Carolyn Ansari Season 2023-24

Carolyn Ansari Season 2023-24

ClassFifth Year
HometownGreensboro, N.C.

ITA Singles All-American (2023, 2024)
3x First Team All-SEC (2022, 2023, 2024)
Second Team All-SEC (2021)
ITA Southern Region Senior Player of the Year (2023)
ITA Southern Region Most Improved Senior (2023)
NCAA Singles Championship Selection (2023, 2024)
NCAA Doubles Championship Selection (2023)
SEC All-Newcomer Team (2021)
Spring SEC Academic Honor Roll (2021, 2022, 2023)
SEC Newcomer of the Week (April 14, 2021)

SEC Spring Academic Honor Roll (2024)
First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll (2020)

As a Fifth-Year
Spring 2024: 
Named ITA Singles All-American for second consecutive season ... Named first team All-SEC for third consecutive season ... Posted a 22-13 overall singles record, 15-8 in dual matches and 7-4 in SEC matches … Played exclusively at the top of the Tigers' singles lineup ... Earned 10 ranked singles victories including No. 13 Lisa Zarr of Pepperdine and No. 17 Sofia Cabezas of Tennessee ... Recorded a 14-11 overall doubles record, 13-7 in dual matches and 7-3 in SEC matches ... Played at No. 2 and No. 3 doubles  ... Provided key singles victories in the Tigers' top-25 wins over No. 24 Alabama, No. 15 Duke, No. 8 Florida and No. 4 Georgia ... Clinched the team victories over Denver, Arkansas, Georgia and BYU in the NCAA Tournament First Round ... Received bid to the NCAA Singles Championship and reached the round of 32 ... Finished season ranked No. 14 in singles (No. 1 in Southern Region) by the ITA

Fall 2023: Began fall ranked No. 22 in singles and No. 20 in doubles alongside Ariana Arseneault ... Finished fall with career-high singles ranking of No. 8 and doubles ranking of No. 53 with Arseneault ... Went 6-4 in singles and 1-4 in doubles during the fall ... Reached main draw singles consolation finals at ITA All-American Championships ... Earned six ranked singles victories including against No. 16 Irina Cantos Siemers of Ohio State and No. 23 Savannah Broadus of Pepperdine ... Doubles win alongside Arseneault was against No. 46 Collard/Xu of Virginia 

As a Senior
Spring 2023:
Earned ITA Singles All-American honors by recording two wins at the NCAA Singles Championships ... Named first team All-SEC for the second season in a row ... Named ITA Senior Player of the Year and Most Improved Senior for the Southern Region ... Finished the season ranked No. 29 in singles and No. 32 in doubles by the ITA  ... posted a 21-16 singles record and an 18-16 doubles record overall ... recorded nine wins over ranked opponents (four in dual matches) ... Upset fifth ranked Alexa Noel, the highest ranked win of her career, in the NCAA Singles Championship 2-6, 7-6 (6), 6-3 ...Recorded a 6-1, 7-5 victory over Georgia's Dasha Vidmanova, who was ranked 12th in the nation in singles ... South Carolina's No. 20 Sarah Hamner 6-4, 6-2 ... Delivered the match clinching point against both No. 17 San Diego and No. 8 Pepperdine during the ITA Indoor Championships in Seattle ... played all dual doubles matches at No. 1 alongside partner Ariana Arseneault ... went 5-7 in singles and 5-6 in doubles in conference matches

Fall 2022: Was ranked preseason 91st in singles by the ITA ... Went 3-2 in singles and 6-2 in doubles during the fall ... all three singles victories were over ranked opponents including 17th ranked Kari Miller from Michigan and 46th ranked Giulia Morlet from Arizona State ... claimed two doubles victories over ranked opponents with partner Ariana Arseneault including 19th ranked team of Margaux Maquet/Lucia Quiterio of UNC Charlotte and 24th ranked Irina Cantos Siemers/Sydni Ratliff of Ohio State ... finished the fall ranked 71st in singles and ranked 10th in doubles alongside partner Ariana Arseneault

As a Junior
Spring 2022:
Ranked No. 119 in the final ITA singles rankings ... Posted a 20-6 mark in singles and a 17-7 record in doubles in dual matches ... Including fall season, was 29-11 overall in singles and 24-13 in doubles ... Went 10-3 in SEC singles play, 8-4 in doubles ... Played majority of singles matches at No. 3 position, going 18-5 at that spot ... Recorded seven wins over ranked opponents in singles ... Provided key momentum swing in NCAA Round of 32 match vs. Georgia Tech, winning second-set tiebreaker over No. 90 Kylie Bilchev, 6-4, 7-6 (6) to help spur comeback win for Auburn ... Provided clinching win over No. 16 Washington at ITA National Indoors with 7-5, 6-1 victory over No. 98 Nika Zupanic ... Helped secure Auburn's trip to National Indoors, defeating No. 102 Marie Mattel 6-2, 6-4, in a 4-0 win at No. 10 UCF ... Other ranked wins in the spring: No. 77 Sydni Ratliff (Ohio State), 6-4, 6-2 ... No. 102 Petra Sedlackova (Alabama), 6-1, 4-6, 6-2 ... No. 94 Ena Babic (LSU), 7-5, 6-3 ... No. 111 Elza Tomase (Tennessee), 6-2, 2-6, 6-3 ... Played majority of spring doubles with Madeline Meredith at No. 3 position ... Clinched doubles point in NCAA Super Regional match at Texas with 6-4 win over Zeynalova/Ovrootsky ... Provided the clinching doubles point in seven total matches during the spring, including Auburn wins over Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi State, Vanderbilt and UCF ...  Ranked No. 7 in final regional singles rankings ... Along with Meredith, was No. 5 in regional doubles rankings ... Ranked as high as No. 81 nationally during spring season ... Named to All-SEC First Team ... SEC Academic Honor Roll.

Fall 2021: Played in four tournaments, picking up eight singles wins and five doubles victories ... Competed at ITA All-American in the qualifying rounds ... Defeated No. 124 Sarah-Maude Fortin of Washington, 6-4, 5-4 ret., in a consolation match ... Went 3-0 in doubles at the UNF Fall Invitational with Madeline Meredith ... Earned highest-ranked win over the year with a 6-4, 3-6, 1-0 (10) victory over No. 68 Malkia Ngounoue (Kansas) at Kitty Harrison Invitational ... Advanced to round of 16 at ITA Southern Regional ... Ranked No. 45 in preseason singles rankings.

As a Sophomore
Spring 2021:
Ranked No. 67 nationally in the final ITA singles rankings ... Recorded a 14-3 record in singles and a 9-12 mark in doubles in dual matches ... Played most of the spring season at the No. 3 position before moving up to No. 2 singles for the SEC and NCAA Tournaments ... Recorded four wins over ranked opponents ... Defeated No. 12 Meg Kowalski of Georgia 6-1, 6-4, in final dual match of regular season, handing Kowalski her first loss of the year ... Earned SEC Newcomer of the Week (4/13) honors for her efforts against Georgia and Tennessee ... Earned 6-3, 6-0 win at Tennessee over No. 45 Carly Briggs ... Defeated Florida State's 44th-ranked Emmanuelle Salas 6-3, 6-0, in an NCAA Second Round match ... Downed South Carolina's 93rd-ranked Emma Shelton 4-6, 6-1, 6-2, to help Tigers to top-20 win over Gamecocks ... Provided clinching singles win over Florida's Ida Jarlskog, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, for Auburn's first-ever win over the Gators ... Only lost three singles matches in dual season; went 7-2 in SEC play ... Finished season on six-match unbeaten streak and won seven of her last nine ... Played doubles with four different partners during spring season, the last half of the season with Selin Ovunc ... Earned one ranked win in doubles with Madeline Meredith, defeating No. 57 Jacobs/Tkachenko of Kentucky, 7-5 ... Won four doubles matches in SEC regular season, plus one in SEC Tournament (Arkansas) and one in NCAA Tournament First Round (Oklahoma State) ... Named to All-SEC Second Team and SEC All-Newcomer Team ... Ranked No. 6 in final ITA Southern Regional rankings ... Named to SEC Academic Honor Roll.

Fall 2020: Went 2-7 in singles and 5-4 in doubles in the fall with all matches coming against SEC competition ... Went 3-0 in doubles playing with Yu Chen, earning two wins at the SEC Challenge in Tuscaloosa ... Earned one singles win at both the Music City Scramble and the SEC Challenge.

As a Freshman
Spring 2020: Went 7-3 in dual singles matches, including a 2-1 mark in SEC matches ... Played primarily at the No. 5 singles position ... Was 5-6 in doubles play, 2-2 in SEC matches ... Went 2-2 playing with Lindsay Song and 5-8 paired with Yu Chen ... Earned a 6-1, 6-2 win over Kentucky's Anastasia Tkachenko to help secure Auburn's first SEC win of the season (3/8) ... Also helped clinch the doubles point in the Kentucky match, winning 6-3 at the No. 3 doubles spot with Chen ... Fought back from dropping the first set to earn a 3-set win over Florida's Sydney Berlin, 0-6, 7-6 (4), 6-3 ... Went unbeaten in first seven singles matches in dual season ... Named to SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll.

Fall 2019: Won five singles matches and four doubles matches in the fall tournament season ... Went 2-1 in doubles with Yu Chen at Rice invitational ... Won three singles matches at H-E-B Invitational.

Prior to Auburn
Ranked the No. 30 overall recruit in the class of 2019 ... No. 4 recruit in the state of North Carolina by TennisRecruiting.net ... Two-time North Carolina high school player of the year ... Earned a win in the ITF junior ranks over the No. 37-ranked player in the world.

Ansari's Career Stats
SINGLES                             DOUBLES          
Year Overall Dual SEC No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5  No. 6 Overall Dual SEC No. 1 No. 2 No. 3
2019-20 12-10 7-3 2-1 -- -- -- 1-0 6-3 -- 9-13 5-6 2-2 -- -- 5-6
2020-21 16-10 14-3 7-2 -- 3-0 11-3 -- -- -- 14-16 9-12 4-8 -- 4-5 5-7
2021-22 29-11 20-6 10-3 -- 2-1 18-5 -- -- -- 24-13 17-7 8-4 -- 2-0 15-7
2022-23 21-16 14-12 5-7 0-5 14-7 -- -- -- -- 18-17 11-13 5-6 11-13 -- --
2023-24 22-13    15-8 7-4 15-8 -- -- -- -- -- 14-11 13-7 7-3 -- 5-1 8-6
Career 100-60 70-32 31-17 15-13 19-8 29-8 1-0 6-3 -- 79-70 55-45 27-23 11-13 11-6 33-26
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Freshman
2019-20

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Sophomore
2020-21

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Junior
2021-22

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Senior
2022-23