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Contact: Geoff Wiswell
2/22/2005
Jill Klauck owns a team-best 16 combined wins. |
MATCH FACTS:
Date: Fri., Feb. 25, 2005
Time: 3:30 p.m. ET
Site: Shadow Valley Tennis Club
Toledo, Ohio
Records: Cincinnati, 3-8
Bowling Green, 6-4
The University of Cincinnati women?s tennis team is out to snap a four-match losing streak when it faces Bowling Green on Friday, Feb. 25 at the Shadow Valley Tennis Club in Toledo, Ohio. Two of last weekend?s three losses were to ranked teams and Friday?s match is the fifth of the last seven away from home.
ADDED MATCHES: The Bearcats have recently added a pair of contests to their schedule. UC will host Detroit on March 9 at Noon and crosstown rival Xavier on April 16 at 3 p.m. Both matches will be at Five Seasons.
TOUGH MONTH: UC?s spring schedule is jam-packed in February. The Bearcats face nine of their 18 dual matches in the shortest month of the year, including a pair of three-match weekends and two ranked opponents. They then play just once in March before taking on C-USA foes and the league tournament in April.
MOVING UP: Jill Klauck has led the Bearcats in wins in each of the last two seasons, though most of those wins came in the bottom third of the lineup. This year she has moved up to the top half and the success has not stopped. She leads the team with 11 singles wins and six dual wins, four coming at the No. 2 spot. Additionally, she and sister Julie have gone 5-4 in dual doubles matches.
FINALLY HEALTHY: The Bearcats went through the fall season with only four healthy players, and only two of them were not newcomers. Various injuries felled 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.
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 one of her six matches has gone three sets.
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 49 career doubles wins, is tied for 10th in UC annals. At least one the three has had a hand in 10 of UC?s 11 doubles wins.
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.