Player of the Week
Lauren Embree • Florida
Senior • Marco Island, Fla.
• Compiled a combined 3-0 singles and doubles record during the team’s two huge home matches.
• Both singles wins were against top-20 ranked opponents and both were the clinching dual match victories.
• Her straight-set singles win versus Tennessee’s No. 20 Brynn Boren was her 29th consecutive victory in dual match singles play.
• Improved to 34-0 all-time in SEC dual match singles contests.
• The doubles win against Tennessee was the clinching doubles-point victory, as the other two matches on court had split.
• Earned her 107th career win on the singles and the doubles courts, as her 214 combined victories moved her into sole possession of 10th place in Gator history.
• Her wins helped the Gators extended their overall home win streak to 115, the nation’s longest active home winning streak of any NCAA Division I women’s team in any sport.
• Both singles wins were against top-20 ranked opponents and both were the clinching dual match victories.
Results
Singles
3/15 #7 Lauren Herring, Georgia W 6-4, 4-6, 6-3
3/17 #20 Brynn Boren, Tennessee W 6-3, 6-1
Doubles (with Brianna Morgan)
3/15 Herring/Kowase, Georgia 7-3 DNF
3/17 Henderson/Williams W 8-5
Freshman of the Week
Ines Deheza • Texas A&M
Santa Cruz, Bolivia
• Went a combined 5-1 in singles and doubles, including 3-0 at No. 4 singles where she posted straight-set wins in every match to help A&M to a 3-0 week as the Aggies improved to 6-0 in conference play.
• Against Virginia, came back from a 4-2 second-set deficit to defeated Li Xi, 6-1, 6-4, and give the Aggies a 3-1 lead.
• At LSU, she and doubles partner and twin sister Paula Deheza clinched the doubles point for A&M with an 8-3 victory over Kaitlin Burns and Ella Taylor at the No. 3 line.
• Deheza then clinched the winning point in singles, defeating LSU’s Ariel Morton, 6-2, 6-2.
• At Arkansas, she and Paula led the entire doubles match in route to an 8-5 victory over Ana Hernandez and Kimberley-Ann Surin to help lead A&M to the doubles point.
• In singles, won the first set against Surin, 6-3, but trailed 5-4 in the second set before winning three consecutive games to close out a 6-3, 7-5 straight-set victory that gave A&M a 5-1 lead.
• Improved to 3-0 in SEC singles matches and 7-3 overall. In doubles, improved to 4-1 in SEC matches and 8-3 in dual matches.
Results
Singles
3/13 Li Xi, Virginia W 6-1, 6-4
3/15 Ariel Morton, LSU W 6-2, 6-2
3/17 Kimberley-Ann Surin, Arkansas W 6-3, 7-5
Doubles (with Paula Deheza)
3/13 Elbaba/Xi, Virginia L 3-8
3/15 Burns/Taylor, LSU W 8-3
3/17 Hernandez/Surin, Arkansas W 8-5