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Kurdadze Named LSWA Women's Tennis Freshman Of The Year
June 25, 2009
NEW ORLEANS - While the 2009 women's tennis season ended over two months ago, the honors keep coming in for Tulane's Mariam Kurdadze as the Green Wave rookie was named Louisiana Freshman of the Year and first-team all-state by the Louisiana Sports Writers Assocation. The two honors are the second and third Kurdadze earned since the season ended as the native of Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, claimed first-team All-Conference USA honors back in April. She is one of two freshman to earn a spot on the 2009 All-Louisiana team and the only rookie to claim a spot on the first team. Kurdadze posted a 6-1 mark in C-USA matches in 2009, won her first five singles matches and had a nine-match winning streak from Feb. 13-March 17. She lost a pair of singles contests while battling flu-like symptoms but bounced back to win her final four matches of the year. For the year, Kurdadze was 10-3 in No. 1 singles play while recording a 9-2 mark in No. 2 action. Her 19 wins is tied for fourth-most in C-USA this spring behind Anastasia Erofeeva (23) and Thalia Diaz-Barriga (20) of Tulsa, and Kelie Schmidtt of Marshall (21) while tying with Brooke Walker of East Carolina. Her victory total was also the second most by a league freshman - behind Erofeeva's 23 wins - and is the only C-USA rookie to make all of her appearances at the top of the lineup. By comparison, Erofeeva played all of her matches at No. 4 (7-1), No. 5 (13-2) and No. 6 (3-0). Kurdadze's 10 wins at No. 1 singles was tied for sixth most in the league (Marshall's Schmidt, 21-4; Tulsa's Alexandra Kichoutkin, 19-6; UTEP's Weronica Bloczynski, 16-4; SMU's Marta Lesniak, 13-1; East Carolina's Jessica Cook, 10-9; Rice's Julie Chao, 10-13) and her nine victories in No. 2 action is tied for second most in C-USA in 2009 (Marshall's Isabell Raich, 11-12; East Carolina's Varina Soler, 9-7). In addition to her performance in singles action, Kurdadze went a combined 14-9 in doubles play, including a 13-6 mark when teaming with fellow rookie Lindsay Dvorak (6-4 at No. 1, 7-3 at No. 2).
2009 LSWA All-Louisiana Women's Tennis Team First Team Second Team Honorable Mention Player of the Year - Megan Falcon, LSU |
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