Ines Deheza

Photo by: Texas A&M Athletics

Position:
PLAYER
Height:
5-5
Class:
Freshman
High School:
German School
Hometown:
Santa Cruz, Bolivia

DEHEZA’S HONORS/HIGHLIGHTS
2014-15

2014 ITA Texas Regional doubles champion (with Rachel Pierson)
No. 37 in final ITA doubles rankings (with Stefania Hristov)
No. 41 in final ITA doubles rankings (with Rachel Pierson)

2013-14

No. 84 in ITA final doubles rankings (with Saska Gavrilovska)
No. 92 in ITA final singles rankings

2013

SEC Freshman of the Week (3/20)

AT TEXAS A&M
2015-16 (SENIOR)
Posted the highest singles winning percentage (.690) on the team…Set a career high for singles wins in a season while also tying for the team lead in overall singles wins with a 20-9 overall record…Had the most wins in SEC matches only with an 8-3 record…Tied for the team lead in singles wins in dual matches only with a 14-6 mark…Saw action at the Nos. 4-6 lines…Longest win streak was six matches…Was 1-4 against ranked opponents, defeating 89^th-ranked Hadley Berg, 6-3, 6-2, in the Aggies’ 6-1 victory at No. 8 South Carolina…Was 12-12 overall in doubles…Went 1-0 with Rachel Pierson at No. 1, and 3-2 with Saska Gavrilovska and Domenica Gonzalez at the No. 3 line in dual matches…Finished her career 64-36 overall in singles and 69-38 overall in doubles…FALL RESULTS: Went 6-3 in singles in tournament play, including 3-0 at the SMU Red & Blue Challenge…Went 6-4 in doubles, posting a 5-3 record with senior Stefania Hristov…The pair was No. 14 in the ITA fall preseason rankings…They opened fall tournament play with an 8-1 victory over 22^nd-ranked Gabriella Castaneda and Emily Fanning of Florida State in the first round of the main draw at the Riviera/ITA All-American…The duo reached the quarterfinals a t the ITA Texas Region Championship.

2014-15 (JUNIOR)
Went 14-10 overall in singles, including 10-7 in dual matches as well as 6-3 in SEC matches only...Saw action at the Nos. 2-4 lines, posting a 6-1 record at the No. 4 line...Was 1-6 overall against ranked opponents with a 6-2, 6-1 victory over No. 97 Silvia Garcia of Georgia at the No. 4 line on March 1...Clinched A&M’s 4-0 victory over No. 17 TCU in the NCAA second round...Longest win streak was five matches…In doubles, was No. 37 in the final ITA doubles rankings with junior partner Stefania Hristov after having reached a career-high No. 16 with Hristov on March 24…Also received a No. 41 final ranking with sophomore Rachel Pierson despite not playing together since the fourth dual match of the spring season...In final ITA Texas Region rankings, was No. 5 with Hristov and No. 6 with Pierson…Went 17-7 overall in doubles, including 9-6 in dual matches and 3-2 in SEC matches only…Went 2-5 against nationally ranked opponents with wins coming with Hristov against No. 10 Ema Burgic and Blair Shankle of Baylor on March 19 and No. 16 Silvia Garcia and Kennedy Shaffer of Georgia on March 1...Longest doubles win streak of the spring was four matches…FALL RESULTS: Entered the fall with career-high rankings in both doubles (No. 38 with Saska Gavrilovska) and singles (No. 65) according to the ITA’s preseason ranking released in September…Returned from offseason knee surgery by winning her first seven doubles matches…Finished the fall 7-1 in doubles, including 6-1 with Pierson…The duo captured the doubles title at the ITA Texas Regional Championships, winning all five matches to earn an automatic berth to the USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships in New York…Deheza and Pierson advanced to the quarterfinals at National Indoors before falling to eighth-ranked and No. 1 seed Beatrice Gumulya and Jessy Rompies of Clemson…Competed in singles in only two tournaments -- the ITA Texas Regional and the Jack Kramer Intercollegiate Tournament -- and posted a combined 4-2 record…Won two matches at the Texas Regional to reach the round of 16…Also won her first two matches at the Kramer tournament to reach the quarterfinals before falling to eventual tournament champion and 61^st-ranked Joana Vale Costa of LSU…Entered the spring a personal best No. 30 in the national doubles rankings and No. 1 in the Texas Region with Pierson.

2013-14 (SOPHMORE)
Went 12-12 overall in singles, including 4-8 against ranked opponents…Was 17-11 overall in doubles, posting a 4-7 ledger when facing ranked pairs…Was 8-5 in dual singles matches at the Nos. 2-4 positions despite being hampered by a nagging knee injury throughout the spring…After going 2-3 in SEC matches during the regular season, she recorded the highest-ranked win of her career with a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Florida’s eighth-ranked Olivia Janowicz in the Aggies’ 4-3 quarterfinal victory at the SEC Championship on April 18 in Missouri…Had posted the first ranked singles win of her career against 118th-ranked Ashley Dai of North Carolina at fourth singles on Feb. 4, clinching A&M’s 4-3 team victory with a 4-6, 6-2, 1-0 (6) come-from-behind triumph in the last match standing against the No. 3 Tar Heels to seal the Aggies’ highest ranked team victory in school history…Also won the last match standing in A&M’s victory against No. 15 Baylor on Feb. 20, marking the second time Deheza came back after dropping the first set to win the final match and secure the win for the Aggies…Was No. 92 in the final ITA national singles rankings after reaching a career-high No. 84 in singles on May 1…Ranked No. 9 in the ITA final Texas Region singles rankings…In doubles, finished ranked No. 84 in the nation and No. 6 in the Texas Region with freshman partner Saska Gavrilovska…The pair, which was ranked as high as No. 60 during the regular season, went 8-4 overall, all in dual match competitions at the No. 2 line...They went 6-1 in SEC matches only...Highest ranked doubles win during the dual season was an 8-6 victory over No. 50 Ashleigh Antal and Marie Casares of Vanderbilt, helping the Aggies defeat the then-seventh ranked Commodores, 4-2 on March 9...Deheza was 10-7 in dual matches, having played all the doubles matches at the No. 2 line with either Gavrilovska or freshman Rutuja Bhosale…Longest win streaks were three in singles and seven in doubles…Had entered the spring No. 51 in the ITA national doubles rankings and No. 6 in the ITA Texas Region doubles rankings with Bhosale…FALL RESULTS: Went 3-6 in the fall singles and 7-3 in doubles, including 5-3 with Bhosale…In their first match together, Deheza and Bhosale defeated 42nd-ranked Ashley Dai and Tessa Lyons of North Carolina, 7-6 (4) in the opening round of the Duke Fab Four Invitational and then narrowly fell to No. 7 Marie Belaya and Jeltje Loomans of William and Mary, 8-7 (4)…Deheza and Bhosale also won three matches in the prequalifying doubles draw at the Riviera/ITA All-American Championships, including an 8-3 victory over 59th-ranked Karolina Rozenbert and Ebba Unden of Long Beach State in the opening round, and went on to reach the round of 16 in the qualifying draw…Closed out the fall riding a four-match win streak, including a win with twin sister Paula Deheza…In singles, Ines advanced to the quarterfinals of the prequalifying draw at the Riviera/ITA All-American Championships…Was No. 106 in the ITA preseason singles rankings released in September.

2013 (FRESHMAN)
Joined the team in January and went 18-5 overall in singles, including 16-5 in dual matches…Saw action at the Nos. 3-5 lines, playing the majority of matches at No. 4 where she went 14-4…Was undefeated in SEC matches and tied for the team lead in conference wins with a 9-0 record, including 1-0 at the No. 3 line and 8-0 at No. 4…Went 4-1 in NCAA Championship singles matches, including a 6-3, 6-7 (9), 6-4 semifinal thriller against UCLA’s Chanelle Van Nguyen in the last match standing to send the Aggies to the championship match…Had trailed 4-2 in the final set before winning four consecutive games against the Bruin to secure the win and continue A&M’s historic run to the finals…Also had clinched the winning point in the last match standing in the Aggies’ 4-3 regular-season victory against seventh-ranked Alabama and finished the season with a team-leading six match-clinching victories…Posted the team’s longest win streak in singles with an 11-match win streak…Also posted the team’s longest winning streak in doubles with 10, including nine matches with twin sister Paula Deheza and one match with fellow freshman Anna Mamalat, all at the No. 3 line…Led A&M in dual match doubles victories with a 21-8 record, including a team-best 10-2 mark in SEC play…Went 20-7 overall when paired with Paula Deheza, including 2-0 at the No. 2 line and 17-7 at No. 3...Was 1-1 against nationally ranked opponents in doubles, teaming with Paula to post a commanding 8-2 victory against 68^th-ranked Maria Christensen and Rachel Stuhlmann of Missouri…Was named the SEC Freshman of the Week on March 20 after helping lead the Aggies to victories against Virginia, LSU and Arkansas…No. 18 in the final ITA Texas Region rankings in singles.

PREVIOUS ATHLETIC BACKGROUND: Has been ranked as high as No. 9 in the world in the International Tennis Federation (ITF) junior world singles rankings…Was No. 6 in South America in 16-and-under age group in 2009 and No. 2 in 16-and-under in 2010…Has competed in the junior division at the U.S. Open, the French Open and Wimbledon, where she reached the round of 16 in doubles in 2012…Won both the singles and doubles titles at the ITF Inka Bowl (Peru) and the ITF Copa Coldeportes (Columbia)…Competed at the 2011 U.S. Open and partnered with twin sister Paula to advance to the round of 32 in doubles…Represented Bolivia at the 2009 and 2011 Federation Cup.

PERSONAL: Maria Ines Deheza is the daughter of Rafael Deheza and Ines Landivar…From a family of Aggies, her father and sister, Leny, graduated from A&M, and her twin sister, Paula, was a member of the Texas A&M tennis team as a freshman before retiring due to an injury…Began playing tennis when she was 7 years old…Most memorable moment of college career is clinching the victory in A&M’s 2013 NCAA semifinal match against UCLA…Hobbies include playing soccer…Is fluent in English and Spanish… Only official recruiting visit was to Texas A&M…Is majoring in finance…Born March 2, 1994, in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.

DEHEZA UP CLOSE:
Favorites:
Favorite Aggie tradition: Midnight Yell
Favorite class subject: Math
Favorite tennis player: Roger Federer
Favorite athlete (any sport): Roger Federer
Favorite professional sports team (any sport): Seahawks
Favorite type of music: Spanish
Favorite food: Hamburgers
Favorite TV show: Grey’s Anatomy
Favorite book: If I Stay – Gayle Forman
Favorite movie: The Pursuit of Happyness
Favorite part about the sport of tennis: Never giving up and winning
Favorite sport to play other than tennis: Soccer
Favorite vacation spot: Beach

DEHEZA’S ITA CAREER RANKINGS:
(as of June 1, 2016)

Singles
#65      Sept. 8, 2014 (Preseason-Fall)
#84      May 1, 2014
#88      April 22, 2014
#92      June 4, 2014 (Final)
#106    Sept. 6, 2013 (Preseason - Fall)
#117    Feb. 24, 2015

Doubles
(with Rutuja Bhosale)
#51      Jan. 2, 2014 (Preseason – Spring)
#56      Feb. 11, 2014

(with Paula Deheza)
#80      March 12, 2013

(with Saska Gavrilovska)
#38      Sept. 8, 2014 (Preseason-Fall)
#60      March 11, 2014
#79      May 1, 2014
#83      April 15, 2014
#84      June 4, 2014 (Final)
#87      April 22, 2014

(with Stefania Hristov)
#14      Sept. 15, 2015 (Preseason – Fall)
#16      March 24, 2015
#18      April 7, 2015
#20      April 14, 2015
#29      April 21, 2015
#29      March 10, 2015
#37      June 3, 2015 (Final)
#39      May 1, 2015

(with Rachel Pierson)
#29      Feb. 24, 2015
#30      Jan. 6, 2015 (Preseason – Spring)
#37      April 14, 2015
#37      Feb. 10, 2015
#39      March 24, 2015
#41      June 3, 2015 (Final)
#42      April 7, 2015
#43      April 21, 2015
#45      May 1, 2015
#59      March 10, 2015

DEHEZA’S RANKED WINS:
(as of June 1, 2016)

Singles
#8        Olivia Janowicz, Florida (April 18, 2014)
#68      Ema Burgic, Baylor (March 19, 2014)
#89      Hadley Berg, South Carolina (March 31, 2016)
#90      Katerina Popova, South Carolina (March 2, 2014)
#97      Silvia Garcia, Georgia (March 1, 2015)
#118    Ashley Dai, North Carolina (Feb. 4, 2014)

Doubles
(with Rutuja Bhosale)
#42      Ashley Dai/Tessa Lyons, North Carolina (Sept. 13, 2013)
#59      Karolina Rozenbert/Ebba Unden, Long Beach State (Oct. 1, 2013)

(with Paula Deheza)
#68 Maria Christensen/Rachel Stuhlmann, Missouri (March 21, 2013)

(with Saska Gavrilovska)
#50      Ashleigh Antal/Marie Casares, Vanderbilt (March 9, 2014)
#57      Nadia Ravita/Aldila Sutjiadi, Kentucky (March 7, 2014)

(with Stefania Hristov)
#10      Ema Burgic/Blair Shankle, Baylor (March 19, 2015)
#16      Silvia Garcia/Kennedy Shaffer, Georgia (March 1, 2015)
#22      Gabriella Castaneda/Emily Fanning, Florida State (Oct. 8, 2015)