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Overview: Highly touted recruit from Croatia who showed great potential during the fall season ...will likely play near the top of the line-up this spring ...reached the quarterfinals of the Wilson/ITA Southeast Regional singles championships and then advanced to the finals with Carol Salge in the doubles bracket of the tournament ...defeated two seeded players during her singles run and lost to the eventual champion ...has the potential to be one of the greatest Tigers ever, according to Harris.
Spring 2007
Highlights: Earned All-America honors in doubles after reaching the round of eight in the NCAA Doubles Championships ...with Federica van Adrichem, became the first doubles team in Clemson history to advance past the quarterfinals of the national tournament ...duo reached the semifinals ...pair also made school history after earning the #4 ranking in the final Fila/ITA poll of the season, as it was the highest a Tiger doubles team had been ranked in the final poll all-time ...named the 2007 ACC Freshman-of-the-Year ... became the first Clemson player to garner the honor since its inception in 1994 ...went undefeated at 11-0 against ACC opponents ... was also selected as the 2007 ITA Southeast Rookie Player-of-the-Year, another women's tennis program first ... was ranked as high as #24 in the Fila/ITA Tennis singles poll and was listed in the final seven polls of the season after the first rankings were released Feb. 21 ...earned ACC Player-of-the-Week honors twice during 2007 ...put together a 14-match winning streak during the season ...was extremely successful in three-set matches, posting 12 wins during 2007 to rank second all-time in Tiger women's tennis history ...the win total is a Clemson freshman record as she bettered a 21-year-old mark ...was selected to the NCAA Singles Championships ... became the sixth straight Tiger to make an appearance at the national singles tournament ...also received a bid to the doubles championships with Federica van Adrichem.
Singles: Boasted an impressive 20-4 ledger during the spring season ...was also a perfect 11-0 against ACC competition during the regular season, with all 11 wins coming at the top two positions ... won 14 straight matches from Feb. 25 until Apr. 21 ...loss that ended the streak was to Audra Cohen of Miami, the nation's #1-ranked player, in the semifinals of the ACC Championships ...started out the spring season at the number three position ...defeated the College of Charleston's Annalee Evans (6-0, 6-0) and Jessica Sweeting of South Florida (4-6, 6-1, 6-2) before moving up in the line-up ...won her first match over a ranked opponent when she defeated #31 Colleen Rielley of Notre Dame at flight two in the USTA/ITA National Team Indoor Championships on Feb. 1 (6-4, 4-6, 6-4) ...earned her first number-one assignment against Brigham Young in the national indoors and won in three sets over the Cougars' Lauren Jones (6-4, 3-6, 6-4) ...then fell to Riza Zalameda of UCLA in a three-set battle on the final day of the tournament (4-6, 7-6(8), 4-6) ...defeated Virginia Commonwealth's Olga Borisova at flight two, 5-7, 7-5, 5-7 before falling just short against #11 Natalie Frazier of Georgia at the top spot, 4-6, 6-2, 6-7(4) ...streak then began with a 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 victory over Gira Schofield of South Carolina on Feb. 25 at flight one ...also defeated South Alabama's Yana Bokareva (6-1, 6-1) and Georgia Tech's 27th-ranked Christy Striplin (6-1, 7-5), both at flight two ...moved back to the top spot against Boston College, defeating Lana Krasnopolsky in straight sets, 6-4, 6-1 ...then won a three-set match against Maryland's Michal Amir at number two ...in non-conference action, won easily over Rawia Elsisi of Troy, 6-1, 6-1 ...returned to ACC competition and defeated Florida State's #76 Nicola Slater at flight one (7-5, 5-7, 7-5) ...win was the first of six straight wins over top-100 opponents ...also defeated #38 Audrey Banada of Miami (6-3, 7-5) and #59 Melissa Mang of Duke (6-3, 6-2) at flight two before posting a tremendous upset over North Carolina's fifth-ranked Jenna Long (6-7(5), 6-1, 6-1) at number one ...then remained at the top position for the final 10 matches of the season ...other ACC regular season victories came against #100 Daria Petrovic of NC State (7-5, 7-5); #89 Ashlee Davis of Wake Forest (3-6, 6-3, 10-7); Virginia's Jennifer Stevens (4-6, 6-1, 6-0) and #111 Inga Beermann of Virginia Tech (6-2, 6-1) ...rematch against Stevens in the quarterfinals of the ACC tournament was unfinished ...then fell to Cohen in the semifinals ...was leading Coastal Carolina's Hayley Rudman in the first round of the NCAA regionals before play was halted ...recorded her 20th victory of the spring in the regional final, helping the Tigers advance to the round of 16 ...was again paired against Virginia's Stevens and defeated the Cavalier in straight sets, 6-2, 6-3 ... won the first set and was ahead 1-0 in the third frame against California's fourth-ranked Susie Babos in Clemson's round of 16 loss to the Golden Bears ...fell in the first round of the NCAA Singles Championships to Lindsay Burdette of Stanford (6-0, 7-6) to end her freshman singles campaign.
Doubles: Posted an 21-6 doubles record in 2007, playing all but two matches at flight one ...reached the semifinals of the 2007 NCAA Double Championships with Federica van Adrichem ...became the first Clemson doubles team in history to reach the final four of the national tournament ...defeated Notre Dame's team of Brook Buck and Kelcy Tefft in the first round (6-4, 7-6) ...then won a three-set match over Yasmin Schnack and Riza Zalameda of UCLA in the round of 16 (6-4, 3-6, 6-3)...won in straight sets against Stanford's duo of Lindsay Burdette and Anne Yelsey (6-3, 6-4) ...fell in the semifinals to William & Mary's top-ranked team of Megan Moulton-Levy and Katarina Zoricic (6-3, 7-5)...opened the season at the number two position with Estefania Balda ...duo won an 8-2 decision over Evans and Dowse of the College of Charleston ...then teamed with Federica van Adrichem for the next 11 matches, winning nine of them ...defeated South Florida's team of Vernon and Sweeting, 8-6, at flight two ...moved to the top position beginning with matches at the USTA/ITA National Team Indoor Championships ...fell in opening contest to Notre Dame's 11th-ranked Thompson twin duo, 9-7 ...then won 8-4 over Surkova and Miccoli of Brigham Young ...upset UCLA's 17th-ranked team of Schnack and Zalameda, 9-8 ...Tiger duo then fell to Yuferova and Borisova of Virginia Commonwealth, 8-6 ...entered the ITA doubles rankings at #55 on Feb. 21 and recorded their second upset on the same day, winning 8-5 over #23 Ivanov and Yvette Hyndmann of Georgia ...also defeated #41 Schofield and Zubori of South Carolina (8-1) and South Alabama's Solarova and Spangenberg (8-1) in non-conference action ...with van Adrichem, opened the conference season with an 8-6 win over Georgia Tech's 18th-ranked tandem of Miller and McCray (8-6) ...duo then jumped to #12 in the next rankings, released on Mar. 6 ...posted two ACC wins the next weekend, defeating Cherkasov and Sullivan of Boston College (8-1) and Maryland's Amir and MacKeever (8-4) ...teamed with Carol Salge for the next three matches ...tandem won 8-4 over Troy's Elsisi and Bares ...duo was edged by Florida State's 29th-ranked team of Slater and Walter, 9-8(5) before defeating Miami's 22nd-ranked team of Farah and Banada, 8-5 ...partnered back with van Adrichem for the remainder of the season, compiling a 15-4 overall record together ...moved up to #7 in the polls with van Adrichem on Mar. 20 ...duo defeated #27 Bercek and Mang of Duke (8-6) before falling to #11 Anundsen and Long of North Carolina (8-3) ...after suffering another loss to NC State's team of Guerra and Petrovic, won their remaining three matches of the regular season ...defeated Hirsch and Davis of Wake Forest (8-4), Alexander and Hammond of Virginia (8-6) and Beermann and Larson of Virginia Tech (8-1) ...then won their ACC Championships quarterfinal rematch over the Cavalier tandem, 8-4 ...matches against Miami in the ACC semifinals as well as both regional contests were suspended ... posted an upset over California's fifth-ranked team of Babos and Fodor in the NCAA Round of 16, winning by an impressive 8-1 margin.
Fall 2006
Singles: Boasted a 5-3 ledger in fall play ...reached the quarterfinals of the Southeast Regional in October, as did teammate Carol Salge to give Clemson two players in the round of eight, the only school to make that claim ...posted a 6-3, 7-6(4) victory over Tennessee's Caitlin Whoriskey in the round of 64 ...won by default in the round of 32 to advance to the round of 16 where she defeated Katrina Tsang of North Carolina, 7-5, 6-4 ...then suffered a three-set loss to Blakeley Griffith of Tennessee, 2-6, 7-6, 7-6(4) ...in the first match of her career, took 17th-ranked Amanda Fist of Vanderbilt to two tie breakers before falling in the flight one bracket of the Furman Fall Classic ...defeated Furman's Laura Gioia in the consolation, 7-5, 6-2 ...had a 2-1 record at the Miami Invitational in November ...defeated Florida State's Nicola Slater, 2-6, 7-5, 10-8 and Jacqueline Lee of Iowa, 3-6, 6-2, 10-4 ...fell to #58 Paula Zabala of Florida International, 6-1, 3-6, 7-5 at the event.
Doubles: Posted a 6-2 record during the fall, playing all eight matches with Carol Salge ...reached the finals of the Wilson/ITA Southeast Regional in October ...duo blanked Middle Tennessee's Kommireddi and Parkinson, 8-0, in the round of 32 ...then posted an 8-6 victory over Duke's Granson and Zawacki in the round of 16 ...defeated Wake Forest's team of Davis and Kulikova, 8-1, in the quarterfinals ...then won 8-6 over Collins and Marand from North Carolina in the semifinals ...fell to Kentucky's team of Coventry and Schwenk by an 8-6 margin in the finals ...at the Miami Invitational in November, went 2-1 with Salge ...team defeated Wendling and Kecht of Florida Atlantic (8-1) ...then edged Miami's seventh-ranked team of Cohen and Vallverdu, 9-8 (4) ...fell on the final day to Banada and Fish of Miami, 8-2
Before Clemson
Number-one ranked player in Croatia ...ranked in the top 30 by the European Tennis Association ...born June 15, 1987.
