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(03/18/13 3:01pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Entering Friday’s match against No. 2 Duke, IU women’s tennis was 0-11 against the Blue Devils since 2000. In Las Vegas, the No. 60 Hoosiers earned their first win of the season against an opponent ranked in the top 50 by defeating Duke 4-2.Duke had only five healthy players available for the dual match, which allowed IU to win the No. 3 doubles match and No. 6 singles match by default. The Blue Devils needed to win both the No. 1 and No. 2 doubles matches to win the doubles point.Annie Mulholland and Marianne Jodoin defeated IU sophomores Alecia Kauss and Shannon Murdy 8-4 in the No. 2 match. Duke took a 1-0 match lead when the No. 35 pair of Hanna Mar and Ester Goldfeld topped IU’s No. 52 tandem of senior Leslie Hureau and junior Sophie Garre 8-6 in the No. 1 spot.With the Blue Devils unable to fill the No. 6 singles position, the Hoosiers tied the match at one.All five singles matches went to three sets — Duke won every first set and IU responded by winning each second set.“The highlight of the match has to be that after losing the first set in every singles match, we came back and won every second set,” IU Coach Lin Loring said.IU defeated ranked opponents in the first two singles matches to finish. Hureau bested No. 35 Goldfeld 3-6, 6-0, 6-2 in the No. 1 match. In the No. 3 spot, sophomore Carolyn Chupa defeated No. 88 Mary Clayton to give the Hoosiers a 3-1 lead.Duke earned its only singles point when No. 84 Jodoin defeated Garre 6-3, 5-7, 6-0 in the No. 5 match to bring the Blue Devils within one point of IU.The Hoosiers clinched the match when sophomore Katie Klyczek beat No. 16 Mar 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 at the No. 2 position.The No. 4 match between Kauss and Mulholland was not finished.“We have been close to beating top-20 teams all year,” Loring said. “We have kept telling the girls that we are a good team and just keep believing. You could feel the momentum changing. This was a huge win for our program.”With the victory, the Hoosiers improved to 11-4 on the season. They will next face Penn State 5 p.m. Friday at home and Ohio State 11 a.m. Sunday.
(03/16/13 6:12am)
Entering Friday's match against No. 2 Duke, the Indiana University women's tennis team was 0-11 against the Blue Devils in the new millennium. In Las Vegas, Nev., the No. 60 Hoosiers earned their first win of the season against an opponent ranked in the top 50 by defeating Duke 4-2.
(03/15/13 6:29am)
The No. 60 Indiana University women's tennis team will face its toughest competition of the season on Friday when the Hoosiers face No. 2 Duke in Las Vegas, Nev. at 10:30 a.m.
(03/10/13 5:34am)
After posting a 10-3 record in its non-conference schedule, the Indiana women's tennis team suffered a 5-2 loss to No. 21 Purdue in West Lafayette, Ind. on Saturday morning. It was Indiana's third consecutive loss to Purdue.
(03/03/13 9:18pm)
After defeating DePaul, IU Coach Loring said that Indiana needs to come out with energy against UNC-Wilmington in order to win. He said that the Seahawks are very solid and that they lost 4-3 to William & Mary, who he said is always a top 50 team.
(03/03/13 9:15pm)
After losing three consecutive 4-3 dual matches, the IU women's tennis team bounced back with a 4-3 win against No. 66 DePaul at the IU Tennis Center on Sunday. It was the first of two matches on the day for the Hoosiers, who face UNC-Wilmington on Sunday evening.
(02/28/13 7:56pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>After losing the past three dual matches 4-3 to Tennessee, Kentucky and Notre Dame, the IU women’s tennis team has fallen out of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings. The Hoosiers will look to rebound with a pair of duals on Sunday against No. 66 DePaul and UNC-Wilmington. IU will face the Blue Demons at 11 a.m. and the Seahawks at 5 p.m. at the IU Tennis Center. The Hoosiers are 8-3 this season after winning their first eight dual matches, in which they lost only two singles matches, but have lost three consecutive duals since their hot start.IU Coach Lin Loring maintains a positive attitude about the team after narrowly losing to Notre Dame last Sunday and he said the women are playing very well. “It was the best team singles we’ve played and the only matches we lost were three-setters,” Loring said. “It was a situation where we don’t have everybody totally doing everything on the same day. It’s just that a little something always goes wrong in these big matches. We put ourselves in a position to win.”Loring said this week the team practiced having better depth in the court in singles to prepare for this weekend’s dual matches. After defeating Notre Dame’s No. 30 doubles pair of Britney Sanders/Julie Sabacinski, IU senior Leslie Hureau and junior Sophie Garre are ranked No. 44 in doubles. DePaul boasts the No. 85 singles player, freshman Matea Cutura. Cutura was named the Big East Player of the Week in the first week of February after starting the season with a 14-3 singles record that included three wins against ranked opponents. The Blue Demons are 9-3 with two dominant wins over Big Ten opponents. They defeated Iowa 5-2 and Michigan State 6-1. DePaul is undefeated on the road this season and will play at No. 18 Notre Dame on Saturday before facing IU on Sunday. Loring said DePaul is as good as Notre Dame, Kentucky and Tennessee. IU is 7-3 against DePaul in the past decade. IU sophomore Carolyn Chupa was the hero in last season’s 4-3 victory against the Blue Demons when she came from behind to defeat then-sophomore Kelsey Lawson 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-4) to give the Hoosiers in the deciding singles match. UNC-Wilmington is 4-2 this season. The Seahawks’ two losses were both in competitive 4-3 matches, including a loss to then-No. 53 William & Mary. UNC-Wilmington is 2-1 on the road and will host South Florida on Friday before travelling to Bloomington. Junior Angie Sekely was named the Colonial Athletic Association’s Women’s Tennis Player of the Week on Feb. 12, after winning a pair of singles matches in the No. 1 position against conference opponents. Loring said UNC-Wilmington will be tough because IU plays them in the second dual match this weekend. “I think we’ll be the better team but it just depends on what the DePaul match takes out of us,” he said.Loring said he expects IU to play another 4-3 match against DePaul. “You can have a three hour 4-3 match or a four and a half hour 4-3 match and I’m hoping it’s not a four and a half hour match,” he said. “We’re going to need a little bit of recovery time to get ready for Wilmington because they’re going to put a lot of balls in the court.”
(02/25/13 4:48am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The No. 60 IU women’s tennis team fell to No. 22 Notre Dame on Sunday at the IU Tennis Center. The Hoosiers lost their previous two matches 4-3 on the road against Tennessee and Kentucky. For the third consecutive dual, the Hoosiers lost 4-3 after losing the final singles match.The Fighting Irish defeated Baylor on Saturday in South Bend, Ind. before traveling to Bloomington.There was fierce competition for the doubles point. Notre Dame’s Jennifer Kellner and Chrissie McGaffigan started off the dual by defeating IU’s sophomore duo, Katie Klyczek and Carolyn Chupa, 8-2. In the No. 1 match, the No. 44 combination of senior Leslie Hureau and junior Sophie Garre held off the No. 30 pair in the nation, Notre Dame’s Britney Sanders and Julie Sabacinski, 8-5. IU sophomores Alecia Kauss and Shannon Murdy started the No. 3 match with a 3-0 lead. The Fighting Irish responded to tie the match 6-6, then went up 8-7. Kauss and Murdy fought back to tie the match at eight, Notre Dame’s Quinn Gleason and Katherine White won the tiebreaker, which gave the Fighting Irish a 9-8 victory and the doubles point in the dual match. IU quickly stole the lead from Notre Dame by winning the No. 4, No. 5 and No. 6 singles matches in consecutive sets. Murdy defeated Julie Vrabel 6-3, 6-4 in the No. 6 match and Garre gave IU its second win just minutes later when she bested Molly O’Koniewski 6-1, 6-3. Chupa topped McGaffigan 6-2, 7-6 to give the Hoosiers a 3-1 lead. The No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 singles matches were all decided in three sets. In the No. 2 position, Kellner defeated Klyczek 6-2, 2-6, 6-3 to bring Notre Dame within one point of IU. The Fighting Irish tied the match when Gleason bested Kauss 7-5, 1-6, 6-2 in the No. 3 match. For IU’s third dual in a row, the match came down to the final singles match. Against Tennessee, Garre’s match in the No. 4 position was the deciding point. Against Kentucky, it was Murdy who played in the pivotal No. 6 match. This time it was Hureau competing with Sanders, who is ranked No. 74 in the country, in the No. 1 singles match with the score of the dual tied at three.After winning the first set in a tiebreaker, Hureau lost the second set 7-5. Loring and Notre Dame Coach Jay Louderback sat next to each other in folding chairs sharing observations about the match at the start of the final set. The players from the two Indiana schools took a different approach as they occupied opposite sides of a nearby court. Hureau’s eight teammates lined the service box of court No. 3 as she and Sanders swapped points time and time again on court No. 4. Whether they won or lost their singles and doubles matches, the other Hoosiers’ contributions on the court were done. However, they were still fulfilling their role as teammates in supporting Hureau. “I definitely needed them because it was so hard,” Hureau said. “Every point was a battle. They really helped me get through it.”Hureau came out firing at the start of the third set. She took a 3-0 lead that kept the players’ parents on the edges of their seats as they refused to head home until the match was finished. Then fatigue kicked in for the senior from Annecy-le-Vieux, France.In between points, she stretched her quadriceps as her legs began to tire. Her first step was slower than it was at 11 a.m. — when she played her first match of the day — but she persevered through. Hureau said she tried to keep moving because if she stopped, it was hard to move again. “You don’t want to think too much about [fatigue] because there’s always a ball coming back,” she said.She fought off a 2-0 run by Sanders by winning her fourth game, putting the final set at 4-2.However, in the following game, she called a ball out of bounds that was immediately corrected by the line judge. Sanders cut the lead to 4-3.As the set continued, the cheers and the score announcements from the line judge progressively began to favor Notre Dame. Sanders pulled ahead with a 5-4 lead and Hureau dug deep to find the energy to return each ball played to her.In the final game of the three-hour match, Sanders blanked Hureau and clinched the dual by a final match score of 6-7, 7-5, 6-4. “It was pretty hard physically, the points were long and I started to cramp in the second set but I really wanted to win for the team,” Hureau said. “It was a good battle and she hit some good shots in the end. Congrats to her. I tried my best.”Loring said the loss was especially disappointing though, considering how close the team was to victory.“They came back from down 6-3 in the deciding doubles match so I give Notre Dame credit, they found a way to pull that out,” Loring said. “It’s just disappointing. It’s the third one in a row where we’re literally four or five points from the match and couldn’t close it out.”
(02/24/13 6:12pm)
The No. 60 Indiana women's tennis team hosted No. 22 Notre Dame on Sunday at the IU Tennis Center. The Hoosiers lost their previous two matches 4-3 on the road against Tennessee and Kentucky. The Fighting Irish defeated Baylor on Saturday in South Bend, Ind. before traveling to IU.
(02/22/13 2:05am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>After suffering its first losses of the season to Kentucky and No. 25 Tennessee on the road last weekend, No. 60 IU will look to rebound against No. 22 Notre Dame this Sunday. The Hoosiers will face the Fighting Irish at 11 a.m. at the IU Tennis Center, where IU is 5-0 this season.Despite losing both matches last weekend, IU Coach Lin Loring said he did not modify the team’s practice regimen leading up to the match against Notre Dame. “[After losing] 4-3 matches you always second guess yourself, but we’re probably going to have eight more of those the rest of the year,” Loring said. “You just have to get a break, there’s nothing really big that we need to work on. There’s really no reason to re-invent the wheel.”He said IU played well enough to win both matches against two good opponents. “It’s just one of those perfect storms where if it could go wrong, it did,” Loring said. “We had a lot of positives from it. We were literally five points from winning the match against Tennessee and we were probably two points from the match against Kentucky because the No. 1 doubles was 6-6 and we had some deuce ads.”Loring said he expects IU to play another close match against Notre Dame. “They’re really good,” he said. “They’re out of the top 20 right now, but they’ve been in the top 20 for the past seven or eight years. I wouldn’t doubt if this one is going to be a 4-3 match.”Notre Dame is 5-3 and has played host to Big Ten opponents. The Fighting Irish have defeated Bowling Green, Illinois, No. 22 Georgia Tech, Tennessee and Iowa. No. 17 Nebraska, No. 24 Purdue and No. 10 Northwestern have all topped Notre Dame in dual matches this season. The Fighting Irish will face Baylor at home on Friday before traveling to Bloomington. Notre Dame junior Britney Sanders is the No. 74 singles player in the country. The Fighting Irish have three doubles pairs ranked. Julie Sabacinski/Sanders are No. 26, Sanders/Julie Vrabel are No. 30 and Jennifer Kellner/Molly O’Koniewski are No. 59.IU has faced Notre Dame twice in tournaments last fall. At the adidas Hoosier Classic, IU was 5-5 in singles and 1-2 in doubles against the Fighting Irish. At the Western Michigan University Super Challenge, the Hoosiers were a perfect 3-0 in singles and they split their two doubles matches against Notre Dame. “We played well against them in our fall tournament so we’ve seen them before,” Loring said. “They’re really good, they’re really deep and we’re going to have to play really well to beat them.”The Fighting Irish have had IU’s number in the new millennium. The archived results on IUHoosiers.com dating back to the 1997-98 season and IU has not recorded a victory against Notre Dame in that time span. In the past seven years against the Fighting Irish, IU hasn’t scored more than one point in a dual match. “We’ll probably have to play as well as we did against Tennessee and a little better if we’re going to beat them,” Loring said.
(02/21/13 9:44pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>After suffering its first losses of the season to Kentucky and No. 25 Tennessee on the road last weekend, No. 60 IU will look to rebound against No. 22 Notre Dame this Sunday. The Hoosiers will face the Fighting Irish at 11 a.m. at the IU Tennis Center, where IU is 5-0 this season.Despite losing both matches last weekend, IU Coach Lin Loring said he did not modify the team’s practice regimen leading up to the match against Notre Dame. “[After losing] 4-3 matches you always second guess yourself, but we’re probably going to have eight more of those the rest of the year,” Loring said. “You just have to get a break, there’s nothing really big that we need to work on. There’s really no reason to re-invent the wheel.”He said IU played well enough to win both matches against two good opponents. “It’s just one of those perfect storms where if it could go wrong, it did,” Loring said. “We had a lot of positives from it. We were literally five points from winning the match against Tennessee and we were probably two points from the match against Kentucky because the No. 1 doubles was 6-6 and we had some deuce ads.”Loring said he expects IU to play another close match against Notre Dame. “They’re really good,” he said. “They’re out of the top 20 right now, but they’ve been in the top 20 for the past seven or eight years. I wouldn’t doubt if this one is going to be a 4-3 match.”Notre Dame is 5-3 and has played host to Big Ten opponents. The Fighting Irish have defeated Bowling Green, Illinois, No. 22 Georgia Tech, Tennessee and Iowa. No. 17 Nebraska, No. 24 Purdue and No. 10 Northwestern have all topped Notre Dame in dual matches this season. The Fighting Irish will face Baylor at home on Friday before traveling to Bloomington. Notre Dame junior Britney Sanders is the No. 74 singles player in the country. The Fighting Irish have three doubles pairs ranked. Julie Sabacinski/Sanders are No. 26, Sanders/Julie Vrabel are No. 30 and Jennifer Kellner/Molly O’Koniewski are No. 59.IU has faced Notre Dame twice in tournaments last fall. At the adidas Hoosier Classic, IU was 5-5 in singles and 1-2 in doubles against the Fighting Irish. At the Western Michigan University Super Challenge, the Hoosiers were a perfect 3-0 in singles and they split their two doubles matches against Notre Dame. “We played well against them in our fall tournament so we’ve seen them before,” Loring said. “They’re really good, they’re really deep and we’re going to have to play really well to beat them.”The Fighting Irish have had IU’s number in the new millennium. The archived results on IUHoosiers.com dating back to the 1997-98 season and IU has not recorded a victory against Notre Dame in that time span. In the past seven years against the Fighting Irish, IU hasn’t scored more than one point in a dual match. “We’ll probably have to play as well as we did against Tennessee and a little better if we’re going to beat them,” Loring said.
(02/18/13 4:50am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Entering the weekend, IU Coach Lin Loring said the No. 54 Hoosiers might not be favored in a dual match for the rest of the season due to the strength of the competition. After starting the spring season with an eight-match win streak, in which IU won all of the matches with a score of 6-1 or 7-0, the Hoosiers had their first losses of the season this past weekend on the road to SEC opponents, which Loring said is the toughest conference in the country. On Friday, IU lost to No. 25 Tennessee, and the Hoosiers fell to Kentucky on Sunday. The Hoosiers were tied 3-3 heading into the final singles match against both the Volunteers and Wildcats, but were unable to pull off a victory on either occasion. The Hoosiers’ match against Tennessee at the Goodfriend Tennis Center was the team’s first match against a ranked opponent this season.IU started its match against Tennessee by winning the No. 2 doubles match. Sophomores Carolyn Chupa and Katie Klyczek defeated Tennessee’s Joanna Henderson and Caitlyn Williams, 8-5. Tennessee responded by winning the No. 1 match, in which the No. 3 doubles pair in the country, Brynn Boren and Kata Szekely, topped IU’s No. 44 junior Sophie Garre and senior Leslie Hureau, 8-5.After the teams split the first two doubles matches, sophomores Alecia Kauss and Shannon Murdy battled back from an early deficit to win the No. 3 doubles match 9-7 against Tennessee’s Sarah Toti and Mimi Fotopoulos, which gave IU a 1-0 lead.Loring said it was good for the Hoosiers to be able to start the match by winning the doubles point. He said it showed improvement from past IU teams and it had been a few years since IU had won the doubles point against a top-25 team.Tennessee tied the score when Hureau retired during the No. 1 singles match against No. 18 Boren, 6-0, 1-0. Hureau pulled her quadriceps muscle in the match and Loring said she retired because the team would need her against Kentucky. Volunteer senior Szekely bested Klyczek 6-2, 6-1 at the No. 2 position. IU gained its first singles win when Murdy defeated Toti 6-0, 6-3 in the No. 6 match. The Hoosiers took a 3-2 lead and came within one point of the victory when Chupa topped Fotopoulos 6-3, 6-4.The Volunteers tied the match at three, however, when Williams knocked off Kauss 6-4, 7-6. The No. 4 singles match was the only one not won in consecutive sets. Garre won the first set 6-4. Henderson bounced back and won the second set 6-1. Garre took a 3-2 lead in the final set, but Henderson won the set 6-4, which gave Tennessee a 4-3 victory. Even though the Hoosiers lost, Loring said the women competed very hard, especially since it was IU’s first road match against a top-25 team.“We didn’t know quite what to expect because we hadn’t played a team at that level, especially on the road,” he said. “I thought we responded well and we were close enough to win. That’s why those losses are kind of painful because we were in the match.”Loring said the Hoosiers had an easy practice Saturday in the Boone Tennis Complex at Kentucky to adjust to the courts and to be prepared for their match against the Wildcats.For the first time this season, IU lost the doubles point. Kauss and Murdy won the No. 3 match against Kirsten Lewis and Jessica Stiles 8-3, but the Wildcats took the No. 1 and No. 2 matches.Kentucky took a 3-0 lead when Nadia Ravita and Jessica Stiles won the No. 1 and No. 2 matches, respectively, in consecutive sets.However, IU stormed back to tie the match by winning the No. 4, No. 3 and No. 5 singles matches. Garre defeated Lewis 2-6, 6-0, 6-2; Kauss topped Edmee Morin-Kougoucheff 3-6, 6-3, 6-2; and Chupa bested Caitlin McGraw 6-0, 6-1. For the second time in three days, IU’s match came down to the final singles match. In the No. 6 match, Kentucky’s Stephanie Fox defeated Murdy 6-2, 6-1, which gave Kentucky a 4-3 advantage in the match. Loring said that the team needs to learn from this weekend’s matches, get better and move on because every match the rest of the season will be just like those.“This was a very disappointing weekend because we played good enough to win at least one of these tough road matches,” Loring said. “We just couldn’t get everyone to play good at the same time. “We had some outstanding performances each day but not enough at the same time.”
(02/17/13 2:18am)
Even though the No. 54 Indiana women's tennis team lost to No. 25 Tennessee 4-3, IU Coach Lin Loring said that it was good for the Hoosiers to be able to start the match by winning the doubles point. He said that it showed improvement from past IU teams.
(02/16/13 4:30am)
No. 54 Indiana started its SEC road trip with a dual match against No. 25 Tennessee in Knoxville, Tenn. at the Goodfriend Tennis Center. It was the Hoosiers' first match against a ranked opponent this season.
(02/15/13 4:40am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The No. 54 IU women’s tennis team is 8-0 after defeating Xavier and Ball State in Bloomington last weekend. The Hoosiers will play their first weekday match of the spring season when they travel to Knoxville, Tenn. to face No. 25 Tennessee at 4 p.m. Friday. At 11 a.m. Sunday, IU will take on Kentucky in Lexington, Ky. IU Coach Lin Loring said an ideal schedule is one divided evenly into three segments: matches in which IU is favored, matches that are a toss-up and matches in which IU’s opponent is favored. The Hoosiers were favored in their first eight matches, but he said the team will face much tougher competition. Loring said IU is transitioning to the second and third phases of its schedule with the team’s matches this week.With better opponents comes ranked competition. Tennessee has two ranked singles players and one ranked doubles pair. Junior Brynn Boren is No. 18 in singles and senior Kata Szekely is No. 34. In doubles, Szekely and Boren are the No. 3 combination in the country.For IU, senior Leslie Hureau and junior Sophie Garre are ranked No. 44 in doubles.The Lady Volunteers are 0-4 this season with losses to No. 17 Nebraska, No. 22 Georgia Tech, No. 16 Michigan and No. 18 Notre Dame. All four losses were by a margin of 4-2 or 4-3 on the road. In the past decade, IU is 3-7 against Tennessee and the Hoosiers have lost 5-2 to the Volunteers in each of the past two seasons.Loring said Tennessee is traditionally very good and the Volunteers are normally a top-20 team, which is why he said the Vols are probably favored in the dual match.He said the Volunteers’ challenging schedule and IU’s experience on the road has prepared both teams for Friday’s dual match.“I think they’re definitely ready for us because they’ve played tough competition,” Loring said. “We’ve played on the road already twice so I think it’s going to come down to who plays best that day.”Kentucky is 4-2 with wins against Morehead State, Belmont, Marshall and Ohio State. The Wildcats suffered a 4-3 loss to No. 48 Penn State as well as a 6-1 defeat against Tulane. In the past decade, IU is 6-3 against Kentucky, including a current Hoosiers win streak of three dual matches.Loring said Sunday’s match will be a toss-up between the two teams.“We beat them the past two years, but last night they beat Ohio State 4-3 and Ohio State is always a good Big Ten team,” he said. “They’re better this year than they have been, and that’s going to be a tough road match too.”Loring said similarly to Big Ten teams, IU should be familiar with Tennessee and Kentucky’s players since the Hoosiers play them on an annual basis. “We’ve already played twice on the road and Tennessee has a really nice new facility so hopefully we won’t have any adjustment problems,” Loring said. “Kentucky will probably be a little faster but hopefully it won’t be as fast as Marshall.”IU will practice Saturday at Kentucky to acclimate to the new courts and the Hoosiers will have a the day to prepare for their second dual match in three days.“Hopefully the experience we’ve had so far will get us ready for them,” Loring said. “We know we have two really good SEC schools on the road this weekend.”
(02/14/13 10:26pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The No. 54 IU women’s tennis team is 8-0 after defeating Xavier and Ball State in Bloomington last weekend. The Hoosiers will play their first weekday match of the spring season when they travel to Knoxville, Tenn. to face No. 25 Tennessee at 4 p.m. Friday.At 11 a.m. Sunday, IU will take on Kentucky in Lexington, Ky. IU Coach Lin Loring said an ideal schedule is one divided evenly into three segments: matches in which IU is favored, matches that are a toss-up and matches in which IU’s opponent is favored. The Hoosiers were favored in their first eight matches, but he said the team will face much tougher competition. Loring said IU is transitioning to the second and third phases of its schedule with the team’s matches this week.With better opponents comes ranked competition. Tennessee has two ranked singles players and one ranked doubles pair. Junior Brynn Boren is No. 18 in singles and senior Kata Szekely is No. 34. In doubles, Szekely/Boren are the No. 3 combination in the country.For IU, senior Leslie Hureau and junior Sophie Garre are ranked No. 44 in doubles.The Lady Volunteers are 0-4 this season with losses to No. 17 Nebraska, No. 22 Georgia Tech, No. 16 Michigan and No. 18 Notre Dame. All four losses were by a margin of 4-2 or 4-3 on the road. In the past decade, IU is 3-7 against Tennessee and the Hoosiers have lost 5-2 to the Volunteers in each of the past two seasons.Loring said Tennessee is traditionally very good and the Volunteers are normally a top-20 team, which is why he said the Vols are probably favored in the dual match. He said the Volunteers’ challenging schedule and IU’s experience on the road has prepared both teams for Friday’s dual match.“I think they’re definitely ready for us because they’ve played tough competition,” IU Coach Loring said. “We’ve played on the road already twice so I think it’s going to come down to who plays best that day.”Kentucky is 4-2 with wins against Morehead State, Belmont, Marshall and Ohio State. The Wildcats suffered a 4-3 loss to No. 48 Penn State as well as a 6-1 defeat against Tulane. In the past decade, IU is 6-3 against Kentucky, including a current Hoosiers win streak of three dual matches.IU Coach Loring said Sunday’s match will be a toss-up between the two teams.“We beat them the past two years, but last night they beat Ohio State 4-3 and Ohio State is always a good Big Ten team,” he said. “They’re better this year than they have been, and that’s going to be a tough road match too.”Loring said similarly to Big Ten teams, IU should be familiar with Tennessee and Kentucky’s players since the Hoosiers play them on an annual basis. However, he said this weekend’s SEC road trip will be a new experience for the sophomore class, which is a disadvantage for IU. “We’ve already played twice on the road and Tennessee has a really nice new facility so hopefully we won’t have any adjustment problems,” Loring said. “Kentucky will probably be a little faster but hopefully it won’t be as fast as Marshall.”IU will practice on Saturday at the University of Kentucky to become acclimated to the new courts and the Hoosiers will have a the day to prepare for their second dual match in three days.“Hopefully the experience we’ve had so far will get us ready for them,” IU Coach Loring said. “We know we have two really good SEC schools on the road this weekend.”
(02/11/13 4:47am)
The No. 51 Indiana women's tennis team remained undefeated by picking up two more wins last weekend to improve to 8-0 in the spring season. On Sunday, the Hoosiers faced Xavier and Ball State.
(02/08/13 5:31am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The No. 51 IU women’s tennis team surrendered its first point of the season to Marshall last weekend but still managed to win the dual match to continue its undefeated streak through the first six matches of 2013. The Hoosiers had this week off and will face Xavier and Ball State this Sunday. IU faces Xavier at 11 a.m. and Ball State at 4 p.m. at the IU Tennis Center. Indiana’s doubles pairing of senior Leslie Hureau and junior Sophie Garre are ranked No. 31 in the nation. Neither Xavier nor Ball State has any ranked singles or doubles players.The Musketeers are 4-1 this season. IU and Xavier’s one common opponent this season is the Miami (Ohio) RedHawks. Indiana won by a margin of 7-0 and Xavier won 4-3. IU Coach Lin Loring said that Xavier’s victory against Miami is normally a good win for the Musketeers and he said that he expects Xavier to be tougher than they were last year. Indiana has played Xavier three times in the past five years and the Hoosiers won 7-0 in each match. Ball State this season is 5-1. The Cardinals’ loss was to Michigan State, who Indiana will play on March 30 in East Lansing, Mich. IU plays Ball State on an annual basis and the Hoosiers have won every dual match against the Cardinals in the past decade, allowing no more than two points in a match. Loring said that Ball State’s women’s tennis program is on its way up, however, with Coach Christine Bader in her third season with the Cardinals. “She played at Michigan State so I think that team is going to get a little stronger every year,” Loring said. Loring said that he thinks Ball State is the weaker of Indiana’s two opponents this weekend, which is why the Hoosiers are playing them in their second dual match Sunday.Even though the Hoosiers suffered their first singles and doubles losses against Marshall, Loring said that the team isn’t changing its approach to its practices.“We’re going to keep working on the stuff we’ve been working on because we probably should have lost a few points up until now,” he said.Loring said that Indiana’s greatest quality this season is its consistency, which could be a major reason why the Hoosiers are a 41-1 during their first six dual matches of the spring season. He said that the team’s goal is to bring its A-game every match.“We really haven’t had any matches where the team as a whole struggled and I’m not just talking about winning or losing. Our level of play has been pretty high,” Loring said. “We really want to continue a consistent level of play and if it’s good enough to win, we win, but if not, we’ll lose but at least we brought our A-game.”
(02/05/13 2:41am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The No. 51 IU women’s tennis team allowed a point for the first time in the spring season. On Sunday, the Hoosiers faced Marshall at the Huntington Tennis Club in Barboursville, W.Va. Despite losing one match in both singles and doubles play, the Hoosiers still cruised to their sixth win of the season against the Thundering Herd with a 6-1 score. The Huntington Tennis Club has only five tennis courts, and IU Coach Lin Loring said that it made the dual match take longer. The teams had to wait until another match finished before starting the No. 6 singles match. Loring said it was a good experience for the Hoosiers to play on the road and experience new court conditions.“The lighting was poor, the courts were fast and the courts played to Marshall’s favor,” he said. “They have a lot of big hitters, players that I would call first strike hitters, but we didn’t try to out-hit them, and we stuck to our game plan.”Senior Leslie Hureau won the No. 1 singles match against Dominika Zaprazna 6-1, 7-5. Sophomore Katie Klyczek lost the first set against Maria Voscekova but came from behind to win 2-6, 6-4, 10-5. Sophomores Alecia Kauss and Carolyn Chupa, along with junior Sophie Garre, won their matches in straight sets. Kauss was the first to win her match, a 6-1, 6-2 victory, which allowed sophomore Shannon Murdy and Marshall’s Karlyn Timko to play their match on the open court.Loring said Murdy had a bad match against big-hitter Timko. He said that as there are only five courts, by the time the No. 6 singles match was played, Indiana had already won the dual match and Timko could play with no pressure. Murdy lost in straight sets, 6-4, 6-1.In doubles, Marshall’s Zaprazna and Voscekova defeated the No. 31 nationally ranked combination of Hureau and Garre 8-4 in the No. 1 doubles match. In the No. 2 match, Chupa and Klyczek defeated Ellie Ball and Kara Kucin 8-3. Since Indiana and Marshall split the No. 1 and No. 2 doubles matches, the third doubles match determined which team would win the doubles point.Kauss and Murdy came from behind to top Timko and Dana Oppinger 9-7.“It was pretty exciting for us,” Loring said. “We were down 7-6, maybe 7-5, so that was a nice comeback and good experience for us.”Indiana will return to action when they play Xavier at 11 a.m. and Ball State at 4 p.m. Sunday at the IU Tennis Center.
(02/04/13 9:03pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The No. 51 IU women’s tennis team allowed a point for the first time in the spring season, On Sunday, the Hoosiers faced Marshall at the Huntington Tennis Club in Barboursville, W.Va. Despite losing one match in both singles and doubles play, the Hoosiers still cruised to their sixth win of the season against the Thundering Herd by a 6-1 score. The Huntington Tennis Club has only five tennis courts and IU Coach Lin Loring said that it made the dual match take longer. The teams had to wait until another match finished before starting the No. 6 singles match. Loring said it was a good experience for the Hoosiers to play on the road and experience new court conditions.“The lighting was poor, the courts were fast and the courts played to Marshall’s favor,” he said. “They have a lot of big hitters, players that I would call first strike hitters, but we didn’t try to out-hit them and we stuck to our game plan.”Senior Leslie Hureau won the No. 1 singles match against Dominika Zaprazna 6-1, 7-5. Sophomore Katie Klyczek lost the first set against Maria Voscekova but came from behind to win 2-6, 6-4, 10-5. Sophomores Alecia Kauss and Carolyn Chupa, along with junior Sophie Garre, won their matches in straight sets. Kauss was the first to win her match, a 6-1, 6-2 victory, which allowed sophomore Shannon Murdy and Marshall’s Karlyn Timko to play their match on the open court.Loring said Murdy had a bad match against big-hitter Timko. He said that as there are only five courts, by the time the No. 6 singles match was played, Indiana had already won the dual match and Timko could play with no pressure. Murdy lost in straight sets, 6-4, 6-1.In doubles, Marshall’s Zaprazna and Voscekova defeated the No. 31 nationally ranked combination of Hureau and Garre 8-4 in the No. 1 doubles match. In the No. 2 match, Chupa and Klyczek defeated Ellie Ball and Kara Kucin 8-3. Since Indiana and Marshall split the No. 1 and No. 2 doubles matches, the third doubles match determined which team would win the doubles point.Kauss and Murdy came from behind to top Timko and Dana Oppinger 9-7.“It was pretty exciting for us,” Loring said. “We were down 7-6, maybe 7-5, so that was a nice comeback and good experience for us.”Indiana will return to action when they host Xavier at 11 a.m. and Ball State at 4 p.m. Sunday at the IU Tennis Center.