Women’s Tennis: Kirsten Flower Heads West for Riviera/All-American Championships – Ohio State Buckeyes
9/29/2008 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
Annual tournament features the nation’s elite
COLUMBUS, Ohio Junior Kirsten Flower, a member of the Ohio State women’s tennis team, will travel to Pacific Palisades, Calif., for the 2008 Riviera/All-American Championships Sept. 30-Oct. 5. The All-American features the best collegiate tennis players nationwide in a single elimination style tournament.
Flower, who transferred to Ohio State this summer from Georgia Tech, will be making her Buckeye debut Tuesday in the qualifying draw of the tournament. If she finishes among the Top Eight in the qualifying draw, she will advance to the main draw of 32, which begins Thursday.
The trip to the All-American will be the third for Flower, who competed as a freshman and a sophomore while at Georgia Tech. As a freshman, she advanced to the third round of the singles prequalifying draw while as a sophomore she was just one win from entering the main draw of 32.
Flower will face a challenging match right out of the gate, taking on Julie Cohen of Miami (Fla.), who is the second-seed in the qualifying draw and ranked as the No. 25 player in the country.
NATIONALLY RANKED
Flower has been ranked as the No. 41 singles player in the country according to the 2008-09 Intercollegiate Tennis Association preseason rankings.
Flower has been ranked in the preseason singles poll all three years of her collegiate career. She is the first Buckeye ranked in the ITA singles poll since Lindsay Williams was ranked No. 98 in her senior season in 2004. She is also the highest ranked Buckeye since current assistant coach Sadhaf Pervez was No. 38 in February of 2003.
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