2018-19 Sun Belt Women’s Tennis News and Notes:
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AROUND #SUNBELTTEN
• Sun Belt women’s tennis has 15 matches on the schedule this week.
• Eight teams enter the week having won their last match, headlined by South Alabama sitting at 9-0. Sparking the Jaguars' streak has been the singles play of senior Patricia Martins (8-0), sophomore Nikola Kohoutova (7-0) and junior Diana Monsalve (5-0).
• South Alabama's men's and women's teams have combined to win 15-straight matches and have not lost in the month of February. The men's team has won six in a row after dropping its first two matches of the spring.
• UTA (8-1) continues its hot spring, coming into the week having won three straight. The Mavericks' sophomore doubles duo of Momoka Horiguchi and Carla Pons are 8-0 at the No. 2 spot and senior Carla Vives and freshman Liz Chileno are 3-0 at the No. 3 spot.
• The Troy tandem of freshman Chunxi Guo and sophomore Pei Hu Hsieh is also undefeated at No. 2 doubles with a 5-0 record.
• In the
Oracle/Intercollegiate Tennis Association Division I Women’s National Rankings released on Feb. 20, Georgia State freshman Eva Chivu moved into the singles rankings at No. 102.
• For the first time, Sun Belt women's tennis is set to play a full conference schedule this season to determine the regular-season champion and seeds for the Sun Belt Women’s Tennis Championship.
• The 2019 Sun Belt Women’s Tennis Championship is set for April 18-21 at Peachtree City Tennis Center in Peachtree City, Ga.
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Ana Perez, Texas State (Sr., Quito, Ecuador)
Texas State senior Ana Perez won three matches, two at No. 1 singles and one at No. 1 doubles with senior Julia Navajo-Melendez, and was ahead 6-5 in her other doubles match before it was suspended after the Bobcats captured the doubles point. Perez defeated McNeese's Giovanna Fioretti 7-6, 6-4 and Stephen F. Austin's Gabi Guilarte 6-2, 6-2 and McNeese's Carlotta Romito and Charoline Erlandsson 6-4. This spring, the Quito, Ecuador, native boasts a 6-1 singles record, all decided in straight sets with one victory over a ranked opponent, and a 2-3 doubles record both at the No. 1 spots.
2019 Weekly Award Winners
January 30: Alexandria Stiteler, South Alabama
February 6: Almudena Boza, UTA
February 13: Eva Chivu, Georgia State
February 20: Ana Perez, Texas State
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
Thursday, February 21
Louisiana at Louisiana Tech, 10 a.m.
Georgia State at Central Florida, 4 p.m.
Friday, February 22
Stetson at Georgia Southern, 10 a.m.
Coastal Carolina at East Carolina, 11 a.m.
1-Georgia State vs. Denver, 1 p.m.
Saturday, February 23
Murray State at Georgia Southern, 9 a.m.
UTA at Rice, 11 a.m.
Southern Miss at South Alabama, Noon
Troy at Nicholls, Noon
Coastal Carolina at South Carolina, 1 p.m.
Sunday, February 24
Troy at New Orleans, 10 a.m.
Sam Houston State at Louisiana, 11 a.m.
South Alabama at LSU, Noon
Tuesday, February 26
ULM at Stephen F. Austin, 1 p.m.
New Orleans at South Alabama, 2 p.m.
All Times are Central and Subject to Change
KEY:
1-Orlando, Fla.