{"id":278467,"date":"2025-11-12T15:46:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T15:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/278467\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T15:46:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T15:46:16","slug":"womens-tennis-adds-tsulygina-to-2025-26-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/278467\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Tennis Adds Tsulygina to 2025-26 Roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LYNCHBURG, Va.\u00a0\u2013 Liberty women&#8217;s tennis and head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/libertyflames.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/coaches\/dash-connell\/2411\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"2411\" target=\"_blank\">Dash Connell<\/a> have announced the signing on Milana Tsulygina. The UFA, Russia, native of the Republic of Bashkortostan, will join the team in January.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Welcome to the ?? Flames Family Milana??<\/p>\n<p>See you in January ?? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OTv79GtdEM\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/OTv79GtdEM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Liberty Women&#8217;s Tennis (@LibertyWTennis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LibertyWTennis\/status\/1988622119874244875?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 12, 2025<\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;Milana has a lot of talent that she brings to our team,&#8221; Coach Connell said. &#8220;We are excited to see her grow her game at Liberty. She will also be bringing great energy to our group. She will be fun to watch.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nTsulygina was the No. 1 ranked player in the Republic of Bashkortostan. She originally signed with Southeast Missouri in January, but went their separate ways before she committed to Liberty earlier this fall.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nShe sports a career-high No. 1354 ITF Singles ranking and a 20.5 singles WTN. She held a career-high No. 136 recruiting ranking and a No. 75 tennis RPI. She owns a current 8.49 UTR Ranking.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Russian native comes from a family of athletes. Her father, Nikolai played in the NHL as a first-round pick by the Anaheim Ducks in 1996-97, as well as over 400 professional games between the AHL and Russia. Both her brothers play hockey in Russia.<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LYNCHBURG, Va.\u00a0\u2013 Liberty women&#8217;s tennis and head coach Dash Connell have announced the signing on Milana Tsulygina. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-278467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}