Tennis

Auburn club tennis focus on building team

By Patrick Tighe / SPORTS BEAT REPORTER | April 15

Auburn University's Club Tennis Team competed in the 2012 United States Tennis Association On Campus national championship in Cary, N.C., this weekend.

Auburn Community Tennis Association hosts mixer

By Hope Burleson / WRITER | April 5

For those interested in meeting new people while getting active this spring, the Auburn Community Tennis Association will host its monthly Friday night tennis mixer at 6:30 p.m. at the Yarbrough Tennis Center.

Plamena Kurteva moved from Bulgaria to Spain at age 14 and moved again to Auburn to play tennis. (Contributed by Media Relations)

Crossing the net and crushing borders

By Ashley Mundy / WRITER | March 22

For Plamena Kurteva, tennis was not always the No. 1 sport in her heart.

Tennis travels to capital for Blue-Gray

By Bradley Roberts / WRITER | February 23

The Auburn men's and women's tennis teams will head to Montgomery Feb. 24-26 for the annual Blue-Gray National Tennis Classic.

Alex Stamchev practices with a teammate. Auburn's next match is away against Virginia Friday. (Danielle Lowe / ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR)

Tennis prepares for indoor championship

By Patrick Tighe / SPORTS BEAT REPORTER | February 16

The No. 16 Auburn men's tennis team defeated Southern Mississippi 6-1 and South Florida 6-1 last Saturday to keep their undefeated record alive in 2012.

Men's tennis defeats Troy

By Patrick Tighe / SPORTS BEAT REPORTER | January 22

The Auburn Tiger Men's Tennis team triumphed over the Troy Trojans 7-0 at the Yarbrough Tennis Center Saturday, Jan. 21.

Tennis serves new year in Yale

By Andrew Yarn / WRITER | January 19

The Auburn women's tennis team is heading north to New Haven, Conn., this weekend to begin its spring season at the Yale Invitational.

Wardell ended this year with a 10-6 singles record. (Todd Van Emst / Media Relations)

The future is looking bright for AU men's tennis player Michael Wardell

By Ariana Diaz / WRITER | June 9

The day after an Auburn campus visit, Mark Wardell looked at his son Michael and asked, "What do you think?"Micheal responded, "I want to be here."

Puetz and Cochrane entered the Championship ranked at No. 12. (Todd Van Emst / MEDIA RELATIONS)

AU men's doubles team defeated by Texas A&M in NCAA Championship

By Jade Currid / ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR | June 2

Auburn's No. 12 doubles team of Tim Puetz, recent economics graduate, and Daniel Cochrane, freshman in business, fell to Texas A&M's No. 3 team of Jeff Dadamo and Austin Krajicekin, 3-6, 6-1, 6-2 in the second round of the NCAA Doubles Championship at the Taube Family Tennis Stadium on Stanford University's campus.

Golf, tennis help with networking

By Charley Gaines/ Staff Writer | December 7

Students may want consider thinking outside of the great indoors to gain a competitive edge in the work force.Picture two different scenarios. The first is two business associates sitting in an office. One person sitting behind a desk leaning forward to show concern for the other's cooperation in a deal, the other person sits across the desk shifting in an uncomfortable chair. The second scenario is out on a court or a golf course hashing out the same details in a deal."I don't think you can overstate a way to connect with colleagues outside of the office," Accounting Professor Duane Brandon said. "It's really more than making a business deal, it's the connection. Details of business are worked out on the green."

Women's tennis returns from hard fought tournament

By Daniel Chesser/ Staff Writer | October 24

Auburn University Women's Tennis team traveled to Tallahassee, Fla., this past weekend to play in the Seminole Quad tournament, hosted by Florida State University.The team had it's ups and down in the cold weather throughout the tournament with eight out of nine losses in doubles matches and nine out of 17 wins in singles matches."It was fun to get to play teams that we normally don't play during season, but the weather was really cold and windy so it made for some ugly tennis," said Heather Bybee, a 5-foot-1 senior from Longmont, Colo. "It was a good measure of how we are doing with nationally ranked competition like FSU, Florida International University and Iowa, all teams that post consistent results every season."

Men's tennis eliminated at Georgia Tech Invitational

By Justin Ward/ Staff Writer | October 12

The Auburn tennis team finished off the Georgia Tech Invitational at the Bill More Tennis Center in Atlanta October 3-4.Head coach Eric Shore knew this was going to be a test for the team, and the pair of tournaments was going to show him how well his underclassmen could handle the speed of the college game."This was an exciting weekend," said Assistant Coach Gabor Zoltan, "It was a great way to see where we are in the fall before heading into spring competition."