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June Stewart Invitational
Women’s Tennis Begins New Season at June Stewart Invitational
9/21/2023 | Women's Tennis
Nine Rebels Set to Compete in Nashville
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Ole Miss women's tennis will compete in the June Stewart Invitational to begin their fall slate from September 22-24.
Nine Rebels are set to play in Nashville to begin their 2023-24 campaign. The team's roster consists of seven returning players, two transfers and a freshman. It marks the first of nine fall tournaments in 2023.
Hosted at the Currey Tennis Center, the event will feature round-robin play in singles and doubles over three days. The tournament's field consists of four teams, with all four ending the 2022-23 season in the ITA Top 75 Team Rankings. The field also includes four ranked singles players and a ranked doubles team.
Doubles will be one set to six, while singles will be two out of three complete sets (just like a dual match).
TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE
Friday, September 22
9 a.m. | Vanderbilt v. Purdue (Singles)
11 a.m. | Ole Miss v. Purdue, Vanderbilt v. Louisville (Doubles)
~ 1 p.m. | Louisville v. Ole Miss (Singles)
Saturday, September 23
9 a.m. | Vanderbilt v. Louisville (Singles)
11 a.m. | Vanderbilt v. Ole Miss, Purdue v. Louisville (Doubles)
~ 1 p.m. | Purdue v. Ole Miss (Singles)
Sunday, September 24
9 a.m. | Purdue v. Louisville (Singles)
11 a.m. | Vanderbilt v. Purdue, Louisville v. Ole Miss (Doubles)
~ 1 p.m. | Vanderbilt v. Ole Miss (Singles)
THE REBELS
Briana Crowley (Sr.) – Battle Ground, Ind.
- Joins the Rebels after three seasons at Northwestern
- Compiled a career singles record of 35-21 and a doubles record of 46-28
- Ranked as high as No. 40 in doubles
- Former Blue Chip five-star recruit
Lucie Devier (Sr.) – Etrechy, France
- Returns to Ole Miss after missing all last season
- Transferred from North Texas in 2022
- Earned 2021 C-USA Newcomer of the Year
Ava Hrastar (Sr.) – Duluth, Ga.
- Joins Ole Miss after three seasons with Georgia Tech
- Compiled a 36-22 singles record and 36-22 doubles record
- Ranked as high as No. 6 in doubles and No. 65 in singles
- Two-time NCAA Doubles Championship qualifier
- 2022 All-American and All-ACC Third Team honors
- Former five-star recruit, ranked 1st out of Georgia and 18th nationally
Ludmila Kareisová (Jr.) – Liberec, Czechia
- Enters the year ranked 42nd in singles
- 2023 NCAA Singles Championship qualifier
- Named 2023 All-SEC Second Team
- Career record of 28-25 in singles and 30-24 in doubles
Emma Kette (So.) – Rammelsbach, Germany
- Finished 2023 with a 12-10 singles record and 11-9 doubles record
- Appeared in all 24 matches in the spring
Rachel Krzyzak (Jr.) – Milton, Ontario, Canada
- Appeared in all 13 conference matches in 2023
- Career singles record of 25-24 and a doubles record of 20-28
Kelsey Mize (Sr.) – Tusla, Okla.
- Finished 2023 ranked No. 78 in doubles
- Tied the team lead in doubles victories in 2023
- Has 23 career singles wins and 39 career doubles wins
Andrea Nova (Fr.) – Prague, Czechia
- Comes to Ole Miss ranked as high as No. 298 in the ITF Junior Rankings
Reka Zadori (Sr.) – Szeged, Hungary
- Set a career-high 22 singles wins, along with nine doubles victories
- Has a 48-36 career singles record and a 22-18 career doubles record
- Her 9-3 record at No. 6 singles was the best in the SEC
THE FIELD
Louisville
Ole Miss
Purdue
Vanderbilt
ITA RANKED OPPONENTS
Singles:
12 - Celia-Belle Mohr, Vanderbilt
42 - Ludmila Kareisova, Ole Miss
67 - Bridget Stammel, Vanderbilt
103 - Anessa Lee, Vanderbilt
Doubles:
59 - Celia-Belle Mohr/Holly Staff, Vanderbilt
LIVE SCORING/VIDEO
Live scoring and live video will be available for all three days in Nashville. All links are provided above, leading to the central hub of all court streams.
FAMILIAR FACES
Ole Miss has seven returning players from last year's team. Kette will look to build off her freshman year in her first fall as a Rebel. The three-headed monster in juniors Kareisová, Krzyzak and Anaelle Leclercq-Ficher will significantly impact this season. Kareisová is coming off a breakout year and is ranked as the 42nd-best singles player in the nation. The Rebels also have three seniors in Devier, Mize and Zadori returning. In 2023, Zadori led the team in singles wins (22) and Mize was part of the No. 78 ranked doubles team.
TRANSFER TO THE SIP
The Rebels picked up two massive transfers this past year with tons of success and experience. Crowley and Hrastar are former blue-chip five-star recruits and ranked No. 1 out of Indiana and Georgia. Crowley went on to play four seasons at Northwestern for a combined 35-21 singles record and 46-28 doubles record. Hrastar, the redshirt junior, played three seasons at Georgia Tech for a career singles record of 33-23 and a doubles record of 38-24. The 2022 ITA All-American ranked as high as No. 6 in doubles and No. 65 in singles.
FALL SLATE
The Rebels have a jam-packed fall schedule, which includes nine tournaments and filling every weekend from the end of September to the beginning of November. Following the squad's trip to Nashville, the Rebels will compete in the DVDM Shipyard Cup in Hilton Head, South Carolina, from September 25-October 1. Ole Miss will have back-to-back ITA tournaments, first the All-American Championships and then the South Region Championships, during the first two weekends of October. Afterward, the Rebels will compete in two ITF Pro Circuit tournaments in Florence, S.C. and Norman, Oklahoma. On November 1-5, the team heads to the West Coast for the ITA Fall Championships in San Diego. Ole Miss wraps up the fall with the Auburn Fall Invite from November 3-5 and the John Cade Classic from November 10-12.
REBS ON SOCIAL
For more information on Ole Miss Women's Tennis, follow the Rebels on Twitter at @OleMissWTennis, on Facebook at OleMissWTennis and on Instagram at OleMissWTennis. Also follow Coach Beyers on Twitter, @MarkBeyers.
