Guichard Voted Big Ten Player of the Week to Begin New Season

ROSEMONT, Ill. – Ahmani Guichard of the UCLA girls’s tennis workforce earned her first profession Big Ten Player of the Week award Wednesday, capping a profitable begin to the 2025-26 season for the junior.

A local of Seminole, Fla, Guichard gained 4 of her 5 matches performed throughout 4 days on the ITA All-American Championships in Cary, N.C. She superior out of prequalifying with three straight-set wins, together with a 7-6(2), 7-6(6) consequence over standout Duke freshman Claire An within the spherical’s finale.

Guichard’s run was finally stopped by No. 72 Mia Slama of NC State in three units to start out qualifying, however the Bruin rebounded in comfort play with a top-100 victory towards Rice’s Divna Ratkovic.

This is UCLA’s first Big Ten girls’s tennis weekly award of 2025-26 and the primary of Guichard’s profession. The Bruns collected 11 weekly awards from the convention through the 2024-25 season, this system’s first as a member.

2025-26 BIG TEN WOMEN’S TENNIS PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

Week	Player
Sept. 17	Brianna Baldi, Penn State
Sept. 24	Ahmani Guichard, UCLA