2018-19 Tennis Roster
Roster
Knutson, Gabriela
/ Tennis
/ Tennis
/ Tennis
/ Tennis
/ Tennis
/ Tennis
/ Tennis
/ Tennis
Gabriela Knutson
- Height:
- 5-9
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Dvur Králové nad Labem, Czech Republic
Bio
Senior Year (2018-19): All-American in singles for the second time in her career...ITA Senior Player of the Year (Northeast)…All-ACC First Team...Two-time All-ACC Player of the Week…Nationally ranked in singles for the entirety of the spring, climbing to a season-best No. 13…Nationally ranked in doubles, peaking at No. 52...Earned a No. 9-16 seed at the NCAA Singles Championship...Finished the season with a 16-11 singles record and a 14-11 record in doubles play...Played all of her singles and doubles matches out of the No. 1 position...Recorded nine singles wins against nationally ranked opponents, knocking off three top-ten competitors - Michigan's No. 3 Kate Fahey (1/26), North Carolina's No. 5 Makenna Jones (3/29) and Georgia Tech's No. 8 Kenya Jones...Posted an 8-5 singles record against ACC opponents...Partnered with Miranda Ramirez in doubles for the entirety of the season and recorded three win over nationally ranked pairs, including Miami's No. 17 duo of Daniella Roldan and Daevenia Achong...Qualified for ITA National Fall Championship in singles...Syracuse Female Athlete of the Year...Member of the Syracuse University Athletic Director's Honor Roll...All-ACC Academic Team member.
Junior Year (2017-18): Became the first Singles All-American for Syracuse since 1995 (Erica O’Neill)…Tabbed to the All-ACC First Team…Finished the season ranked No. 8 in the nation in the Oracle/ITA National Singles Rankings…Part of a doubles pair that finished the year ranked No. 8 in the Oracle/ITA Doubles Rankings…Earned Doubles All-America honors for their finish...Tallied six victories over top-50 opponents…Led the Orange with a 21-5 singles record, the only ‘Cuse athlete to eclipse the 20-win mark…Totaled 52 wins (dual and tour play) for her second season with 50 or more wins…Three of her five losses came against top-10 opponents…Began the season on a nine-match winning streak including victories over No. 48 Rosie Johanson (3-6, 6-3, 6-3) of Virginia (2/3) and No. 61 Natalie Novotna (7-6(5), 6-7(3), 6-3) of 30th-ranked Virginia Tech (3/2)…Defeated No. 8 Alle Sanford of North Carolina (3/4) for her biggest win of the season…Also started the season on a seven-match win streak with doubles partner Miranda Ramirez…Followed her loss to No. 6 Aliona Bolsova (Florida Atlantic) with a six-match win streak… Defeated No. 11 Paige Hourigan, 2-6, 6-2, 6-4 to clinch the match victory for the Orange in ‘Cuse’s biggest win in program history over No. 3 Georgia Tech (4/1)…Part of the doubles duo that knocked off the No. 1 pair in the country from Georgia Tech, 6-2…Tallied a doubles win over No. 8 Ellyse Hamlin/Kaitlyn McCarthy from Duke, 6-2…Earned the fifth seed in the NCAA Individual Singles Championships…Recorded victories over Auburn’s Jaeda Daniel (5/23) and Northwestern’s Erin Larner (5/24) to advance to the round of 16 and clinch All-America honors…Alongside Ramirez, notched a 6-2, 3-6, 10-7 victory over a UCLA duo (5/24) in the NCAA Individual Doubles Championship to advance to the round of 16 before falling to the Oklahoma State pair, 4-6, 7-5, 8-10 (5/25)...All-ACC Academic Team member...Syracuse Female Performance of the Year for her wins against Georgia Tech.
Sophomore Year (2016-17): Finished the season with the second most singles wins on the team and ended with a No. 68 ranking by the ITA...Defeated Elle Stokes of Louisville in the ACC Tournament (4-26)...Won against No. 8 Sara Daavettila of No. 3 North Carolina in three sets on April 23...Partnered with Miranda Ramirez to defeat No. 36 Kaitlyn McCarthy and Meible Chi of No. 14 Duke (4/15) and Francesca Fusinato and Caroline Daxhelet of Virginia Tech (4/13) in the same week...Picked up two wins against Miami with a victory against No. 14 Sinead Lohan in singles and a win against Lohan and Dominika Paterova in doubles alongside Ramirez...Beat No. 50 Florida State's Nandini Das in straight sets (4/02)...Won two matches against Louisville on March 31 with a three-set win against Mariana Humberg in singles and a tie-breaking win against Humberg and Abbie Pahz in doubles with partner Ramirez...Picked up a singles win against Paige Hourigan of No. 6 Georgia Tech (3/26)...Registered two wins against Navy with a singles win against Josie Rogers and doubles victory against Claudia MacKenzie and Emily Louie Meaders with Ramirez (3/14)...Won in straight sets against Pittsburgh's Gabriela Rezende (3/03)...Had wins in singles and doubles against No. 27 Notre Dame (3/05) with a victory against Allison Miller and a win against Brooke Broda and Monica Robinson in doubles with Ramirez...She and Ramirez defeated Kylie Wilcox and Dasha Possokhova of Boston College (2/25)...Teamed up with Anna Shkudun for a win against Maddie Stearns and Mariska Chamdani of Brown (2/19)...Recorded two victories against Buffalo with a singles win against Tanja Stojanovska and a doubles win against Stojanovska and Margarita Kotok with partner Ramirez...Got her first wins of the season against Columbia with a three-set win in singles against Rima Asatrian and a doubles win against Alexa Solovyev and Adi Milstein with Ramirez (1/22)...All-ACC Academic Team member.
Freshman Year (2015-16): Named ITA Northeast Region Rookie of the Year ... Paired with Valeria Salazar to become the first doubles team since 1996 to be invited to the NCAA doubles championships ... Defeated Georgia State's Niri Rasolomala 7-5 7-5 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament (5/13) ... Beat Miami’s Wendy Zhang 6-2, 7-5 in the ACC Tournament … Paired with Valeria Salazar to defeat Miami’s Stephanie Wagner and Wendy Zhang 7-6 (7-0) in the ACC Tournament (4/22) … Earned victory over NC State’s Bianca Moldovan 6-1, 6-2 in the ACC Tournament (4/21) … Defeated Caroline Daxhelet of Virginia Tech 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 … Continued her success with partner Valeria Salazar to defeat Virginia Tech’s Francesca Fusinato and Kelly Williford 6-4 (4/17) … Beat Miami’s Wendy Zhang 7-5, 6-3 (4/15) … Partnered with Valeria Salazar to defeat Louisville’s Ariana Rodriguez and Sena Suswam 6-2 (4/10) … Defeated Pitt’s Callie Frey 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (7-1) … Paired with Valeria Salazar to defeat Pitt’s Audrey Ann Blakely and Lolade Ogungbesan 6-1 (4/8) … Beat Gabby Castaneda of Florida State 6-2, 6-1 … Partnered with Valeria Salazar to defeat Florida State’s Yukako Noi and Daneika Borthwick 6-3 (4/3) … Beat Wake Forest’s Anna Ulyashchenko 6-2, 4-6, 6-1 … Paired with Valeria Salazar to defeat Anna Ulyashchenko and Kimmy Guerin of Wake Forest 6-3 (4/1) … Defeated Clemson’s Joana Eidukonyte 1-6, 6-1, 6-2 (3/13) … Earned victory over Bianca Moldovan of NC State 6-2, 6-1 … Paired with Valeria Salazar to defeat NC State’s Martina Frantova and Tayla Stenta 6-4 (3/6) … Beat Duke’s Beatrice Capra and Ellyse Hamlin with partner Valeria Salazar 7-5 (3/4) … Defeated Notre Dame’s Quinn Gleason and Monica Robinson with partner Valeria Salazar 6-4 (2/28) … Won against Virginia’s Stephanie Nauta 6-7 (6-8), 6-1, 6-4 … Partnered with Valeria Salazar to defeat Stephanie Nauta and Victoria Olivarez of Virginia 6-1 (2/21) … Defeated Emily Safron of Boston College 6-0, 6-3 … Paired with Valeria Salazar to beat Boston College’s Lexi Borr and Jackie Urbinati 6-3 (2/20) … Earned victory against Yale’s Ree Ree Li 6-2, 6-3 … Partnered with Valeria Salazar to defeat Ree Ree Li and Valerie Shklover of Yale 6-3 (2/12) … Continued her success against Tulane’s Ipek Birol 6-3, 6-3 (2/6) … Earned victory over Alexandra D’Avscenzo of Cornell 6-2, 6-3 (1/31) … Won against Liberty’s Maria Khval 6-3, 6-3 … Partnered with Dina Hegab to defeat Anna Dollar and Maria Khval of Liberty 6-3 (1/30) … Defeated Columbia’s Star Makarome 6-3, 6-4 … Partnered with Dina Hegab to beat Columbia’s Kanika Vaidya and Adi Milstein 6-2 (1/29)
Prior to SU: Played for the Czech Republic National Under-14 Team at Summer Cup, Winter Cup and World Cup ... Was a singles Semifinalist in 2015 Under-18 Czech National Championships ... Doubles National Chapion at the 2015 Czech National Championships ... The winner of three consecutive A-level Czech National Tournaments ... Earned an ITF ranking of 272 and committed to Syracuse as a Blue Chip recruit.
Personal: Knutson is the daughter of Paul and Ilona Knutson ... She was born in April 1997 ... Majoring in broadcast journalism in the Newhouse School of Public Communications.
Career Stats:
Junior Year (2017-18): Became the first Singles All-American for Syracuse since 1995 (Erica O’Neill)…Tabbed to the All-ACC First Team…Finished the season ranked No. 8 in the nation in the Oracle/ITA National Singles Rankings…Part of a doubles pair that finished the year ranked No. 8 in the Oracle/ITA Doubles Rankings…Earned Doubles All-America honors for their finish...Tallied six victories over top-50 opponents…Led the Orange with a 21-5 singles record, the only ‘Cuse athlete to eclipse the 20-win mark…Totaled 52 wins (dual and tour play) for her second season with 50 or more wins…Three of her five losses came against top-10 opponents…Began the season on a nine-match winning streak including victories over No. 48 Rosie Johanson (3-6, 6-3, 6-3) of Virginia (2/3) and No. 61 Natalie Novotna (7-6(5), 6-7(3), 6-3) of 30th-ranked Virginia Tech (3/2)…Defeated No. 8 Alle Sanford of North Carolina (3/4) for her biggest win of the season…Also started the season on a seven-match win streak with doubles partner Miranda Ramirez…Followed her loss to No. 6 Aliona Bolsova (Florida Atlantic) with a six-match win streak… Defeated No. 11 Paige Hourigan, 2-6, 6-2, 6-4 to clinch the match victory for the Orange in ‘Cuse’s biggest win in program history over No. 3 Georgia Tech (4/1)…Part of the doubles duo that knocked off the No. 1 pair in the country from Georgia Tech, 6-2…Tallied a doubles win over No. 8 Ellyse Hamlin/Kaitlyn McCarthy from Duke, 6-2…Earned the fifth seed in the NCAA Individual Singles Championships…Recorded victories over Auburn’s Jaeda Daniel (5/23) and Northwestern’s Erin Larner (5/24) to advance to the round of 16 and clinch All-America honors…Alongside Ramirez, notched a 6-2, 3-6, 10-7 victory over a UCLA duo (5/24) in the NCAA Individual Doubles Championship to advance to the round of 16 before falling to the Oklahoma State pair, 4-6, 7-5, 8-10 (5/25)...All-ACC Academic Team member...Syracuse Female Performance of the Year for her wins against Georgia Tech.
Sophomore Year (2016-17): Finished the season with the second most singles wins on the team and ended with a No. 68 ranking by the ITA...Defeated Elle Stokes of Louisville in the ACC Tournament (4-26)...Won against No. 8 Sara Daavettila of No. 3 North Carolina in three sets on April 23...Partnered with Miranda Ramirez to defeat No. 36 Kaitlyn McCarthy and Meible Chi of No. 14 Duke (4/15) and Francesca Fusinato and Caroline Daxhelet of Virginia Tech (4/13) in the same week...Picked up two wins against Miami with a victory against No. 14 Sinead Lohan in singles and a win against Lohan and Dominika Paterova in doubles alongside Ramirez...Beat No. 50 Florida State's Nandini Das in straight sets (4/02)...Won two matches against Louisville on March 31 with a three-set win against Mariana Humberg in singles and a tie-breaking win against Humberg and Abbie Pahz in doubles with partner Ramirez...Picked up a singles win against Paige Hourigan of No. 6 Georgia Tech (3/26)...Registered two wins against Navy with a singles win against Josie Rogers and doubles victory against Claudia MacKenzie and Emily Louie Meaders with Ramirez (3/14)...Won in straight sets against Pittsburgh's Gabriela Rezende (3/03)...Had wins in singles and doubles against No. 27 Notre Dame (3/05) with a victory against Allison Miller and a win against Brooke Broda and Monica Robinson in doubles with Ramirez...She and Ramirez defeated Kylie Wilcox and Dasha Possokhova of Boston College (2/25)...Teamed up with Anna Shkudun for a win against Maddie Stearns and Mariska Chamdani of Brown (2/19)...Recorded two victories against Buffalo with a singles win against Tanja Stojanovska and a doubles win against Stojanovska and Margarita Kotok with partner Ramirez...Got her first wins of the season against Columbia with a three-set win in singles against Rima Asatrian and a doubles win against Alexa Solovyev and Adi Milstein with Ramirez (1/22)...All-ACC Academic Team member.
Freshman Year (2015-16): Named ITA Northeast Region Rookie of the Year ... Paired with Valeria Salazar to become the first doubles team since 1996 to be invited to the NCAA doubles championships ... Defeated Georgia State's Niri Rasolomala 7-5 7-5 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament (5/13) ... Beat Miami’s Wendy Zhang 6-2, 7-5 in the ACC Tournament … Paired with Valeria Salazar to defeat Miami’s Stephanie Wagner and Wendy Zhang 7-6 (7-0) in the ACC Tournament (4/22) … Earned victory over NC State’s Bianca Moldovan 6-1, 6-2 in the ACC Tournament (4/21) … Defeated Caroline Daxhelet of Virginia Tech 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 … Continued her success with partner Valeria Salazar to defeat Virginia Tech’s Francesca Fusinato and Kelly Williford 6-4 (4/17) … Beat Miami’s Wendy Zhang 7-5, 6-3 (4/15) … Partnered with Valeria Salazar to defeat Louisville’s Ariana Rodriguez and Sena Suswam 6-2 (4/10) … Defeated Pitt’s Callie Frey 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (7-1) … Paired with Valeria Salazar to defeat Pitt’s Audrey Ann Blakely and Lolade Ogungbesan 6-1 (4/8) … Beat Gabby Castaneda of Florida State 6-2, 6-1 … Partnered with Valeria Salazar to defeat Florida State’s Yukako Noi and Daneika Borthwick 6-3 (4/3) … Beat Wake Forest’s Anna Ulyashchenko 6-2, 4-6, 6-1 … Paired with Valeria Salazar to defeat Anna Ulyashchenko and Kimmy Guerin of Wake Forest 6-3 (4/1) … Defeated Clemson’s Joana Eidukonyte 1-6, 6-1, 6-2 (3/13) … Earned victory over Bianca Moldovan of NC State 6-2, 6-1 … Paired with Valeria Salazar to defeat NC State’s Martina Frantova and Tayla Stenta 6-4 (3/6) … Beat Duke’s Beatrice Capra and Ellyse Hamlin with partner Valeria Salazar 7-5 (3/4) … Defeated Notre Dame’s Quinn Gleason and Monica Robinson with partner Valeria Salazar 6-4 (2/28) … Won against Virginia’s Stephanie Nauta 6-7 (6-8), 6-1, 6-4 … Partnered with Valeria Salazar to defeat Stephanie Nauta and Victoria Olivarez of Virginia 6-1 (2/21) … Defeated Emily Safron of Boston College 6-0, 6-3 … Paired with Valeria Salazar to beat Boston College’s Lexi Borr and Jackie Urbinati 6-3 (2/20) … Earned victory against Yale’s Ree Ree Li 6-2, 6-3 … Partnered with Valeria Salazar to defeat Ree Ree Li and Valerie Shklover of Yale 6-3 (2/12) … Continued her success against Tulane’s Ipek Birol 6-3, 6-3 (2/6) … Earned victory over Alexandra D’Avscenzo of Cornell 6-2, 6-3 (1/31) … Won against Liberty’s Maria Khval 6-3, 6-3 … Partnered with Dina Hegab to defeat Anna Dollar and Maria Khval of Liberty 6-3 (1/30) … Defeated Columbia’s Star Makarome 6-3, 6-4 … Partnered with Dina Hegab to beat Columbia’s Kanika Vaidya and Adi Milstein 6-2 (1/29)
Prior to SU: Played for the Czech Republic National Under-14 Team at Summer Cup, Winter Cup and World Cup ... Was a singles Semifinalist in 2015 Under-18 Czech National Championships ... Doubles National Chapion at the 2015 Czech National Championships ... The winner of three consecutive A-level Czech National Tournaments ... Earned an ITF ranking of 272 and committed to Syracuse as a Blue Chip recruit.
Personal: Knutson is the daughter of Paul and Ilona Knutson ... She was born in April 1997 ... Majoring in broadcast journalism in the Newhouse School of Public Communications.
Career Stats:
| Year | Fall Singles | Fall Doubles | Spring Singles | Spring Doubles | Overall | Percentage |
| 2015-16 | 10-4 | 9-3 | 17-5 | 14-6 | 50-18 | .735 |
| 2016-17 | 7-3 | 9-2 | 11-10 | 10-10 | 37-25 | .597 |
| 2017-18 | 10-3 | 5-4 | 21-5 | 16-7 | 52-19 | .732 |
| 2018-19 | 5-4 | 5-6 | 16-11 | 14-11 | 40-32 | .556 |
| Career | 32-14 | 28-15 | 65-31 | 54-34 | 179-94 | .656 |
Syracuse Tennis
Sunday, April 06
Syracuse Women's Tennis Court 3
Sunday, April 06
Syracuse Women's Tennis Court 6
Sunday, April 06
Syracuse Women's Tennis Court 5
Sunday, April 06
