DALLAS – Rice’s
Trinity Grear and Middle Tennessee’s
Love-Star Alexis were named Conference USA Tennis Athletes of the Week. The weekly awards are presented by
Blenders Eyewear.
C-USA Men’s Tennis Athlete of the Week – Trinity Grear, Rice, Jr., Adelph, Maryland
Grear picked up the first two wins of his career at the first line in singles play as Rice extended its winning streak to eight. The junior from Adelph, Maryland shook off a first-set loss to defeat No. 77 Noah Berry of Cal Poly, 6-7, 6-4, 6-2. This broke a 3-3, giving the Owls the win, while also recording his first career win over a ranked opponent. He followed that up with a victory in straight sets, 6-1, 6-1 to help Rice take down William & Mary 4-3.
C-USA Women’s Tennis Athlete of the Week – Love-Star Alexis, Middle Tennessee, Sr., Montréal, Canada
Alexis went a perfect 2-0 over the weekend against Alabama A&M on Sunday. In doubles, Alexis and her doubles partner, Muskan Gupta, defeated Jasmine Boyd and Yana Dhamija at position No. 1 to claim the doubles point for the Blue Raiders. The senior from Canada clinched the win for MTSU on court No. 1 in singles tallying a 6-0, 6-1 victory over Jasmine Boyd.
2023 Men’s Tennis Athletes of the Week
J18 Hunter Robbins, Florida Atlantic
J25 Emir Sendogan, Rice
F1 Ondrej Horak, Middle Tennessee
F8 Pavel Motl, Middle Tennessee
F15 Stijn Slump, Middle Tennessee
F22 Michal Lusovsky, UAB
M1 Alan Magadan, UTSA
M8 Santiago Navarro, Rice
M15 Oskar Brostrom Poulsen, Middle Tennessee
M22 Tiago Torres, UTSA
M29 Trinity Grear, Rice
2023 Women’s Tennis Athlete of the Week
J18 Leonie Schuknecht, Louisiana Tech
J25 Rachel Hermanova, WKU
F1 Ekaterina Khairutdinova, FIU
F8 Aleksandra Zlatarova, UTSA
F15 Carlotta Mencaglia, UTEP
F22 Matilde Morais, North Texas
M1 Oyinlomo Quadre, FIU
M8 Yasmine Kabbaj, FIU
M15 Leonie Schuknecht, Louisiana Tech
M22 Saara Orav, Rice
M29 Love-Star Alexis, Middle Tennessee