Category: Tennis

Capping the weekend of play for Michigan State men’s tennis at the ITA Sectionals, redshirt junior Aristotelis Thanos punched his ticket to NCAA Individual Championships. Thanos will join fellow Spartan, junior Ozan Baris in Waco, Texas at the NCAA Individual Championships, Nov. 19-24 at Baylor’s Hurd Tennis Center. Baris earned his spot at the NCAA Individual Championships by winning the ITA Midwest Regionals on Oct. 14, becoming the first Michigan State men’s tennis player to win the ITA Regional Singles Championship.

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Michigan State women’s tennis women’s tennis opened its second-straight weekend of hosting a tournament with strong play from multiple players Friday in the opening round of the Spartan Invite at the MSU Indoor Tennis Center.

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Michigan State women’s tennis is back with home action this weekend, hosting their second tournament this fall, the Spartan Invite. The tournament spans from Friday-Sunday, Nov. 1-3 at the MSU Indoor Tennis Center, with all matches beginning at 9 a.m. each day.

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Michigan State men’s tennis junior Ozan Baris became the first Michigan State men’s tennis player to win the ITA Regional Singles Championship, winning the ITA Midwest Regional title Monday afternoon at the MSU Indoor Tennis Center.

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Michigan State women’s tennis team kicked off its full-team Fall tournament season at the Toledo Rocket Invitational versus Toledo, DePaul, and Youngstown State.

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Spartans men’s tennis had a chance to start off the season with the ITA All-American Championships this past week. Sophomore Taym Alazmeh, senior Max Sheldon, and junior David Saye started out in Pre-Qualifying.

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Michigan State men’s tennis senior Max Sheldon was named Big Ten Men’s Tennis Player of the Week, for his outstanding performance in pre-qualifying at the ITA All-American Championships, announced by the conference office Wednesday afternoon.

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It was a hard-fought battle for Michigan State women’s tennis in the Spartans’ season-opening action at the pre-qualifiers of the ITA Women’s All-American Championships in Cary, N.C.

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Michigan State men’s tennis wrapped up its opening weekend action after a solid start to the season in action not only across the country but around the world.

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Michigan State men’s tennis junior Aristotelis Thanos has been selected to represent his home country of Greece in the Davis Cup Tie this weekend. Thanos and Greece will be taking on Serbia, including World No. 4 Novak Djokovic, Friday and Saturday, Sept. 13-14, at Aleksandar Nikolic Hall in Belgrade, Serbia.

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Michigan State men’s tennis head coach Harry Jadun announced the team’s 2024 fall tennis schedule on Monday. Jadun is entering his third season as head coach alongside assistant coaches Mike Flowers and Kazuki Matsuno.

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Michigan State men’s tennis freshmen Matthew Forbes and Danial Rakhmatullayev earned the opportunity to compete in the U.S. Open Juniors this past weekend and this week.

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Michigan State men’s tennis junior Ozan Baris is ranked No. 1 in the Division I Men’s ITA Collegiate Tennis National Preseason Rankings. After standout freshman and sophomore seasons, Baris becomes the first player in Michigan State program history to be ranked No. 1 in the ITA Singles Rankings, adding to the history he set last season being part of the first No. 1 ranked doubles team in Michigan State history, teaming with Max Sheldon.

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Michigan State men’s tennis freshman Matthew Forbes was topped in the first round of the main draw of the 2024 US Open on Tuesday at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadow, New York. Forbes fell in the hard-fought match to Roman Safiullin, 4-6, 6-7 (2), 2-6, relinquishing a 5-2 lead in the second set.

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Michigan State men’s tennis freshman Matthew Forbes will open action in the main draw of the 2024 U.S. Open on Tuesday, Aug. 27 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadow, New York, as announced by the U.S. Open Friday.

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Michigan State men’s tennis incoming freshman Matthew Forbes won the singles title at the United States Tennis Association (USTA) Boys’ 18-Under National Championships in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Sunday at Kalamazoo College’s Stowe Stadium.

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At the culmination of the winningest season in team history, MSU’s 23rd win of the year was the first NCAA Tournament win in program history. That wasn’t the last win of the season for one Spartan, however. Jadun’s first recruit and Michigan State’s first Big Ten Men’s Tennis Player of the Year, Ozan Baris, also became the first to battle to the NCAA Singles Championships semifinal.

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Michigan State women’s tennis player Nicole Conard was honored with the distinguished Wilma Rudolph Student-Athlete Achievement Award, as presented by the National Association of Academic and Student-Athlete Development Professionals (N4A). This year’s Wilma Rudolph recipients were Parker Byrd, East Carolina, Nicole Conard, Michigan State, Jasmyne Cooper, University of Wyoming, Courtney Lamas-Lanier, Florida Atlantic, and Petal Palmer, West Virginia. These five student-athletes were honored in conjunction with the 2024 N4A Convention on June 10 in Las Vegas.

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MSU sophomore Ozan Baris was named to the highly touted and selective ATP Next Gen Accelerator and USTA Collegiate Summer Team, also being awarded two ITA Midwest Region awards on Wednesday. That. Guy. Ozan is one of six players to be selected to the ATP Next Gen Accelerator and USTA Collegiate Summer Team professional development programs! The Okemos, Mich. native garners the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Midwest Region Player to Watch award unanimously as well as the region’s Arthur Ashe Leadership and Sportsmanship honor. The decorations come following a season that saw him individually finish in the NCAA Singles Championships semifinal after leading MSU to its winningest team season and first NCAA Tournament win in program history.

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MSU sophomore Ozan Baris’ NCAA Singles Championships run came to an end in the national semifinal, ever so narrowly Alabama’s Filip Planinsek 5-7, 7-5, 6-7 (6-8) Friday. A native of Okemos, Mich., Baris came back from a big deficit in the second set, down 3-5 and 4-5 facing match point, but came back to win the set and force a third set. In the super tiebreaker of the third set, the 64-player tournament’s No. 8 seed was three match points from the national title match.

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