Karly Friedland Season 2023-24

2023-24 (SENIOR)
Awards: Earned Academic All-Big Ten honors.
 
Season: Played in 28 singles matches, including 20 dual matches, and 29 doubles matches, including 21 dual matches…Earned eight singles wins and 12 doubles wins…Played mostly at No. 5 singles and No. 1 doubles.
 
Rankings: Finished the season as the No. 9 doubles team in the ITA Northeast Region, pairing with Olivia Dorner…Friedland and Dorner ranked as high as No. 69 in the ITA Doubles Poll.
 
Match-By-Match: UPenn Hidden Dual (9/8-10): Collected singles wins over Temple’s Evie Wei (6-3, 6-4) and Penn’s Eileen Wang (7-6(6), 6-4)…Paired with Katerina Dimitrova for a 6-2 win over LIU’s Saki Oyama/Clara Tardivel and combined with Jordina Cegarra for wins over Penn’s Gavriella Smith/Elizabeth Tkachenko (6-4) and LIU’s Oyama/Tardivel (6-4). ITA Regionals (10/19-23): Picked up a win over Towson’s Ashira Murray (6-3, 6-3)…Paired with Dorner for an 8-6 win over Richmond’s Elizabeth Novak/Lainey O’Neil. Auburn Invitational (11/3-5): Teamed with Dorner in a 6-2 win over Furman’s Sara Isabel/Maeve Thornton. at Kentucky (1/20): Combined with Dorner for a 6-1 victory at No. 1 over the No. 25 doubles duo in the country. at Columbia (1/27): Earned a 4-6, 7-6(8), 10-3 win at No. 4 against Winta Tewolde. at Penn (1/28): Claimed a 7-5 doubles win at No. 1. Saint Francis (2/2): Combined with Dorner for a 6-0 win at No. 1 doubles. at Yale (2/18): Paired with Dorner for a 6-4 win at No. 1. at UCSB (3/10): Claimed a 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 victory against Carla Pacot at No. 5. at Michigan (3/17): Earned a 6-3 win at No. 1 doubles. at Indiana (3/24): Teamed with Dorner for a 7-5 win at No. 1. Rutgers (3/29): Tallied a win at No. 5 against Minchae Kim (6-0, 6-1). Maryland (3/31): Recorded a 6-2, 3-6, 10-5 win over Diya Challa at No. 5…Combined for a 7-6(6) win at No. 2. Big Ten Tournament (4/25-26): Earned a win at No. 5 over Iowa’s Vipasha Mehra (0-6, 6-4, 6-3).
 
2022-23 (JUNIOR)
Season: Collected 11 singles wins, including six in dual matches, playing at No. 4, No. 5 and No. 6…Earned 11 doubles wins, including five in dual matches.
 
Match-By-Match: Charlotte Invite (9/23-25): Combined with Ioana Gherghita for doubles wins over ETSU’s Ralitsa Alexandrova/Daniela Rivera (6-0), Emilia Alfaro/Mariya Shumeika (6-4) and Dartmouth’s Josie Schaffer/Emma Heiderscheit (6-2). WVU Martha Thorn Invitational (10/7-9): Notched singles wins over WVU’s Momoko Nagato (1-6, 7-6(4), 10-5) and Duquesne’s Margot Plessy (6-2, 6-3)…Picked up a doubles victory over Duquesne’s Margot Plessy/Ellen Shanahan (6-4). Buckeye Invitational (10/14): Paired with Olivia Dorner for a 7-6(0) win over Kathleen Jones/Dani Schoenly. ITA Atlantic Regionals (10/20): Picked up singles wins against William & Mary’s Raffaela Alhach (6-2, 3-6, 12-10), Virginia’s Margaret Navarro (6-2, 6-2) and Old Dominion’s Alexandra Viktorovich (7-5, 6-4)...Combined with Ioana Gheorghita for an 8-3 win over Longwood’s Karina Rizanova/Emma Nurgazieva. at Princeton (1/22): Paired with Sofiya Chekhlystova for a 6-4 win over Maia Sung/Grace Joyce. vs. Harvard (1/28): Secured a 6-3, 6-2 win over Iveta Daujotaite. at West Virginia (2/5): Recorded a 6-4, 6-7 (1), 10-4 win over Maja Dodik…Paired with Ioana Gherghita for a 6-2 win over Momoko Nagato/Michaela Kucharova. Saint Francis (2/11): Picked up a win over Anoek Pruijmboom (5-7, 7-6(4), 11-9)…Combined with Olivia Dorner for a 6-1 win over Pruijmboom/Kelly Dowuona. Indiana (3/26): Earned a 6-4, 6-1 win over Rose Hu. Iowa (4/7): Collected a 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 win against Pia Kranholdt. at Maryland (4/21): Secured a 3-6, 6-0, 6-2 win against Hannah McColgan. at Rutgers (4/23): Earned a win over Tara Chilton/Amira Badawi (6-4). at Maryland (4/27): Tallied a doubles win against Minorka Miranda/Marta Perez Mur (6-4).

BEFORE PSU 
Friedland was highly touted a five-star recruit ranked as high as No. 54 and No. 4 in Florida.  She trained at Smatt Tennis Academy and attended Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High and earned a UTR rating of 10. Friedland teamed up with Michigan State’s Ayshe Can to win the 2018 USTA Florida “Bobby Curtis” Junior State Doubles Championship in a bracket that featured future Nittany Lion teammate Danielle Alamo. Her father, David Friedland, played tennis collegiately at the University of Miami from 1990-93.