{"id":393941,"date":"2026-01-05T21:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T21:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/393941\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T21:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T21:35:12","slug":"brahmbhatt-named-womens-tennis-big-ten-player-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/393941\/","title":{"rendered":"Brahmbhatt Named Women\u2019s Tennis Big Ten Player to Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p paraeid=\"{c8526f01-1c63-487a-a30e-a2dc97da6dde}{11}\" paraid=\"4\">EAST LANSING, Mich.\u00a0\u2013 Michigan State women&#8217;s tennis player <a href=\"https:\/\/msuspartans.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/amara-brahmbhatt\/15604\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15604\" target=\"_blank\">Amara Brahmbhatt<\/a> was named Big Ten Player to Watch entering the spring\u00a0season\u00a0of 2026, announced by the conference on Monday.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brahmbhatt\u00a0is in\u00a0her sophomore season with the Spartans after slating\u00a0a highly successful\u00a0freshman\u00a0season. The Columbus, Ohio native competed in three tournaments during the fall\u00a0portion\u00a0of the schedule, appearing at the ITA All-American Championships, Wolverine\u00a0Invitational\u00a0and the ITA Midwest Regional Championships.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In her premiere sophomore appearance, Brahmbhatt went 1-1 in the ITA All-American Championships, falling in a 6-1, 6-3 defeat to\u00a0Amelie\u00a0Smejkalova\u00a0of Clemson, but won her consolation match against Notre Dame&#8217;s Bianca Molnar in a slim 7-6 (2), 7-6 (4)\u00a0victory.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Following was the Wolverine Invitational, where Amara put up a 2-3 overall record against various big ten foes in singles and doubles contention.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Closing out\u00a0her fall action, Brahmbhatt competed in the ITA Midwest Regional Championships, where she made it to the round of sixteen before falling, claiming an overall 3-2 record.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During her\u00a0freshman\u00a0season,\u00a0Brahmbhatt\u00a0logged a 19-9 overall singles record, appearing on courts 2,\u00a03 and\u00a05. She posted a six-match win streak spanning from January through March. Notably, Brahmbhatt also posted\u00a0the\u00a0only\u00a0point in the Big Ten Tournament for the Green &amp; White, beating\u00a0USC&#8217;s Immi Haddad, 6-3, 6-1.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brahmbhatt and the Spartans open the 2026\u00a0portion\u00a0of their schedule on Saturday, January 24 in College Station, Texas taking on Texas A&amp;M at the ITA Kickoff.\u00a0MSU hosts Western Michigan and Eastern Michigan on Sunday, February\u00a01,\u00a0with times still to be announced\u00a0at a later date.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fans can keep up to date with the Spartan women&#8217;s tennis team on Facebook,\u00a0Instagram\u00a0and Twitter by following @MSU_WTennis.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EAST LANSING, Mich.\u00a0\u2013 Michigan State women&#8217;s tennis player Amara Brahmbhatt was named Big Ten Player to Watch entering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-393941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}