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  1. 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.)

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  2. 6 hours ago, perfectchaos007 said:

    Triple header in Austin this weekend to open the season in our quest for a threepeat. UNT on Friday, SMU on Saturday, and Tulane on Sunday. 

    UNT and Tulane will be overmatched by us, but SMU has the talent of a middle-of-the-pack Big12 team and could provide somewhat of a test. I actually did a double take when I saw Taylor Johnson on SMU's roster. 5 or 6 years ago the USTA was really pushing Taylor as the next big thing in American tennis (I remember they even put her in a televised charity exhibition event in Vegas with Elton John, Billy Jean King, and a bunch of top tennis pros) Although her tennis career didn't quite pan out that way she or the USTA had hoped, she still played tennis 4 years at UCLA and is finishing off her tennis career at SMU as a grad transfer. Good for her

    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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  3. 20 hours ago, perfectchaos007 said:

    Schnaider won her first round AO match in straight sets today. If she beats world #6 Sakkari next round, it would make absolutely no sense for her to come back to college. 

    Also, Texas played fairly well in the Miami invite, but I was surprised Nicole Khirin only played 1 match all weekend. Hopefully its not a health issue

    Schnaider is in such an unique position. Closest I can think of is Beatrice Capra back in 2010 making the third round of the US Open and then getting double baggled by Sharapova. Question was whether or not she'd go pro or go to Duke (since she was HS class of 2011). Capra played about dozen more tournaments afterwards and it was pretty clear that her US Open run was a fluke (lost at least 5 matches in a row on ITF circuit) and enrolled at Duke.

    Schnaider is even better at this point compared to Capra as Schnaider will be top 100 and can enter many more of the main WTA tournaments. Capra's ranking only got as high as 201.

    Miami Invite: Pretty clear that Texas' main strength will be at the bottom of the lineup. Good to see Pachkaleva back on the court after her injury last year at the NCAA's.

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  4. 5 hours ago, perfectchaos007 said:

    The Miami invite is just an extension of the fall individual season, but works well as a warm-up event to prep the team for the spring season. NCSTs #1 player, Diana Schneider, is far and away the best player in college tennis by boasting a UTR over 12.0 and a WTA ranking just outside the top 100 in the world. Wtf is she doing playing college tennis?

    Currently she is tied up in Australian Open qualifying, so don’t expect her back for a while. 

    From what's been said, Schnaider's decision to go to college was based a lot on the Russian War and her family thought there'd be a lot of travel restrictions placed on Russian citizens. When she committed to NC State over the summer, her ranking was in the 300s. Then over the fall she went on a tear and rose over 200 places. Seriously am wondering if she's going to follow through playing the NCAAs or if she sees the benefit of play pro full time now.

    btw, NC State could have probably been even stronger had Nugroho (last year's ACC freshmen of the year) had not turned pro. Also Chantra of OU turned pro over the summer.

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  5. 12 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

    Volleyball experts. Down 4-0 in the 4th what was the thinking behind setting Parra who had not played all match? 

    Seemed like a gutsy call and it worked. 

     

    With the rotation that Texas was in Skinner was on the right side and Phillips was on the left. Not the ideal scenario as Phillips is not a natural left side hitter (middle blocker all throughout high school) and has a limited range of shots. So if the pass is off and SKT has no other option but to moonball it to the left, it's essentially a free ball. Parra is a natural OH, played internationally, and can beat the block as her arm swing is much faster than Phillip's.

    There are other ways to get out of this rotation but it involves 'stacking' the hitters to one side and one of the wing hitters is basically running/sprinting the full width of the court to get in position to hit.

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  6. 9 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

    My favorite part of volleyball is the rallies.

    There are no rallies to speak of in men's volleyball. 

    People don't like service errors in women's volleyball? They're all over the place in men's, because it's so freakin' hard to score in a service rotation. I just don't find it very much fun to watch. I really enjoy women's volleyball. It's obviously in a huge growth pattern right now at all levels. I have no idea when it plateaus, but I feel like it has a much bigger shot at being truly mainstream than other women's sports. Even basketball. 

    It already has the highest ratings on BTN among women's sports, only being surpassed by football and men's basketball. 

    The participation levels for girls is skyrocketing. And a lot of that is coming from women's basketball. 

    If I'm not mistaken, NCAA Men's Volleyball uses international volleyball rules where there can only be one substitution per player. That means both OH's and the Opposite have to play all the way around for the majority of the match. That's why you see more hand 'sets' when receiving serve and you see so many more 'D' shots (opposite hitting off the back row). Also why there's not as much rallies in the men's game since there's not a lot of DS.

    Because men teams can bail themselves out with moonball sets, it incentivizes the server to just let it rip.

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  7. On 9/26/2022 at 10:23 PM, Aleemay said:

    Nice that they got to do it for all of the 2022 team. I don't think there's a pic with all of the 2021 championship team. Fortunately there's $25K going on in Austin that Stearns, the Zamarripa twins, and Kylie Collins are in town for. Fogelman is in the photo too.

    Speaking of the $25K, I wonder if any of the wild cards (in both qualifying and main draws) not used on current Texas player signify a potential recruit?

    Also, Austin was selected to host a WTA 250 event next year on the last week of February. Will expect several of the players to get wild cards into that draw.

    Looks like my hunch is correct.

    Maya Joint (got one of the qualifying WCs) has committed to UT. Has wins over current players at Ohio State and Baylor. Has also beaten recruits at Stanford and A&M.

    Pretty good ITF junior record- ranked 163 and only 16.

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  8. Lol I was there over the weekend- in fact from the outside you couldn't tell there was a tournament going on. There were more people dressed up for a pink jeep convention that was also happening within the vicinity (!)

  9. Nice that they got to do it for all of the 2022 team. I don't think there's a pic with all of the 2021 championship team. Fortunately there's $25K going on in Austin that Stearns, the Zamarripa twins, and Kylie Collins are in town for. Fogelman is in the photo too.

    Speaking of the $25K, I wonder if any of the wild cards (in both qualifying and main draws) not used on current Texas player signify a potential recruit?

    Also, Austin was selected to host a WTA 250 event next year on the last week of February. Will expect several of the players to get wild cards into that draw.

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  10. 5 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

     Richard Ciamarra won the NCAA doubles event a few months ago, but unfortunately since his partner (Cleve Harper) was Canadian, we knew they would not get a wildcard in the US Open. 

    HOWEVER, I noticed Richard Ciamarra did get a wildcard into the MIXED doubles event. I assume he was given the wildcard by virtue of winning the NCAA doubles title with a non-American partner, and this was the compromise. 

    They paired him up with an American woman I've never heard of, and they lost 1st round to boyfriend and girlfriend pairing Madison Keys and Fratangelo.

     

     

    He was paired with Jaeda Daniel who played at NC State. Also won the NCAA doubles but partner was British and ex TTU player Nell Miller.

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  11. 7 minutes ago, wood said:

    Nice. Hopefully this means men's indoor is coming soon as well. I know that Jared has said that if the UIL would make boys vb a sport in Texas, UT would start men's volleyball asap.

     

    3 minutes ago, 40acredropout said:

    That would be fucking awesome.  Would it make sense though?  Looks like there are only 54 men's indoor programs, solid amount of schools I've never heard of, and the closest on a map is... Grand Canyon?

    Gosh I just can't see that ever happening. There were less than a dozen boys prep clubs in the state 15 years ago. Don't know what it's like right now. Would take a huge grassroot movement to make it a UIL sport.

    There are some private schools in Texas that sponsor the sport in the Southwest Preparatory Conference.

  12. 6 hours ago, perfectchaos007 said:

    A tough slate as usual. Coach hasn’t added any new players to the roster from last season, so I wonder if he adds someone from the portal before the spring.

    I'm hoping Yves Bially's brother is interested, although I think he may go the pro route

  13. 1 hour ago, Rickylovesweed said:

    So it looks like Joffe knew those other players were going pro and transferring for some time. 

     

    Stearns- Joffe has known since before the semester

    Based on this article, it seems like the Zamarripa twins decided to go pro about a month ago.

    https://napavalleyregister.com/sports/womens-tennis-st-helenas-zamarripa-twins-help-texas-win-ncaa-title-go-pro/article_937a6c9a-e43b-11ec-adc5-4b4b32a07bee.html

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  14. 4 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    That's one replacement!  Good so far. 

    Nicole Khirin from Israel? 

    Yep- Could be the line one player for next year. I'm wondering how many years of eligibility she has. I know it gets funky with the Isrealis as they do mandatory military service.

    Other one is Nicole Rivkin of Germany (significant wins include Sahdiieva and Malm at Baylor, Barnett ex All Big 10 member at Northwestern, and Costoulos current top 5 Junior player)

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  15. @perfectchaos007 Remember when we were debating several years ago if Marlee would follow in her sister's footsteps to the Forty Acres? Glad to see her come to UT and will provide some leadership for the team. 

    Also am hearing Texas is signing two Nicole(s)- one who has wins against Lulu Sun and Anna Turati on the ITF circuit.

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  16. 7 hours ago, perfectchaos007 said:

    The departure of Kylie is disappointing, but not the end of the world. Last year, we lost 2 of our top 3 singles players in the lineup to graduation/pros and were able to repeat as champs. We're in the same situation going into next season. Next year's team still looks solid as long as no one else leaves. 

    1. Zeynalova (So.)
    2. Chavatipon (Jr.)
    3. Ovrootsky (So.)
    4. A. Zamarripa (So.)
    5. Rapolu (Jr.)
    6. B. Zamarripa (So.)

    Hate to be bearers of more bad news but...

    Interesting that Collins transferred. Wished her the best but there's a lot of work to be done in Baton Rouge. The Sells left the program in bad shape.

    Trust in Joffe- he's shown that he can consistently produce results.

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  17. Kylie and Peyton beat the Zamarripa twins in the final of a 25k.

    Lulu Sun is in the qualies of Wimbledon and will play her first match tomorrow. Can't recall the last time a Longhorn was in a grand slam women's singles draw (either qualy or main).

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