TicketsNetters Take on UAB
Contact: Geoff Wiswell
4/7/2005
Jill Klauck leads the Bearcats with nine dual match wins. |
MATCH FACTS:
Date: Sat., April 9, 2005
Time: 11 a.m. CT
Site: Brook Highland Racquet Club
Birmingham, Ala.
Records: Cincinnati, 4-11 (0-2 C-USA)
UAB, 11-5 (2-2 C-USA)
The University of Cincinnati women?s tennis team faces match three of five-straight road contests when it takes on UAB on Saturday, April 9 at 11 a.m. CT at the Brook Highland Racquet Club. The Bearcats are 4-11 after dropping a pair of Conference USA matches last weekend. The Lady Blazers are 11-5 on the year and have won seven of their last nine matches.
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 52 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.
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 14 singles wins and nine dual wins, four coming at the No. 2 spot. Additionally, the tandem of Jill and her sister Julie have produced seven of UC?s 17 doubles wins.
TROUBLE SPOT: The Bearcats have had an up and down season, but the No. 5 spot has just been down. UC has gone just 2-13 in the No. 5 position, with freshman Lindsay Brown and senior Julie Klauck each earning the one win. Klauck is 4-2 at No. 4, but inexplicably is just 1-34 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 two of her nine matches have 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 52 career doubles wins, is 10th in UC annals. At least one of the three has had a hand in 15 of UC?s 17 doubles wins.