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  • 3 weeks later...
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Bianca also at 367 in the WTA rankings

Petra also won a national tournament in Croatia, also taking second in doubles earlier this month

 

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  • 1 month later...
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Sigh..... Markovic transferred to Hawaii.

Granic also missing from the roster. Don't know why. She gave an interview to a Croatian website just last month.

https://www.slobodnadalmacija.hr/sport/tenis/clanak/id/613175/sad-se-zeli-okusati-i-na-wta-touru-splicanka-dosla-na-odmor-iz-sad-a-i-usput-postala-prvakinja-hrvatske

If Google translate is working correctly, she was talking about playing the $15k tournaments in the fall when she got back and sounded excited to be finishing her marketing degree here.

Let's hope there's some second semester freshmen Joffe is working to get over here.

Markovic regressed this past season, maybe there was something personal going on with her and why she transferred. Hope Granic comes back, that would be a big blow to the team if she’s gone

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Oh wow Joffe does have a huge recruit- Adrienn Nagy (according to twitter). Top 30 Junior ranking (this is higher than Bianca's career high) BUT most importantly has big doubles results. Current Junior Australian Open and Orange Bowl doubles champion. Also a semifinalist at this year's French Open. Represented her country in Fed Cup. Currently competing at the US Junior Open. Mother was also a professional tennis player.

 

Nagy rolls into the doubles semis. She’s they type that will crack into our doubles lineup as a freshman, maybe singles too especially if Granic is gone 

  • 2 weeks later...
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Nagy played ITF 15K back in Hungary and reached quarters, including an impressive win over a Finnish opponent who has won 2 ITFs this summer.

Bianca beat All American Lauren Proctor in California this week.

46 minutes ago, Aleemay said:

Nagy played ITF 15K back in Hungary and reached quarters, including an impressive win over a Finnish opponent who has won 2 ITFs this summer.

Bianca beat All American Lauren Proctor in California this week.

How much do parents spend on this sport? Global travel and all these tournaments, what a rip off.

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50 minutes ago, Goodman said:

How much do parents spend on this sport? Global travel and all these tournaments, what a rip off.

Hate to say it but lots of tennis does come from parent's financial support. I've known friends just at the national level spending around $20,000 a year on the sport. Not going to be specific but there have been quite a few players at Texas in the past two decades who come from well off background and are able to play ITFs making their prep results quite impressive. On the flip side, there have also been other players that aren't as accomplished due to limited resources before they've come to Texas and have excelled.

With Nagy, I'm cautious to say but I think she's getting support from her national tennis federation- due to having played Fed Cup and having an Olympian parent.

20K seems like peanuts for this type of travel, i’m guessing at least 100k. Maybe they’re all flying economy but 10-15 hrs in coach has to be terrible for an athlete who depends on its body.

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Not officially a UT athlete yet, but Nagy just won a 25k dubs title. Really hoping with her addition the doubles lineup will stabilize and won't be a weak point

Is she going to be here in the spring? Because right now we're down to 6 scholarship players so she's desperately needed 

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The check purposely whited out to just show zero had me laughing

 

Also another blue chip Californian (top 100 junior ITF) verballed to UT this past week- I think for the 2021 season!

Anna also won the singles draw in Norman, without dropping a set. She'll be playing those $80K events with her sis soon enough. Dare I say she's playing better tennis than her sis right now??

  • 3 weeks later...
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Austin ITF 15K going on right now. Bianca and Anna are doing their usual things. Fernanda had a good win too in the first round.

Keep an eye on another player too- Charlotte Chavatipon who verballed to play for the Horns next year. Beat Maria Lourdes Carles today who played #3 at Georgia and was an All American as a freshmen last year.

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Bianca just won a 25K this week. Really good as this was on hard court. In addition, she had her highest ranked win. Really close to breaking into the top 300.

Anna made the finals of Fall Nationals. This should set her up decently to qualifying as an All American this year. Also impressed that Lexi got two wins this week.

Lineup prediction for the spring:

1. Bianca

2. Anna

3. Lexi/Nagy

4. Lexi/Nagy

5. Labrana (also had a pretty good fall season)

6. Perez-Mur

I think Tijana will find herself into the doubles lineup as she has some better technical double skills than some of her teammates.

That's a solid lineup as long as we stay healthy. And wow I'm surprised Bianca beat Volynets. Volynets played the main draw of the US OPen this year and got 6 games off the eventual champion Andreescu

Pretty cool having a Longhorn in the singles final of both the mens and womens draw.

We're starting to look more and more like a tennis school, and I love it!

 

 

 

 

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Damn, was this well known? 

 

 

Wow. She was going to play line 3 for us too. Guess she didn’t get along with Joffee? Now we’re down to 6 players on scholarship. 
 

edit: that tweet was posted 4 weeks ago and her bio is still on texassports.com. usually Texas sports is quick to remove bios of players that leave the program. Not saying the report is wrong but I would wait for more sources 

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Texas Sports article mentions Lexi. Tweet about her transfer seems false. 

From my tennis site... 

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she may have entered transfer portal but could play for UT this Spring since she committed for Fall 2020 to Pepperdine, now will she play who knows.

 

Is that possible? I fucking despise all transfer portal mentions. 

Wouldn’t Joffe know then and be like nah bye bitch? Why would you advertise a player who is leaving in 6 months? 

Makes no sense 

Because he needs line #3 now. 

if she’s a 1 season rental then fine. Many hoops players are recruited with the coach knowing they’ll leave for the NBA after 1 year but that doesn’t stop them from offering. She’s essentially a known 1 and done, but instead of going pro she’ll transfer to another school it looks like. She’s too valuable in the lineup for Joffee to get caught up in his feelings and bench her all season knowing she’ll be gone after the season ends 

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Meh. 1 and done to the pros =/= 1 and done to another NCAA program 

Lexi & Adrienn team up for the W. 

 

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The three-day tournament is not a dual-match competition, and all results will be individual and not team. No live scoring or live video stream will be available for this tournament.

 

Anna also won against #14. 

Good weekend for Lexi & Adrienn. 

 

 

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So this is an old tweet. But I didn't want to post this in case it was a false one. However I just saw her in the Instagram account. Looks like Texas got Lulu Sun. Maybe there's some eligibility issues and that's why she's not on the website roster yet but Lulu is an accomplished player with a Junior record that is (in my opinion) even better than Bianca's. High of 13 in juniors, Australian Open Junior Doubles finalist, has made deep runs at singles Junior grand slams, Youth Olympic Games participant, couple $15k wins, top 500 ranking, etc.

IF she gets eligible, I can't see why Texas would not be in the conversation for a national championship

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Midyear enrollee? In which case maybe it’s announced this week? 

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Chose Texas over Pepperdine, Virginia, Florida, and Mississippi

Has beaten Nagy twice in juniors

4-0 over LSU

Hmm no Ryngler for today’s match. Hopefully she’s just nursing a minor injury and didn’t leave the program or anything 

Lost doubles 

But won 5 of the 6 first sets in singles 

3-2 Texas with the remaining singles matches in 3rd sets 

Labrana gets it done. Texas wins 4-3 Against #8 NC State

If Ryngler is done then we are down to 6 scholarship players. Our walk-on Gabby would effectively be a default if she has to be used so this team is walking a thin line right now. If we can keep at least 6 scholarship players healthy throughout the season we’ll be in good shape. If not, we’re fucked

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Rolled up #22 GT, 5-0. 

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In their house.

5-2, actually. Our #5 and #6 singles lost. Getting back Ryngler will help with some of our lower lineup weakness....if we are able to get her back

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"It just felt like the right fit. They are offering me the one-and-done deal, where I can go for a year and leave after and then come back and get my education,” Stearns said. “They will bring me to at least seven pro tournaments, and I trust them. Some other schools say they will, but I have never seen their players play that many. That was huge for me."

 

I guess using the Turati's success (and to an extent Labrana's) on the pro circuit is going to be a huge recruiting tool for Texas

Interesting to hear that Peyton's mom is a UT alum

 

From what I've seen so far, I think Ryngler is still with the team. Texas will be playing Florida State in the first round of indoor nationals.

 

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