EAST LANSING, Mich. – Michigan State women’s tennis gears up for its first action of the 2022-23 season, as the Spartans play host to an 11-team field for the Spartan Invite. Action from the MSU Outdoor Tennis Center begins on Friday, Sept. 30, and runs through Sunday, Oct. 2.
HEAD COACH KIM BRUNO SAID…
“We are ready. We’re excited. The team has been preparing really well in practice, and they are getting more and more disciplined. Now, it’s all about putting it on display in competition. I’m looking to see how tough our players are. I’m looking to see how much grit we show in the matches. Even though this is an individual tournament, how good of a teammate can we be for one another. Those intangible things will be what we focus on during this weekend’s tournament”
FIRST SERVE
Michigan State is led by returning lineup contributors in junior Ayshe Can, sophomore Charlotte Gisclon and senior Tia Mukherjee. Gisclon was tied for the most overall singles victories on the 2022 roster with 13 wins and boasted the team’s best win percentage (.619) among all players who played in more than 10 matches. Gisclon returns following a 12-win freshman campaign that was highlighted by six wins at the No. 6 position, as well as two wins at the No. 5 spot. Mukherjee went 5-1 overall with a 3-0 ledger in fall tournament play. The Spartans also return senior Monique Karoub, junior Marlo Schiffman and senior Dagmar Zdrubecka.
NEW SPARTAN FACES
MSU welcomes seven new faces to the 2022-23 squad, split between a pair of transfers and a quintet of freshman recruits. In the offseason, Michigan State signed the nation’s 30th-ranked recruiting class according to the Tennis Recruiting Network. The Spartan signees are led by five-star prospect and top-40 recruit Marley Lambert, four-star prospects in Sarah Fazlagic, Makenna Martinez and Juliette Nask, as well as one international signee in the United Kingdom’s Issey Purser. MSU also brought in graduate transfer Nicole Conard from Dartmouth, as well as sophomore Liisa Vehvilainen from North Texas.
SCOUTING THE FIELD
The Green & White welcome representatives from Bowling Green, Cleveland State, DePaul, Marquette, Michigan, Northern Illinois, Notre Dame, Oakland, Western Michigan and Youngstown State. In the 2022 dual…
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