Two women’s tennis players will begin the spring season by traveling to Madison, Wis., on Thursday to compete in the National Team Indoor Championship.Senior Ana Cetnik and sophomore Ana Sydorska earned an automatic bid in the tournament when they reached the final match of the 2006 ITA National Indoor Collegiate Championships in November, making them TCU’s first female tennis players to reach the final match in a doubles national championship event.

The pair was also the second TCU doubles team in school history to win the ITA Southwest Regional Tournament.

After finishing the fall season with a record of 11-2 as a doubles team, Cetnik and Sydorska begin the spring season ranked No. 9 in the country by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association, a climb of 15 places from last season.

The team is ranked No. 16 in the country by the ITA, making it the third consecutive year the TCU women have been ranked in the top 20.

Interim coach Jefferson Hammond said the team’s goals for the spring are to be ranked No. 10 in the country and to reach the round of 16 in the NCAA Tournament.