The document provides information about tennis players of the week in the Lone Star Conference. Julen Gutierrez of Cameron University was named men's player of the week after going 3-0 in both singles and doubles. Melany Opolz of Cameron University was named women's player of the week after contributing to the team's 3-0 record and notching key wins. The document also lists other top performers from Lone Star Conference schools and provides brief results from matches involving several conference schools.

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TENNIS PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
MEN’S
Julen Gutierrez, Cameron University, SO, Barcelona, Spain
Gutierrez went a perfect 3-0 in both singles and doubles this week, leading the Aggie men to a 2-1 record. The
sophomore started the week by winning 6-3, 6-3 at No. 3 against Emporia State. He then won in three sets, 7-6, 3-6, 10-
0, against Northwest Missouri's No. 3. Gutierrez was then a key cog in the CU's 5-4 upset of No. 9 Drury on Saturday. He
notched one of the Aggies' two singles wins, winning 6-1, 6-1 at No. 3. Gutierrez and Stefan Svicevic also went 3-0 as a
pairing playing at the No. 2 doubles spot.
WOMEN’S
Melany Opolz, Cameron University, FR, Ituzaingo, Argentina
Opolz was one of the key contributors in the Aggies 3-0 record last week. The freshman notched a 6-0, 6-3 win at No. 4
against Emporia State and then came back to win in three sets against Northwest Missouri. Opolz then recorded one of
her best wins of her young career with a two set win over Drury's No. 4 in the 7-2 upset of the No. 12 Panthers. She and
teammate Rebekah Velasova also went 2-0 in doubles play, winning 8-3 over Northwest Missouri's No. 3 pairing and 8-0
over Drury's No. 3 duo.
WEEKLY AWARDS
Men’s
F-22 Nolan McCaig, Midwestern State
M-1 Liam Fraboulet, Western New Mexico
M-8 Przemyslaw Zielinski, Cameron
M-14 Angel Palacios, Midwestern State
M-21 No nominees
M-28 Julen Gutierrez, Cameron
Women’s
F-22 No nominees
M-1 Alicia Barbaroux, Tarleton State
M-8 Zhenia Shviadok, Cameron
M-14 Maddy Coffman, Midwestern State
M-21 No nominees
M-28 Melany Opolz, Cameron
OTHER TOP PERFORMERS
Liam Fraboulet, Western New Mexico fought back in his match against Lucas Castelo Branco from Oklahoma Baptist
to win in three sets at the top flight, 6-7, 7-5, 7-5. He also added a pair of doubles victories at the top flight with
teammate Vladimir Gnilozubov as they defeated Oklahoma Baptist, 8-4 and then added an 8-6 win over the No. 37

2. ranked doubles team from MSU Denver. Fraboulet faced two other ranked singles players in the past week going against
No. 21 Eric Tseng from UC San Diego and No. 16 Josh Graetz from MSU Denver, falling in straight sets.
Angel Palacios, Midwestern State University, won his 13th-straight singles match, tying the second-longest winning
streak in program history with a 3-6, 7-5, 6-4 win over 31st-ranked Metro State's Daniel Lloerente on Saturday at the No.
3 line. Previously, Palacios bested 45th-ranked CSU-Pueblo's James Ryan, 6-1, 6-1, and Colorado Mesa's Lucas Martin, 6-
3, 6-2, leading MSU to a 3-0 weekend. In doubles, he and partner Alex Martinez Roca won their fifth-straight match
together in the finale over Metro State's Calum Hayes and Kacey Walisundara, 8-3.
Virginie Becht, Angelo State University, had a strong weekend as the Belles went 3-0 on a road trip through
Colorado, winning all three of her singles matches and two in doubles for a 5-1 record on the week. On Friday, she and
her partner were the only ASU pair to take a doubles point against Colorado Mesa. Then on Sunday, after the Belles got
in an early 0-3 hole, she helped the team come back, winning the ninth and final point for a 5-4 Angelo State win against
Metropolitan State-Denver.
Kaycie Cormier, Western New Mexico, picked up a singles win at No. 6 over Jaci Fulgenzi from the University of New
Mexico, 6-3, 6-3. She also faced another Division I opponent in Clarissa Jolley from Air Force and went against Linying
Xiao from MSU Denver. In doubles, she played with teammate Christine Roerick against all three teams at the No. 3
spot. She went 1-2 in singles and 0-3 in doubles for the week.
Alicia Barbaroux, Tarleton State University, continued her dominant sophomore season as she went 2-0 in No. 1
singles and 1-1 in No. 1 doubles in two matches last weekend against Texas A&M-Kingsville and No. 17 St. Edward's.
Barbaroux started the week in singles by beating Kingsville's Vic Romanovskaia 6-2, 6-4 and followed up by knocking off
the Hilltoppers' top player, Beth Hayward, in a 6-2, 2-6, 7-5 thriller. Her doubles win was an 8-4 victory alongside Sherine
Salem in a conference win against Kingsville. After the week, Barbaroux improved to 8-2 in No. 1 singles this season and
9-2 in No. 1 doubles with Salem.
Maddy Coffman, Midwestern State University, went a perfect 3-0 in both singles and doubles last week, earning her
10th win of the season in both, leading the Mustangs to a 3-0 week against RMAC foes. Coming in at No. 49 in the most
recent ITA Singles rankings, Coffman's weekend was highlighted by an upset of Colorado Mesa's 21st-ranked Kristen
Kirby in a 6-1, 6-3 decision at the No. 1 flight. Additionally, she knocked off CSU-Pueblo's Kali Hamilton, 6-1, 6-3, and
Metro State's Alex Pessoa, 6-4, 6-2. In doubles, she and partner Ashley Ramirez ranked No. 18 in the ITA polls while
winning their fourth-straight match together. The weekend was capped off with an 8-3 win over Metro State's
regionally-ranked team of Emily Kerr and Courtney Wright.
Viviana Ortiz, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, was instrumental in securing two wins for TAMUK over the week as
the Javelinas faced four opponents in five days. The Ecuador native was perfect in doubles play at 4-0 and helped secure
wins over Newman and North Central Texas. Ortiz teamed up with Victoria Romanovskaia and bested the D-I combo of
Helena Colvee and ELi Arnaudova from NMSU, 8-3, and followed up with an 8-4 win over Erika Johnston and Chrystalynn
Shirley from Tarleton State, an 8-5 win over Emily Wise and Mariana Gaviria from Newman and an 8-1 win over Beatriz
Galvez and Nathalie Wetherington from North Central Texas.
LSC NOTES (Submitted by LSC SID’s)
Angelo State
Cameron
Cameron's women went 3-0 this past week, winning 8-1 over Emporia State, 5-3 over Northwest Missouri, and 7-2 over
No. 12 Drury. The Aggie men's tennis team went 2-1 last week, beating Emporia State 6-3, falling to Northwest Missouri
5-3, and upsetting No. 9 Drury 5-4.
Midwestern State

3. Tarleton State
Texas A&M-Kingsville
UT Permian Basin
Western New Mexico
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