TicketSmarter WAC Women’s Tennis Athletes of the Week Announced
DENVER – UT Rio Grande Valley’s Stefanie Wilske has been named the TicketSmarter singles Player of the Week with the Tarleton duo of Deniza Marcinkevica and Martha Makantasi claiming the doubles Team of the Week honors.
Wilske was undefeated in her three matches at the No. 5 singles position as the Vaqueros won each of their three team matches by a 4-3 count. Wilske started her week with a 6-1, 7-5 triumph against NJIT’s Advaita Saravanan. As WAC matches began over the weekend, the sophomore continued her winning ways with a 2-6, 6-3, 6-0 win against Sam Houston’s Isidora Zivkovic. Wilske concluded the weekend with a straight sets (6-1, 6-2) victory against Abilene Christian’s Ileana Mocciola.
Marcinkevica and Makantasi repeated as the conference’s Team of the Week. From their No. 1 position, the started the week with an unfinished match against the University of Pacific. After that match, they left no doubt in the result column. On Saturday the registered a 6-1 victory against the Lamar duo of Elena Tairyan and Alba Perez then followed with another 6-1 decision in their favor as they topped Stephen F. Austin’s Ai Noa Fabre and Zala Ule. As a team the Texans posted wins of 4-3 and 5-2 against Lamar and Stephen F. Austin respectively. The tandem is now undefeated in four matches together.