THIS WEEK: The Washington State Tennis team (7-9, 0-5 Pac-12) begins a five-match road stretch to conclude its 2023 regular-season schedule by visiting No. 70 Colorado, Friday, April 7 in Boulder at Noon PT.  WSU concludes the weekend at No. 60 Utah Sunday in Salt Lake City at 9:30 a.m. PT.
 
FOLLOW LIVE: Follow the Cougars at Colorado with live stats HERE. At Utah, live stats are HERE while live video streams can be found HERE.
 
SCOUTING COLORADO: Colorado brings a 9-8 record, 0-5 in Pac-12, into Friday's match. Both teams are looking for their first Pac-12 win of the season. WSU leads the all-time series, 9-6, including a 4-2 victory last season in Pullman.
 
SCOUTING UTAH: The Utes bring a No. 60 national ranking into the weekend, along with a 10-8, 1-4 mark in Pac-12 play. Utah's lone conference win came last month against current No. 37 California in Salt Lake City.  WSU leads the all-time series, 11-10, which includes a 4-3 victory in the last meeting in Salt Lake City (2021).
 
LAST WEEK: Washington State concluded its 2023 home schedule falling to No. 41 Oregon, 5-2 last Friday. Freshmen Eva Alvarez Sande and Yura Nakagawa accounted for WSU's two singles wins.
 
NEXT UP: Washington State remains on the road as it travels to the Bay Area to face No. 37 California, Friday, April; 14 at 1:30 p.m.
 
DOUBLES DUO EARNS NATIONAL RANKING: The doubles pair of freshman Eva Alvarez Sande and sophomore Elyse Tse has found great success since teaming together midway through the season. The pair has posted an 8-0 record this year, going 3-0 at No. 1 and 5-0 at No. 2. After defeating the nation's 11th-ranked team from Arizona State three weeks ago, the Cougar duo entered the national rankings at No. 38 and are currently No. 46.
 
ROSTER BREAKDOWN: For the 2022-23 season the Cougars will have three new players to accompany the six returners. The returning roster consists of fifth-year senior Yang Lee, junior Fifa Kumhom and sophomores Hania Abouelsaad, Stefaniia Mikhailova, Maxine Murphy and Elyse Tse. Joining the Cougar tennis program this year are freshmen Eva Alvarez Sande, Yura Nakagawa and Tiffany Phout.
 
COACH RAQUEL ATAWO: Raquel Atawo is in her second season as head coach of the Cougars after being named to the position July 2, 2021. In Atawo's first year leading Washington State Tennis, the Cougars showed great improvement throughout the season, finishing with a, 8-15 record, but posted back-to-back wins late in the season over nationally-ranked Washington. Atawo arrived in Pullman having spent the 2021 season as the assistant coach at Auburn and prior to that, spent 15 years on the WTA Tour, where she reached a No. 10 world ranking in doubles.
 
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