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/ SPORTS / THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
TENNIS
Kansas christens court with win
BY KATHLEEN GIER
kgier@kansan.com
The Kansas tennis team brought its first victory to its newly named Jayhawk Tennis Facility against the University of Missouri-Kansas City Kangarooos. The Jayhawks won 7-0.
They swept doubles, only dropping seven games overall, in three matches.
"It definitely builds up your self-esteem," said coach Amy Hall-Holt. "Bouncing back and winning against UMKC showed a lot of character of our girls. They had a lot of energy and a lot of fight out there, and it was a good UMKC team."
Freshman Sara Lazarevic and sophomore Erin Wilbert, the No. 1 doubles team, started their set winning five straight games. They hit a snag and switched off the
next four sets before winning 8-3 on a volley by Wilbert. It was their first match together.
"I was a little nervous because I wanted to show Coach that we can do this," Wilbert said. "It wasn't exactly difficult. It was just closing it out it was like, "We can do this. We just have to put it into play."
Though this was Lazarevic and Wilbert's first time in competition together, they are no strangers off the court.
"We are roommates, and she is one of my best friends here so we get along really well, and we communicate really well, and I think we make a good team." Wilbert said. "I hope we get to play more together in the future."
Wilbert also found success in singles, where she did not drop a single game in either set to win 6-0, 6-0 at the No.5 spot.
"I don't like being on the last
court down there, so I try to get it done as fast as possible," Wilbert said. "She just kind of hit balls back and finish, so I just came in and tried to finish the points."
In singles, the Jayhawks saw some trouble, but they dropped only one set before winning all six singles matches. Senior Kuni Dorn lost her first set, but she came back to win the second and force a third set into a tie breaker.
"I was down the second set 6-5, so I was really close to losing, but my heart was there, so I was fighting," Dorn said.
Dorn was the final match to finish on the day, and the team had officially won before she went into the tiebreaker.
"I was kind of nervous," Dorn said. "I was calm because we had already won, so it is not a bad thing, but it feels good that I won."
Dorn finished the match winning 3, 6-7, 6 (2), 10-4. Hall-Holt was impressed with Dorn's effort fighting through her match.
"Kuni has been struggling a little bit with parts of her game," Hall-Holt said. "But I think definitely by fighting back and bouncing back from losing the first set shows a lot of character on her part, and I think her bouncing back as a senior and wanting this match is going to keep getting better from here on out."
The Jayhawks improved to 4-0 in the series with UMKC under Hall-Holt and 2-1 on the spring season overall.
The Jayhawks have a doubleheader on Sunday facing University of Iowa at 10 a.m. and the University of South Dakota at 3 p.m. at the Jayhawk Tennis Facility.
Edited by Anna Archibald
Sophomore Ekaterina Morozova returns a serve Friday at the Jayhawk Tennis Facility. Coach Amy Hall-Holt said the team was fortunate to have new courts, which were first used Wednesday.
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The NBA is in town, sweeting every last detail, and there just isn't any way that this All-Star extravaganza will be anything but an unqualified success.
Future All-Star locale not decided
NEW YORK - This weekend is a can't-miss proposition.
It's a chamber of commerce dream - the biggest party weekend in sports (from Mark Cuban's perspective) with thousands of visitors, celebrities, athletes, exotic dancers and hangers-on bringing their dollars into North Texas.
So naturally, All-Star Weekend will be coming back to Dallas and Arlington again soon, right?
Don't be so sure.
David Stern sees this visit to the world's newest, grandest sports playpen as a one-shot deal.
"I think it's possible," the commissioner said of a quick return.
"But right now, we're viewing it as a place where we're going to set and retire the record for the most people ever to have attended not just an NBA game but a basketball game.
During an exclusive interview at the NBA's midtown Manhattan offices, Stern touched on a variety of subjects but was particularly effusive about the Mavericks,their history and this year's marquee event (so far), the 59th All-Star Game and its accompanying events.
"I think that's a moving definition," Stern said. "In other words, as many tickets as have been released have been sold. There's some pressure to open up more sections and the like. But we'll see how that goes. We could live and hold our heads high with 85,000 to 90,000 people. There are some among us – and I don't want to reveal Mark and Jerry's identities – who say, what the hell, let's go for 100,000-plus.
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