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38 Days, 38 Sports: Women's Tennis
July 15, 2013 | Women's Tennis
As a countdown to the start of the 2013-14 athletic schedule, GoPrincetonTigers.com will take a look at each of Princeton's 38 sports. A new post will be added each day Monday through Friday until the first Princeton athletic events on Aug. 31.
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| Princeton Women's Tennis: Five Numbers to Know |
| 1971 | First year as a varsity sport | 9 | Ivy League titles | 4 | NCAA tournament appearances | 2 | Ivy League Players of the Year | 20 | Courts at the Lenz Tennis Center |
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Laura Granville |
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| Senior to Watch |
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Katherine Flanigan |
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| Top Freshman in 2012-13 |
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Amanda Muliawan |
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| Ten Princeton Women's Tennis Facts |
• Princeton has not won an NCAA team tournament match, but their two most recent trips each came close. Both the 2009 match, against Virginia, and the 2010 match, against Florida International, came down to the final match in 4-3 decisions.
• Princeton has placed a pair in the NCAA doubles tournament in three of the last five years, with Hilary Bartlett '12 a part of all three duos.
• The last Princetonian to play in the NCAA singles tournament was Kavitha Krishnamurthy '03 in 2002.
• Princeton has had two Ivy League Players of the Year, an award that was inaugurated in 1995. Hilary Bartlett '12 was the most recent winner, in 2010.
• Princeton has had three Ivy League Rookies of the Year, also an award inaugurated in 1995. Lauren McHale was the last winner, in 2009.
• Princeton's all-time winningest coach is Louise Gengler, who coached the team from 1980-2004. Her 259 wins are more than all other coaches in program history combined.
• Princeton has been nationally ranked as a team or has had an individual nationally ranked in singles or doubles play by the ITA at the end of each of the last seven seasons, the longest streak in program history.
• Princeton's highest-ranked singles player ever by the ITA at season's end was Joy Cummings '84, who was ranked 19th in 1984.
• The Princeton tennis programs are housed in one of the newest athletic facilities on campus, the Cordish Tennis Pavilion, which opened in 2011.
• Princeton has had a winning Ivy League record and finished in the top half of the Ivy League in 10 straight seasons.
July 10 - Baseball
July 11 - Field Hockey
July 12 - Football
July 15 - Women's Tennis