Perianu Named ITA Central Region Senior Player of the Year

NORMAN, Okla. -- University of Oklahoma women's tennis senior Anda Perianu (Braila, Perianu) was named the 2004 ITA Central Region Senior Player of the Year on Sunday.

In addition, Perianu also earned the No. 2 seed in the 2004 NCAA Singles Championship, in which Perianu plays her first round match later today against UCLA's Daniela Bercek at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex in Athens, Ga. Perianu becomes the highest seeded OU player in a NCAA national tournament.

Perianu, the 2004 Big 12 Player of the Year, and Big 12 No. 1 singles position champion made OU history by taking her third consecutive trip to the NCAA Individual Championships. This season Perianu is 35-3 overall, 23-1 at No. 1 singles and is 14-0 against ranked opponents. She is on a 19-match winning streak while boosting her career winning percentage to .840 (84-16), the highest in Oklahoma women's tennis history.

Besides earning conference player of the year honors for the second consecutive season, Perianu was also named to the All-Conference team for the third straight year. She posted a perfect mark of 13-0 in Big 12 play to win the No. 1 singles position for the second season in a row, and was the only player in the conference to be ranked in the top 20 of both the singles and doubles polls this season.

Perianu is also in the 32-team doubles draw of the NCAA Doubles Championships for the second consecutive season with partner Heather Saluri (Des Moines, Iowa). Perianu and Saluri enter the tournament ranked 17th by the ITA, and in 2004 repeated as All-Conference first team members. The duo are 20-10 overall, 14-8 at No.1 doubles and are on a seven match winning streak. Perianu and Saluri face Florida's Alexis Gordon and Julie Rotondi in the first round on Tues., May 25.

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Perianu Named ITA Central Region Senior Player of the Year

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