WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - The conference's two singles and doubles participants competing at the 2018 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships fell in their opening-round matches, closing out the 2017-18 season for Sun Belt tennis.

South Alabama junior Alexandria Stiteler and UTA junior Guanarteme Nuez fell in their respective first-round singles matches and the Jaguars' duo of ?Loic Cloes and Clement Marzol came up short in their doubles opener.

Stiteler, ranked No. 110 in the latest Oracle/Intercollegiate Tennis Association Division I Women’s Rankings, lost 7-6 (7-4), 4-6, 6-2 to No. 52 Josie Kuhlman of Florida. Stiteler ended the season with a 21-8 overall record and is second in career wins at the No. 1 singles position (49). Stiteler is the first Jaguar to make multiple appearances in the NCAA Tournament since Viktoria Stoklasova in 2003.

Nuez finished the 2017-18 season with a 25-7 record after going out with a hard-fought 6-3, 6-4 match to No. 7 seed Borna Gojo of Wake Forest that saw itself tied midway through both sets. Nuez, the Sun Belt Player of the Year, entered the 64-player singles bracket as the No. 98-ranked player in the latest Oracle/Intercollegiate Tennis Association Division I Men's Rankings and earned the league's automatic selection to the NCAA Tournament.

Cloes and Marzol fell in straight sets, 6-4, 6-4, to Wisconsin's Chema Carranza and Josef Dodridge. The first-team All-Sun Belt sophomore duo ended the season with a 19-7 overall record and a 14-5 in dual matches.