The Stanford women’s tennis team will conclude its individual tournament season for the year this weekend at the Freeman Invitational in Las Vegas and the NCTC Classic in Indian Wells, Calif.

Five members of the Cardinal’s squad will compete in Las Vegas: freshman Lindsay Burdette, seniors Anne Yelsey and Theresa Logar and juniors Celia Durkin and Jessica Nguyen. The other three members of the team — sophomore Megan Doheny and juniors Whitney Deason and Lejla Hodzic — will compete at the NCTC Classic over the weekend.

All eight players on the team will compete in their respective singles tournaments. For the doubles portion of the tournaments, Burdette and Nguyen, and Yelsey and Durkin will team up at the Freeman Invitational. At the NCTC Classic, Deason and Hodzic will play together.

Both tournaments will feature top competition with players from regional powers such as UCLA, Southern California and California. However, the Cardinal will also get to see players from nationally competitive programs like Notre Dame, Georgia Tech and Florida.

“This is the NCAA championship at a smaller, less prestigious tournament,” Burdette said. “Those girls [at the Freeman Invitational] are going to be our toughest competition all year, and they’re all going to be there.”

Despite the fierce competition that the Cardinal will face, assistant coach Frankie Brennan said he feels good about his team’s prospects at the NCTC Classic.

“I think that the three girls I’m taking all have a chance to do well,” he said. “Megan is our walk-on, but she had a really good fall; she’s a kind of sleeper. Of course, Leila had a good tournament and Whitney got to the finals last year, so I expect those two to do well.”

Head coach Lele Forood was also confident in assessing her team’s prospects at the Freeman Invitational, citing the Cardinal’s history of success there. Durkin is the defending champion of the tournament, and Logar was a finalist as a freshman.

“We’ve historically done very well at this tournament,” Forood said. “It’s gotten a lot of our players a lot of wins over top kids from other schools, which has helped us get into the individual championships.”

The NCTC Classic and the Freeman Invitational mark the end of the individual tournament season for Stanford. The individual tournament season acts as a medium for players to showcase their abilities in qualifying for the NCAA Championships while boosting their rankings on the national level.

“This is more or less the last chance to get some nice wins before we get into dual competition,” Forood said. “It’s a fun way to go out; it’s really the end of the fall season even though it’s the start of the winter.”

The players were able to choose which tournament they wanted to go to based on their own “personal preference,” Forood said.

After effectively concluding its fall season after this weekend, Stanford will move on to team competition, with its first match coming against UC-Davis on Jan. 25.

It’s been a fairly successful fall season for the three-time defending champion Cardinal. Brennan shared his viewpoint on the performances of his players thus far, singling out the remarkable showings that Nyugen has turned out.

“We’re especially impressed by Jessica,” he said. “She’s now ranked No. 8 in the country. She’s really impressed us by taking it to the next level. That’s what you want from the fall, that’s what you really look for.”

Forood also summed up her feelings on the individual performances of her players during the fall season.

“So far, Celia and Jessica have had the best performances,” she said. “This month matters a lot, and there’s still plenty of time for the other people to bring up their records as well. The seniors were injured and took a few tough losses. Overall, though, they’ve generally played well.”