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Women's Tennis opens the fall 2023 schedule at Gopher Invite

9/14/2023 12:00:00 PM | Women's Tennis

Opening weekend is set for Friday, Saturday and Sunday Sept. 15-17 at the Baseline Center

St. Paul, Minn. -- St. Thomas Women's Tennis opens the fall 2023 schedule as it competes this Friday, Saturday and Sunday Sept. 15-17 at the Minnesota Gopher Invite at the Baseline Center.

Minnesota, Marquette, Northern Iowa, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Omaha join St. Thomas in the tournament.

Head Coach Colby Carlson enters his first season leading the Purple as a head coach, after spending the past two seasons as the Tommie assistant coach. Coach Carlson is joined by assistant coaches Craig Gordon and Shelby Anderson.

The Tommies return six letter winners from a season ago and bring in two newcomers. Junior Marthe Degeorges was among 12 players named to the All-Summit League team in women's tennis for 2023 after she won 10 contests at first singles. Junior Shrichandrakala Tentu has nine doubles wins and eight singles wins in her two-year career with the Tommies.

The newcomer group includes first years Caroline Lindahl and Yinong Ma.

Most Experienced
St. Thomas has one player remaining from the Division III era and its NCAA top-10 and conference champion team of 2020-21. Jannah ElNemr has competed in 96 singles and doubles spring competitions over her three-year career.
 
Did You Know
The Tommies next stop is Sept. 29-Oct. 1 at the Redbird Invitational, hosted by Illinois State. The Tommies take a two-week break from competition, before continuing on the road, with an Oct. 14 series against Augustana and Sioux Falls.
 
St. Thomas travels back to Illinois for the NIU Huskie Fall Indoor Invitational on Oct. 27-29. The Purple will play at the Chick Evans Field House in DeKalb, Ill.
 
St. Thomas closes out its fall portion of the 2023-24 schedule Nov. 3-5 at the Drake Invitational. The Purple will play at the Roger Knabb Tennis Center in Des Moines, Iowa.
 
Follow Along
If you will not be making the trip to Baseline with the team, be sure to follow along for live streams and stats through links found at tommiesports.com/sports/wten/schedule – and on Twitter @TommieWTennis and Instagram at @TommieTennis.
 
 

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