Player Bio: Joyce Ardies - University of Washington Official Athletic Site
April 18, 2013 | Women's Tennis
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2009-10 (Senior): Captained the Huskies to their third-straight NCAA Championships in her final season ... broke the Washington single season record for doubles wins, going 27-12 overall with four different partners ... qualified for her first career NCAA Doubles Championships along with Denise Dy ... played the No. 1-seeds, Pluskota and Whoriskey of Tennessee, in the first round of NCAAs, falling 7-5, 6-1 ... finished tied for sixth on the Husky career singles wins list with 74, and also alone in sixth in doubles wins with 70 ... was 17-12 in singles action, and 12-7 in dual play ... named to the Pac-10 All-Academic First Team for the first time, and also earned an Arthur Ashe Scholar Athlete award, an ITA Scholar Athlete honor, and was named the Northwest Region recipient of the ITA Arthur Ashe Award for Leadership and Sportsmanship ... had a 6-4, 3-6, 6-0 over Emily Carbone at No. 4 singles in the dual with 18th-ranked Arkansas ... posted a 7-5, 7-5 win over Rebecca Delgado as the Huskies pulled out a 4-3 win over Sacramento State ... upset 109th-ranked Carolyn McVeigh of Stanford, 6-0, 3-6, 6-3 at fifth singles ... defeated Erin Monson of Utah, 6-0, 6-1, at third singles in Washington's NCAA First Round win ... came back from 2-5 down in the third set to beat Oregon's Emmanuelle Cor, 6-1, 3-6, 7-5 as the Dawgs beat the Ducks ... in the fall, advanced to the quarterfinals of the ITA All-American Championships with four consecutive wins, including victories over 46th-ranked Sanchez and Pulido of USC, 10th-ranked Mather and Boonstra of Florida, and 14th-ranked Bek and Hadziselimovic of Clemson before coming up short against the 5th-ranked team of Grabinski and Marand of North Carolina ... advanced to the semis of the ITA Northwest Regionals with three wins ... ranked as high as No. 6 nationally in doubles with Dy, ending the season at No. 25 ... started dual play with an 8-3 doubles win over 18th-ranked Jones and Price of BYU ... won first 10 dual matches with Dy, extending their season-opening run to 17-3 overall ... reached the Pac-10 doubles semifinals, with a quarterfinal win over Hickey and Pantic of UCLA, before falling in the semis, 8-5, to second-ranked Barte and Burdette of Stanford ... also teamed with Samantha Smith in the fall to go 3-0 and win the title at the SDSU Fall Classic.
2008-09 (Junior): Blew past all previous season-best win totals in singles and doubles, finishing second on the team in singles wins with 27 overall and 19 dual match wins ... started every match but one, mostly at No. 5 singles where she was 17-5 ... her 27 wins is tied for 10th-most on the school's single season list ... only lost one match all year to a non-conference player ... had three different five-match win streaks, and ended the year winning 11 of her final 13 matches ... partway through the dual season, teamed up with Denise Dy at No. 1 doubles, and the two went 12-1 at the top spot and wound up ranked No. 30 in the final ITA rankings, a career-best ... earned six wins over ranked doubles teams with Dy, including an 8-6 upset of 2nd-rakned Schnack and Remynse of UCLA, and a win over 27th-ranked Zubori and Vuckovic of South Carolina in the NCAA team tourney round of 16 ... only two losses with Dy came to top-five teams ... was 4-3 in Pac-10 dual matches, earning wins over Arizona, USC, Oregon, and Washington State ... earned a point for the Huskies in 4-3 wins over Marshall, Arizona, and Illinois ... was 4-4 at No. 2 doubles teaming with Samantha Smith ... in the fall, won the SMC Invite consolation draw with five wins in two days ... made the final of the SDSU Fall Classic B Flight, falling to teammate Smith ... was 6-0 on UW's Hawaii trip in singles and doubles, winning both against Cal Poly, Hawaii, and Illinois ... outlasted USC's Leyla Entekhabi on Apr. 4 in a third-set tiebreaker, winning 10 of the last 11 points after trailing 5-0 ... earned Pac-10 All-Academic Second Team honors.
2007-08 (Sophomore): Washington's No. 4 singles player was 12-8 in that spot and 14-13 overall in singles ... held the No. 1 doubles spot in every match along with Tara Simpson, going 10-11 in dual matches and was 15-14 overall in doubles ... posted a six-match win streak from Jan. 27 to Feb. 17 ... came through in two 4-3 Husky victories, defeating Illinois' Shivani Dave, 6-2, 6-4, and outlasting Arizona State's Micaela Hein, 6-2, 5-7, 6-2, to even the score at 3-3 in Washington's upset of the Sun Devils ... was 2-0 against Washington State, defeating Bianca Selaru and Aleksandra Cekic ... was up one set to none against Morgan Frank in UW's NCAA match against Texas A&M when the Aggies clinched ... went to three sets against Stanford's 46th-ranked Whitney Deason, and lots a third-set super-tiebreak to UCLA's Yasmin Schnack, also ranked 46th at the time ... earned ranked win in doubles with Simpson, defeating ASU's 28th-ranked Nadia and Laila Abdala, 8-6 ... challenged the eventual NCAA Doubles Champions, Tracy Lin and Riza Zalameda of UCLA, taking the Bruin team to 9-7 down in L.A. ... got the season off on the right foot by winning the San Diego State Fall Classic #2 doubles title in the fall, defeating SDSU's Bagshaw and Krausova, 9-7, in the final ... was named honorable mention Pac-10 All-Academic, and received an Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar award for work in the classroom.
2006-07 (Freshman):Played in every dual match for the Huskies and was the only player with a winning dual singles record at 11-10 playing mostly at No. 2 and 3 singles but also briefly at Nos. 4 and 5 ... was an impressive 5-3 at No. 2 singles ... 16-14 singles record overall, leading the team in wins ... was Washington's No. 1 doubles player in all but two matches, going 4-11 at No. 1 with Mathilde Cor, and 1-3 at No. 1 with Victoria Brymer ... was 9-19 in doubles with three different partners, most often with Mathilde Cor, the two of which posted an overall 7-14 record ... earned singles wins in both of UW's two conference wins over WSU and Oregon ... had a three-set win over Illinois' Shivani Dave at No. 3 singles in UW's 4-3 win, its first of the season. Also won at No. 1 doubles with Cor to help the Huskies to a 2-1 doubles point win ... 6-3, 7-6 win over Arizona's Kasia Jakowlew at No. 3 singles was one of UW's two points in the loss ... fell to 2006 NCAA Champion Susie Babos of Cal in the first round of the Pac-10 Championships, 6-2, 6-3, but defeated WSU's Ekaterina Burduli in the back draw ... reached the Round of 32 after two wins at the ITA Regionals in the fall.
2005-06 (Tulane): Enrolled at Tulane in the fall but transferred to Washington after Hurrican Katrina caused the Tulane tennis program to be disbanded.
Before Washington and Personal: Joyce Diniz Ardies...born in São Paulo, Brazil...parents are Jacques Ardies and Lucia Diniz...has a brother Daniel (19) and sister Maite (23)...spent the year traveling and playing WTA tournaments in Europe...father owns an art gallery...majoring in International Business.
Coach Hultquist on Ardies: Fast Facts One-handed or two-handed backhand?: Two-handed
Best thing about being a Husky: The pride
Best thing about Seattle: The landscape
Favorite place to study: Suzallo
Best thing about the coaching staff: They are always there for us
Favorite Husky moment thus far: Win against #12 Arizona State at home! 4-3 and an amazing 3rd set tiebreak clinch by Venise!
Favorite pro player: Staff Graff- best slice and forehand!
Song that you would pick if you had to sing karaoke: "Under Pressure" - Queen
Best piece of advice you've received during tennis career: Have fun on the court
If you could travel anywhere, where would you go: "Anywhere the wind blows"
What UW class has taught you the most? MGMT 311, 411.
Favorite game to play at recess in elementary school: As a natural Brazilian... Soccer!
Favorite non-Husky sports team to watch: Sao Paulo Futebol Club Tricolor. (Malo knows... Cacá emerged there!)
The following posters are on my dorm/apartment walls: Brazilian Native Art to bring the brightness of my country's colors to my room and to warm my soul.
YEAR
SINGLES (dual/overall)
DOUBLES (dual/overall)
2006-07 11-10/16-14 5-16/9-19 2007-08 12-9/14-13 10-11/15-14 2008-09 19-5/27-8 16-5/19-10 2009-10 12-7/17-12 13-6/27-12 Career 54-31/74-47 44-38/70-55
"I love watching Joyce because she tries one thing and if that doesn't work, she's got a Plan B. She can win in a variety of ways. She brings a lot of leadership. She's more mature, and has her goals set, and she reminds the team of what the goals are."
Nickname: JoJo
