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Polish professional tennis player adjusting to college game

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Junior Piotr Baranski serves the ball while playing doubles with senior Jonny Rigby against Eastern Illinois on Sunday in SIU's training facility in the Garden Grove Event Center. Sunday's match against EIU was Baranski's second as a member of the team.

Junior Piotr Baranski arrived from Poland and joined the team Feb. 12 with an impressive resume. He joins three other Europeans, two Americans and a South American on the tennis team, which is 5-1 so far this season.

Baranski turned pro when he was 19 years old and was ranked as high as 1,210th in the world in doubles and 1,856th in singles.