NEW ORLEANS – The Tulane University women’s tennis team will wrap up the 2009 regular-season on Tuesday, April 14, when the Green Wave take on Conference USA foe Memphis at the Goldring Tennis Center. First serve is slated for 9 a.m. and admission is free.

Tuesday’s match is a make-up contest from one scheduled between the Green Wave and Tigers back on Feb. 21 in Houston when inclement weather around the University of Houston campus forced the teams to reschedule. It is also the final match prior to the start of the 2009 Conference USA Tournament, which will be hosted by Rice University in Houston from April 16-19. The winner of the league tourney will received the league’s automatic bid to the NCAA Regionals.

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Career

2000–2003: Debut and commercial success in South Korea and Japan 
At age eleven, BoA accompanied her older brother to an SM Entertainment talent search. Though her brother was the one who auditioned as a break-dancer, SM talent scouts instead took notice of BoA and offered her a contract on the same night as the auditions. Her parents initially opposed the notion of BoA's leaving school to enter the entertainment business but eventually consented at her older brothers' persuasion. She has said that her early influence as a singer was Seo Taiji.

BoA underwent two years of training (involving vocal, dance, English, and Japanese lessons), and at the age of thirteen released her debut album ID; Peace B in South Korea on