Women’s Tennis Travels to The All-American Championships – Ohio State Buckeyes
10/17/2000 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
Oct. 17, 2000
The All-American Tourney
Kristy Dascoli (Sr., Bradenton, Fla./Bradenton Academy) and Monica Rincon (Jr., Lapeer, Mich.) will travel to Pacific Palisades, Calif., to participate in the Riviera Women’s All-American Championships, the second leg of the ITA Grand Slam, Oct. 17-22.
All-American Singles
Dascoli and Rincon each will compete in qualifying at the All-American Championships. Dascoli, the No. 1-seed in qualifying, will face Charlotte Vernaz of Pepperdine in the first round. Vernaz won three matches in pre-qualifying to reach the qualifying round. Rincon will go up against Mauren Haus of Wake Forest in the opening round. Each player must win three matches to advance to the main draw.
All-American Doubles
The doubles tandem of Dascoli and Rincon will compete in the doubles main draw at the All-American Championships. Their first-round opponent has not yet been established.
The 1999 All-American Champs
Last season, Dascoli lost in the first round of the All-American Championships to Oregon’s Alina Wygonowska in three sets. In doubles, Dascoli and then-partner Briana Harris, ranked No. 7, lost in three sets to No. 10-ranked Curran/Jensen of California in the first round of the main draw.
The Hoosier Classic Invite
Rincon led the Buckeyes by claiming the Flight #1 title at the Hoosier Classic Invitational in Bloomington, Ind., Oct. 5-8. OSU ended the tourney by posting six doubles wins on the final day.
The Individual Rankings
In the preseason individual rankings released Sept. 11 by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association, Dascoli was ranked No. 33 in singles. The doubles tandem of Dascoli and Rincon was ranked No. 8 in the nation.
The Buckeye Coach
Chuck Merzbacher is in his fifth year at the helm of the Buckeyes. His record at OSU is 54-46, while his career mark is 187-109 in 11 seasons. In Merzbacher’s four seasons with the Buckeyes, the team has moved up quickly in the Big Ten, from ninth-place finishes in his first two seasons to a sixth-place finish in 1999. The team finished third overall last season and won the first Big Ten regular season championship in the history of the program.
Close to the Top
With a career singles record of 75-36, Dascoli is in third place all-time on the career singles wins list. She needs four victories to move into second place and seven singles wins to become the program’s all-time leader. The current leader is Maria Olazagatsti, who compiled a record of 81-20 from 1977-79. Dascoli is currently in ninth place all-time on the career doubles wins list with 69. The all-time leader in that category is Kelly Story, who went 118-60 from 1989-92.
The Fall Records
Singles Taryn Bowen 4-1 Claudia Castro 3-4 Kristy Dascoli 2-2 Erica Fisk 4-4 Laura Maloney 3-4 Katherine Martin 5-2 Michelle Matko 0-0 Sadhaf Pervez 5-4 Monica Rincon 4-1 Lindsay Williams 5-2
Doubles Dascoli/Rincon 2-1 Fisk/Pervez 2-2 Castro/Maloney 0-3 Bowen/Williams 0-4 Pervez/Williams 3-1 Castro/Rincon 2-1 Fisk/Maloney 3-1 Bowen/Martin 2-1
###GO BUCKS!###
