{"id":2828,"date":"2010-01-20T09:57:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T14:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=2828"},"modified":"2010-01-20T09:57:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T14:57:10","slug":"tennis-teams-lead-litany-of-top-25-baylor-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2010\/01\/tennis-teams-lead-litany-of-top-25-baylor-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis teams lead litany of top-25 Baylor sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/broosova-jan10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"broosova-jan10\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/broosova-jan10.jpg\" alt=\"Lenka Broosova\" width=\"225\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylorbears.com\/sports\/m-tennis\/spec-rel\/010510aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">No. 6-ranked Baylor men&#8217;s tennis team<\/a> begins its spring schedule in earnest Friday vs. Louisiana-Lafayette, while the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylorbears.com\/sports\/w-tennis\/spec-rel\/010510aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">No. 5-ranked women&#8217;s tennis squad<\/a> opens 2010 the following Friday hosting Harvard. After finishing last season ranked sixth in the final poll, head coach Joey Scrivano&#8217;s women are in the preseason top 10 for the fourth time in five years, while Matt Knoll&#8217;s men earned their eighth straight top-10 preseason spot after ending last spring ranked seventh nationally.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, the tennis teams are just two of Baylor&#8217;s eight programs that are currently in the top 25:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itatennis.com\/AwardsAndRankings\/Rankings\/2009-10_Division_I_Women_s_Rankings\/January_5__2010_-_ITA_DI_Women_s_National_Team_Rankings.htm\" target=\"_blank\">No. 5 women&#8217;s tennis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itatennis.com\/AwardsAndRankings\/Rankings\/2009-10_NCAA_Division_I_Men_s_Rankings\/January_5__2010_-_ITA_DI_Men_s_National_Team_Rankings.htm\" target=\"_blank\">No. 6 men&#8217;s tennis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.varsityequestrian.com\/poll_120209.html\" target=\"_blank\">No. 9 equestrian<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/ncw\/rankings\" target=\"_blank\">No. 10 women&#8217;s basketball<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ustfccca.org\/assets\/rankings\/div1\/2010-itf\/NCAAD1_2010_Wk0_TF_Top25.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">No. 11 men&#8217;s track and field<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ustfccca.org\/assets\/rankings\/div1\/2010-itf\/NCAAD1_2010_Wk0_TF_Top25.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">No. 16 women&#8217;s track and field<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylorbears.com\/sports\/w-volley\/spec-rel\/122209aab.html\" target=\"_blank\">No. 20 volleyball<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/ncb\/rankings\" target=\"_blank\">No. 25 men&#8217;s basketball<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that doesn&#8217;t even include the Bears&#8217; perennial top-25 baseball and softball squads, for which preseason rankings have not yet been released.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Baylor athletics!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The No. 6-ranked Baylor men&#8217;s tennis team begins its spring schedule in earnest Friday vs. Louisiana-Lafayette, while the No. 5-ranked women&#8217;s tennis squad opens 2010 the following Friday hosting Harvard. After finishing last season ranked sixth in the final poll, head coach Joey Scrivano&#8217;s women are in the preseason top 10 for the fourth time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}