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On Friday and Saturday, the University of Evansville women’s tennis team will take part in the Greater Cincinnati Invitational, which will be hosted by Northern Kentucky and Dayton.
Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason, Ohio will play host to the event. It is located just north of Cincinnati near Kings Island. The facility has four permanent tennis courts as well as 12 additional playing courts. Live updates can be access by clicking on the tournament page linked above.
Purple Aces head coach Jayson Wiseman enters his second season at the helm of the program and welcomes back a pair of returning players in senior Andjela Brguljan and junior Leah Helpingstine. Brguljan won seven matches a season ago, including six dual matches. She performed very well at the top flight, going 3-3.
Evansville’s squad also features six newcomers. Transfer Chieko Yamada enters her junior campaign after playing at Shasta College in California. She was named an All-American in the spring of 2015. Daira Pentsova comes to Evansville as a sophomore and played for Texas-Rio Grande Valley last year. She was 3-1 in her first collegiate tournament.
Four freshmen comprise the newcomers including: Andrea Pascual-Larrinaga (Basauri, Spain), Nicoli Pereira (Santos, Brazil), Theodora Soldatou (Athens, Greece) and Diana Tkachenko (Russia).
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