Tennis

TEN: April 9 Athletes of the Week

DALLAS – MTSU’s Karim Al-Amin and Kennesaw State’s Mikolaj Lis and Anthony Weingarten earned Conference USA Tennis Athlete of the Week honors on the men’s side. WKU’s Sofia Blanco and LA Tech’s Mio Kozaki and Nina Skoric received the women’s CUSA Tennis Athletes of the Week honors.  
   
CUSA Men’s Tennis Athlete of the Week – Karim Al-Amin, MTSU – Jr. – Waltrop, Germany 
Al-Amin claimed his second weekly honor of the week after two standout performances against No. 28 South Florida and Eastern Illinois. After dropping the first set to USF’s No. 54 Hugo Car, the junior rallied to take the second and take the tiebreaker in the third set. In MTSU’s second match of the week, the Waltrop, Germany, native defeated EIU’s Pieke Bouman in straight sets (6-2, 6-3) to guide the Blue Raiders to a dominant 7-0 victory.
 
CUSA Men’s Doubles Team of the Week 
Mikolaj Lis, Kennesaw State – So. – Swidnica, Poland
Anthony Weingarten, Kennesaw State – Jr. – Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex
 
The duo of Lis and Weingarten were strong in their lone match with Alabama State over the week in a 5-2 victory. The pair competed on doubles court No. 1 and defeated Alabama State’s Alexandre Verlaguet and Matis Amier 6-4 to claim the doubles point. Lis and Weingarten improved to 4-2 in doubles in their first season as a member of CUSA.
 
CUSA Women’s Tennis Athlete of the Week – Sofia Blanco, WKU – Sr. – Caracas, Venezuela
Blanco claimed her team-leading 14th singles win of the year during WKU’s match at CUSA foe Liberty on Saturday. The senior defeated Liberty’s Daniella O’Neill (6-4, 7-5) at the No. 2 position, which marked the 54th singles victory and 104th total singles and doubles win, setting a WKU program record for career singles and doubles victories.
 
CUSA Women’s Tennis Doubles Team of the Week
Mio Kozaki, LA Tech, Jr., Aichi, Japan
Nina Skoric, LA Tech, So., Paris, France 
 
In LA Tech’s lone match of the week against Conference USA foe Kennesaw State, Kozaki and Skoric were down 1-4 on court No. 3 to KSU’s Terezia Baraniakova and Sofia Madrid. The Bulldog tandem reeled off five straight games to take the match 6-4 and secure the doubles point against the Owls. Kozaki and Skoric earned their fourth consecutive win and the 10th overall this spring.
 
2025 CUSA Men’s Tennis Athletes of the Week   
J15       N/A   
J22       Shu Matsuoka, MTSU   
J28       Kacper Szymkowiak, MTSU 
F5        Tobias Wallin, NM State
F12       Karim Al-Amin, MTSU
F19       Ondrej Horak, MTSU
F26      Shu Matsuoka, MTSU
M5       Shu Matsuoka, MTSU
M12      Charlie Penman, Jax State
M19      Jakub Kroslak, MTSU
M26     Itay Feigin, NM State
A2        Rodrigo Santiago Arraez, Liberty
A9        Karim Al-Amin, MTSU
 
2025 CUSA Men’s Tennis Doubles Team of the Week   
J15       N/A   
J22       Karim Al-Amin & Ondrej Horak, MTSU   
J28       Ernst Gouws & Carl Roothman, Liberty 
F5        Tobias Wallin & Gustavo Campos, NM State
F12       Shu Matsuoka & Rostislav Halfinger, MTSU
F19       Kacper Szymkowiak & Jakub Kroslak, MTSU
F26      Zach Murphy & Lucius Soller, Jax State
M5       Karim Al-Amin & Ondrej Horak, MTSU
M12      N/A
M19      Karim Al-Amin & Ondrej Horak, MTSU
M26     Itay Feigin & Holland Snell, NM State
A2        Igor Mandou Berranger & Shu Matsuoka, MTSU
A9        Mikolaj Lis & Anthony Weingarten, Kennesaw State
   
2025 CUSA Women’s Tennis Athletes of the Week   
J15       Zoie Epps, LA Tech   
J22       Ekaterina Khairutdinova, FIU   
J28       Ekaterina Khairutdinova, FIU
F5        Zoie Epps, LA Tech
F12       Anna Pinaieva, NM State
F19       Alessia Truden, MTSU
F26      Ana Rodrigues, LA Tech
M5       Sofia Blanco, WKU
M12      Zoie Epps, LA Tech
M19      Carlotta Mencaglia, UTEP
M26     Ana Rodrigues, LA Tech
A2        Zenn Lim, MTSU
A9        Sofia Blanco, WKU
   
2025 CUSA Women’s Tennis Doubles Team of the Week   
J15       Valery Gynina & Ekaterina Khairutdinova, FIU   
J22       Valery Gynina & Ekaterina Khairutdinova, FIU   
J28       Emily Schut & Mia Miranda, WKU
F5        Zoie Epps & Ana Rodrigues, LA Tech
F12       Alice Brook & Maria Tsironi, LA Tech
F19       Cassidy Mataia & Ilaria Sposetti, MTSU
F26      Oyinlomo Quadre & Katerina Mandelikova, FIU
M5       Sofia Blanco & Rachel Hermanova, WKU
M12      Zoie Epps & Ana Rodrigues, LA Tech
M19      Ella Tuomela & Polina Ramenskaja, Jax State
M26     Daniella O’Neill & Maria Turchetto, Liberty
A2        Daniella O’Neill & Maria Turchetto, Liberty
A9        Mio Kozaki & Nina Skoric, LA Tech