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No. 2 Women's Tennis to Face No. 67 Colorado, Missouri
March 27, 2008
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WACO, Texas - this week in baylor women's tennis The second-ranked Baylor women's tennis team will play host to No. 67 Colorado on Friday at 6 p.m. and will face off against bears on a roll A team making waves on the women's side is Baylor: four weeks ago, the Bears jumped to No. 4 in the rankings, their highest national ranking in program history. After falling to fifth place for two weeks, the Lady Bears jumped two spots last week to No. 3. This week, Baylor improved one spot to No. 2, the Lady Bears' highest ranking in program history. lady bears fall to top-ranked northwestern Nazlie Ghazal won a second-set tiebreaker and held on to win the third set over Jelena Stanivuk, 2-6, 7-6 (2), 6-4, to clinch the match as top-ranked Northwestern defeated No. 2 Baylor 5-2 on Wednesday night at the Baylor Tennis Center. The Lady Bears fall to 17-2 on the season, with both losses coming to top-ranked teams. Baylor now holds a 13-2 record this season against nationally-ranked opponents. The loss breaks Baylor's 12-match winning streak this season and ends the Lady Bears' 38-match home winning streak. The last time Baylor lost at home came on March 15, 2005. in the rankings Baylor moved up one spot to No. 2 in the nation according to the latest rankings from the ITA, it was announced on Tuesday. The Lady Bears, whose previous top ranking came last week when Baylor moved up to No. 3 in the ITA rankings, achieve their highest ranking in program history. The Lady Bears are currently 17-1 on the season, with its only loss to then-top-ranked Stanford at the 2008 ITA National Team Indoor Championship in Madison, Wisc. The Lady Bears are riding a 15-match winning streak, including wins over 12 teams ranked in the top 75, and eight teams ranked 19th or better. In addition, Baylor has four singles players and two doubles teams ranked this week. Lenka Broosova holds the No. 11 national ranking in singles, while Zuzana Zemenova jumped two spots to 23rd in the nation this week. Taylor Ormond is ranked 26th overall, while Jana Bielikova made the largest move in the rankings, jumping 17 spots to No. 62 in the nation. Zemenova and Broosova combine for a No. 4 national doubles ranking, while Ormond teams with Jelena Stanivuk as the 54th-ranked tandem in the nation. weekly honors Zuzana Zemenova was named the Big 12 Women's Tennis Player of the Week for matches between March 10-16. The weekly award is the sixth career accolade for Zemenova and marks the second time this season she has earned the league's award. Earlier this season, Zemenova earned the conference's first weekly award of the spring season. Then ranked 24th nationally, she posted a 4-0 record at No. 1 singles, including wins over No. 10 Riza Zalameda (UCLA), No. 11 Melanie Gloria ( The weekly award was the third straight for Baylor players. The Lady Bears swept the first three awards of the dual match season. Taylor Ormond was selected as the player of the week on March 10. She posted a 2-0 singles and 2-0 doubles record as Baylor opened conference play with road wins at
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