Friday, April 20, 2007
A lot has happened in the last 41 days.
The Kansas men’s basketball team lost to UCLA in the regional final. The football team had its spring game. But one thing hasn’t happened.
The Kansas tennis team hasn’t notched a single victory. The team — winless since March 10 — will take a seven-dual losing streak into its regular season finale against No. 21 Texas A&M on Sunday.
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A loss on Sunday would give Kansas an 11th-place finish in the conference, meaning Kansas would play the sixth seed in the first round of the Big 12 Championships on April 26.
To keep the streak from reaching eight, Kansas has to beat Texas A&M, which sits at 17-5, and 7-2 in the Big 12, following a 4-3 loss to Texas on Wednesday. In addition, Texas A&M owns three 7-0 victories against opponents that beat KU this season — Missouri, Texas Tech and Colorado.
Senior Anna Lubinsky leads the way for the Aggies at No. 1 singles. Lubinsky, a former first-team All-Big 12 selection, is ranked 24th in country in singles.
Kansas, attempting to rebound after a 4-3 loss to Oklahoma on Wednesday, is trying to avoid a second 16-loss season in three years. While doubles woes have been the season-long foil for the Jayhawks, it was poor singles play that doomed Kansas to its seventh straight loss. Both the No. 1 doubles duo of junior Elizaveta Avdeeva and sophomore Edina Horvath and the No. 2 duo of junior Lauren Hommell and freshman Kunigunda Dorn gained victories, but Kansas lost four out of the dual’s six singles matches.
A loss on Sunday would give Kansas an 11th-place finish in the conference, meaning Kansas would play the sixth seed in the first round of the Big 12 Championships on April 26. That scenario would mean a rematch with Oklahoma if the season ended today.
While the team sits at the bottom of the conference, Avdeeva, Horvath and sophomore Yuliana Svistun can climb up the Big 12 individual rankings Sunday. If Svistun wins on Sunday, she will finish with a 9-2 conference record at No. 5 singles, guaranteeing her at least a tie for the top mark in the conference at No. 5 singles. Svistun is 14-5 overall this spring.
Avdeeva and Horvath are sitting at 7-3 in conference, with the No. 28 doubles team in the country — Sarah Foster and Tiffany Clifford of Texas A&M — looming on Sunday. A victory would guarantee that they finish no lower than second at No. 1 doubles.
Kansan sportswriter Rustin Dodd can be contacted at rdodd
@kansan.com.
— Edited by Kelly Lanigan
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