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Preview: Miami Spring Invitational
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Frogs set for first tournament of the spring season
CORAL GABLES, Fla. – The TCU women's tennis team heads to the Sunshine State to play in the Miami Spring Invitational. The Horned Frogs will be joined by the University of Miami (Fla.), UCF and Vanderbilt in the hidden dual.
The tournament will take place at the Neil Schiff Tennis Center over the course of three days (Jan. 12-14).
TCU Schedule
Friday – 9 a.m. Singles vs Miami
Friday – 11:30 a.m. Doubles vs Vanderbilt
Saturday – 8 a.m. Singles vs Vanderbilt
Saturday – 10:30 a.m. Doubles vs UCF
Sunday – 9 a.m. Doubles vs Miami
Sunday – 12:30 p.m. Singles vs UCF
Competing for TCU
The Horned Frogs look to use this final hidden dual tournament as a launch pad for dual season beginning Saturday, January 20 against Northwestern State. The team is led by senior, Destinee Martins and reigning NIT MVP Jade Otway.
Spring transfer, Chiho Mushika will compete in the purple and white for the first time in her career on Saturday. The graduate came to Fort Worth from the University of San Francisco where she posted a 13-7 singles record. The Japan native played steadily in the No. 2 position for the Dons with a 12-7 overall record.
Martins is coming off a strong fall season as she advanced to the semifinals of the ITA Texas Regional. Her march to the final four featured a three-set takedown of the tournament's top overall seed, Texas' Tanya Sasnouskaya 2-6, 7-6, 6-4, in the round of 16. Martins went on to better No. 5 seed Daria Smetannikov of Texas A&M, 6-2, 4-6, 6-1, in the quarterfinals and put herself within a victory of a berth to the ITA National Fall Championships. She fell to No. 4 seed Malaika Rapolu of Texas 6-4, 6-4 in the semifinal to wrap up her terrific run.
Pascual leads the team in singles wins behind a 7-4 fall record. The senior collected three wins in her last outing at the TCU invitational.
Helena Narmont wrapped up the fall season with the most wins in singles and doubles for the Frogs at the TCU Invitational. In singles the junior defeated Kara Wheatley of BYU 6-2, 7-5 on day one, Silivia Costache of Kansas 6-3, 6-2 on day three and Zuzanna Frankowska of Baylor 4-6, 6-1, 10-8 on day four. The Estonian was 2-2 in doubles taking down a Kansas State pair 8-6 on day one alongside Isabel Pascual and a duo from Kansas 8-6 on day three with Margaret Polk.
Otway saw doubles action twice in the fall with a 3-0 stint at the SMU Invitational and 2-1 finish at the ITA Texas Regional alongside Raquel Caballero. The junior's only singles action this season comes from ITF Tyler 80K where she finished 1-1.
FOLLOW THE FROGS
For more information on TCU Women's Tennis, visit gofrogs.com and follow the team on social media: @TCUWomensTennis on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
The tournament will take place at the Neil Schiff Tennis Center over the course of three days (Jan. 12-14).
TCU Schedule
Friday – 9 a.m. Singles vs Miami
Friday – 11:30 a.m. Doubles vs Vanderbilt
Saturday – 8 a.m. Singles vs Vanderbilt
Saturday – 10:30 a.m. Doubles vs UCF
Sunday – 9 a.m. Doubles vs Miami
Sunday – 12:30 p.m. Singles vs UCF
Competing for TCU
The Horned Frogs look to use this final hidden dual tournament as a launch pad for dual season beginning Saturday, January 20 against Northwestern State. The team is led by senior, Destinee Martins and reigning NIT MVP Jade Otway.
Spring transfer, Chiho Mushika will compete in the purple and white for the first time in her career on Saturday. The graduate came to Fort Worth from the University of San Francisco where she posted a 13-7 singles record. The Japan native played steadily in the No. 2 position for the Dons with a 12-7 overall record.
Martins is coming off a strong fall season as she advanced to the semifinals of the ITA Texas Regional. Her march to the final four featured a three-set takedown of the tournament's top overall seed, Texas' Tanya Sasnouskaya 2-6, 7-6, 6-4, in the round of 16. Martins went on to better No. 5 seed Daria Smetannikov of Texas A&M, 6-2, 4-6, 6-1, in the quarterfinals and put herself within a victory of a berth to the ITA National Fall Championships. She fell to No. 4 seed Malaika Rapolu of Texas 6-4, 6-4 in the semifinal to wrap up her terrific run.
Pascual leads the team in singles wins behind a 7-4 fall record. The senior collected three wins in her last outing at the TCU invitational.
Helena Narmont wrapped up the fall season with the most wins in singles and doubles for the Frogs at the TCU Invitational. In singles the junior defeated Kara Wheatley of BYU 6-2, 7-5 on day one, Silivia Costache of Kansas 6-3, 6-2 on day three and Zuzanna Frankowska of Baylor 4-6, 6-1, 10-8 on day four. The Estonian was 2-2 in doubles taking down a Kansas State pair 8-6 on day one alongside Isabel Pascual and a duo from Kansas 8-6 on day three with Margaret Polk.
Otway saw doubles action twice in the fall with a 3-0 stint at the SMU Invitational and 2-1 finish at the ITA Texas Regional alongside Raquel Caballero. The junior's only singles action this season comes from ITF Tyler 80K where she finished 1-1.
FOLLOW THE FROGS
For more information on TCU Women's Tennis, visit gofrogs.com and follow the team on social media: @TCUWomensTennis on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
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