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UF’s Lauren Embree Selected to U.S. Tennis Team
for Master’U PNB Paribas
GAINESVILLE,
Fla. – The USTA announced today the top American collegians, including
the University of Florida’s Lauren Embree (Marco Island, Fla.),
selected to represent the United States in the sixth annual Master’U
BNP Paribas, an international collegiate team competition held December
8-11 in Rouen, France. The event features eight teams composed of
college and university players from around the world.
The U.S.,
which defeated France to win the 2009 title and then lost to France in
the 2010 final, will be competing for the fourth consecutive year
against a talented field that includes teams from Belgium, China,
France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland and Spain. The teams will
compete in a best-of-seven format consisting of two men’s and two
women’s singles matches, one men’s and one women’s doubles match, and
one mixed doubles match.
Women
Beatrice Capra, Duke
Jacqueline Cako, Arizona State
Lauren Embree, Florida
For
the third consecutive year, the team will be coached by Greg Patton,
the head coach of the Boise State University men’s tennis team, and
Mark Guilbeau, the head women’s tennis coach at the University of
Virginia, who will be coaching for the second straight year.
Roster spots for the team were selected by a committee of USTA Player
Development and coaches and staff from the Intercollegiate Tennis
Association.
Beatrice Capra, a freshman from Ellicott City, Md.,
reached the third round at the 2010 US Open after upsetting then world
No. 20 Aravane Rezai in the second round, and is the top-ranked
freshman in the ITA Preseason Division I rankings. Jacqueline
Cako, a sophomore from Brier, Wash., reached the final at the 2011
ITA/Riviera All-American Championships, and is No. 11 in the ITA
Preseason Division I rankings.
Embree, a junior from Marco
Island, Fla., won the title-clinching match for Florida at the 2011
NCAA Championships and is No. 5 in the ITA Preseason Division I singles
rankings. Embree was a member of the 2011 USTA Collegiate Team,
an elite training program funded by the USTA to provide top American
collegians with valuable exposure to the USTA Pro Circuit in a
team-oriented environment.
Florida’s Allie Will (Boca Raton, Fla.) was a member of last year’s U.S. Team that competed in France.
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