Natalia Boltinskaya Earns Oracle ITA National Ranking

2018 FAU Women's Tennis vs Florida Gulf Coast

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11/15/2018 12:38:00 PM | Women's Tennis

Spring season begins Jan. 11, 2019

Florida Atlantic University's Natalia Boltinskaya built a fall tennis résumé that earned the sophomore a top-100 individual rank by Oracle ITA. The native of Moscow, Russia ended the fall schedule ranked No. 88.

Boltinskaya compiled a 6-3 singles tournament record this fall and a 3-3 doubles mark competing in three tournaments: The Milwaukee Tennis Classic, The Bedford Cup and the MAC Fall Tournament, hosted by the Evert Academy in Boca Raton, where she captured Flight A.

Boltinskaya's ranking marks the second consecutive year that a FAU tennis player has held a top-100 singles spot. Aliona Bolsova, who elected to play professionally beginning in the summer of 2018, climbed as high as No. 2 in the fall of 2017. Coincidently, both earned the ranking as a sophomore.

The women's team will open dual match play Friday, Jan. 11, 2019 versus Florida State in Tallahassee.