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Men’s tennis heads to Waco)
8
Friday, September 27, 2002
By Gary Livingston
THE BATTALION
As he sits at a desk in the
players’ lounge. Coach Tim
Cass can’t help but smile. He
recently returned from Paris,
where he saw Davis Cup
action, the Louvre and the
Eiffel Tower.
“I was actually afraid to go
up the thing,” he jokes.
All is fun and games for the
Texas A&M men’s head tennis
coach, whose team will begin
action today at the HEB Baylor
Intercollegiate Tournament at
the Baylor Tennis Center in
Waco. The tournament will run
until Sept. 30.
The Aggies are coming off a
season in which they advanced to
the round of 16 for the third con
secutive season and finished the
season ranked No. 8 nationally.
More importantly, the A&M
men’s tennis team, which has
had three straight 20-win sea
sons, is out to make a bigger
statement on the court this year.
“Last year we were under
pressure to reach the tourna
ment,” Cass said. “We had to
replace five out of our top
seven going into last year. For
us to retain a top-16 level. I
was relatively pleased.”
This year the men’s tennis
team is returning four out of its
top six players, including All-
American Ryan Newport, who
is currently No. 24 in the
nation in singles play.
Last year Newport reached
the round of 16 in the NCAA
singles championship knocking
off the No. 2 player in the nation
along the way. Newport is only
the fifth player in A&M history
to be named All-American, and
the third under Cass.
“Ryan is one of the top guys
in college tennis,” Cass said.
“Twenty-four is a low ranking
for Ryan in my opinion. He
should be in the top 10.”
Also ranked in the national
top 100 are sophomores Lester
Cook and Ante Matijevic who
are ranked No. 78 and No. 83,
respectively.
“Those two came in January
and made an immediate impact
on the team.” Cass said.
Cass will send three players
to compete at this weekends
tournament . Cook, junior
Khaled El Dorry, and freshman
Matt Loucks will represent
A&M at the 19-team field
which includes players from
other Big 12 teams such as
Baylor, Colorado, Texas J
Texas Tech. There will be ni«
players from the nation’s t s
100 competing.
El Dorry led the Aggies 8
singles victories last seas#
when he compiled a 31-9 ove.
all record and finished 16-6i;
dual match competition.
Since the team season does:
begin until the spring semesie
Cass said he will use these L
tournaments as a way forfe
players to stay sharp, work®
their game and even practice nr.
tactics that they don’t norm:
implement.
“This is a good way for os
guys to begin collegiate pi?
and to work on their collegL
ranking,” Cass said. “Thes!
tournaments aren’t as imp
lant as the spring matches."
The tournament cham:
onships will take plan
Monday afternoon.
Cass will begin his fifth
at the helm and in just fot
years has guided the Aggiess
four visits to the NCA. 1
Tournament. Last year he »i
named Big 12 Conferece
Coach of the Year and v
selected as the Intercollegi
Tennis Association (fft
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Region VI Coach of the Year
Women’s tennis opens season
By Jeff Allen
THE BATTALION
A unique aspect of the collegiate sport of ten
nis is its division into two distinctive seasons:
one in the fall, another in the spring. When the
Texas A&M women’s tennis team takes the court
this weekend at the Cissie Leary Memorial
Invitational in Pittsburgh, Pa., it’s going to be a
case of each woman for herself.
“Everybody’s put in one draw,” said
women’s head tennis coach Bobby Kleinecke.
“It’s a matter of ending up with whatever draw
you get. You might have a tough or easy
one...(regardless of the outcome of the match)
you're never really out of the tournament. The
players are always getting to play somebody,
which is what we want at this point ... to get as
many matches under our belt as we can.”
The tournament, which marks the beginning
of competitive play for the women’s team in the
2002-2003 season, will last three days and will
present a new challenge for the young team.
The Aggies will be taking on some tough
competition coming from Ivy League and East
Coast schools such as Ohio State, Penn State and
Harvard, whom they seldom see during the team
match schedule coming up next spring.
Even though the official team schedule does not
start for the Aggies for a few more months, the fall
portion of the schedule is not to be overlooked.
“Even though it’s more on an individual
basis, we’re trying to get the individual better,”
Kleinecke said. “Then the team gets better*
each individual player gets better."
After losing five seniors off of last year’sse
ond place Big 12 team, the women are looking
this weekend, and the remainder of the M
schedule, to evaluate where the team standsiniB
preparations for the spring schedule awaitingit
“We use it like a test,” Kleinecke said. Tk
we go back and find out what we needtospeir:
more time working on.”
Going into this weekend’s toumameni it
Pittsburgh, the Aggies will carry with themw
players bearing national rankings earned froir
their performance during last season.
The highest nationally-ranked individual L
junior Jessica Roland. Roland is ranked No. Y
in singles competition while she is coupled with ^
senior Ashley Hedberg in doubles. The pains
ranked No. 12 nationally as a doublesteam
This fall carries a little more weight than
usual for the women’s team as it has brought in
eight new players on its 12-women roster. Itvil
be forced to look toward some young talent
throughout the long year to help put it back ti
the top of the conference.
“We’ve got a good team...the chemistry >-
really good. I think that can propel us farthet
than we normally would,” Kleinecke said.
The 6th-Annual Cissie Leary Memorial
Invitational will take place today until Sunda;
on the campus of the University ^
Pennsylvania. Championship matches will tak
place on Sunday afternoon.
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