Hawkeyes Travel to Nebraska

THIS WEEK
The College of Iowa ladies’s tennis group travels to Lincoln, Nebraska, to face No. 53 Nebraska for its final common season matchup. The match is about to start out at 11 a.m. on the Sid and Hazel Dillon Tennis Middle. Nebraska will likely be Iowa’s eleventh ranked opponent this season. Followers can comply with alongside by way of the reside scoring and streaming hyperlinks on the Iowa ladies’s tennis schedule web page at hawkeyesports.com.

ON IOWA… LAST TIME OUT
Iowa enters this week with a 6-15 total report, after splitting matches final weekend. Ten of Iowa’s defeats have come towards ranked foes. The Hawkeyes earned one other convention win final Thursday with a 4-1 win at Michigan State. The Spartans have made a variety of appearances within the rankings and have been ranked as excessive as 55 this season.

Iowa started the match by securing the doubles level with wins on courts one and two. Samantha Mannix and Samantha Gillas gained on court docket one over Lewis/Pietrowicz, 6-3. Marisa Schmidt and Vipasha Mehra defeated Can/Gisclon, 7-6(0), on court docket two. They’ve gained back-to-back doubles matches after beforehand topping Rutgers’ Cardenas/Kaplan, 6-2.

The Hawkeyes recorded straight singles wins over Michigan State. Gillas recorded the primary singles win for the Hawkeyes overcoming Charlotte Gisclon, 6-3, 6-1. Barbora Pokorna continued her sturdy play with a win over Maja Pietrowicz, 6-4, 6-2. She has been victorious in six of her final eight selections. Michelle Bacalla closed out the match towards the Spartans with a victory over Tia Mukherjee in straight units on court docket six, 7-5, 6-4.

Pokorna and Bacalla had been forward in each their doubles matches towards Michigan State and Michigan final week earlier than their matches had been known as. They presently maintain a three-match win streak.

NEBRASKA BREAKDOWN
• Nebraska is 13-9 total and 6-4 within the Large Ten.
• Nebraska is No. 53 within the ITA Tennis Rankings.
• Nebraska has confronted 15 ranked opponents, victorious over 5.
• Iowa has an 18-10 report all-time towards Nebraska, final profitable in 2017.
• Nebraska has no student-athletes ranked within the ITA Singles or Doubles Tennis Rankings.

IOWA TO HOST 2022 BIG TEN WOMEN’S TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS
The College of Iowa has been chosen to host the 2022 Large Ten Ladies’s Tennis Championships. The occasion will happen subsequent week, April 27 via Could 1, on the Hawkeye Tennis & Recreation Complicated. Admission is free to the general public.

The final time Iowa hosted the convention match was 2010. Large Ten followers can discover the match schedule and comply with alongside by way of scoring and streaming hyperlinks on the Iowa ladies’s tennis B1G Championships web page at hawkeyesports.com.

POKORNA CONTINUED SUCCESS
Barbora Pokorna leads the Hawkeyes with an 12-5 report, profitable six of her final eight singles matches. She recorded back-to-back-to-back wins earlier than a loss at Northwestern. Pokorna bounced again with three extra singles wins, together with a singles win towards Michigan State’s Maja Pietrowicz, 6-4, 6-2, this previous week. She most not too long ago fell to Michigan’s No. 15 Kari Miller.

TWO RECRUITS SIGN WITH THE HAWKEYES
Daianne Hayashida from Lima, Peru, and Pia Kranholdt from Hilders, Germany, have signed a nationwide letter of intent to hitch the Hawkeyes this fall. Kranholdt is without doubt one of the prime junior tennis gamers from Germany. She has a High 100 German Ladies’s Open Rating. Kranholdt gained a doubles title on the German Junior Nationals. The German native gained a number of Ladies’s Open tournaments with victories over a number of gamers contained in the High 100. Her highschool group gained the German nationwide title and represented Germany on the World Championships.Hayashida has a Juniors profession excessive Worldwide Tennis Federation (ITF) rating of No. 110 and has ascended as excessive as No. 953 within the Ladies’s ITF Rankings. A Fed Cup Group II American Zone Champion, she has a Common Tennis Score of 10.10. Hayashida gained the gold medal in doubles and earned bronze in singles on the 2021 Pan American Video games that happened this previous December.

FOLLOW THE HAWKEYES
Followers can comply with the Iowa ladies’s tennis group on Fb and by way of Twitter @Iowa_Tennis. Outcomes from every match is on the market on the Iowa ladies’s tennis schedule web page at hawkeyesports.com.