The ETSU men’s tennis team expects another strong season under head coach Dave Mullins, beginning his 16th year as the squad’s leader.
The ETSU squad finished strong last season with a 9-3 record in the Southern Conference.
The Buccaneers expect to remain strong despite the loss of two key players, Gustavo Gomez and Juan Yannuzzi. Both were all-conference players last season.
The team has four returning players and four new players, a couple of whom have experience at the junior college level.
Mullins said that there will be “a lot of adjustments for the new players at this level,” but he points to Marcos Pavlovich, Roberto Fernandez and Pablo Sahagun as experienced team leaders.
Pavlovich finished 9-4 in singles Southern Conference play last season, his first at ETSU.
The new players include Moises Serrano, a nationally ranked Colombian junior player and Alejandro Salazar, a transfer from King College, who was ranked 43rd in singles last year at the NAIA level.
On the women’s side, first-year head coach Steve Brooks expects a rebuilding year.
Brooks said his new team will “strive to be the best we can be in every category and on every level we can think of.” Brooks also said they will work to be the best in fitness, strategy, even the best dressed and most disciplined.
Aimee Villavicencio and Jessica Irey are expected to be team leaders this season.
The Lady Bucs host UNC Asheville on Tuesday.

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