2016-17 Tennis Roster
Miranda Ramirez
- Height:
- 5-3
- Class:
- Freshman
- Hometown:
- San Antonio, Texas
Bio
Senior Year (2019-20): Season was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic...Tied for 13th in Syracuse’s career wins list (131)... One of three Orange selected as a 2020 Weaver-James-Corrigan Postgraduate Scholarship Award winner by the ACC...Started the year 7-0 in singles play, including four two set sweeps at the No. 2 and 3 slots. Ended the season 9-2, with losses coming from 10th-ranked Duke and Virginia...Partnered with Guzal Yusupova at No. 1 doubles where they opened the season 4-0....Entered the 2019-20 fall season ranked No. 64 in singles play....Entered the spring portion of the 2019-20 season ranked No. 80 in singles play....Played through the first four rounds of the ITA Northeast Fall Regional Championship before losing in the semifinals to No. 24 Brianna Shvets...Advanced through four doubles rounds of the Milwaukee Classic with partner Guzal Yusupova before losing 8-6 in the final.
Junior Year (2018-19): All-ACC Third Team...Finished the season with a team-best 18-8 singles record and a 14-11 record in doubles play...Played the majority of the year at the No. 2 and No. 3 positions...Earned three singles wins over nationally ranked opponents and picked up a team-high 10 singles wins against ACC competitors...Ranked a season-best No. 67 in singles…Partnered with Gabriela Knutson in doubles for the entirety of the season amd picked up three victories over nationally ranked pairs, including Miami's No. 17 duo of Daniella Roldan and Daevenia Achong...Nationally ranked in doubles, peaking at No. 52......All-ACC Academic Team member...Member of the Syracuse University Athletic Director's Honor Roll.
Sophomore Year (2017-18): Finished the 2017-18 season with a 40-26 record across tour and dual play, just one of two Orange to post 40 or more victories…Earned Doubles All-America honors after coming in at No. 8 in the Oracle/ITA Doubles Final Rankings…Represented the Orange at the Milwaukee Tennis Classic (9/21-9/24), posting three consecutive wins to make it to the Finals before falling to Sinead Lohan of Miami, 6-2, 4-6, 2-6... Recorded the second strongest showing for the Orange at the ITA Northeast Regionals, streaking all the way to the semifinals…Took Stephanie Schrage of Princeton to a three-set battle but came up short 4-6, 6-4, 2-6...Posted a pair of victories against Colgate (1/26) and Columbia (1/28) at second singles to open the 2018 spring campaign…Tallied victories in her two apperances at first singles, a 6-0, 6-2 win over Connecticut’s Yelyzaveta Pletnyeva (2/9) and a three-set victory over Yale’s Samantha Martinelli (2/18)… …Started the spring season on a seven-match win streak with doubles partner Gabriela Knutson Won her first conference match of the year after blanking Natasha Irani of Boston College (2/16) 6-0, 6-0…Posted back-to-back singles victories against Brown and Harvard, bringing her spring win total to seven…… 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…Broke a six-match singles losing streak with a 6-4, 6-4 victory over No. 78 Meible Chi of Duke (4/13)…Helped the Orange to a 4-1 defeat of Pitt with a 7-5, 6-2 at second singles (4/26)… Alongside Knutson, 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.
Freshman Year (2016-17): Earned All-ACC Second Team honors during her rookie campaign...She finished with the most singles wins on the team with 15 and had 12-straight wins at one point during the season...Picked up two wins against No. 14 Duke with a win against No. 73 Samantha Harris in singles and a victory against No. 36 Kaitlyn McCarthy and Meible Chi with partner Gabriela Knutson...Had two more wins against Virginia Tech with wins against Francesca Fusinato in singles and Fusinato and Caroline Daxhelet in doubles with Knutson...Partnered with Knutson to defeat Sinead Lohan and Dominika Paterova of No. 42 Miami in doubles...Topped Gabriella Castaneda of No. 50 Florida State in three sets...Had two wins against Louisville on March 31 with a singles win versus Aleksandra Mally and a doubles victory against Abbie Pahz and Mariana Humberg...Registered a straight set win against Rasheeda McAdoo of No. 6 Georgia Tech (3/26)...Had a 6-1, 6-1 win versus Fernanda Navarro of Clemson (3/17)...Recorded two wins against Navy with a singles win versus Claudia MacKenzie and a doubles win against MacKenzie and Emily Louie Meaders with Knutson (3/14)...Beat Audrey Ann Blakely of Pittsburgh in straight sets (3/03)...Defeated Brooke Broda of No. 27 Notre Dame and paired with Knutson for a victory against Broda and Monica Robinson (3/05)...Won against Dasha Possokhova of Boston College in straight sets and teamed with Knutson for a 6-3 win against Possokhova and Kylie Wilcox...Picked up a win against Maddie Stearns of Brown (2/19)...Registered two wins against Buffalo (2/18)...Defeated Madison Harrison of Mississippi State (1/28)...Topped Meghan Kelley of Virginia in straight sets (2/04)...Teamed with Knutson to beat Alexa Solovyev and Adi Milstein of Columbia (1/22)...Opened the season with a 6-3, 6-2 win against Amy Yang of Yale (1/21)...All-ACC Academic Team Member...Named Syracuse Female Rookie of the Year at the 2017 Cuse Awards.
Prior to SU: Reached No. 3 in the Florida USTA rankings... Career-high 190 ranking in ITF Junior and 1,110 WTA rankings... Won eight tournament titles in ITF Junior competition.Â
Personal: Daughter of Santiago and Rita Ramirez... Born in March 1999... Graduated in 2020 with a bachelor's in accounting from the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. She'll be working toward a master's in accounting in 2020-21... Member of the SAAC.
Career Stats:
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Junior Year (2018-19): All-ACC Third Team...Finished the season with a team-best 18-8 singles record and a 14-11 record in doubles play...Played the majority of the year at the No. 2 and No. 3 positions...Earned three singles wins over nationally ranked opponents and picked up a team-high 10 singles wins against ACC competitors...Ranked a season-best No. 67 in singles…Partnered with Gabriela Knutson in doubles for the entirety of the season amd picked up three victories over nationally ranked pairs, including Miami's No. 17 duo of Daniella Roldan and Daevenia Achong...Nationally ranked in doubles, peaking at No. 52......All-ACC Academic Team member...Member of the Syracuse University Athletic Director's Honor Roll.
Sophomore Year (2017-18): Finished the 2017-18 season with a 40-26 record across tour and dual play, just one of two Orange to post 40 or more victories…Earned Doubles All-America honors after coming in at No. 8 in the Oracle/ITA Doubles Final Rankings…Represented the Orange at the Milwaukee Tennis Classic (9/21-9/24), posting three consecutive wins to make it to the Finals before falling to Sinead Lohan of Miami, 6-2, 4-6, 2-6... Recorded the second strongest showing for the Orange at the ITA Northeast Regionals, streaking all the way to the semifinals…Took Stephanie Schrage of Princeton to a three-set battle but came up short 4-6, 6-4, 2-6...Posted a pair of victories against Colgate (1/26) and Columbia (1/28) at second singles to open the 2018 spring campaign…Tallied victories in her two apperances at first singles, a 6-0, 6-2 win over Connecticut’s Yelyzaveta Pletnyeva (2/9) and a three-set victory over Yale’s Samantha Martinelli (2/18)… …Started the spring season on a seven-match win streak with doubles partner Gabriela Knutson Won her first conference match of the year after blanking Natasha Irani of Boston College (2/16) 6-0, 6-0…Posted back-to-back singles victories against Brown and Harvard, bringing her spring win total to seven…… 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…Broke a six-match singles losing streak with a 6-4, 6-4 victory over No. 78 Meible Chi of Duke (4/13)…Helped the Orange to a 4-1 defeat of Pitt with a 7-5, 6-2 at second singles (4/26)… Alongside Knutson, 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.
Freshman Year (2016-17): Earned All-ACC Second Team honors during her rookie campaign...She finished with the most singles wins on the team with 15 and had 12-straight wins at one point during the season...Picked up two wins against No. 14 Duke with a win against No. 73 Samantha Harris in singles and a victory against No. 36 Kaitlyn McCarthy and Meible Chi with partner Gabriela Knutson...Had two more wins against Virginia Tech with wins against Francesca Fusinato in singles and Fusinato and Caroline Daxhelet in doubles with Knutson...Partnered with Knutson to defeat Sinead Lohan and Dominika Paterova of No. 42 Miami in doubles...Topped Gabriella Castaneda of No. 50 Florida State in three sets...Had two wins against Louisville on March 31 with a singles win versus Aleksandra Mally and a doubles victory against Abbie Pahz and Mariana Humberg...Registered a straight set win against Rasheeda McAdoo of No. 6 Georgia Tech (3/26)...Had a 6-1, 6-1 win versus Fernanda Navarro of Clemson (3/17)...Recorded two wins against Navy with a singles win versus Claudia MacKenzie and a doubles win against MacKenzie and Emily Louie Meaders with Knutson (3/14)...Beat Audrey Ann Blakely of Pittsburgh in straight sets (3/03)...Defeated Brooke Broda of No. 27 Notre Dame and paired with Knutson for a victory against Broda and Monica Robinson (3/05)...Won against Dasha Possokhova of Boston College in straight sets and teamed with Knutson for a 6-3 win against Possokhova and Kylie Wilcox...Picked up a win against Maddie Stearns of Brown (2/19)...Registered two wins against Buffalo (2/18)...Defeated Madison Harrison of Mississippi State (1/28)...Topped Meghan Kelley of Virginia in straight sets (2/04)...Teamed with Knutson to beat Alexa Solovyev and Adi Milstein of Columbia (1/22)...Opened the season with a 6-3, 6-2 win against Amy Yang of Yale (1/21)...All-ACC Academic Team Member...Named Syracuse Female Rookie of the Year at the 2017 Cuse Awards.
Prior to SU: Reached No. 3 in the Florida USTA rankings... Career-high 190 ranking in ITF Junior and 1,110 WTA rankings... Won eight tournament titles in ITF Junior competition.Â
Personal: Daughter of Santiago and Rita Ramirez... Born in March 1999... Graduated in 2020 with a bachelor's in accounting from the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. She'll be working toward a master's in accounting in 2020-21... Member of the SAAC.
Career Stats:
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| Year | Fall Singles | Fall Doubles | Spring Singles | Spring Doubles | Overall | Percentage |
| 2016-17 | -- | -- | 15-6 | 9-9 | 24-15 | .615 |
| 2017-18 | 8-4 | 4-3 | 11-12 | 17-7 | 40-26 | .606 |
| 2018-19 | 7-3 | 1-5 | 18-8 | 14-11 | 40-27 | .597 |
| 2019-20 | 7-5 | 7-4 | 9-2 | 4-3 | 27-14 | .659 |
| Career | 22-12 | 12-12 | 53-28 | 44-30 | 131-72 | .645 |
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