Michigan women's tennis takes their 11-1 conference record on the road to East Lansing to take on the Spartans.

Head coach Ronnie Bernstein stops by to talk about how they've gotten to this point and the prep for not only this weekend,

but the ensuing Big Ten tournament at the end of the month.

Ronnie Bernstein next on Conquering Heroes.

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Join now by the head coach of the women's tennis program, Ronnie Bernstein.

Coach, thanks for joining me.

I know you guys had a challenging start to the season and we'll get to your scheduling

in just a moment, but what did you learn about your team and how have

you gotten to now an 11 and 1 Big 10 record? Yeah, rough start is an understatement there.

Yeah, I schedule tough every year and it usually works out. In the beginning of our year I did the same and non-conference

we we hosted the kickoff weekend which is how you qualify for the indoors and we had

Vandy come to town and they beat us there so we didn't get to go to the indoors so that was tough

because that's usually an opportunity for us to get some, you know, matches,

competition against top, you know, 15 teams. You get three matches. So we didn't qualify.

And then we had Virginia come the next weekend and we lost to them. Then I added Auburn.

We lost Auburn. I mean, it was just a very tough start. But I, you know, I think it showed that

we're resilient and tough. You know, we talk about getting better as the year, you know, goes on

and not peaking in January or February, which we clearly did not. So just a tough group. You know,

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