Thursday, July 25, 2024

Women's Tennis Signs Two -- THURSDAY CARDINAL COUPLE

Cards Add Lila and Otis

Louisville women's tennis added two new players for the 2024-2025 season, head coach Mark Beckham announced recently. Alice Otis and Elisabeth Iila (iila) both signed with the Cards this summer.


Otis transfers in after one year at South Carolina and one year at Denver. During her freshman campaign with the Gamecocks, Otis earned four singles victories while playing in the five and six spots. She then transferred to Denver, where she went 20-11 on the season. She was named to the All-Summit League Team and was named 2024 Summit Newcomer of the Year.

Iila is set to begin her college career this fall, coming in from Tallinn, Estonia. In her young career, Iila has made a name for herself in both the International Tennis Federation (ITF) Junior rankings and ITF rankings. In the junior division, Iila has been ranked as high as #168. In the ITF World Rankings, Iila has been ranked as high as #1342 and currently sits at #1381.


The 2024-2025 schedule has not been released yet but the Cards look to improve off of last year's season, which saw plenty of struggles.


Walz noon presser today


Jeff Walz will hold a presser today at noon to discuss program updates and the 2024 Aflac Oui-Play  game in Paris vs. UCLA.

He'll be speaking from the media room at the Planet Fitness Kueber Center. 

We are working on having someone cover the presser and will review it in the Friday edition of Cardinal Couple. 

Happy Thursday and Go Cards!

Jared

1 comment:

  1. The squad was 4-19 and 0-13 in the ACC last year. And Beckham is still coach? I guess it just shows the relative unimpotance of women's tennis on the Belknap Campus and in UofL athletics.

    Nick O.

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