No. 27 Doubles Team Leads TCU in Final ITA Rankings
6/7/2010 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
June 7, 2010
FORT WORTH—The TCU women's tennis team concluded the season with three players listed in the final edition of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's (ITA) national rankings released Monday. Leading the way for the Frogs was the squad's top doubles pairing of sophomore Kayla Duncan and junior Katariina Tuohimaa at No. 27.
Duncan and Tuohimaa, who reached the Round of 16 at the NCAA Doubles Championships, gave TCU at least one doubles team to be included among the ITA's final top-31 squads for the seventh straight season. The pair finished with a 20-10 overall record, including a 15-7 spring mark. Overall, Duncan and Tuohimaa's ranking marks the eighth-best doubles finish in program history. In terms of the Texas Regional rankings, the pairing finished No. 2 behind only Baylor's Lenka Broosova and Csilla Borsanyi.
Duncan and Tuohimaa also found themselves in the ITA's singles rankings, along with senior Nina Munch-Soegaard. Munch-Soegaard, who finished her final season with a 14-13 record and NCAA Singles Championships appearance, was the Frogs' top-ranked individual at No. 62 nationally and No. 7 in the Texas Region. Her ranking gave TCU its 14th top-70 national singles ranking all-time, while she is only the third player in school history to finish with at least two such rankings in her career, joining Rene Simpson (three seasons—1986, 1987, 1988) and Helena Besovic (two seasons—2005, 2006). Munch-Soegaard was 22nd nationally in the ITA's 2009 final rankings.
Duncan concluded the season at No. 117 nationally in singles 14th in the Texas Region. She was rated for much of the 2009-10 season and reached a high position of No. 67 early in the spring. While Tuohimaa did not find herself in the final national rankings, she was just behind Duncan in the Texas Regional numbers at No. 15.
TCU finished No. 50 in the final ITA team rankings after a late-season push that saw the squad win the Mountain West Conference tournament championship and earn an automatic NCAA tournament bid.
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