MALIBU, California – The Pepperdine women's tennis team begins its fall slate with a trip up the coast to San Francisco for the Battle in the Bay this weekend.
 
Four Waves – sophomore #49 Savannah Broadus (Carrollton, Texas), junior #84 Nikki Redelijk (Windermere, Fla.), junior #44 Janice Tjen (Jakarta, Indonesia) and graduate student #36 Bunyawi Thamchaiwat (Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand) – will compete over the course of four days. The event format is a singles and doubles main draw, with a back draw included. There are 32 individuals in the singles main draw and 16 pairs in the doubles main draw. Pepperdine will start the tournament Thursday with singles and doubles, and the event will run through Sunday (Sept. 22-25).
 
Last season, Broadus and former teammate Anastasia Iamachkine claimed the doubles title at this event, while Broadus also took home the singles crown.
 
Head coach Per Nilsson returns four players from the 2022 NCAA quarterfinal team. Three of the four returners – Broadus, Tjen and #15 Lisa Zaar (Stockholm, Sweden) – were All-Americans a season ago. Pepperdine bolstered its lineup with two graduate student additions: Thamchaiwat and #32 Carolyn Campana (Hillsborough, Calif.)