2010-11 Women's Tennis Roster
Roster
Denise Dy
- Height:
- 5-6
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- San Jose, Calif.
DY'S CAREER RECORD
| YEAR | SINGLES (dual • overall) | DOUBLES (dual • overall) |
| 2008-09 | 17-8 • 24-12 | 20-6 • 26-8 |
| 2009-10 | 14-2 • 26-5 | 13-5 • 22-10 |
| 2010-11 | 20-2 • 30-8 | 16-5 • 22-6 |
| 2011-12 | 8-5 • 18-12 | 7-5 • 8-6 |
| Career | 59-17 • 98-37 | 56-21 • 78-30 |
» 2011 ITA All-American (Singles & Doubles)
» 2010 ITA All-American (Singles)
» NCAA Singles Championship Qualifier in 2010, 2011, 2012
» NCAA Doubles Championship Qualifier in 2010, 2011
» 2010 ITA All-American Championships Semifinalist
» 2009 and 2011 ITA National Indoor Championships Semifinalist
» 2009 ITA Northwest Regional Singles Champion
» All-Pac-10 First Team in 2011 and Second Team in 2010 & 2012
» 2011 Southeast Asian Games Mixed Doubles Gold Medalist
» Washington State Open Champion In 2009, 2010, and 2011
Dy Features
» The End Of An Era (UW Daily; Apr. 22, 2012)
» Seniors Saying Goodbye To UW (GoHuskies.com; Apr. 20, 2012)
» Going For Gold (UW Daily; Dec. 8, 2011)
» Chan, Dy Look To Recapture Doubles Magic At NCAAs (GoHuskies.com; May 24, 2011)
» The Pair That Changed The Program (UW Daily; May 12, 2011)
» Whirlwind Weekend One To Remember (GoHuskies.com; Feb. 4, 2011)
» Q&A With Denise Dy (GoHuskies.com; July 19, 2010)
» Chan, Dy Lead Revival Of UW Women's Tennis Program (Seattle Times; Apr. 6, 2010)
» Checking In With Denise Dy (GoHuskies.com; Sept. 11, 2009)
» Meet The Newcomers: Denise Dy (GoHuskies.com; Oct. 23, 2008)
2011-12 (Senior): Finished off one of the best careers in Washington history despite a very trying senior season that saw her attempt to play through, and then miss a number of matches, with a persistent wrist injury on her forehand side ... finished the year ranked 22nd in the national singles poll, and ranked in the top-25 in every poll, with a high of No. 4 during the fall season ... overall was 18-12 in singles play and 8-5 in dual matches, all at No. 1 singles ... ended her career ranked fourth in school history with 98 singles wins, and fourth in doubles wins with 78 ... qualified for a third straight NCAA Singles Championship, defeating 41st-ranked Marianne Jodoin of Fresno State in the first round, 6-4, 7-6 (3) ... NCAA run ended in the second round, as she fell to fifth-ranked Mallory Burdette of Stanford, 6-1, 6-2, as Burdette would reach the finals ... named to the All-Pac-12 Second Team ... prior to the wrist injury, she enjoyed another outstanding fall season, making a third trip to a national singles semifinal, the most of any Husky ... she reached the semifinals of the 2011 ITA National Indoor Championships, her second time to the semis of that tournament, falling in a heartbreaker to eventual champion Marta Lesniak, 7-6 (2), 1-6, 6-4 ... to reach the semis she upset No. 1-ranked Jana Juricova of California in the quarters, 7-5, 2-6, 6-3, getting payback for two losses to the 2011 NCAA Champ from the previous year ... at the conclusion of the ITA National Indoors, she was awarded the USTA/ITA Sportsmanship Award ... had 10 wins over ranked players at the time of the match ... won her first five dual matches at No. 1 singles, highlighted by a 6-1, 6-4 win over 21st-ranked Zsofi Susanyi of California in the second round of ITA National Team Indoor Championships qualifying ... beat 117th-ranked Julia Wais of San Diego State and 106th-ranked Catherine Isip of St. Mary's on Feb. 24 and Feb. 26, respectively ... going without practice due to her wrist injury, still battled with the nation's best despite not being as sharp as usual ... lost a 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 match to eventual NCAA Champion Nicole Gibbs of Stanford on Mar. 4 ... skipped some Pac-12 duals and did not win a match in March, but came back on Senior Day to post a 6-2, 6-4 win over Julia Metzger of Oregon as UW earned the 4-3 victory ... also in the fall, made the semifinals of the ITA Northwest Regionals, defeating 12th-ranked Stacey Tan of Stanford in the quarters, 6-2, 6-2, and dropping the semi to Burdette of Stanford ... lost a marathon match, again to Lesniak, in the ITA All-American Championships first round, but had two consolation wins over 39th-ranked Leslie Hureau of Indiana and No. 53 Kate Turvy of Northwestern ... was the Northwest Region winner of the ITA Arthur Ashe Award for Leadership and Sportsmanship ... was limited in doubles play, playing just 14 matches all year and going 8-6, all but one match with Samantha Smith ... with Smith, went 7-5 at No. 1 doubles, posting wins over teams from San Diego, Minnesota, Sacramento State, Portland, San Diego State, St. Mary's, and Colorado ... was a Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention.
2010-11 (Junior): Cemented herself as one of the NCAA's best players with ITA All-America honors in both singles and doubles ... she and doubles partner Venise Chan were two of just 11 players to earn All-America honors in singles and doubles ... the fifth Husky to reach 30 wins for a season, going 30-8 overall for a .789 winning percentage ... named to the All-Pac-10 First Team for the first time ... was the No. 4 overall seed at the NCAA Singles Championships, winning her opener against 44th-ranked Anya Morgina of South Carolina before falling in three sets to 21st-ranked Aeriel Ellis of Texas in the second round ... finished the year ranked No. 8 nationally, the second-best year-end ranking in school history, and was not ranked outside the Top-10 all season ... started her season by reaching the semifinals of the ITA All-American Championship in the fall, beating three Top-40 players en route to her second major semi appearance ... followed that up with a quarterfinal run at the ITA National Indoor Championships in November, beating Danielle Lao of USC and Nicole Gibbs of Stanford ... posted an outstanding 20-2 dual record, including a 15-2 mark at No. 1 singles and a 5-0 record at No. 2 singles ... went 7-1 through the Pac-10, with her only loss in a third-set super-tiebreak on the road against second-ranked Maria Sanchez of USC ... ended the regular season with a 7-6, 7-6 upset of fourth-ranked Hilary Barte of Stanford in Palo Alto ... had an historic weekend at ITA National Team Indoor Championships qualifying, as she clinched consecutive 4-3 upsets for the Huskies over No. 16 Texas and No. 14 Florida State to lead UW back to National Indoors for the first time since 2005 ... against Texas, came back from 2-5 down in the third set to beat then-No. 8 Aeriel Ellis, 2-6, 7-6, 7-5 and break the 3-3 tie ... the next day, beat 42nd-ranked Katie Rybakova of FSU, 6-2, 4-6, 7-5, to clinch ... earned Pac-10 Player of the Week honors for her efforts ... beat 13th-ranked Zoe De Bruycker of North Carolina and 105th-ranked Christina Ngo of Georgia Tech at No. 1 singles in her two completed National Team Indoor Championships matches ... had a total of 18 wins over ranked opponents, and six against Top-25 players ... at her best in a 6-1, 6-1 win over 21st-ranked Kristi Boxx of Ole Miss and a 6-2, 6-2 win over 17th-ranked Kelcy McKenna of Arizona State ... already up to sixth on UW's career singles wins list with 80 ... was 8-0 in matches that the Huskies won by 4-3 scores ... reached her second straight NCAA Doubles Championships, playing with Chan for the first time, and advanced to the quarterfinals with wins over 17th-ranked Nagaraj and Bhambri of North Carolina State, and 5th-ranked Bartenstein and Eichkorn of Miami in which they saved two match points ... went 22-6 overall in doubles, 15-4 with Chan and 7-2 with Aleksandra Krsljanin ... ranked as high as No. 6 nationally with Chan after starting the year 13-0, and finished the season ranked No. 9, the second-best final doubles ranking in UW history ... also ended the season ranked 86th with Krsljanin ... up to seventh on the career doubles wins list with 70 ... named Pac-10 All-Academic honorable mention ... over the summer of 2010, won her second straight Washington State Open at the Seattle Tennis Club.
2009-10 (Sophomore): One of the best seasons in school history, earning her first ITA All-America honor and qualifying for the NCAA Championships in both singles and doubles ... went 26-5 in singles matches, the third-best single season win percentage in school history at .839, and 22-10 in doubles matches ... ranked as high as No. 3 in the nation in singles, the second-highest ranking in UW history, before ending the year at No. 13, the third-best final ranking ... also ranked as high as No. 6 in doubles with Joyce Ardies, before finishing the year at No. 25 ... earned All-Pac-10 Second Team honors, despite going 8-2 against all other All-Pac-10 performers ... went from 58th in the preseason to third in the next set of rankings after an incredible fall season in which she won the ITA Northwest Regional Championship and then made the semifinals of the ITA National Indoor Championships ... became the first Husky Northwest Regional champ, beating Stanford's No. 1 Hilary Barte in the quarters, 6-4, 5-7, 7-5, and California No. 1 Jana Juricova, 6-4, 6-1 in the final ... both Barte and Juricova were ranked in the top-five at the time and ended up earning All-America honors ... earned three more Top-25 wins, including a second win over Barte, to advance to the semis at the National Indoors at Yale University, before falling to Juricova who went on to win the title ... it was the best run by a Husky at the National Indoor Championships since Kristina Kraszewski made the final in 2000 ... won 12 of her first 13 dual singles matches, and was 14-2 overall in dual matches, going 12-1 at No. 2 and 2-1 at No. 1, defeating six more ranked singles players ... grittiest win of the season came against Arizona, where she suffered a foot injury early in the match, and after losing the first set, 6-1, she limped her way back to a 6-0, 6-4 win over 106th-ranked Sarah Landsman that clinched the UW victory ... after taking a couple weeks to rehab the injury, came back to blank 20th-ranked Alison Ramos of USC, 6-0, 6-0 ... earned a No. 9-16 seed in the NCAA Singles Championships, but lost her opener, 2-6, 6-1, 6-1 to Pichittra Thongdach of Boise State ... played all doubles matches with Joyce Ardies, going 13-5 at the No. 1 spot ... became the first UW doubles team to make NCAAs since 2004, though they faced No. 1-ranked Pluskota and Whoriskey of Tennessee in the first round, falling 7-5, 6-1 ... advanced to the Pac-10 semis in doubles before dropping an 8-5 match to second-ranked Barte and Burdette of Stanford ... with Ardies, made it through three qualifying matches at the ITA All-American Championships to reach the main draw, highlighted by a 8-5 win over 10th-ranked Mather and Boonstra of Florida ... then made the quarterfinals of the main draw, beating a 14th-ranked Clemson squad, before dropping an 8-5 match to fifth-ranked North Carolina duo ... earned Pac-10 All-Academic Team honorable mention.
2008-09 (Freshman): Stellar rookie campaign saw her play every match at No. 2 singles and post a 24-12 overall record, and 17-8 at second singles ... named an honorable mention on the All-Pac-10 team ... was the team's top doubles player all year, tying for the most doubles wins in school history with 26 against just eight defeats ... ranked a season-best 59th in singles on March 3 and ended the year at No. 81 ... defeated seven women ranked at the time of the match, highlighted by wins over No. 13 Marina Cossou and No. 32 Claire Ilcinkas, both of Cal, in two dual matches ... won first five dual matches and nine of first 10 ... earned key win in UW's 4-3 victory at Arizona, topping Natasha Marks, 5-7, 6-2, 6-3; Marks ended up ranked 44th ... ended the year ranked a career-high 30th in doubles with Joyce Ardies as the two went 12-1 at No. 1 doubles, beating six ranked teams in that time ... won all three No. 1 doubles matches in NCAA team tourney, including an 8-5 upset of 27th-ranked Zubori and Vuckovic of South Carolina in the Round of 16, as well as wins over ranked teams from San Diego State and USC ... with Ardies, upset 2nd-ranked Schnack and Remynse of UCLA, 8-6, on Apr. 3 ... only two doubles losses with Ardies came to top-five teams ... also finished ranked 81st with Venise Chan after being as high as 28th ... made quarterfinals at Regionals with Chan and won the SDSU Fall Classic ... was 4-4 in Pac-10 dual singles matches, earning wins against Cal, Arizona, Oregon, and Washington State ... beat WSU No. 1 Ekaterina Kamendova, 6-1, 6-1 in the Pac-10 Championships first round ... made SDSU Fall Classic singles final, falling to teammate Venise Chan.
Before Washington and Personal: Born in San Jose, California ... parents are Divina and Ricardo Dy ... has one younger brother, Drexler ... enjoyed a sterling junior career, in which she played in each of the four junior majors in 2006 (Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, U.S. Open) ... has represented the Philippines in the Fed Cup in 2005, 2006, and 2008, compiling a 5-4 record in singles matches ... was the No. 1 ranked Filipino player in 2007 ... achieved a career-best International Tennis Federation junior ranking of No. 42 ... was a member of the 2006 ITF Junior Team that competed in Europe, playing doubles with current Husky Venise Chan ... captured the prestigious Easter Bowl tournament in 2004 as a 14-year-old ... won the 2004 USTA Hard Court 16-under doubles championship ... earned a WTA doubles ranking of 715 ... participated in the 2006 Asian Games ... played doubles as a junior with NCAA All-Americans Hilary Barte of Stanford and Riza Zalameda of UCLA ... in limited high school action, won the West Catholic Athletic League singles title.
