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____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>INDIANAPOLIS — Entering the 97th running of the Indianapolis 500, Brazilian IndyCar driver Tony Kanaan had 14 wins, 11 poles and a 2004 IndyCar Series title to his name.Yet, there was a void in his career résumé left from his unsuccessful pursuits of an Indy 500 victory after 11 starts at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.Before Sunday, Kanaan had five top-five Indy 500 finishes and had led a sizeable number of laps in eight Indy 500s, but he had never captured the elusive title in “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.”All of that changed Sunday.After a restart on lap 197 following Graham Rahal’s crash on the back straightaway, Kanaan stole the lead from Andretti Autosport driver Ryan Hunter-Reay in Turn 1. Seconds later, three-time Indy 500 champion and Kanaan’s former teammate, Dario Franchitti, lost control of his No. 10 Target car. Franchitti drove high on the track and crashed into the wall, which brought out the yellow caution flag for the remaining three laps. Kanaan, the fan-favorite at IMS, took the checkered flag.On a race day in which the drivers set numerous records relating to speed and passing at the front of the pack, including the number of lead changes (68, which doubled the 2012 record of 34), the winning average speed (187.433 mph) and the number of lap leaders (14), Kanaan crossed the finish line with the caution flag waving above the track.Sunday’s 21 caution-flag laps tied the record for the fewest in Indy 500 history and the drivers raced without incident for a record 133 consecutive laps from lap No. 61 to lap No. 193, when Hunter-Reay held the lead heading into the caution. Kanaan celebrated his victory by accepting the winner’s wreath, drinking 2-percent milk out of a glass bottle in the winner’s circle, kissing the yard of bricks with his KV Racing Technology team and, most importantly for him, crossing his name off the list of “the best drivers to never win the Indy 500.”“I’m glad I put myself out of that group and put myself in the other group,” he said. “I’m glad I’m on the other side and I can put my big nose on that trophy.”Franchitti said he felt a little better seeing who was leading after he crashed into the wall in Turn 1 and praised Kanaan for earning his spot on the Borg-Warner Trophy.“It cheered me up a bit,” he said. “Great, just phenomenal that Tony won. We were never in contention, but I’m just so happy he won. He’s a very, very deserving winner.”The two former Andretti-Green Racing teammates traded waves when Kanaan passed Franchitti’s wreckage as they both knew that Kanaan would soon join an elite group of drivers to win the biggest race in IndyCar.“When he saw I was in the lead, he was shaking his head, like waving at me,” Kanaan said. “It was special, very special.”Just as he shared his soon-to-be victory with Franchitti for that brief moment, Kanaan celebrated his win with the fans at the IMS.“I got a little bit of luck today,” Kanaan said. “It’s for the fans. It’s for my dad that’s not here. But mainly for all of you guys.”There is mutual love between Kanaan and his fans in Indianapolis. The loudest cheers of the day were for the Brazilian driver.“I was looking at the stands, and it was unbelievable,” Kanaan said. “I’m speechless.”Kanaan said his large IndyCar fan base became apparent after a crash in 2008 when the fans at IMS celebrated him with thunderous applause when he climbed out of his car.“Ever since then it kept growing and growing,” he said. “Every year that went by that I didn’t win, we kept growing the fan base. More people felt sorry. More people felt that I deserved to win.”Kanaan said he didn’t have enough pockets for all of the things that his fans gave him to bring him luck.“I probably have to bring a truck with me behind the car,” he said when considering how he could possibly bring all of his good luck charms with him to IMS.Kanaan said he began to realize his change in fortune at IMS when he was following the pace car on the 199th lap.“I started to check everything in my car,” he said. “Do we have enough fuel, have four wheels? You kind of go crazy.”After 12 tries, Kanaan captured his first Indy 500 title.“We were known for not winning. Now we’re known for winning,” Kanaan said. “This is it. I made it.”Kanaan said he has dreamed of winning the Indy 500 for his entire life but, as he has gotten older, he wanted to win more for his fans than for himself.“If you can bring some joy to them, and I think the best thing was try to put an exciting race for them,” he said. “I believed that this win was more for the people out there than for me.”Kanaan said as he began to accept that he might never have the chance to win at IMS, the fans are what made racing in the Indy 500 so special for him.“From day one, it catches me by surprise, I can’t walk out there,” he said. “The parade, everywhere, it’s just unbelievable. I think wins are important, trophies are really nice, but what I’m going to take forever, it’s definitely this.”
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____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Hours before winning the Indianapolis 500 Pole Saturday, Ed Carpenter said that anything can happen at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.In Carpenter’s case, “anything” meant being the only driver from a single-car team to qualify for the “fast nine,” beating Team Penske and Andretti Autosport for the pole position. Canadian driver James Hinchcliffe, an Andretti Autosport driver who qualified ninth, Carpenter said. “You’re fighting over the smallest amounts of time and the smallest bits of speed,” he said. “The series is so competitive and even taking just two seconds to have a break and enjoy it, you’re probably going to get passed by someone else. When you come here to the speedway, everybody starts at zero and everything that we’ve learned in the first four races pretty much goes out the window.” Hinchcliffe said that while he thinks it’s great to see Andretti Autosport cars on top of the speed charts, he’s not resting too comfortably. “We’re not sleeping too well at night because this is Indy and anything can happen,” he said. Last Sunday, referred to as Bump Day at IMS, showed the truth of the sentiment that truly anything can happen en route to determining the Indy 500 champion. For Katherine Legge, a last minute entry as the driver of the No. 81 Angie’s List car, “anything” meant racing at the IMS for the first time in 2013, and despite missing out on eight days of practice that other drivers had, qualifying for the 2013 edition of The Greatest Spectacle in Racing as the final driver in the field of 33. “Would it be great to have a week’s preparation?” she asked before her qualifying attempt. “Yes. But I know by the end of the day, we will have this beat, so I’m not worried.”At 9:04 a.m. May 19, she completed her first lap at IMS in nearly one year. She said that she drove fewer than 20 total practice laps before attempting to qualify. Between Wednesday and Thursday of last week alone, the rest of the field accumulated 4,392 laps.“I’m not going to lie, I was freaking out this morning,” Legge said.At 12:56 p.m., she had qualified for the Indy 500 for the second consecutive year. The British driver was filled with emotion after her qualifying run.“I haven’t slept in like three days, so I’m going to sleep tonight, which is good,” she said. “It’s been a long day, but it’s been a great day and a great opportunity. So just happy now, relieved to be in the field.”When one door of opportunity opened, another closed. Michel Jourdain Jr., who qualified for the Indy 500 in 1996 and 2012, did not feel comfortable driving the No. 17 Office Depot car and did not officially attempt to qualify on Bump Day. “We know, for sure, that there is something wrong with the car,” he said. “Something bent, broken, loose, bending. Something is broken in the middle of the car we have not seen.”In practice, Jourdain Jr. attempted to use the set-up of his Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing teammates James Jakes and Graham Rahal in order to correct for the mysterious flaw in the car. Despite averaging 220.461 mph in his qualifying attempt on Pole Day, Jourdain Jr. said that his car was undriveable on Sunday no matter which driver’s set-up was implemented or who was driving the car. “Then we put Graham in the car,” he said. “It was impossible for him to make a difference; he just couldn’t drive it. He got to 204 and said, ‘I can’t go any faster.’” With Bump Day in the rear-view mirror, Legge will try to make the most of the remaining practice sessions because anything can happen on Sunday and by starting in the 33rd position, she can only improve.“You know, stranger things have happened,” she said. “I’m not under any illusions that we’re likely to win, but stranger things have happened, and I have a really good race car. It’s going to be about being smart. It’s going to be about getting through the field.”
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>INDIANAPOLIS — Two-thirds of the 33 drivers who attempted to qualify for the Indianapolis 500 on Saturday at Pole Day at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway are from foreign countries, yet it was Indy’s own Ed Carpenter who claimed pole position.The 32-year-old Butler University graduate founded his own single-car team, Ed Carpenter Racing, sponsored by Fuzzy’s Premium Vodka in 2012. On Pole Day Saturday, Ed Carpenter Racing toppled two of IndyCar’s historic powers: Penske Racing and Andretti Autosport. Team Penske, comprised of three-time Indy 500 winner Helio Castroneves, Will Power and Rookie of the Year candidate AJ Allmendinger, dominated the Saturday morning practice sessions. Power, whose car caught fire in his last race at the Sao Paulo Indy 300 on May 5, drove around the two and a half mile track at 229.808 mph during the open practice, which was the fastest speed of the morning. Allmendinger posted the second fastest speed of the morning at 229.086 mph. Castroneves was sixth in the standings with a speed of 227.978 mph. Rain showers swept into the Indianapolis area Saturday after practice and delayed qualifications more than two hours until 1:30 p.m. When Pole Day finally commenced, all drivers drove four consecutive laps. The 24 drivers with the fastest average speeds qualified for the Indy 500.Then the top nine qualifiers, referred to as the Fast Nine, competed in the same manner to determine the order of the first three rows of starting positions for the Indy 500. In the first stage of qualifications, five Andretti Autosports drivers, three Team Penske drivers, and Carpenter, all of whom drive Chevrolets, placed in the top nine to advance to the second segment and fight for the pole. Power’s four-lap average was 228.844, the fastest time in the first segment. Castroneves and Allmendinger finished fourth and seventh, respectively. Andretti Autosport’s five-headed monster, comprised of 2012 IndyCar Series champion Ryan Hunter-Reay, Rookie of the Year candidate Carlos Muñoz, Marco Andretti, E.J. Viso and James Hinchcliffe claimed the majority of the Fast Nine positions. And then there was Carpenter, who was in the middle of the first segment in fifth place. Andretti’s position in the shootout was one spot before Carpenter and he took control of first place with an average speed of 228.261 mph. Carpenter came out at a blistering pace of 229.347 mph on his first lap and also topped Andretti’s average speed in his second and third laps. In front of his home crowd, Carpenter sealed the deal at 227.955 mph in his final lap. With Muñoz’s shootout attempt less than half a mile per hour slower then that of Carpenter, it was Power’s pole to lose. Carpenter, who said that his earliest memory of the Indy 500 was watching the 1991 Pole Day from Turn Two, said he knew he was going to win the pole as he watched Power from pit row. “I kind of knew on the first lap that it was going to happen to be honest, after seeing what Helio and A.J. had done,” he said. “I figured he would fall off too much to maintain the average that we had.”Carpenter said that after he saw Allmendinger and Castroneves gradually lose speed each lap, he expected the same from Power. Despite breaking 229 mph on his first lap of the shootout, the Australian Power lost nearly two miles per hour over the course of his next three laps and finished in sixth place with an average speed of 228.087 mph.Despite his parents and sister being in South Bend, Ind., for his sister’s graduation from the University of Notre Dame, Carpenter’s new family members — the IndyCar fans from Indianapolis and the state of Indiana — lined the home stretch of the track to cheer for their hometown driver.“I’ve lived here since I was eight years old, went to school at Butler University and probably will never leave,” Carpenter said. “It gives you confidence knowing that people are behind you and I’ve got a great family, a lot of them are here.”While Carpenter was thrilled to win the pole, he kept his victory in perspective of what lies ahead Sunday. “It’s definitely a landmark day but I don’t want to get overly focused on this because we have a lot of work to do yet,” he said. “I want to make sure that we keep focus because I hope this is part one of a really magical month. We’re here for race day.”
"Everyone in the Big Ten is better this year and it's a very tough conference. We need to win more of the close matches this year."--IU Coach Lin Loring on the state of the Big Ten in 2012-13
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.--A day after thunder storms forced Indianapolis 500 Fast Friday action to end early, the drivers returned to that track at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for Pole Day Qualifications on Saturday.
After suffering a season-ending loss to No. 19 Vanderbilt in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, the IU women's tennis team shifted gears to focus on next season. On Thursday, the team announced that freshmen Paula Gutierrez and Kim Schmider will attend IU and join the Hoosiers for the 2013-14 season.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>No. 41 Indiana’s NCAA Tournament run was short-lived as No. 19 Vanderbilt (16-11) bounced IU out of the first round with a 4-0 victory in Clemson, S.C. Friday.With the loss, the Hoosiers end the year with an 18-10 record, which marks the most wins for the IU women’s tennis program since the 2007-08 season.While the Hoosiers failed to earn a point, the match was much closer than the score would indicate. IU was competitive in all three doubles matches and three of the singles matches went to three sets.The No. 1, No. 2, and No. 4 singles matches were unfinished. IU was leading or tied in all three matches.Senior Leslie Hureau, who is ranked No. 115, led No. 63 Lauren Mira 6-4, 5-6 in the No. 1 position. Sophomore Katie Klyczek, who is ranked No. 114, was tied with Courtney Colton 6-4, 4-6, 1-1 in the No. 2 spot. In the No. 3 match, sophomore Alecia Kauss led Marie Casares 7-5, 3-6, 3-0 when Vanderbilt won its fourth point.In both the No. 2 and No. 3 doubles matches, the Hoosiers trailed 5-4. Vanderbilt’s Ashleigh Antal and Casares defeated Kauss and sophomore Shannon Murdy 8-4 in the No. 2 match. Georgina Sellyn and Frances Altick topped junior Sophie Garre and Klyczek 8-4 in the No. 3 position to win the doubles point for the Commodores.The No. 1 doubles match went unfinished, with the Hoosiers trailing 6-4.In singles, No. 95 Sellyn bested sophomore Carolyn Chupa 6-1, 6-1 in the No. 3 match to give the Commodores a 2-0 lead.In the No. 5 position, Antal took the first set against Garre 6-2. Garre won the second set by the same margin, but Antal won the match with another 6-2 victory in the third set.Altick sealed the victory for Vanderbilt in the No. 6 singles match. She defeated senior Jithmie Jayawickrema 7-6 (7-2) in a first set tiebreaker and followed it up by winning the second set 6-3.After defeating Indiana on Friday, Vanderbilt faced the No. 13 Clemson in the second round. Clemson bested the Commodores 4-2 to advance to the Round of 16 in Champaign, Ill.The top three finishers in the regular season Big Ten standings — Michigan, Nebraska, and Northwestern — also advanced to the Sweet 16.—Andy Wittry
For the second consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance for the IU women's tennis team, Vanderbilt defeated No. 41 IU 4-0 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Survive and advance. Athletic teams have often adopted this mantra come tournament time, and the No. 41 IU women’s tennis team is no exception. The Hoosiers’ season, which IU Coach Lin Loring described as a “roller coaster,” culminates in a trip to Clemson, S.C. to face No. 19 Vanderbilt (15-11, 7-6) Friday in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Indiana earned an at-large bid on April 30 when the NCAA Championship bracket was announced.“The team is very excited,” Loring said. “No one on this team has ever been to Clemson. We have never gone more than two years in a row without a trip to the NCAAs, so this was really important for our program to go this year.”The Hoosiers’ last NCAA Tournament appearance was in 2010 when then-No. 28 Vanderbilt defeated No. 41 IU 4-0 in the first round.If Indiana (18-9, 6-5) can overcome its déjà vu and prevent history from repeating itself, the women will face the winner of the matchup between No. 13 Clemson and Eastern Kentucky. The winner of the four-team region will advance to the Round of 16 in Champaign, Ill.“We know Vanderbilt was almost a No. 1 seed, so we drew one of the best No. 2 seeds in the field,” Loring said. “That being said, we beat Duke earlier this season when they were No. 2 and later Michigan, who was ranked as high as No. 6. We are probably the three seed that no one wanted in their regional.”IU has reason to be confident entering the NCAA Tournament. Facing tough competition away from Bloomington is not a foreign concept for the Hoosiers. Indiana defeated No. 2 Duke on neutral courts in Las Vegas and No. 10 Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., in March. IU faced the four best teams in the Big Ten — Michigan, Nebraska, Northwestern and Purdue — on the road this season. The Hoosiers’ calling card this spring has been battling in every match despite running into some bad luck in terms of scheduling and injuries. Five of the team’s nine losses were 4-3 defeats against teams that are currently ranked in the top 50 of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings. The Hoosiers and Commodores have faced six common opponents this season. Vanderbilt defeated Illinois and Northwestern but suffered losses to Nebraska and Michigan. In conference play, Vandy lost to Tennessee and bested Kentucky. Michigan is the only one of those six teams that IU defeated.The Commodores finished seventh in the SEC and were bounced out of the conference tournament by No. 3 Florida in the quarterfinals. 2013 marks the 19th consecutive year Vanderbilt has earned an NCAA Tournament bid. Only one current Commodore, graduate student Megan Gornet, was on the Vanderbilt team that defeated IU in 2010, but she did not play in the first-round match. Similarly to IU, Vandy relies on a lot of youth. The Commodores’ top six singles players are comprised of three freshmen, two sophomores and one junior. Loring said that while “the whole (Vanderbilt) team has turned over” since 2010, there is a familiar face at the helm of the Commodores. Geoff Macdonald is in his 19th season as the head coach of the Vanderbilt women’s tennis team. Macdonald previously coached at Louisiana State and Duke, and he has earned a conference Coach of the Year honor at each school. Loring said he’s known Macdonald for years and has faced Macdonald at Vanderbilt, Duke and LSU. “His teams are always well-prepared and well-coached,” Loring said. “We know that they’re going to be a good match for us.”Vanderbilt junior Lauren Mira is ranked No. 63 in singles and freshman Georgina Sellyn is No. 95, according to the ITA. Mira and Courtney Colton are the No. 12 doubles tandem in the country. IU sophomore Katie Klyczek and senior Leslie Hureau are ranked No. 114 and No. 115 in singles competition. Hureau and sophomore Carolyn Chupa are No. 55 in doubles.Hureau and fellow senior Jithmie Jayawickrema are the only IU players with tournament experience. Hureau was a freshman when Vanderbilt defeated Indiana in 2010, and advanced to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Women’s Tennis Singles Championship in 2011.Jayawickrema played in last year’s NCAA Championship when she attended Stephen F. Austin. Tulsa defeated Stephen F. Austin 4-0 in the first round.Loring is no stranger to the NCAA Tournament. Friday’s match marks his 28th appearance in the 64-team field tournament as the Hoosiers’ head coach.Loring knows what to expect in the regional rounds of the NCAA Tournament. He said the atmosphere will be slightly different with the tournament banners at the courts and that the Hoosiers may not even see the other two teams in their region because they play at a different time on Friday.“At this point, we’ve played so many dual matches that I’m going to tell them that it’s just another dual match against a really good team,” Loring said.
Tuesday evening, the NCAA held its annual women's tennis championship selection show to announce the 64-team tournament field. There are 31 automatic qualifying teams that won their respective conference tournaments in addition to 33 teams that received at-large bids.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The IU women’s tennis team was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten Tournament for the fifth consecutive year. The No. 38-ranked and No. 6-seeded Hoosiers fell 4-0 to No. 15-ranked and No. 3-seeded Northwestern, the No. 3 seed, Friday afternoon at the IU varsity tennis courts. The matchup was a rematch from April 21, when the Wildcats defeated IU 6-1 in Evanston, Ill. However, sophomore Carolyn Chupa did not play in the first meeting between the two teams due to a concussion. Chupa was cleared to play in the Big Ten Tournament, which created completely different matchups from Sunday’s conference bout. On Friday, there were four new singles and two new doubles matches. While the final score was lopsided, the match was competitive at every level. The doubles point was decided late in the No. 3 match and four of the six singles matches went to a third set. The No. 1, No. 3 and No. 5 singles matches ended unfinished. Senior Leslie Hureau, who is ranked No. 110 in the country, led No. 123 Veronica Corning 6-2, 4-3. Northwestern’s Belinda Niu had a slight lead against Chupa 7-5, 2-6, 4-3, while the No. 5 singles match was tied 5-5 in the third set. “I thought we had a battle on every court,” IU Coach Lin Loring said.He said the four-hour long match would have lasted another 45 minutes if all of the matches finished, which he said showed how evenly matched the two teams were. “We played well and I think we gave them everything they could handle,” he said.Chupa and Hureau teamed up for the No. 1 doubles match. They defeated No. 14 tandem Linda Abu Mushrefova/Nida Hamilton, 8-4. Sophomores Alecia Kauss and Shannon Murdy fell into a deep hole early as Veronica Corning and Alicia Barnett jumped out to a 6-1 lead. The Hoosiers fought back to cut Northwestern’s lead to 7-3 but ultimately lost the No. 2 doubles match 8-3. The No. 3 match was left to determine which team would win the doubles point. Northwestern’s Niu/Kate Turvy led sophomore Katie Klyczek and junior Sophie Garre 6-4 when the No. 2 match finished. Rallying around the energy of the fans and Garre’s emotional display of energy, IU fought back to tie the match at six games apiece. The Hoosiers struggled to land their serve returns in bounds and Northwestern won the No. 3 doubles match 8-6, taking the doubles point and a 1-0 lead in the quarterfinals. In the No. 2 singles match, No. 51 Turvy tested her underhand slice serve against No. 103 Klyczek and prevailed 6-3, 6-1 to increase Northwestern’s lead to 2-0. Loring said Klyczek’s matchup was a challenge for her due to the contrast in their play styles. He said Turvy suffered a shoulder injury and can’t serve overhand. “When you’ve never played against someone who cuts the ball like that it’s tough,” he said. “It’s a tough serve, and she’s perfected it.”Despite the loss in the No. 2 match, Loring said Klyczek showed a lot of improvement from April 21 when Turvy defeated her 6-1, 6-0.“Katie needs a hitter,” he said. “She wants to play with someone that hits. That girl has a great loop and a great slice, and it’s the absolute worst matchup for Katie. We knew that was going to be a tough match.”Mushrefova defeated Kauss in the No. 4 singles match 6-0, 3-6, 6-3 to bring Northwestern one step closer to advancing to the semifinals of the Big Ten Tournament. Hamilton ended the match when she came from behind to top senior Jithmie Jayawickrema 3-6, 6-2, 6-0 in the No. 6 position. “We put ourselves in the position to win,” Loring said. “There were four three-set matches, the two that were two sets we were going to win one of them and they won one of them. It’s about as close as it can get. I know the girls are really disappointed, especially to lose at home but I thought we represented ourselves really well.”After suffering a loss to the Wildcats, the Hoosiers fell to 18-9 on the season, which is an improvement from their 16-11 record last year.IU will take the weekend off then resume practice May 6-7 in hopes that the team is given an at-large bid to the NCAA Championships.The NCAA Championships Selection Show will be live streamed at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. on NCAA.com
For the fifth consecutive year, the IU women's tennis team was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten Tournament. The No. 38 Hoosiers, the 6-seed, fell 4-0 to No. 15 Northwestern, the 3-seed, at the IU Varsity Tennis Courts on Friday afternoon.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The No. 38 IU women’s tennis team, the 6-seed in the Big Ten Tournament, bounced back from a pair of losses last weekend by defeating 11-seed Wisconsin 4-0 in the first round Thursday afternoon.The team will play 3-seed Northwestern, the No. 15 team in the nation, at 2 p.m. Friday. “It was really good,” IU Coach Lin Loring said. “We hadn’t played on the courts since they had been resurfaced so I’m happy that we got to play outdoors and happy to get the win.”IU has had Wisconsin’s number recently. The Hoosiers defeated the Badgers 7-0 April 14 at home and knocked them off in the first round of last year’s Big Ten Tournament.“It was definitely a confidence booster because we kicked their butt,” sophomore Carolyn Chupa said.Thursday marked the first time Indiana played on the resurfaced IU Varsity Tennis Courts.Playing outdoors brought gusts of wind that the Hoosiers had not experienced during their months of indoor training at the IU Tennis Center. “In the beginning it was really windy, especially for me because I was playing a girl who was pretty crafty so she wasn’t missing much at the beginning,” senior Leslie Hureau said. “I had to adjust and make sure that I was patient.”Despite the variables that came with playing outdoors, playing in Bloomington is an advantage for the Hoosiers.Chupa said IU has a bigger fan base because the team is hosting the tournament and also said that she benefits from staying at home.Hureau said it was nice for the team to not have to travel at the end of the season when the women are tired from conference play. “It’s nice to be home and we have a nice crowd,” she said. “It’s just awesome for me to play one more time in front of everyone, especially with all of the parents coming, it’s great.”Chupa was back in the lineup after not playing last weekend due to a concussion. She and Hureau were paired for the No. 1 doubles match. The duo jumped out to a 4-0 lead and Wisconsin struggled to return the ball within the court.IU won the No. 1 match 8-4 and the sophomore tandem of Alecia Kauss and Shannon Murdy defeated Katie Hoch and Anastasia Tripolskaya 8-2 in the No. 2 position to earn the overall doubles point.Since Penn State and Minnesota played simultaneously with IU and Wisconsin, each match was allotted 5 of the 10 IU Varsity courts for singles play. The tournament officials drew the number two, which meant sophomore Katie Klyczek, who is ranked No. 103 in singles, and Wisconsin’s Lauren Chypyha had to wait until another match finished before they started playing in the No. 2 singles match. The team had a slow start in singles and the Hoosiers were losing early in three of the five singles matches. Loring said patience was critical in the first round matchup. Both Hureau and junior Sophie Garre were losing early in their matches before winning four consecutive games to win their first sets of the No. 1 and No. 5 singles matches, respectively. Later, within the span of seconds, Chupa won the No. 3 singles match 6-2, 6-2 against Tripolskaya and Hureau defeated Berner 6-3, 6-1 in the No. 1 match to give IU a 3-0 lead. Kauss worked efficiently and defeated Lauren Burich 6-1, 6-1 in the No. 4 spot to earn IU’s fourth and final point of the match.With the victory, IU will face Northwestern with the chance to move on to the Big Ten Tournament semifinals Saturday.The Hoosiers lost 6-1 to the Wildcats in Evanston, Ill. last Sunday.“Carolyn is back in the lineup so we’re going to have different matchups,” Hureau said. “It’s never good to play someone who just beat you three days ago so that’s going to be good for us.”Loring said for IU to defeat Northwestern, the women will have to play better than they did against Wisconsin, especially in doubles. “I can definitely say that we’re kind of gunning for them since we lost,” Chupa said. “We have the home court advantage now and since I’m playing I know the lineup changes so it will be a different match.”
Senior Leslie Hureau and sophomore Katie Klyczek were named to the 2013 First Team All-Big Ten for women's tennis by the conference coaches. It is Hureau's fourth consecutive year earning the honor and Klyczek's first.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>For the first time since 2002, IU will play host to the Big Ten Women’s Tennis Tournament in Bloomington this weekend.The No. 38 Hoosiers (17-8, 6-5), who finished as the 6-seed, will face 11-seed Wisconsin at 2 p.m. today in their opening-round match. The top four teams in the conference — No. 6 Michigan, No. 16 Nebraska, No. 15 Northwestern and No. 28 Purdue — will receive first round byes and play the winners of today’s opening round matches. Matches will begin every day at 10 a.m., except for Sunday, when the championship match will be played at noon.Weather permitting, all matches will take place at the outdoor IU Varsity Tennis Courts, and in the case of inclement weather, matches will be played indoors at the IU Tennis Center. On Tuesday evening, IU Coach Lin Loring said on a radio show that for matches to be played outdoors, the temperature must be at least 50 degrees and the wind cannot exceed 20 miles per hour. It will be mostly sunny on Thursday with a high temperature of 58 degrees and 16 mile-per-hour winds, according to weather.com. It is projected to be cloudy with temperatures in the 60s and a low chance of rain for the rest of the weekend. “We’ve actually played really well outdoors, but unfortunately with the way the spring has been, we haven’t had too many opportunities to play outdoors,” Loring said. “We’re confident that whatever way the weather holds this weekend, we can do well.”Iowa, Ohio State, Minnesota and Wisconsin tied with a 3-8 record in the Big Ten. Loring said the teams were so close that the conference office had difficulty breaking the tie. Based on the tiebreaking rules, Iowa finished eighth, Ohio State ninth, Minnesota 10th and Wisconsin 11th. The Hoosiers defeated the Badgers 7-0 on April 14 in Bloomington. “I don’t think there will be any surprises,” Loring said. “We’ll know how to prepare for them, and they’ll know how to prepare for us since we just played.” IU bested Wisconsin 4-0 in the first round of last year’s Big Ten Tournament before falling to Michigan in the quarterfinals.The other opening round matchups are 8-seed Iowa vs. 9-seed Ohio State, 5-seed Illinois vs. 12-seed Michigan State and 7-seed Penn State vs. 10-seed Minnesota. The Big Ten Tournament will feature eight nationally ranked teams, 13 ranked singles players and 11 ranked doubles combinations.IU has two ranked singles players. Sophomore Katie Klyczek is ranked No. 103 in the nation, and senior Leslie Hureau is No. 110. Playing in the Big Ten Tournament at home could prove to be a significant advantage for the Hoosiers. IU is 10-3 in Bloomington this season, and earlier in the season Loring said the Hoosiers are “fresher” at home.He said the women are excited for the tournament and that the advantages of hosting it extend beyond having the home-court advantage. “They realize what an advantage it is to be here, and finals start Monday,” he said. “A couple years ago were in the airport in Minnesota on Sunday night with finals on Monday.”Loring said a lot of the players’ parents will be in town for the tournament, including Hureau’s parents, who will travel from France to watch their daughter play in Bloomington for the final time. Loring said he feels good and that the women are really excited knowing that they’re going to be at full strength. “I think the girls feel really confident going into that first match, and they know that they have to take care of business before looking ahead to Northwestern,” he said.
Sophomore Carolyn Chupa did not play in IU's matches against No. 47 Illinois and No. 16 Northwestern due to a concussion but IU Coach Lin Loring said that No. 38 Indiana will be at full strength for the Big Ten Tournament.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>For the first time since 2002, IU will play host to the Big Ten Women’s Tennis Tournament in Bloomington this weekend.The No. 38 Hoosiers (17-8, 6-5), who finished as the 6-seed, will face 11-seed Wisconsin at 2 p.m. today in their opening-round match. The top four teams in the conference — No. 6 Michigan, No. 16 Nebraska, No. 15 Northwestern and No. 28 Purdue — will receive first round byes and play the winners of today’s opening round matches. Matches will begin every day at 10 a.m., except for Sunday, April 28, when the championship match will be played at 2 p.m.Weather pending, all matches will take place at the outdoor IU Varsity Tennis Courts and matches will be played indoors at the IU Tennis Center if there is inclement weather. On Tuesday evening, IU Coach Lin Loring said on a radio show that for matches to be played outdoors, the temperature must be at least 50 degrees and the wind cannot exceed 20 miles per hour. According to weather.com, it will be mostly sunny on Thursday with a high temperature of 58 degrees and 16 mile-per-hour winds. It is projected to be cloudy with temperatures in the 60s and a low chance of rain for the rest of the weekend. “We’ve actually played really well outdoors but unfortunately with the way the spring has been, we haven’t had too many opportunities to play outdoors,” Loring said. “We’re confident that whatever way the weather holds this weekend we can do well.”Iowa, Ohio State, Minnesota and Wisconsin tied with a 3-8 record in the Big Ten. Loring said that the teams were so close that the conference office had difficulty breaking the tie. Based on the tiebreaking rules, Iowa finished eighth, Ohio State ninth, Minnesota tenth and Wisconsin eleventh. The Hoosiers defeated the Badgers 7-0 on April 14 in Bloomington. “I don’t think there will be any surprises, we’ll know how to prepare for them and they’ll know how to prepare for us since we just played,” Loring said. IU bested Wisconsin 4-0 in the first round of last year’s Big Ten Tournament before falling to Michigan in the quarterfinals.The other opening round matchups are 8-seed Iowa vs. 9-seed Ohio State, 5-seed Illinois vs. 12-seed Michigan State and 7-seed Penn State vs. 10-seed Minnesota. The Big Ten Tournament will feature eight nationally ranked teams, 13 ranked singles players and 11 ranked doubles combinations.IU has two ranked singles players. Sophomore Katie Klyczek is ranked No. 103 in the nation and senior Leslie Hureau is No. 110. Playing in the Big Ten Tournament at home could prove to be a significant advantage for the Hoosiers. IU is 10-3 in Bloomington this season and earlier in the season Loring said that the Hoosiers are “fresher” at home.He said the women are excited for the tournament, and that the advantages of hosting it extend beyond having the home-court advantage. “They realize what an advantage it is to be here and finals start Monday,” he said. “A couple years ago were in the airport in Minnesota on Sunday night with finals on Monday.”Loring said a lot of the players’ parents will be in town for the tournament, including Hureau’s parents, who will travel from France to watch their daughter play in Bloomington for the final time. Loring said he feels good and that the women are really excited knowing that they’re going to be at full strength. “I think the girls feel really confident going into that first match and they know that they have to take care of business before looking ahead to Northwestern,” he said.
On Tuesday evening at 6 p.m., IU Coach Lin Loring was a guest on the Joe Smith Report on WGCL 95.9 FM, live from Yogi's Grill & Bar in Bloomington.