Women's Tennis 2024/2025

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Amazing match for Mary.

So rewarding to watch. I love how just keeps getting a little better. Every time her opponent got in a rhythm, she gave her a different look.

For the top professional level - she still gives a few too many attackable balls that sit up in the middle of the court. I'm confident she will adjust as she plays more players that consistently crack winners off those balls.

Two more matches, Mary. Let's go!!

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My takeaways from the match:
- Mary's ground strokes are improved since last we saw her live in May. She had a total of 10 net points the whole match and struggled to find her way in against the other girls' booming groundstrokes, but stuck with it and adapted.
- Mary's serve is not flashy, and she won't ace a ton but it will win her free pints off errors or setting herself up for the next shot. (not new news but worth noting)
- She is adjusting very well to playing out there by herself. She's spoken on it but it's a whole different game playing for a team than it is being out there by yourself. (She won't have any issue adjusting back to team mentality)
- if she is NIL "sponsored" by Asics then she is being noticed by the world.
- In what should be her 1st day of classes of her senior year she is winning at the US Open. Bit a bad way to start tryout senior year!
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Next up for Mary is 24 year old Marina Bassols Ribera of Spain who is ranked #115.
frankie00
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12thman.com's women's tennis roster page for the 2024-25 season is starting to be populated. Still a work in progress but it's getting there.

https://12thman.com/sports/womens-tennis/roster
Ag4eva95
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It's showing Ellie still on roster, I thought she transferred to SMu??
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Work in progress seems to be pretty common.


Anchorhold
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Because nothing happens during syllabus week anyway:

Carson starts in the main draw of the W35 Vrnjacka Banja tomorrow in Serbia.
Mia plays in the W35 Saskatoon main draw.
Mary is doing something not as far up north.
Lulu starts in the main draw of the W50 Arequipa tomorrow in Peru.

Lulu is back with Jazmin Ortenzi for doubles and may play tonight.
Mia is again playing with Ariana Arseneault.
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Mia, bring Ariana home with you… Gig'em!
Gig'em Aggies! c/o '98 W H O O P!
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Chruchie said:

Mary warming up now. She's also rocking an all ASICS outfit. Looks like she has an "NIL" deal!?


A lot of players wear non school stuff in the summer. They go with what they like vs what they have to wear
Chruchie
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true. but mary has previously worn blank adidas gear at all pro events. the fact that she was wearing all asics gear stood out to me and led me to believe she possibly got a deal with them.
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She may have gotten some free gear, but I doubt it is a deal. I could be wrong, but highly unlikely…yet.
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I guess our ladies don't wanna share one cool fact about them and listen to someone read their syllabus
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yeah with NCAA rules on "free" things it would have to be structured as a "deal". college athletes just can't get free things. it might be something like:" you get these clothes sets and we need you to wear them every time your on the court at the us open." that provides a "transaction"
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https://www.usopen.org/en_US/video/index.html?cid=2024oneboxINTL_00000000_phto_chothr_ctwbtr_endcid#/channel/4476/nzlgq43cjjcue2ttmjieymrunjktgucb

Highlights of Mary's first match yesterday
Gig'em Aggies! c/o '98 W H O O P!
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aggiedrjdub said:

https://www.usopen.org/en_US/video/index.html?cid=2024oneboxINTL_00000000_phto_chothr_ctwbtr_endcid#/channel/4476/nzlgq43cjjcue2ttmjieymrunjktgucb

Highlights of Mary's first match yesterday
Thanks!!!!
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Stanford coach just resigned. Certainly Mark wouldn't leave us to go be a Cardinal.
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bigtimeag1977 said:

Stanford coach just resigned. Certainly Mark wouldn't leave us to go be a Cardinal.
how about we steal their top players
Ag4eva95
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I mean, if A&M administration doesn't start taking tennis seriously, why not? Easy to recruit to, top notch facilities. I mean, Mitchell needs a seriously uplift, but we're renovating other facilities first that just got renovations 2-3 years ago…. Alberts better get his ducks in a row with tennis!
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Mark would be crazy to not take the call. Stanford is hands down the best job in college tennis and it's not even close. In my opinion, Mark would be the front runner. There have only been less than 10 different national champions in women's tennis and the fact that Texas A&M is one of them is simply remarkable. Take a look at the schools that have won it. All "blue bloods"
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We are about to see how much A&M cares about tennis. I hope I'm not disappointed....
RodgerDodger
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Here's a scenario that could play out. Joffe to Stanford. Weaver to Texas. Could you imagine.
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Valerie Glozman is playing on Court 12 tomorrow morning. We know someone playing on Court 10 at the same time.
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I dont believe Mark is in danger of leaving…

1. He absolutely loves it here, he loves raising his daughter in college station and this is his alma mater
2. He (and steve) get a lot of what they want for their programs (except indoor courts, don't get me started)
3. He's paid very well for a women's head coach.
4. Stanford will 90% do what georgia did and promote the long term associate head coach. if i'm not mistaken he's been there for over 11 years and has been a big part of their success.
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taylorswift13_ said:

bigtimeag1977 said:

Stanford coach just resigned. Certainly Mark wouldn't leave us to go be a Cardinal.
how about we steal their top players
Exactly where my thoughts went. We proved we could win it all and are just getting started. We almost had another.

Mark's an Aggie in his dream job. I certainly wouldn't leave A&M for Stanford. They are easily the #1 program historically, but things in college tennis have evolved significantly over the last decade. The top players no longer are automatically Stanford commits. UNC, Georgia, A&M, Texas are destinations for those players.
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Been a while since I have posted anything, but the paid well for a women's coach is a horrible thing to say. Not sure what he makes compared to the men's coach, but that would be disgraceful if he was paid any less.
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For some reason I remember from last year's thread that Mark is one of the lowest paid coaches in the SEC.
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I am the biggest mark fan and if my previous comment had any suggestion otherwise it's not what i intended. ( i know it wasn't your comment but just knocking out both replies in 1 post) However after some digging i found some good info…Mark makes just shy of $250,000 per public record, and that's before he won a national championship. that puts him 2nd in the SEC only behind UF's Thornqvist. it's also better than Brian Kalbas was making at unc through 2023. Joffre makes $250,000 after both his recent national championships. So if Mark was making ~$250,000 before he won a national championship then he is in the upper echelon of pay. Mark also gets paid better than Steve Denton, who makes around $215,000
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Really weird time in college athletics because of NIL and the millions and millions more per year that an Athletic Department has to come up with starting now to pay all these legal settlements. And even more so in non-revenue sports where the entire model may change and schools could eliminate sports totally to pay these new costs put upon them. It sucks but it is a totally different world now than at any time in the past.
aggiesherpa
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Thanks for the numbers! I didn't think your post came off negatively. I genuinely thought he was one of the lowest paid coaches, I'll have to search back on some threads when I have time to see where my memory failed me. It is good to know that he's bbeing compensated at the top of the conference and hopefully he can use any leverage to get the indoors kick started.
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Those number are not based off of salaries. Joffe's salary is at $300,000. Denton is at $235,000 and Weaver is at $200,000. Certainly Mark has been bumped up with winning the national title.
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https://texascollegesalaries.com/
bigboyaggie
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That's the "Aggie Way" on both accounts.
Anchorhold
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Carson won this morning. 6-4 6-3.
Lulu won doubles last night. 6-0, 6-1.
Mia won yesterday. 6-2, 7-6(5).
Aggie Tennis
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Anchorhold said:

Carson won this morning. 6-4 6-3.
Lulu won doubles last night. 6-0, 6-1.
Mia won yesterday. 6-2, 7-6(5).
Amazing. And to think:

Carson played #2
Mia played #4
Lulu played #5

#1 Mary is playing second round of US Open qualification draw.

Sorry - I can't stop celebrating our 2024 team. Just crazy good.
Chruchie
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the match before mary's just finished. hers should start in around 10 minutes
 
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