TicketsTennis Returns to the Court
Contact: Geoff Wiswell
3/29/2005
Lindsay Brown owns UC's only win in the No. 5 spot. |
MATCH FACTS:
Date: Sat., April 2, 2005
Time: Noon CT
Site: Lakeshore Athletic Club
Chicago, Ill.
Records: Cincinnati, 4-9
DePaul, 12-6
Date: Sun., April 3, 2005
Time: 9 a.m. CT
Site: Helfaer Tennis Stadium
Milwaukee, Wis.
Records: Cincinnati, 4-9
Marquette, 3-12
The University of Cincinnati women?s tennis team returns to action after three weeks off when it travels to take on Conference USA foes DePaul and Marquette. The Bearcats, 4-9 on the year, face the 12-6 Blue Demons on Saturday, April 2 at Noon CT. DePaul had a nine-match winning streak snapped by Wisconsin on March 12. UC takes on Marquette on Sunday, April 3 at 9 a.m. CT. The Golden Eagles enter the week 3-12 and have dropped six straight. They play two other matches this week.
TOUGH MONTH: UC?s spring schedule was jam-packed in February. The Bearcats faced 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 played 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 13 singles wins and eight dual wins, four coming at the No. 2 spot. Additionally, the tandem of Jill and her sister Julie have produced seven of UC?s 15 doubles wins.
CLIMBING THE CHARTS: Senior captain Samantha Liu has been one of UC?s top doubles players throughout her career and it is starting to show up in the record book. She currently has 51 career doubles wins to rank 10th in school history. Her freshman year she posted 24 doubles wins for the second-best season in Bearcat annals.
TROUBLE SPOT: The Bearcats have had an up and down season, but the No. 5 spot has just been down. UC has gone just 1-12 in the No. 5 position, with freshman Lindsay Brown earning the one win. Julie Klauck is 4-2 at No. 4, but inexplicably is 0-3 at the lower spot.
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 seven 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 51 career doubles wins, is 10th in UC annals. At least one of the three has had a hand in 14 of UC?s 15 doubles wins.