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Orlando, FL – FSU’s Giulia Pairone has joined Nandini Das and Andrea Garcia as a newly minted ITA All-American. Pairone was a top 16 seed in the NCAA Singles Championships and has spent all of 2021 ranked among the top 12 singles players in the nation. Florida State’s three All-Americans in 2021 are a single-season record for the program and now five of the program’s nine All-Americans have come in the last two years.
“Gules did an amazing job to earn All-America honors this season leading our team at the top spot all year,” said FSU Head Coach Jen Hyde. “Week-in-and-week-out she came across the best competition that college tennis has to offer and battled her way through to a very successful season. I’m so proud of Gules for the stellar year and college tennis career she has had.”
Pairone started every match of the season on the top line for the Seminoles, except for one match she missed due to injury. She led the team in wins over ranked opponents with eight,
Orlando, FL – Nandini Das and Andrea Garcia are the longest-tenured members of the FSU women’s tennis team. The redshirt seniors came in to the program together in 2016 and they are not only the last two Seminoles still competing but both are now All-Americans. Das and Garcia became the seventh and eighth All-Americans in FSU women’s tennis history and the second pair of All-Americans in the last two seasons after advancing to the NCAA Doubles Championship Quarterfinals Tuesday night.
“This honor is an additional accolade which continues to top off two amazing careers,” said FSU Head Coach Jen Hyde. “They have helped elevate our program so much in their time wearing the Florida State jersey and to confirm their All-America honors with last night’s win is just more validation to their hard work and dedication to our program. What’s great is they aren’t satisfied yet and want to keep pushing forward in this event and make another statement in their amazing careers.�
Tallahassee, FL – For the third time under head coach Jen Hyde and the second time in the last three NCAA Tournaments, the FSU Women’s Tennis team is headed to the Round of 16. Florida State started strong and then had to fend off a late push by No. 19 Auburn before taking the match 4-1 to move on to Lake Nona with a trip to the quarterfinals up next.
“That was an absolute battle, which is what we expected,” said Hyde. “It didn’t disappoint. I think today we got tougher and we were forced to get tougher by Auburn. They did a fantastic job. They fought so hard but at the end of the day, we fought a little harder at a couple of spots and were able to hang in there a little bit longer in some of the matches. We came up big in a couple different tiebreakers and in doubles. We overcame some deficits and fought our way back in.
April 29, 2021 Pairone And Salas Selected To All-ACC Team
Tallahassee, FL – Florida State senior Giulia Pairone has been named to the All-ACC Women’s Tennis First Team and junior Emmanuelle Salas to the third team by a vote of the league coaches. This is the second All-ACC honor for Salas and Pairone has now earned all-conference first team honors in three different power five conferences.
Pairone, who is currently ranked 11
th in the ITA singles rankings, has been named first team All-SEC (2018), first team All-Big Ten (2019) and now first team All-ACC (2021). She is just the second Seminole ever to be named All-ACC First Team since the conference moved to more than one All-ACC team in 2014. The Turin, Italy native has been ranked in the top 10 by the ITA for most of the 2021 season. Pairone has eight of the team’s 14 ranked wins in singles playing on court one in every match but one, which she missed with an injury.