NEW ORLEANS — Xavier University of Louisiana's tennis teams will have three seeded singles players and one doubles seed in the USTA/ITA NAIA South Regional Championships.For the second consecutive year, Xavier will play host to the three-day event. The tournament will begin at 9 a.m. Friday at City Park/Pepsi Tennis Center (5900 Marconi Drive, New Orleans, LA 70124). Competition will resume at 9 a.m. Saturday at City Park, with the semifinals and championship matches on Sunday at XU Tennis Center (3619 Pine St., New Orleans LA 70125).
XU sophomore Nour Abbes is the No. 1 women's singles seed, and junior teammate Brion Flowers is No. 8. Senior Nikita Soifer is No. 4 in men's singles. The women's doubles team of Abbes and senior Carmen Nelson is seeded fourth.
Abbes, 21-0 in her XU singles career, was the A-flight champion at the HBCU National Championships in Jonesboro, Ga., last week. Flowers and Kourtney Howell, a senior last year, won the 2013 South Regional doubles championship. Flowers is paired with redshirt freshman Dasia Harris this week.
Also competing will be the men's and women's teams of Auburn Montgomery, Belhaven, Georgia Gwinnett, Loyola, Point and William Carey, the women of Brenau and the men of Mobile. Georgia Gwinnett's men and women in May won the NAIA's national team championships.
The No. 1 men's seeds are Georgia Gwinnett's Jordan Cox in singles and Cox and Matias Hatem in doubles. Auburn Montgomery's Paula Diaz and Anna Rudolfova are the top-seeded women's doubles team.
Main-draw champions in singles and doubles will qualify for the USTA/ITA National Small College Championships at Sumter, S.C., from Oct. 9-12.
Tournament home page
Here's the complete list of seeds:
Men's Singles
1. Jordan Cox, Georgia Gwinnett
2. Nicolas Pinones, Auburn Montgomery
3. Matias Hatem, Georgia Gwinnett
4. Nikita Soifer, Xavier
5. Othmane Lalami, Auburn Montgomery
6. Birkir Gunnarsson, Auburn Montgomery
7. Ricky Keppeler, William Carey
8. Jefferson Nino, Belhaven
Women's Singles
1. Nour Abbes, Xavier
2. Valeria Podda, Georgia Gwinnett
3. Maria Perdomo-Medina, Brenau
4. Judith van Fraaijenhoven, Georgia Gwinnett
5. Alice Baudeign, Auburn Montgomery
6. Paula Diaz, Auburn Montgomery
7. Chiara Di Salvo, Georgia Gwinnett
8. Brion Flowers, Xavier
Men's Doubles
1. Jordan Cox-Matias Hatem, Georgia Gwinnett
2. Birkir Gunnarsson-Francisco Mendieta, Auburn Montgomery
3. Nicolas Pinones-Miguel Grifol, Auburn Montgomery
4. Nick Van Amerom-Marcio Dal Pont, Mobile
Women's Doubles
1. Paula Diaz-Anna Rudolfova, Auburn Montgomery
2. Valeria Podda-Chiara Di Salvo, Georgia Gwinnett
3. Maria Perdomo-Medina - Patricia Recalde, Brenau
4. Nour Abbes-Carmen Nelson, Xavier
Ed Cassiere, Sports Information Director
XULAATHLETICS
XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA
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