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SUN DEVIL WOMEN’S TENNIS Contact: Elias Williams | [email protected] | (816) 830-5335 Schedule THIS WEEK Date Opponent Location Time/Result No. 22 Arizona State | 5-1 (0-0, Pac-12) 1/20 Northern Arizona ASU Whiteman W – 7-0 1/26 Oklahoma State Stillwater, OK L – 4-3 @ No. 20 Kentucky | Feb. 23 | 10 a.m. MST 1/27 TCU Stillwater, OK W – 4-1 @ No. 14 Ohio State | Feb. 25 | 10 a.m. MST 2/2 UNLV ASU Whiteman W – 4-2 2/4 Gonzaga ASU Whiteman W – 4-0. No. 14 Ohio State 2/17 Santa Clara ASU Whiteman W – 4-0 No. 20 Kentucky 2/23 Kentucky Lexington, KY 10 a.m. 6-2 (0-0 SEC) 3-1 (0-0 Big Ten) 2/25 Ohio State Columbus, OH 10 a.m. Live Stats: Live Stats: 3/2 San Diego State ASU Whiteman 1:30 p.m. http://www.sidearmstats.com/ ohiostatebuckeyes.com 3/3 UC Santa Barbara ASU Whiteman Noon ukentucky/tennis/xlive.htm Live Stream: 3/9 Utah* Salt Lake City 1:30 p.m. ohiostatebuckeyes.com 3/11 Colorado* Boulder, CO 11 a.m. 3/17 Loyola Marymount ASU Whiteman 11 a.m. 3/25 Oregon* Eugene, OR 11 a.m. Ranked foes await devils out east 3/30 Stanford* ASU Whiteman 1:30 p.m. 3/31 California* ASU Whiteman Noon TEMPE – After scoring win No. 500 this past weekend, Sheila McInerney and No. 22 Arizona State 4/6 Washington State* ASU Whiteman 1:30 p.m. (5-1, 0-0 Pac-12) travel to Lexington, Kentucky, and Columbus, Ohio, to put their four-match win-streak 4/7 Washington* ASU Whiteman Noon on the line against two ranked opponents this weekend. 4/13 UCLA* Los Angeles 1:30 p.m. 4/14 USC* Los Angeles Noon While the Devils and Buckeys are familiar with one another, having met three times in the past three 4/21 Arizona* Tucson, AZ 1 p.m. seasons, the matchup with the Wildcats will be a first for ASU. 4/25-28 Pac-12 Championships*^ Ojai, CA All Day 5/11-13 NCAA Regionals^ TBA All Day ASU comes into the weekend having won four straight and five of its last six with its only loss on the 5/17-22 NCAA Finals^ Winston Salem, NC All Day season coming on the road against No. 13 Oklahoma State, 4-3. 5/23-28 NCAA Individuals^ Winston Salem, NC All Day * indicates Pac-12 conference matchup Although the loss to the Cowgirls is the Devils’ lone blemish this season, perfection is common on ^ indicates postseason tournament McInerey’s squad as two doubles tandems and Sasa Klanecek are still undefeated in dual-match play this season. ITA/Oracle Rankings Rank Team Conference Rank Avg. Playing on court six in every match this season, Klanecek has racked up a 6-0 record and hasn’t 1. North Carolina ACC 94.75 dropped a set in a win since the fall. She opened her spring campaign with two straight defeats, 2. Pepperdine WCC 74.15 but has since been on a tear. 3. Mississippi SEC 69.90 4. Duke ACC 65.46 In doubles play, McInereny switched things up a bit in the Devils’ last outing, but the results were 5. Illinois Big Ten 59.02 still the same as they took the doubles point for the sixth-straight match. 6. Georgia SEC 58.54 7. Vanderbilt SEC 54.15 Ilze Hattingh and Lauryn John Baptiste are 6-0, and Nicole Fossa Huergo/Klanecek are 5-0. 8. Texas Tech Big 12 54.14 Klanecek was paired with Savannah Slasyman against Santa Clara and the new duo still came 9. UCLA Pac-12 43.95 away with the win on court three, bringing Klanecek’s doubles record in match play to 6-0. 10. Wake Forest ACC 43.47 11. South Carolina SEC 43.27 No. 107 Slaysman has righted the ship after a slow start to her sophomore campaign and now has 12. Georgia Tech ACC 41.71 the second-best record on the team at 5-1. 13. Oklahoma State Big 12 38.54 14. Ohio State Big Ten 36.51 Both opponents will be tough matchups for the six-woman Devils, but wins this weekend would 15. Kansas Big 12 36.20 put them at 7-1 with three ranked victories heading into the last weekend before conference play 16. Texas Big 12 36.16 opens. 17. Oregon Pac-12 34.57 18. Tennessee SEC 33.83 The Devils and Wildcats take to the court Friday at 10 a.m. MST, ASU’s matchup with Ohio State 19. Florida State ACC 32.79 gets started Sunday at 10 a.m. 20. Kentucky SEC 32.56 21. Michigan Big Ten 31.62 The last time the Buckeyes and Devils met, ASU fell 4-0 at the Whiteman Tennis Center. It was the 22. Arizona State Pac-12 28.81 second of two-straight losses for ASU and the first two-match slide since 2016. 23. Virginia ACC 28.63 24. Northwestern Big Ten 28.27 25. Princeton Ivy 28.18 Pac-12: Washington (32), California (34), Stanford (36), USC (47) Sun Devil Roster and Staff Name Class Height Hometown/Last School Pac-12 Standings Kelley Anderson Sr. 5’6” Roanoke, Texas (Baylor/Southlake Carroll HS) Nicole Fossa Huergo Sr. 6’1” Bologna, Italy (Armstrong State) 1. Washington State – 7-1 (0-0) 7. UCLA – 6-2 (0-0) Sammi Hampton Jr. 5’8” Vancouver, Wash. (Skyview HS) 2. Utah – 6-1 (0-0) 8. Oregon – 6-3 (0-0) llze Hattingh So. 5’10” Pretoria, South Africa 3. Arizona State – 5-1 (0-0) 9. Southern Cal – 4-2 (0-0) Lauryn John-Baptiste Fr. 5’8” London, England Sasa Klanecek Fr. 5’6” Maribor, Slovenia 4. Colorado – 5-1 (0-0) 10. Washington – 7-4 (0-0) Tereza Kolarova Fr. 5’4” Frydek-Mistek, Czech Republic 5. California – 4-1 (0-0) 11. Stanford – 3-2 (0-0) Savannah Slaysman So. 5’4” Phoenix, Ariz. (Arizona Connections Academy 6. Arizona – 7-2 (0-0) Head Coach: Sheila McInerney Graduate Student Manager: Ebony Panoho Associate Head Coach: Matt Langley Graduate Student Assistant: Alexandra Osborne Athletic Trainer: Lindy Kryger Sun Devil Women’s Tennis Thesundevils.com @Sundevilwtennis 1 SUN DEVIL WOMEN’S TENNIS Team Notes Rankings Update Series historY This weekend’s rankings marked the first computerized update of the season, vs. Kentucky brushing aside the previous coaches rankings and causing a huge shift in the top-25. While the ITA/Oracle rankings now include 50 teams, the Sun Devils were barely Record ............................................................................................ 0-0 affected by the switch to a points-based system as they debuted at No. 22, just two spots At ASU ............................................................................................ 0-0 below where they were in last week’s coaches poll. At Opponent .................................................................................. 0-0 With the spring season kicking into gear and team schedules evening out, the Neutral Site .................................................................................... 0-0 singles and doubles rankings also saw some changes, including a rise in rank for Savannah First Meeting ................................................................................. N/A Slaysman. Last Meeting ................................................................................. N/A Slaysman jumped to 107 in the latest update with the help of her three-match win- streak and 5-1 record overall. The new court one occupant, Lauryn John-Baptiste came in at No. 84 on the list. vs. Ohio State She has three wins over ranked opponents in 2018 and will likely face two more this weekend in Lexington and Columbus. Record ............................................................................................ 1-3 The Sun Devils’ highest-achieving doubles duo fell out of the rankings, but the team At ASU ............................................................................................ 1-2 of John-Baptiste/Hattingh is still undefeated on court two this season. At Opponent .................................................................................. 0-1 Slaysman/Kolarova comes in at No. 27, but with McInerney switching up the lineups Neutral Site ................................................................................... N/A last weekend, it’s been more than two weeks since the pairing has hit the court together. First Meeting (1990) ...............................................ASU 9, OSU 0 Among the Pac-12, ASU is the third-highest ranked team behind No. 9 UCLA Last Meeting (2017) ...............................................OSU 4, ASU 0 and 17 Oregon. Defending conference champion Stanford sits at No. 36, in part because of their lack of matches played, and Washington (32) and Cal (48) are the other Pac-12 Doubles Results representatives in the top-50. OSU Di Lorenzo/Sanford def. Osborne/Fossa Huergo | 6-3 OSU De Santis/Niehaus def. Anderson/Slasyman | 6-2 doubles Dominance ASU Jump/Hampton vs. Kowase/Angeles Paz | 3-5 unf. Arizona State’s fall campaign saw the Devils put on a show in doubles, upending some of the best tandems in the nation en route to a 17-6 record. Order of finish: 2, 1 So far this spring, the Sun Devils have continued the trend and have been dominant in doubles play, winning the point in all six of their dual matches in 2018 and compiling a team Singles Results doubles record of 13-4, with one team sitting at 6-0 and another at 5-0. OSU #1 Di Lorenzo def. #79 Jump | 7-6(5), 6-0 Ilze Hattingh and Lauryn John-Baptiste have been on a tear on court two, racking up OSU #53 Sanford def. #72 Hampton | 6-4, 6-4 seven-straight wins, and all six in each of their dual match appearances as a duo. ASU Kelley Anderson vs. #57 De Santis | 2-6, 6-2, 2-2 unf. ASU Fossa Huergo vs. #84 Niehaus | 6-3, 4-6, 0-2 unf. Ahead of them on court one, Kolarova/Slaysman had a tough start to the season but OSU #42 Kowase def.