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No. 1 Women’s Tennis preview: ITA Kickoff Weekend

No.  1 Women’s Tennis preview: ITA Kickoff Weekend

 


No. 1 TEXAS (3-0) vs. Fresno State (1-0)

When: Friday, January 27 (11:00 CT)

Where: Texas Tennis Center (Austin, Texas)

No. 1 TEXAS vs. Baylor OR Loyola-Marymount

When: Saturday, January 28 (2 p.m. CT)

Where: Texas Tennis Center (Austin, Texas)

Guest site for ITA Kickoff Weekend: Texas will once again host a regional site for the ITA Kickoff Weekend at the Texas Tennis Center. The Longhorns face Fresno State on Friday, January 27 at 11 a.m. CT and Baylor of Loyola Marymount on Saturday, January 28 at 2 p.m. The winners from each regional venue will advance to the ITA National Team Indoor Championships on February 10-13 (Friday-Monday) in Seattle, Washington.

Team rankings: Texas is #1 in the latest ITA Collegiate Tennis rankings sponsored by Tennis-Point (January 25). This is the fourth consecutive poll that the Longhorns have taken the top spot in the rankings. UT earned the No. 1 spot in last year’s final poll and was No. 1 in the first three polls this season (January 4, January 18, and January 25). Texas has finished in the top 10 each of the past five years in the ITA’s latest national polls. UT achieved a number 6 position in 2018, number 9 in 2019, number 4 in 2020 and number 1 in both 2021 and 2022.

Individual rankings: Two UT players are included in the current ITA national Top 125 singles rankings (November 16): Malaika Rapolu (No. 85) and Marlee Zein (No. 87).

Successful opening weekend with two matches: The Longhorns opened the 2023 dual-match season last weekend with three home wins over a three-day span. Texas earned a 4-0 win over North Texas on January 20, a 5-2 win against SMU on January 21, and a 5-0 win over Tulane on January 22.

Chavatipon claims Big 12 honors: Juniors Charlotte Chavatipon was named the Big 12 Conference Women’s Tennis Player of the Week (January 24), the first weekly conference honor of her career. She posted a perfect individual record of 5-0, including a 3-0 in singles and a 2-0 record in doubles against North Texas (January 20), SMU (January 21), and Tulane (January 22). She played No. 1 in all three singles matches and won all three in straight sets, giving up just 13 games in six sets played. Her singles action was highlighted by a 6–4, 6–2 victory against No. 113 Hadley Doyle of SMU. In doubles, Chavatipon partnered with Sabina Zeynalova on the No. 1 line and earned a 2-0 record. The duo’s weekend was marked by a dominant 6-1 victory against SMU’s No. 32-ranked tandem of Jackie Nylander and Taylor Johnson (January 21).

Solid start in Miami: Texas recorded a total of 22 combined singles and doubles wins at the three-day Miami Invitational (January 13-15) in Coral Gables, Florida. Marlee Zein posted a perfect 5-0 record at the Miami Invitational, including a 3-0 in singles and a 2-0 in doubles.

Back-to-Back NCAA Team Championships: Texas posted a 26-4 record in two games during the 2022 season and captured their second consecutive and fourth NCAA team title in program history with a 4-1 win against Oklahoma in the championship game. UT previously won NCAA championships in 1993, 1995, and 2021. The Longhorns joined Stanford and Florida as the only schools to repeat as NCAA Division I Women’s Tennis national champions since 1982.

Big 12 Preseason favorite: Texas is picked to win the Big 12 Conference title in a preseason vote of the league coaches. Coaches were not allowed to vote for their own teams. UT was selected as the Big 12 preseason favorite for the fifth consecutive year and the sixth time in the poll’s history. Texas received eight out of nine possible first-place votes and 80 points in the polls for the upcoming 2023 season. Oklahoma is second with 73 points and two first-place votes, while Oklahoma State is third with 61 points. Rounding out the poll in descending order are Iowa State (59), Kansas (46), Baylor (43), Texas Tech (33), TCU (29), Kansas State (16), and West Virginia (10).

Home Success at the TTC: The Longhorns begin their sixth year at the Texas Tennis Center. UT has recorded a score of 53-4 (.930) in doubles games at the TTC, including a perfect 18-0 record in Big 12 regular season games. During its inaugural season in 2018, Texas went 13-0 at home (5-0 in Big 12 play). The Longhorns went 8-2 on the TTC in 2019 (3-0 Big 12) and 7-1 in the shortened 2020 season (2-0 Big 12). UT posted a perfect 13-0 score on the TTC in 2021 (5-0 Big 12) and went 9-1 (3-0 Big 12) in 2022. The Longhorns are 3-0 on the TTC this year.

Joffe in year eight: Head coach Howard Joffe is in his eighth season as leader of the UT program. Under Joffe’s leadership, Texas claimed back-to-back NCAA team championships in 2021 and 2022 and finished in the top 10 of the last ITA national polls each of the past five years, reaching number one in 2018 at year-end 6 achieved. No. 9 in 2019, No. 4 in 2020, and No. 1 in both 2021 and 2022. The Longhorns also have three Big 12 regular season championship titles (2018, 2019, and 2021) and three Big 12 postseason tournament titles (2018, 2021, and 2022) in the last five seasons. Joffe, the 2021 ITA Division I Women’s National Coach of the Year, has racked up a score of 144-36 (.800) in his eight years with Texas. During his 16 seasons as collegiate head coach, he has a record of 275-97 (.739) in two games. Peyton Stearns won the Honda Sport Award for tennis and the ITA National Player of the Year in 2022. Joffe has helped five Longhorns earn a total of seven ITA All-America singles honors (Breaunna Addison in 2016, Bianca Turati in 2018, Anna Turati and Bianca Turati in 2020, Stearns in both 2021 and 2022 and Kylie Collins in 2022) and two duos earn ITA All-America honors in doubles (Kylie Collins and Lulu Sun in 2021 and Stearns and So Zamarripa 2022). Stearns became the first player in program history to win the NCAA Singles Championship in 2022, while Collins and Sun reached the Finals of the NCAA Doubles Championship in 2021. In addition, 14 players combined have 19 All-Big 12 singles and 18 All- Big 12 doubles selections during Joffe’s tenure at Austin.

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