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10 players, 9 languages

Men’s tennis tackles challenges of communicating

File Photo Men's tennis set up practice to prepare for the upcoming in state and out of state games to represent WSU.

Communication can be difficult when two people speak the same language; imagine the difficulty that arises when you have a group of people each coming onto the court with a different language.

The men’s tennis team has 10 players on its roster and nine languages spoken.

Japanese, Czech, French, New Zealand English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and English are the home languages for the players — Czech is the only language which has two players sharing it.