2018-19 Sun Belt Women’s Tennis News and Notes:
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• The fall tournament schedule rolls on for Sun Belt women’s tennis with six teams in action this weekend.
• The notable upcoming tournaments for Sun Belt squads are the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Regional Championships over the next two weekends – Arkansas State at the ITA Central Regional and Louisiana, ULM, South Alabama and Troy at the ITA Southern Regional this weekend and Appalachian State and Coastal Carolina at the ITA Carolina Regional, Georgia Southern and Georgia State at the ITA Southern Regional and UTA and Texas State at the ITA Texas Regional next weekend. Regional singles and doubles champions and finalists qualify for the season-ending Oracle ITA National Fall Championships set for Nov. 7-11 in Surprise, Ariz.
• The Sun Belt picked up several tournament titles over the past couple of weeks:
Louisiana won four flight titles – sophomore Dana Radovanovic and freshman Ai Noa Fabre in singles and Fabre and sophomore Floriane Picaut and sophomore Morgan Forshag and freshman AK Harvey in doubles – at the Ragin’ Cajuns Invitational.
Troy freshman Celia Montero Estevan won the Flight C singles title, while Estevan and sophomore Maria Casas Blas teamed up to take the Flight B doubles crown at the Mercer Gridiron Classic.
South Alabama sophomores Milka Pasanen and Yu Fujioka were named flight champions in both singles and doubles at the Samford Fall Hidden Dual #2.
Appalachian State sophomore María José Zacarias went 3-0 en route to capturing the Gold Singles flight at the Jimmy Powell Invitational. Zacarias’ weekend paced 12 Mountaineer wins across singles and doubles.
Georgia State freshman Eva Chivu was a perfect 3-0 in singles and won the Flight Four final over
UTA sophomore Momoka Horiguchi at the SMU Invitational.
• In other fall tournament play around the conference,
Coastal Carolina totaled 17 wins at the 49er Classic,
Arkansas State picked up five wins at the Samford Fall Hidden Dual #1 and
Appalachian State started the fall strong and
Georgia Southern had four players participate at the Hokie Fall Invitational.
• The 2019 Sun Belt Women’s Tennis Championship is set for April 18-21 at Peachtree City Tennis Center in Peachtree City, Ga.
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
Friday-Sunday, October 12-14
Georgia Southern hosts Appalachian State at Georgia Southern Shootout (Statesboro, Ga.)
Louisiana, ULM, South Alabama, Troy at ITA Southern Regional (Oxford, Miss.)
Friday-Tuesday, October 12-16
Arkansas State at ITA Central Regional (Iowa City, Iowa)
Thursday-Sunday, October 18-21
Appalachian State, Coastal Carolina at ITA Carolina Regional (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Georgia Southern, Georgia State at ITA Southeast Regional (Atlanta, Ga.)
UTA, Texas State at ITA Texas Regional (College Station, Texas)
Friday-Sunday, October 19-21
South Alabama at UWF Fall Fling (Pensacola, Fla.)
Thursday-Sunday, October 25-28
ULM at Missouri State Fall Invitational (Springfield, Mo.)
Friday-Saturday, October 26-27
Coastal Carolina hosts Lynn Stevens Memorial Classic (Conway, S.C.)
Friday-Sunday, October 26-28
Georgia State at Marliss Gruver Auburn Fall Invitational (Auburn, Ala.)
South Alabama, Troy at Roberta Alison Fall Classic (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
Friday-Saturday, November 2-3
ULM hosts Louisiana at Warhawk Fall Tournament (Monroe, La.)
Friday-Sunday, November 2-4
Appalachian State at LWR Dick Vitale Intercollegiate Clay Court Classic (Bradenton, Fla.)
Coastal Carolina at CofC Classic (Charleston, S.C.)