Ismail Saadi Season 2021-22

2022-23 (SENIOR)
Season: Earned six wins in singles, while playing at No. 3, No. 5 and No. 6…Competed in four doubles matches.
 
Match-By-Match: Delaware/Georgetown (1/22): Picked up wins at No. 6 singles against Delaware’s Tobey Lock (1-6, 6-3, 10-7) and Georgetown’s Akira Morgenstern (7-5, 6-2). Duquesne/Saint Francis (1/28): Collected a singles win against Duquesne’s Keita Duclos (6-1, 6-0) and a 6-4, 6-4 win against Saint Francis’ Adam Kush. Mount St. Mary’s (2/4): Earned a 7-5, 6-3 win against Pablo Martinez Zuccardi. at FGCU (3/11): Claimed a 7-6(3), 6-1 win over Juan Lopez.

2021-22 JUNIOR
Earned a perfect 3-0 record in singles matches during the spring season, including two conference wins at No. 6...Clinched a win for the Nittany Lions over Purdue in a 6-4, 7-6(6) match...Went 2-2 at doubles during the fall season with partners Harrison Janes and Chikaya Sato. 

2020-21 SOPHOMORE
Did not compete. 

2019-20 FRESHMAN
Earned a 2-3 overall singles record, going 1-0 on courts one and two...Posted a 1-2 record on court three in doubles...Spring season shortened due to COVID-19 pandemic.

PRIOR TO PENN STATE
Trained at the ITF Center in Casablanca, where he followed an online school curriculum and practiced tennis nearly five hours a day since the age of 12... Placed third in the African Junior U18 Boys’ Single tournament in Marrakech in March of 2019...Achieved an ITF Junior ranking of 140...Participated in the World Tennis Finals four consecutive years from 2014-17...Earned two African Junior doubles titles — one in Tunisia (2015) and Marrakech (2018)...Selected to Morocco’s Junior Davis Cup team in 2016...Captured the U14 African Junior singles title in Kenya in 2014.