Vasanti Shinde Earns ITA Top 125 Ranking

Lincoln, Neb. -- Nebraska senior Vasanti Shinde is ranked as the No. 103 women’s tennis singles player in the country, according to today’s updated ITA Women’s Tennis rankings. ITA does bi-weekly rankings for teams and both singles and doubles play. ITA ranks the top 125 singles players in the country and top 60 doubles pairs.

 

Shinde is 52-43 in her career as a singles player at NU. This year, Shinde is 5-3 in singles play and 5-0 when she plays at the No. 2 singles spot in the lineup. She’s won her past four matches after the starting the season 1-3.

 

The Pune, India native burst onto the national scene after she defeated #50 Janet Koch of Kansas on Feb. 6. Koch is KU’s top ranked player, and Shinde defeated her 6-4, 6-3 to take home the first ranked singles victory of the season for the Huskers. Kansas is currently ranked as the No. 8 team in the country.

 

Shinde is the first Husker player ranked in the ITA top 125 singles rankings since Mary Weatherholt finished as the No. 6 singles player in the country in 2013.

 

The Huskers are back in action on Saturday, Feb. 23 in a doubleheader against Colorado State (10 a.m.) and North Dakota (2:30 p.m.).