Deacons Ranked High In Southeast Region
12/11/2006 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
Dec. 11, 2006
Four Wake Forest players are ranked in the top 30 and three Demon Deacon doubles teams in the top 15 in the Fila Southeast Regional Women's Tennis Rankings announced today. The rankings encompass every Division I women's tennis team in the southeastern United States heading into the spring season.
Wake Forest junior All-American candidate Alex Hirsch is ranked No. 6 in the region and third among ACC players in the region. Tennessee's Blakely Griffith is ranked No. 1, followed by Vanderbilt's Amanda Fish.
Three other Demon Deacons are ranked in the top 30. Senior Ashlee Davis, who advanced in the ITA Southeast Regional Indoor Championships in October, is ranked 14th. Wake sophomore Christian Tara is ranked 17th and sophomore Sierra Poske is ranked 30th.
All three Deacon doubles teams earned top-15 rankings.
The doubles team of Hirsch and Poske came in at No. 8. Tara and sophomore Ana Jerman are ranked 11th and Davis and freshman Sasha Kulikova are ranked 15th in the region.
Wake Forest kicks off the spring season Jan. 27 in Minneapolis (Minn.) against South Alabama.
Fila Collegiate Tennis Rankings
Singles
1. Blakeley Griffith, Tennessee
2. Amanda Fish, Vanderbilt
3. Jenna Long, North Carolina
4. Katrina Tsang, North Carolina
5. Anastasia Zhukova, Tennessee-Chattanooga
6. Alex Hirsch, Wake Forest
7. Taka Bertrand, Vanderbilt
8. Carolina Salge, Clemson
9. Catherine Newman, Vanderbilt
10. Austin Smith, North Carolina
11. Amanda Taylor, Vanderbilt
12. Sanaz Marand, North Carolina
13. Hala Sufi, Middle Tennessee State
14. Ashlee Davis, Wake Forest
15. Elizabeth Plotkin, Duke
16. Joelle Schwenk, Kentucky
17. Christian Tara, Wake Forest
18. Ana Marija Zubori, South Carolina
19. Daria Petrovic, North Carolina State
20. Ani Mijacika, Clemson
21. Amanda Granson, Duke
22. Vicki Jones, Tennessee
23. Yevgenia Stupak, East Tennessee State
24. Kim Coventry, Kentucky
25. Gira Schofield, South Carolina
26. Melissa Mang, Duke
27. Federica van Adrichem, Clemson
28. Caitlin Collins, North Carolina
29. Sara Anundsen, North Carolina
30. Sierra Poske, Wake Forest
Doubles
1. Schwenk/Coventry, Kentucky
2. Bercek/Plotkin, Duke
3. Anundsen/Long, North Carolina
4. Mijacika/Salge, Clemson
5. Collins/Marand, North Carolina
6. Zubori/Schofield, South Carolina
7. Fish/Taylor, Vanderbilt
8. Griffith/Zubor, Tennessee
9. Hirsch/Poske, Wake Forest
10. Mang/Robinson, Duke
11. Tara/Jerman, Wake Forest
12. Smith/Fanjoy, North Carolina
13. Luc/Brito, Clemson
14. Ganzer/Mcgavock, South Carolina
15. Davis/Kulikova, Wake Forest
15T. Petrovic/Guerra, North Carolina State
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