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Women's Tennis at Hawaii - Spiny_Norman - 11-22-2021

gostanford.com has nothing on its site for the women's tennis match vs. Hawaii over the weekend. But Hawaii has a report.

https://hawaiiathletics.com/news/2021/11/21/womens-tennis-wraps-up-hawai-i-stanford-invitational.aspx

Stanford won every singles match (including a Michaela Gordon sighting!). Stanford also won 3 of 4 doubles matches. Looks like everyone played except for Mossmer.

RE: Women's Tennis at Hawaii - BobK - 11-22-2021

Thank you.

RE: Women's Tennis at Hawaii - oldalum - 11-22-2021

The teams also played a day earlier:  Match 1 results
We dropped one singles and one doubles match. Same top two doubles teams for us, but over the two days Lele tried out different pairings for our two other teams.

RE: Women's Tennis at Hawaii - Spiny_Norman - 11-23-2021

(11-22-2021, 08:12 PM)oldalum Wrote:  The teams also played a day earlier:  Match 1 results
We dropped one singles and one doubles match. Same top two doubles teams for us, but over the two days Lele tried out different pairings for our two other teams.

I think you meant to link to this story which has Match 1 results - https://hawaiiathletics.com/news/2021/11/20/womens-tennis-battles-no-23-stanford.aspx

I did not realize that it was a 2 day affair. Gordon did not play on Day 1.

RE: Women's Tennis at Hawaii - BostonCard - 11-23-2021

Yeah, Michaela Gordon!

BC

RE: Women's Tennis at Hawaii - ColoradoTree - 11-29-2021

So exciting to get confirmation that Gordon will be part of the team this year! (More than her placement on the roster itself, I mean. But with an official match and instagram evidence from the official team account that she went on the Hawaii trip, we know it's real now!)

And yes, Mossmer was there, too, but if she's not going to play in what are as good as exhibition matches in Hawaii, when is she going to play? We have scholarship math headaches, after all. 

As far as the matches themselves, not a ton to glean from them. Zandberg and Heynemans are transfers from Arizona, where they played #3 and #5 singles last year, respectively. (So, Choy losing to Heynemans counts as a bad loss--Choy played a line higher than Heynemans last year and beat her Wildcat opponent 6-0, 6-1. Geller needing a third set is similarly eyebrow-raising. But it's basically an exhibition in the middle of a Hawaiian vacation, so I'm not stressed.) Blake beat Zandberg last spring 6-3, 6-1, so a 7-5, 7-6 win here is also curious, but Ma beat her handily. As an aside, Janice Shin played Heynemans in 2019 as a sophomore and again last year as a senior, and it tracks the downward trend we saw in her game. Shin beat her 6-2, 6-1 in 2019, but it took her three sets last spring. Takamura mostly played #2/3 last year, Romain played #4/5, Merrill played #5/6, and Kim played occasionally in the back half of the lineup, so Ma and Yepifanova easily dispatching Takamura is another sign they're cementing themselves in the top two. We have a ton of talent, and we've got plenty of time for the rest of the roster to work themselves into top form, but Ma and Yepifanova are in great form right now. 

I think this is Gordon's first competitive match since the end of the spring, so it's going to take some time for her to work back into form. Holding onto the #1 line over Ma would have been extremely difficult even if Gordon had been playing, but with what looks to have been a significant amount of time off, it's harder and harder to see a lineup this spring that doesn't have Ma atop it. 

In any event, we should see Ma and Yepifanova join the ranks of ranked players soon--the final fall rankings usually come out before now, but no word yet on when they'll be out.

RE: Women's Tennis at Hawaii - cardfan77 - 11-29-2021

Thanks ColoradoTree. I appreciate your insightful updates. What do you think of the line-up below?

1. Ma
2. Gordon
3. Yepifanova
4. Blake
5. Geller
6. Choy

The depth of this team is phenomenal. To have Houghton, Xu and Mossmer as your reserve players is a luxury.

RE: Women's Tennis at Hawaii - ColoradoTree - 11-29-2021

(11-29-2021, 12:34 PM)cardfan77 Wrote:  Thanks ColoradoTree. I appreciate your insightful updates. What do you think of the line-up below?

1. Ma
2. Gordon
3. Yepifanova
4. Blake
5. Geller
6. Choy

The depth of this team is phenomenal. To have Houghton, Xu and Mossmer as your reserve players is a luxury.

I think Xu plays ahead of Geller, so it would be more like:

1. Ma (Fr.)
2. Gordon (5th)
3. Yepifanova (Fr.)
4. Blake (Jr.)
5. Xu (Fr.)
6. Geller (So.)

Then, yeah, Houghton, Choy, and Madurawe getting the odd match on court 6 when others get rest/injured. If Houghton has taken a jump in terms of development, then that pecking order probably goes Houghton-Choy-Madurawe-Mossmer. 

Anyway, it's a really tough lineup. And it's not just tough--it's so, so young. I'm excited to see what they can do, not just this year but in the next few years.