TicketSmarter WAC Tennis Athletes of the Week Announced
DENVER – Grand Canyon's singles player Lorenzo Fucile and doubles team Lorenzo Fucile and Can Franke have been named
the TicketSmarter Western Athletic Conference Tennis Players of the Week for Jan. 6 - 12.
Fucile, a senior from Messina, Italy, went undefeated in singles, earned two wins while in Utah. On day one at Utah State, he
collected a win over Utah State's Sergiu Bucur (6-3, 6-1). Day two Fucile and the Lopes were in Ogden, Utah when Fucile won
his second win of the weekend against Kris Van Wyk (6-7, 7-6, 1-0 (10-7)).
Fucile and teammate Franke, a freshman from Bad Sooden-Allendorf, Germany, collected wins on both of thier doubles matches.
These two are new doubles partners and the senior-freshman duo have shown that they work well beside each other. The
duo earned their first win over Utah State's Sergiu Bucur and Roko Savin defeating them 6-4. The second win was gained from
defeating Weber State's Serafim Arthur and Cezary Walkusz 6-2.
Other male singles nominee: Seattle U's freshman Lars Schmassmann strong in his match, but ended up losing 4-6, 1-6
Other male doubles nominees: Seattle U's Colton Weeldreyer and Emilio Monroy played hard together but fell 3-6