Tournament DrawsPENSACOLA, Fla. – The University of West Florida tennis teams will host the 2015 USTA/ITA Division II South Region Championships this weekend at the Ralph "Skeeter" Carson Tennis Complex on the campus of UWF and at the Roger Scott Tennis Center. A total of 14 schools from the Gulf South Conference and the Sunshine State Conference will represent the south region at the tournament.
Each men's and women's singles and doubles champion will advance to the 2015 USTA/ITA National Small College Championships at the Palmetto Tennis Center in Sumter, South Carolina on October 15-18.
The doubles competition will kick off the tournament on Friday, September 25 at the Ralph "Skeeter" Carson Tennis Complex with the women's doubles starting at 8 a.m. and the men's doubles beginning at 9 a.m. The men's singles competition will follow at the same site on Friday while the women's singles will compete at the Roger Scott Tennis Center with both flights beginning at 12:30 p.m.
No. 12
Alex Peyrot (Castelnaudary, France) will compete for the Argonauts this weekend in singles to start his junior campaign. No. 36
Kenny Brasil (Apucarana, Brazil) will also be competing in singles for UWF in his senior season, and will team up with Peyrot to compete in doubles. Brasil and Peyrot finished the 2015 season ranked No. 16 in the nation as a doubles team.
Rounding out the singles field for the UWF men's tennis team will be juniors
Douglas Boe (Vinhedo, Brazil)
Pedro Dumont (Brasilia, Brazil), while fellow junior
Pedro Roese (Novo Hamburgo, Brazil) and sophomore
Sebastian Sanchez (Bogotá, Colombia) will be the second doubles team competing for West Florida this weekend.
On the women's side, seniors
Nina Bubelova (Povazska Bystrica, Slovakia) and
Katarina Dikosavljevic (Queensland, Australia) will be competing in singles and as a team in doubles. Senior
Sarai Flores (Mexico City, Mexico) and sophomore
Erica Lilja Eriksson (Kristinehamn, Sweden) will compete for the Argonauts in the singles competition while senior Giovanna Patitucci (Sao Paulo, Brazil) and
Valeria Mantilla (Bogotá, Colombia) will be the second doubles team competing for UWF over the weekend.
The Ralph "Skeeter" Carson Tennis Complex is located on the campus of UWF, while the Roger Scott Tennis Center is located at 2130 Summit Boulevard in Pensacola, Florida.
For information on all UWF athletics, visit
www.GoArgos.com.
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