PRINCETON, N.J. – The Rutgers women’s tennis team will travel to Dartmouth for the Big Green Tournament to end the fall season.
The three-day event will begin on Friday, Nov. 4 and end on Sunday, Nov. 6 and be held at the Boss Tennis Center.
Last Time Out
The Scarlet Knights completed the three-day Princeton Fall Invitational, Oct. 14-16. The team finished up the weekend with six doubles and 12 singles wins for an impressive showing.
Amira Badawi went undefeated in doubles play, paired with both Minchae Kim and Chloe Brown, going 3-0.
Jackeline Lopez also stayed perfect throughout the weekend, earning three consecutive victories.
Transferring In
RU welcomed two transfers this offseason in Amira Badawi (NJIT) and Tara Chilton (Washington).
Badawi, a native of Cairo, Egypt, compiled a 30-7 record with NJIT over two seasons, including an impressive 22-5 mark playing in the top three singles spots for the Highlanders in 2021-22, a season that ended with a second place showing in the Southland Conference Tournament.
In her two seasons at Washington, Chilton compiled an 18-18 singles and 17-14 doubles record. Last year as a sophomore, Chilton and the No. 37 Huskies played to a 14-12 overall record and an appearance in the NCAA Tournament. She went 7-2 in singles tournament play including reaching the round of 32 at ITA Northwest Regional.
Freshmen Duo
Rutgers also welcomed two freshmen to the squad, Mai Nguyen and Arina Volitova.
Ranked top 75 nationally, Nguyen arrives “On The Banks” from Atlanta, Georgia. She was the 2019 Southern Doubles Champions and finished in fifth in National Doubles. She was also the 2020 Georgia State Champion and 2021 Winter Southerns Champions.
A product of Bratislava, Slovakia, Valitova comes to the US after finding success in the European Junior circuit. She won the ITF Juniors tournaments and Tennis Europe tournaments in both singles and doubles. Valitova also won the singles J5 in Islamabad in Nov. 2020 in addition to the singles J5 in Harare in Dec. 2020. In doubles, she came out on top in the J3 in Harare in Nov. 2021 and J4 in Estonia in May 2021. She is also a member of Russian National Beach Tennis Team (U18) and won the Juniors European Championship in doubles.
Looking Ahead
With the end of the fall season, RU will look…
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