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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Press Kit:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> find attached<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Credential Application:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
<a href="https://www.ncaa.com/media-credentials">https://www.ncaa.com/media-credentials</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Pre-NCAA Media Availability:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Monday, Nov. 18, at 2 p.m. at the Hurd Tennis Center. Head coaches Michael Woodson (M) and Joey Scrivano
(W) will be available with qualified athletes to preview the championships. <o:p>
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<b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – Nov. 16, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="layout-grid-mode:char"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Draws Released for 2024 NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="layout-grid-mode:char"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Road to individual tennis titles revealed for next week’s championship in Waco<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="layout-grid-mode:char"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">For more information contact:
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Colin Pirtle; 940-564-0351,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Courier;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="mailto:colin_pirtle1@baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:blue">colin_pirtle1@baylor.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;layout-grid-mode:char"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">WACO, Texas –</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"> Draws for the 2024 NCAA DI
Men’s and Women’s Singles and Doubles Championships, held Nov. 19-24 at the Hurd Tennis Center in Waco, were revealed on Saturday evening by the NCAA office.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;layout-grid-mode:char"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">The individual championships, held separately from the spring team championships for the first of two years in a pilot program,
will be streamed live on <a href="https://www.espn.com/espnplus/catalog/aa07e63d-cf6e-3705-9c8d-8d5208e6af14/tennis#bucketId=29794&sourceCollection=Browse_By_Sport_New">
<span style="color:blue">ESPN+</span></a> with commentary from Cracked Racquets. Action begins at the Hurd with the first round of singles on Tuesday morning while doubles starts on Wednesday morning. Each draw will advance one round per day, culminating in
the crowning of champions on Sunday, November 24<sup>th</sup>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;layout-grid-mode:char"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">The Baylor men’s tennis squad, coached by Michael Woodson, will be represented by Devin Badenhorst and Oskar Brostrom Poulsen
in the singles draw and by two doubles parings in Marko Miladinovic/Brostrom Poulsen and Zsombor Velcz/Badenhorst. Velcz is also the third alternate in the singles draw.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;layout-grid-mode:char"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">In singles, Badenhorst will play NC State’s Martin Borisiouk and Brostrom Poulsen will see Princeton’s Top Nidunjianzan in
the first round. For the doubles draw, Miladinovic and Brostrom Poulsen will face off against Middle Tennessee’s Ondrej Horak and Karim Al-Amin, Brostrom Poulsen’s former squad, while Velcz and Badenhorst will open playing Aadarsh Tripathi and Alexander Hoogmartens
from UCLA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;layout-grid-mode:char"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Announced last week, Miladinovic and Brostrom Poulsen are the national No. 2 seed in the championship, while Velcz and Badenhorst
are one of the 5-8 seeds. Baylor was the only school seeded twice in the men’s doubles draw.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;layout-grid-mode:char"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">For the Baylor women’s tennis team, coached by Joey Scrivano, Cristina Tiglea and Luibov Kostenko will represent the Bears
in the doubles draw after taking advantage of their final shot at qualification in the NCAA Central Sectional Championships.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;layout-grid-mode:char"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Tiglea and Kostenko are up against USC’s Lily Fairclough and Grace Piper in the first round of the tournament.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;layout-grid-mode:char"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Also announced on Monday, Tiglea and Kostenko were given a 5-8 seed, joining TCU’s Otway/Pascual as ranked entries for the
women’s doubles championship. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;layout-grid-mode:char"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Between the men's and women's programs, three Bears have hoisted an NCAA singles champion trophy, with Benedikt Dorsch being
Baylor's first individual tennis champion in 2004, followed by Zuzana Zemenova and Benjamin Becker sweeping the titles in 2005.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;layout-grid-mode:char"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Tickets are still available through the
<a href="https://baylorbears.evenue.net/events/TE"><span style="color:blue">Baylor athletics ticket office</span></a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#073D1E;mso-ligatures:none">Colin Pirtle</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#073D1E;mso-ligatures:none"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">|
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