{"id":363,"date":"2008-04-04T08:45:23","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T14:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/04\/04\/baylor-womens-tennis-among-nations-elite-programs\/"},"modified":"2008-04-04T08:45:23","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T14:45:23","slug":"baylor-womens-tennis-among-nations-elite-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/04\/baylor-womens-tennis-among-nations-elite-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Baylor women&#8217;s tennis among nation&#8217;s elite programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/scrivano-2007.jpg\" alt=\"Joey Scrivano\" align=\"right\" \/>A couple of months ago, we noted that <a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/01\/28\/seven-baylor-teams-ranked-in-top-25-nationally\/\" target=\"_blank\">Baylor had seven teams ranked in the top 25<\/a>. That&#8217;s still true, but a new program has taken over the lead as Baylor&#8217;s highest-ranked program.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/w-tennis\/mtt\/scrivano_joey00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Joey Scrivano<\/a> has his women&#8217;s tennis squad ranked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itatennis.com\/Div1Rankings\/d1women_4_1_08.htm\" target=\"_blank\">No. 4 in the country<\/a>. In fact, the team has reached as high as No. 2 this season, thanks to a 20-2 overall record and a perfect 6-0 start in Big 12 Conference play. Four of Baylor&#8217;s six singles players and two of the squad&#8217;s three doubles teams are nationally ranked.<\/p>\n<p>The Lady Bears&#8217; only two losses this season have come against teams that were at the time ranked No. 1 in the country &#8212; a 4-2 loss to Stanford in February and a 5-2 loss to Northwestern in March.<\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/w-tennis\/sched\/bay-w-tennis-sched.html\" target=\"_blank\">five regular season matches left to play<\/a>, the women are well on their way towards their fifth Big 12 title in six years &#8212; not to mention their 10th NCAA Tournament appearance in the last 13 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Baylor women&#8217;s tennis!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of months ago, we noted that Baylor had seven teams ranked in the top 25. That&#8217;s still true, but a new program has taken over the lead as Baylor&#8217;s highest-ranked program. Head coach Joey Scrivano has his women&#8217;s tennis squad ranked No. 4 in the country. In fact, the team has reached as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","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\/363","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}