Gisclon's match was long and her victory was sweet, as it gave her team the overall win over Arizona. | Sarah Smith/Michigan State University
Gisclon's match was long and her victory was sweet, as it gave her team the overall win over Arizona. | Sarah Smith/Michigan State University
When two evenly matched women's tennis teams face each other, it's fitting that the decision would come down to the last match.
Such was the case as Michigan State, whose 4-3 victory over the University of Arizona on Feb. 9 at the MSU indoor tennis center rested in the hands of freshman Charlotte Gisclon, the Spartans reported in a release. Her 7-6 (7-4), 4-6, 6-3 match against Kirstin Prelle clinched the overall win for the Spartans, who are 4-1 on the season, having won their last four contests.
"A freshman stepping up to clinch the match in Charlotte, I can't imagine what her nerves had to have been," head coach Kim Bruno said in the release. "You can't replicate these situations, and for these girls to keep going through them and figuring it out, that's just big. That's what it is about."
The Spartans took 2 of the 3 doubles matches to earn 1 point, the team reported. When five singles matches were complete, the overall score was tied at 3.
That's when all eyes turned toward Gisclon, whose match was close, including a first-set tiebreaker, the Spartans reported.
"We have been having really good practices, putting a lot of really good days together, and I've been really confident in what we've been doing," Bruno said. "These girls today accomplished something against a team that on paper should probably beat us by coming to our home courts and putting it together, leaving it all out there."
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