The IU Women's Yennis team begins their final event of the fall season today at the Western Michigan Super Challenge. 6 of the eight membersof the team will compete. Missing from action are sophomore Maria Guerreiro and junior Charlotte Martin. Each is missing their third event of the fall season.
Guerreiro had an emergency apendectomy while the team was at the North Florida Invitational in early October.
"Maria had her appendix out when we were in Jacksonville. That normally doesn't happen on roadtrip, where a player has surgery," head coach Lin Loring said. "They say it's six to eight weeks before you're full-go, and unfortunately, that shoots the last three of our tournaments."
Martin has been dealing with wrist tendenitis, but is expected back by the beginning of the Spring team season on Jan. 17.
"She seems to be coming along, but hopefully she'll be 100 percent by January," Loring said. "The good news is: it didn't happen in January, it happened now."
Despite the injuries, the team heads into the weekend with a 38-16 combined record in singles matches and a 22-8 mark in doubles play.
"I think when we've been able to play and when we've been able to putsome doubles teams together I think we've done pretty good," Loring said "But I think we haven't been able to experiment quite as much as we wanted to because two of the six girls missed three of the four tournaments, so that really effected how much experimenting we could do"
