Men's Draw
Women's Draw
SPARTANBURG, S.C. - The USC Aiken men's and women's tennis teams
will open their 2010 fall schedules by participating in the USC
Upstate Fall Classic at the USC Upstate Tennis Complex.
The event will begin on Friday, Sept. 17, at 10 a.m. and it will
conclude on Sunday, Sept. 19.
Joining USC Aiken at this weekend's tournament will be Anderson
College, Armstrong Atlantic State, Augusta State, Campbell,
Clemson, ETSU, Davidson, Furman, Kennesaw State, Lenoir-Rhyne,
Presbyterian College, South Carolina, USC Upstate and Wofford.
The event will feature three singles draws (A, B and C) and two
doubles draws (A and B).
USC Aiken's 2009 women's tennis team closed
last year with a 9-11 record. The Pacers finished their conference
season with a mark of 4-8. The four wins in league play helped the
Pacers reach at least four wins in league action for the third time
in the last four years.
The Pacers concluded the 2010 year with three student-athletes
being named to the 2010 Peach Belt Conference Women's Tennis
All-Academic team with Stephanie Humphrey (Harpenden, England/Sir
John Lawes) and Brittany Telford (Newmarket, Canada/Huron Heights)
earning first team plaudits. Mathilde Grenet (Doumont, France/Lycee
George Sand) was chosen to the second team. All three are two-time
winners of the award as they were also named All-Academic by the
PBC after the 2009 season.
The USC Aiken men's tennis team was ranked in the top 30
by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association for all of the 2010
season. The Pacers were ranked as high as 17th
nationally.
Playing one of the toughest schedules in all of NCAA Division II
tennis, USC Aiken was able to make its fifth consecutive NCAA
regional appearance. The Pacers bowed out in the first round, but
still finished the year with a very respectable 11-12 overall
record. In the toughest tennis league in all of NCAA Division II,
USC Aiken finished with a 2-7 mark in the Peach Belt
Conference.
One of the brightest spots for USC Aiken in the 2010 year was
the play at No. 1 doubles. Gregory Andrade (Sao Paulo,
Brazil/Sergio D'Amorim) and Juan Xavier Ponce (Miami, Fla. /Drury
University) were chosen to the Intercollegiate Tennis Association
All-America team and they ended the year with an 18-5 record.
Ranked as high as seventh nationally, Andrade and Ponce won 11
straight matches at one point during the 2010 season.
USC Aiken's Filipe Garcia (Valinhos, Brazil/Unigrade
Valinhos) and Juan Guglielmeti (Mar del Plata, Argentina/Instituto
Albert Einstein) were both tabbed to the 2009-10 Peach Belt
Conference Men's Tennis All-Academic team. Garcia was tabbed
as a first team selection, while Guglielmeti, was placed on the
second team.
