Austin
Peay's Jasmin Ademovic and Vanja Tomic were ranked first on the Ohio Valley
Conference tennis preseason top 10 players list as voted on by the league's
head coaches. Ademovic topped the men's list followed by Eastern Kentucky
senior Hugo Klientovsky (Colombe, France), Austin Peay junior Sean Bailey
(Manitoba, Canada), Eastern Kentucky senior Nik Schroeder (Erwitte, Germany),
Eastern Kentucky senior Philip Janz (Queensland, Australia), Jacksonville State
junior Axel Sundberg (Nordstrand, Oslo, Norway), Tennessee Tech senior Alex
Chen (Samarkand, Uzbekistan), Tennessee Tech junior Syrym Abdukhailikov
(Almaty, Kzakhstan), Morehead State junior Nathan Martin (Louisa, Ky.), and
Eastern Kentucky senior Parul Verma (Chandigarh, India).
Tomic
earned the No. 1 spot on the women's side followed by UT Martin senior Jodie
Tiley (Cambridge, England), Jacksonville State sophomore Raisa Guasti (Vitoria,
Brazil), Southeast Missouri sophomore Elizabeth Nyenwe (London, UK),
Jacksonville State junior Raphaela Lima (Brasila, Brazil), Morehead State
senior Alix Young (East Hampton, Mass.), Morehead State Jessica Montemayor
(Monterrey, Mexico), UT Martin junior Johanie van Zyl (Ashton, South Africa),
Murray State junior Ashley Canty (Powder Springs, Ga.) and Southeast Missouri
junior Nikole Novikova (Bellevue, Wash.).
Ademovic, a
sophomore, was named the 2011 Ohio Valley Conference Freshman of the Year. He
was the first Governor to earn Freshman
of the Year honors. The Sarajevo, Bosnia, native
posted a 16-10 overall mark and went 5-1 in the OVC at the No 1. and No. 2
singles spots. He also went 14-7 overall and 4-2 in league play in doubles
action as a freshman.
Tomic, a
senior from Banja Luca, Bosnia, was the top player on last
year's preseason player rankings. She earned first team All-OVC honors after
posting a 7-1 league mark at the No. 1 singles spot. She lost just three
singles matches overall last year, going 15-3. Tomic was named the OVC Player
of the Year in 2010.
2012 OVC Men's Top Ten Player
Rankings
(as voted on by the
league's head coaches)
1.Jasmin
Ademovic, So., Sarajevo, Bosnia - Austin
Peay
2. Hugo
Klientovsky, Sr., Colombe, France - Eastern Kentucky
3. Sean
Bailey, Jr., Manitoba, Canada - Austin
Peay
4. Nik
Schroeder, Sr., Erwitte, Germany - Eastern Kentucky
5. Philip
Janz, Sr., Queensland, Australia - Eastern
Kentucky
6. Axel
Sundberg, Jr., Nordstrand, Oslo, Norway - Jacksonville State
7. Alex
Chen, Sr., Samarkand, Uzbekistan
- Tennessee
Tech
8. Syrym Abdukhailikov,
Jr., Almaty, Kazakhstan
- Tennessee
Tech
9. Nathan
Martin, Jr., Louisa, Ky.
- Morehead State
10. Parul
Verma, Sr., Chandigarh, India - Eastern Kentucky
2012 OVC Women's Top Ten Player
Rankings
(as voted on by the
league's head coaches)
1. Vanja
Tomic, Sr., Banja Luca, Bosnia - Austin Peay
2. Jodie
Tiley, Sr., Cambridge, England - UT Martin
3. Raisa
Guasti, So., Vitoria, Brazil
- Jacksonville State
4.
Elizabeth Nyenwe, So., London, UK - Southeast Missouri
5. Raphaela
Lima, Jr., Brasila, Brazil
- Jacksonville State
6. Alix
Young, Sr., East Hampton, Mass.
- Morehead State
7. Jessica
Montemayor, Sr., Monterrey, Mexico - Morehead State
8. Johanie
van Zyl, Jr., Ashton, South Africa - UT Martin
9. Ashley
Canty, Jr., Powder Springs, Ga.
- Murray State
10. Nikole
Novikova, Jr., Bellevue, Wash.
- Southeast Missouri