SUN DEVIL WOMEN’S TENNIS Contact: Elias Williams | [email protected] | (816) 830-5335 Schedule THIS WEEK Date Opponent Location Time/Result No. 35 Arizona State | 10-3 (2-0, Pac-12) 1/20 Northern Arizona ASU Whiteman W – 7-0 1/26 Oklahoma State Stillwater, OK L – 4-3 vs. No. 22 Oregon | March 25 | 11 a.m. PT 1/27 TCU Stillwater, OK W – 4-1 2/2 UNLV ASU Whiteman W – 4-2 2/4 Gonzaga ASU Whiteman W – 4-0 2/17 Santa Clara ASU Whiteman W – 4-0 No. 22 Oregon 2/23 Kentucky Lexington, KY L – 4-2 10-6 (1-3 Pac-12) 2/25 Ohio State Columbus, OH L – 4-3 3/2 San Diego State ASU Whiteman W – 4-0 Results: GoDucks.com 3/3 UC Santa Barbara ASU Whiteman W – 4-0 Live Stream: GoDucks.com 3/9 Utah* Salt Lake City W – 4-1 3/11 Colorado* Boulder, CO W – 4-3 3/17 Loyola Marymount ASU Whiteman W – 4-1 3/25 Oregon* Eugene, OR 11 a.m. Devils Challenge No. 22 Ducks in Eugene 3/30 Stanford* ASU Whiteman 1:30 p.m. 3/31 California* ASU Whiteman Noon TEMPE – Arizona State took a short break from conference play a week ago to take 4/6 Washington State* ASU Whiteman 1:30 p.m. down the LMU Lions in Tempe, but the Sun Devils are back on their tour of the Pacific 4/7 Washington* ASU Whiteman Noon Coast this weekend to take on a surging 22nd-ranked Oregon side. 4/13 UCLA* Los Angeles 1:30 p.m. “They’ve added a couple of new players and had a pretty great year,” Sun Devil head 4/14 USC* Los Angeles Noon coach Sheila McInerney said. “They’ve beaten three top-25 teams, so their ranking is 4/21 Arizona* Tucson, AZ 1 p.m. justified, and they’ve got three lefties on their team, so that’s a little unusual, but it just 4/25-28 Pac-12 Championships*^ Ojai, CA All Day means we’re going to have to play well like always.” 5/11-13 NCAA Regionals^ TBA All Day 5/17-22 NCAA Finals^ Winston Salem, NC All Day The Ducks (10-6, 1-3 Pac-12) come into the match having dropped three straight to 5/23-28 NCAA Individuals^ Winston Salem, NC All Day Washington State, UCLA and USC on consecutive weekends after winning their first * indicates Pac-12 conference matchup Pac-12 matchup of the season against Washington back on March 9. ^ indicates postseason tournament Oregon’s No. 1 singles player, Alyssa Tobita, has had herself a great senior season and is ranked No. 102 in the most-recent Oracle/ITA rankings. With her rank and status on the ITA/Oracle Rankings squad, court one in Eugene will likely be another ranked match for true freshman Lauryn Rank Team Conference Trend John-Baptiste. 1. North Carolina ACC -- 2. Pepperdine WCC +2 It will be John-Baptiste’s second-straight ranked opponent as last week she knocked off No. 30 Veronica Miroshnichenko of Loyola Marymount to clinch the match win for the 3. Vanderbilt SEC -1 Devils at home. The meeting in Tempe was John-Baptiste’s fifth ranked foe of the season 4. Duke ACC -1 and she will take her 5-0 record into Eugene. 5. Northwestern Big Ten -- 6. Georgia Tech ACC -- The Devils rebounded in a big way in doubles play a weekend ago, and ASU will look 7. Illinois Big Ten -- to keep that trend going against the Ducks, who also field one of the better doubles 8. Texas Big 12 +4 tandems in the Pac-12 and in the nation. 9. Georgia SEC -1 10. South Carolina SEC +1 With unbeaten and newly ranked No. 48 John-Baptiste/Hattingh expected to be on court 11. Mississippi SEC +1 one, and No. 35 Kolarova/Slaysman on court two, the Devils have as good a chance as 12. Oklahoma State Big 12 +7 any school to take the doubles point from the Ducks. 13. UCLA Pac-12 +2 14. Wake Forest ACC +2 “It really is one match at a time in the Pac-12,” McInerney said. “There’s not that much 15. Auburn SEC -2 difference between the lot of the teams. This one is tricky because it’s on the road, but I 16. Texas Tech Big 12 -7 think we’ve played well on the road.” 17. Kansas Big 12 -- ASU has been dominant against the Ducks since the turn of the century, winning 16 of 18. Florida SEC -- their last 17 matchups, including last year’s meeting in Tempe, 4-1. 19. Miami ACC +12 20. Kentucky SEC -6 The match gets going at 11 a.m. PT and will be live streamed on GoDucks.com. For live 21. Virginia ACC +5 results, check out GoDucks.com and follow @SunDevilWTennis on Twitter. 22. Oregon Pac-12 -2 23. Tulsa AAC +9 24. Mississippi State SEC +26 25. Central Florida AAC -1 --- 35. Arizona State Pac-12 +2 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. Stanford – 3-0 (7-3) 7. USC – 1-2 (8-5) Sammi Hampton Jr. 5’8” Vancouver, Wash. (Skyview HS) 2. Arizona State – 2-0 (10-3) 8. Oregon – 1-3 (10-6) llze Hattingh So. 5’10” Pretoria, South Africa 3. Washington St. – 1-0 (16-1) 9. Utah – 1-3 (8-7) Lauryn John-Baptiste Fr. 5’8” London, England Sasa Klanecek Fr. 5’6” Maribor, Slovenia 4. California – 3-1 (7-5) 10. Washington – 0-1 (10-6) Tereza Kolarova Fr. 5’4” Frydek-Mistek, Czech Republic 5. UCLA – 2-1 (10-4) 11. Arizona – 0-2 (8-7) Savannah Slaysman So. 5’4” Phoenix, Ariz. (Arizona Connections Academy 6. Colorado – 1-2 (8-5) 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 A successful home stint against Loyola Marymount and five-straight wins has Arizona vs. Oregon (Since 2000) State moving up in the latest Oracle/ITA poll where this week they sit at No. 35, two spots Record ..........................................................................................16-1 higher than last week’s table. At ASU ............................................................................................ 3-0 Coming in at 35, the Devils are the fourth-highest ranked Pac-12 program of the six At Opponent ................................................................................. N/A in the top-50. No. 13 UCLA and this weekend’s opponent Oregon check in at Nos. 15 and Neutral Site .................................................................................... 0-0 22, and defending conference champion Stanford is just outside the top-25 at 26. First Meeting (2000) .......................................... ASU 4, Oregon 1 Behind the Devils are No.39 Washington State and No. 47 Washington, and in the Last Meeting (2017) .......................................... ASU 5, Oregon 1 Pac-12 standings, ASU sits in second-place behind the Cardinal. Doubles After defeating the, at the time, 30th-ranked woman in the NCAA from Loyola Osborne/Fossa Huergo (ASU) vs. #48 Sangwan/Tobita (UO) – 4-2 unf. Marymount last weekend, Lauryn John-Baptiste soared 30 places to No. 56 in the latest Anderson/Slaysman (ASU) def. #66 Kluiving/Eshet (UO) – 6-0 singles rankings. Savannah Slaysman also improved her ranking to 108. Jump/Hampton (ASU) def. Rose/Kahfiani (UO) – 6-2 In doubles, the reassembled team of Kolarova/Slaysman checked in at No. 35, and unbeaten duo John-Baptiste/Hattingh jumped back into the rankings to 48 after they took Singles down a ranked duo in their first outing on court one. #65 Kassidy Jump (ASU) def. Shweta Sangwan (UO) – 7-5, 6-3 #63 Sammi Hampton (ASU) def. Alyssa Tobita (UO) – 6-0, 7-6 #90 Kelley Anderson (ASU) def. Nia Rose (UO) – 6-0, 6-1 How Sweep it is: John-Baptiste, Geerts take pac-12 honors Nicole Fossa Huergo (ASU) vs. Julia Eshet (UO) – 6-0, 4-6, 1-2 The freshman England international, Lauryn John-Baptiste earned her second Pac- unf. 12 Player of the Week honor for her outstanding performance this past weekend at home that Marlou Kluiving (UO) def. Savannah Slaysman (ASU) – 5-7, 2-6 included a win over the 35th-ranked woman and 28th-ranked doubles duo in the NCAA. Gussie O’Sullivan (ASU) vs. Daniela Nasser (UO) – 6-1, 5-4 unf. With the honor, she becomes the first woman this season to claim it twice and only the third Pac-12 tennis player regardless of gender to claim multiple of-the-week honors in 2018 along with Geerts and one other player from Stanford. John-Baptiste herself soared nearly 30 spots in the latest Oracle/ITA poll to 56 for her win in straight-sets over LMU’s Veronica Miroshnichenko who actually entered the weekend clash at 30 and unbeaten against ranked opponents. Both the Sun Devil and Lion freshman met on court one with unblemished records against ranked women Saturday, and John-Baptiste kept hers intact, moving to 5-0 in 2018 with a 6-3, 6-2 win. In doubles play, John-Baptiste is half of the No. 48 squad with fellow newcomer Ilze Hattingh. Together, they have amassed an 11-0 record and have been bumped up to court one for their stellar start to the season. Fearsome sixsome Coming into the season, coach Sheila McInerney had a roster of eight, but after a couple of key injuries, the Sun Devils have been down to six for the spring season.