Friday, September 21, 2007
The KU tennis team has high expectations as the fall tennis season kicks off this weekend at the Cissie Leary Tournament in Philadelphia.
The Kansas team will face players from nine other schools, including Penn State, Virginia Tech, Princeton and Yale, all of which were nationally ranked at the end of the 2007 spring season.
Coach Amy Hall-Holt, who enters her fourth season as the Kansas tennis coach, hopes that the team uses this first tournament as a way to build off last season.
“I am telling the girls to get out there and give everything they can. I want them to play with the same energy that they have been playing with in practice the past two weeks,” Hall-Holt said.
This year’s roster is loaded with returning talent. Elizaveta Avdeeva and Edina Horvath were recently ranked No. 36 as doubles partners in a preseason FILA/ITA poll. Avdeeva also received a ranking of 117 in singles. Kunigunda Dorn and Yuliana Svistun, who both put up strong performances last season, also will compete this weekend. They will be joined by freshmen Maria Martinez and Mymee Tokuda. Hall-Holt said the team’s overall experience gives the players a competitive edge going into this weekend.
“The girls know that they can compete with anyone that’s out there on the court. They know they have the ability. I want them to challenge each other to play their best,” Hall-Holt said.
Hall-Holt said that the tournament this weekend would give her players a chance to bounce back from a tough season last year in which the team was plagued with injuries. Hall-Holt said her players were working to improve their games on a day-to-day basis. She said that the fall season would give the players a chance to fine-tune their game for the spring season.
“The fall tournaments will show our players what competition is out there. They know that from match to match the level of play is going to increase,” Hall-Holt said.
The fall slate of tournaments affect only the individual players’ rankings. Performances are not figured into any overall team score. Hall-Holt believes that this does not diminish the importance of the team aspect.
“We still have to represent as a team. We are out there fighting for KU, the name, the tradition. It’s an individual sport with a team atmosphere, and we need to support each other,” Hall-Holt said.
— Edited by Jeff Briscoe
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