May 3, 2006
FORT WORTH, Texas - TCU women's tennis player
Ana Cetnik was named Mountain West Conference Player of the Week the league office announced on Wednesday. For Cetnik, it is her first award of the season.
A junior from Belgrade, Serbia, Cetnik posted a pair of doubles victories and a win at No. 4 singles as TCU captured the Mountain West Conference Tournament championship on Saturday in San Diego. Two of her victories came in the finals vs. No. 2 seed BYU. She defeated the Cougars' Sofia Holden in singles (6-2, 6-0) and teamed with Helena Besovic at No. 1 doubles to edge BYU's Anastasia Sourkova and Jennifer Miccoli (8-6). Cetnik and Besovic also earned a doubles victory over Wyoming's Andrea House and Karolina Rowinski (8-3) in the quarterfinals. Cetnik finished the year with a perfect 7-0 mark vs. MWC opponents.
For her efforts this season, Cetnik was named to the All-MWC singles team and the doubles squad alongside Besovic. The tandem holds the No. 14 ranking in the ITA polls.
The Frogs finished the 2006 season with a record of 21-6 and earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. The team will learn its first-round assignment on Wednesday at approximately 7:45 p.m. (CDT) when the selection show airs live on ESPNEWS.
ESPNEWS is available on DirecTV channel 207 and can be found on DishNetwork station 142. An audio feed is accessible on the ESPNEWS stations on XM and Sirius satellite radio.
