TicketsBearcats Face Three-Match Weekend
Contact: Geoff Wiswell
2/9/2005
Cristina Reyes has won three-straight matches at No. 1 singles. |
The University of Cincinnati women?s tennis team continues its busy February with three matches this weekend. The Bearcats face road matches at Ball State on Friday, Feb. 11 at 3 p.m. CT and Indiana State on Saturday, Feb. 12 at 2 p.m. CT. UC then returns home to host Eastern Michigan at Five Seasons Country Club on Sunday, Feb. 13 at Noon ET. UC is 2-3 on the year after splitting a pair of home matches last weekend.
FINALLY HEALTHY: The Bearcats went through the fall season with only four healthy players, and only two of them were not newcomers. Various injuries fellled Bearcat starters Julie Klauck, Hannah Hinton and Cristina Reyes. Before this spring, Klauck had missed nine months of action recovering from shoulder surgery. UC is now up to seven players, hopefully for the rest of the season. Only sophomore Kirby Doran, who will redshirt this year, remains injured.
DOUBLES SUCCESS: The Bearcat roster boasts three players who have each posted one of the 10 best doubles seasons in school history. Senior Samantha Liu won 24 doubles matches as a freshman, the second-highest single-season win total at UC, and sophomore Hannah Hinton won 23 last year to rank fourth. Senior Julie Klauck posted 20 doubles wins, also in her freshman season, to rank ninth all-time. Liu, with 48 career doubles wins, is one victory from joining that top 10 list. At least one the three has had a hand in seven of UC?s eight doubles wins.
GETTING A WORKOUT: Last year Hannah Hinton was the second on team with 33 matches played and 17 wins. She led the team, however, in three-set matches with nine. Seven of her final 13 matches went the distance. This year all three of her matches have been decided in two sets.
FRESHMAN TRADITION: The Bearcats have boasted extremely successful freshman in each of the last four years. Lyndsey Molony won 19 singles matches in 2000-01, the third-most ever by a UC freshman. Julie Klauck surpassed that total the next year with 20 wins, and Jill Klauck took it further in 2002-03 with 21 wins. Last year Hannah Hinton won 17 singles matches and a team-best 23 doubles contests.