match point at line 1 Really windy, will be interesting to see how much movement there'll be on Tsaiya's serve
  4. Spizziri absolutely smoked his returns (off the first serve too!) in that last game
  5. Zein posted about 'early retirement' so I guess Texas is down to six scholarship players Baylor currently on the bubble for the NCAAs. Have to wonder how warm the seat is for the BU coach. Baylor's domination seems like eons ago and are now fighting to stay in the upper half of the league. Significant drop off.
  6. TCU played without their top player today.
  7. WTA 250 is not like ATP 250 (where the winner gets 250 points). WTA 250 winners get 280 points and runner ups get 180 points. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTA_250_tournaments
  8. Schnaider lost against Duke yesterday. Maybe the switch from clay to hard courts? Much to play for tomorrow- a loss would probably ruin any chance of hosting a Round of 16 match
  9. Singles or doubles? Glasspool for doubles in January this year Probably Vladimíra Uhlířová for women's doubles No clue about singles for either main tours- unless you count Jill Craybas (played at Texas for one year before transferring to Florida). Kevin Curren was winning titles in the 80s. Also Lulu Sun is at a career high ranking 226. Should be borderline to get into most Grand Slam qualifying tournaments. Unfortunately she'll be out for several months after tearing ligaments at her last tournament.
  10. lols she just won the first round at the Charleston Open against top 60 Alycia Parks She should be available to play Texas next Monday: no WTA tournaments due to Fed Cup and she's not on any entry lists for the ITF tournaments
  11. Very revealing interview by Zeynalova. Some highlights: -Was dead set on going pro but her mom took over her email and started emailing coaches on her behalf. -Due to starting the recruiting process so late, she talked with 6 schools (including Georgia and NC State) and only had 3 offers. Said she got lucky with Texas as someone in the 2021 team (I'm guessing Lulu?) turned pro and a spot opened up for her three months before starting college. -Chose Austin for various reasons- cool town with Apple and Tesla moving to the area (lol from an Austinite perspective I remember a lot of locals groaned about this), UT just won the national championship -Mentioned about the stress of the war at home -Due to various other things, developed an eating disorder during the season last year in the midst of a dominating freshmen year. -Etc.
  12. Texas completed the road trip with a convincing 4-0 win over Tech. Just two matches remaining: non-conference NC State and Baylor for Senior Day and chance to win at least a share of the regular season conference championship. OU just beat ISU today. So there's now three teams in the conference at the top with one loss.
  13. Iowa State wins the doubles point Wind is also vicious in Stillwater right now
  14. Also Iowa State is playing Oklahoma State right now...
  15. Texas beats TCU. Questionable stacking going on- I don't believe Martins should be playing line 5 for TCU. Rivkin was leading 6-4 5-2. Proceeds to lose the next five games and then bagels her opponent in the third set.
  16. 6-1 win! Oklahoma State only one unbeaten in conference...although they still have to play against OU and Iowa State
  17. In other news, Bianca got her first win as a coach at Mizzou over the weekend! Not to make her job tougher but Mizzou also currently don't have indoor courts to practice and host matches as there's 'structural issues' at the facility. So far all home matches have been held in either St. Louis or Springfield, both 2 hours drive away from Columbia 😵 Guessing Ovrootsky is going to redshirt? Her wrist injury must be pretty bad for her not to play all season Also saw that Charlotte Kempenaers-Pocz of Australia is going to play for Texas next year. In my opinion, hard to say what her full capabilities are as I'm pretty sure her ITF juniors career was severely hampered by Australia's strict COVID entry and exit policies. But I'm also guessing that Tennis Australia must have thought highly as her as she got a WC to play the Australian open qualies (with a ranking in the 1000s) and has gotten three wildcards to play in the doubles Grand Slam main draw (even winning one round). Tennis Australia must have also pulled some strings to get Simona Halep to agree to be her doubles partner!
  18. https://mutigers.com/news/2023/2/23/mizzou-announces-tennis-coaching-change.aspx Major yikes- can't imagine what Bianca just walked into. No coaching experience and within 2 months of being an assistant HC, now you're the head coach of an SEC school. Also interesting that Zlobinsky (played first at UT, then transferred to Wake Forest, played in the NC match against UT in 2019) is now the volunteer assistant of the UT women's team.
  19. Beat UW 4-0. Face Big 12 foe Iowa State tomorrow. Though it wasn't pretty, I'm impressed with Khirin. Even when down or facing break points, she was still freely swinging away.
  20. 4-0 against Baylor. May be a continuing theme this year- the bottom of the lineup won convincingly. Also want to point Rapolu double bageling Baranano at line 4. They played twice during the 2021 season and both matches went to three sets with Rapolu winning both times.
  21. Siem looks physically much stronger this year Spizzirri also has his backhand back for this season Hopefully good indicators for the year. No more injuries please!
  22. https://tennisrecruiting.net/article.asp?id=410979263 "Bailly, a 17-year-old from Belgium, who, like Geller, made two junior slam finals to finish No. 1, hasn't ruled out joining his brother Pierre-Yves, who was the 2022 Big 12 Freshman of the Year at Texas. " This article makes it sound like Gilles Bailly is either coming to Texas or going pro. (For those who don't know, the author has been a reporter in junior tennis world for decades.)
  23. Not to mention SMU was probably the first team out of the NCAA's last year. Texas should still win, but wouldn't be surprised if the score is 5-2.
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