Player Bio: Lina Xu - University of Washington Official Athletic Site
April 18, 2013 | Women's Tennis
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2009-10 (Junior): Started all season for the Dawgs at second through fourth singles, mostly playing in the No. 3 spot ... was 8-8 through her first 16 singles matches, but struggled down the stretch, losing her final 11 matches against many of the Pac-10s top players ... earned dual wins in singles over Paige Miles of Utah, Megan Sporndli of Portland, and Roxanne Ellison of San Diego State ... went three sets in dual matches against 69th-ranked Stacey Tan of Stanford and Kasia Siwosz of California ... one of her best efforts came in the NCAA Second Round against Florida, where she was at 4-6, 6-6 with 102nd-ranked Anastasia Revzina when the match was stopped ... got off to a 5-1 start in the fall season ... won her first two rounds at ITA Northwest Regionals, defeating players from San Francisco and Pacific before having to default her next match ... had a strong year in doubles, going 18-11 and 9-7 in dual play ... one of the highlights of her year was a run to the Pac-10 Semifinals in doubles with Venise Chan, as they defeated ASU's Abdala and Brycki then Arizona's Marks and Rietsch before going out against UCLA's fifth-ranked team of Schnack and Remynse ... played mostly with Aleksandra Malovic, going 7-5 at No. 3 doubles and 1-0 at No. 2 ... won six-straight doubles matches with Malovic culminating with wins over teams from Arizona and Arizona State.
2008-09 (Sophomore): Started all year in both singles and doubles, going 14-22 overall in singles play and 18-14 in doubles matches ... played the majority of her singles matches at the No. 3 spot, going 7-13 ... got off to a 10-5 start to the season but struggled in the second half ... best win of the year was a 7-5, 6-4 upset of 79th-ranked Micaela Hein of Arizona State, but an injury forced her to retire from her next two matches following that win ... had another ranked win in the fall, defeating 117th-ranked Holly Bagshaw of San Diego State in a third set super-tiebreak ... swept Oregon's Madelie van Rensburg 6-0, 6-0 in the last match of the regular season ... was 7-4 in the fall and made the consolation final at the SMC Invite, falling to teammate Joyce Ardies ... competed with two doubles partners during dual play, starting with Aleksandra Malovic and ending the year with Samantha Smith ... she and Smith went 7-3 in the No. 3 doubles spot, starting with a three-match sweep of Cal Poly, Hawai'i, and Illinois on UW's Hawai'i trip ... won her last four regular season duals with Smith, over San Diego State and San Diego, and Oregon and Washington State ... reached Pac-10 Championships invitational quarterfinals with smith, falling 9-7 to UCLA's Johansson and Lind ... was 7-6 in dual play with Malovic, big wins coming at Marshall and Minnesota.
2007-08 (Freshman at Jacksonville): Played No. 1 singles for the Dolphins during her freshman season, leading the team to the Atlantic Sun Conference championship and a berth in the 2008 NCAA Tournament ... was named the Atlantic Sun Freshman of the Year and a member of the All-Conference first team ... went 23-8 overall in singles play, and 17-5 at No. 1 singles ... 17-5 in doubles play ... twice defeated East Tennessee State's Yevgeniya Stupak, who finished 87th in the ITA Rankings ... posted two separate seven-match win streaks ... in the first round of the NCAA team tournament, she went up against 32nd-ranked Julia Cohen, falling 6-1, 6-0 ... also played Florida State's 31st-ranked Katie Rybakova at No. 1 singles, losing 6-3, 6-2 ... reached the quarterfinals of the ITA Southern Regional in the fall, defeating Valeriya Makarycheva of Mississippi State in the round of 16.
Before Washington and Personal: Born in Shanghai, China ... mother is Ling Li and father is Zhongguo Xu ... began high school at Dong Chang High School in China before attending final two years in the U.S. ... was the No. 1 ranked junior player in Shanghai, and reached the Top-15 in China in 2004 ... was ranked in the Top-35 in the Southern California Girls-18 age group in 2006 ... as a senior, reached the CIF semifinals of the San Diego region ... will major in civil and environmental engineering and economics.
Coach Hultquist on Xu: Fast Facts
Best thing about being a Husky: Everybody loves a cute, smart, brave, and faithful dog like a husky, and who doesn't want to be loved!?
Best thing about Seattle or favorite spot: Seattle brings me a feeling of HOME!!!
And to feel at home is always the warmest. My favorite spot is the Starbucks near the law school. I love to be there watching the rain from inside of those huge windows while listening to my favorite jazz and enjoying a drink.
Best thing about the coaching staff: This makes me laugh very hard when I remember the first day of me moving to Seattle! Both Jill and Damon were wearing purple cloths from the bottom to the top and helping me to find a place to live. I would never have thought the household would ask me whether they were my parents!!! I guess that's the best thing about Jill and Damon! They make me feel like they are a part of my family!
Song that you would pick if you had to sing karaoke: "Through the rain" by Mariah Carey
Best piece of advice you've received during tennis career: Express the words by actions.
If you could travel anywhere, where would you go: Greece! I dream to have a moment to be part of the beautiful ocean and those cute white houses; and I dream to walk through the cities that were built by the greatest leaders, architects, and engineers in history.
What UW class has taught you the most? All classes have taught me a lot, both in those subjects and life. I am not religious, but I do believe most of the things I have been taught will be useful one day in my life; they come with their own purposes for my destiny.
If you had a famous catch phrase, what would it be? Ha...I have to do my homework.
Hidden talent: I don't know. I think my hidden talents are still hiding from me.
YEAR
SINGLES (dual • overall)
DOUBLES (dual • overall)
2007-08 (JU) 20-5 • 23-8 16-5 • 17-5 2008-09 7-16 • 14-22 14-9 • 18-14 2009-10 3-13 • 8-19 9-7 • 18-11 Career 30-34 • 45-49 39-21 • 53-30
"Lina is all business out there. She will go out there and get the job done for you. She's smart on the court and she figures out her opponents' weaknesses really fast. She's one of those players that Damon and I think we don't really have to go out on her court. If we leave her alone, she'll figure it out and she'll just get it done."
