RICHARDSON, Texas – The Cameron University women's and men's tennis teams swept the Lone Star Conference Player of the Week honors when they were announced on Thursday by the league office.
Zhenia Shviadok was named the LSC Women's Tennis Player of the Week and
Przemyslaw Zielinski was honored as the Men's Tennis Player of the Week. These are the first two weekly honors for the program this spring.
Shviadok, a junior from Brest, Belarus, went 3-1 this past week in singles, as Cameron went 2-2 against CSU-Pueblo, No. 18 Southwest Baptist, MSU-Denver, and No. 11 Northeastern State. The junior started out the week with a dominant 6-1, 6-1 win in the No. 1 singles spot against CSU-P. Against the ranked Bearcats, Shviadok recorded a 6-4, 6-4 win in the top singles spot. She saved her most impressive win for the final match of the weekend as she took down Metro State's Tabitha Porter, who is ranked No. 6 in the ITA singles rankings, 6-3, 6-3. Shviadok's one loss came against No. 23 Tatjana Stoll from NSU. She went 2-2 in doubles play last week.
Zielinski, also a junior from Szubin, Poland, led the Aggies, going 2-1 in singles play and 3-0 in doubles play last week. The CU No. 1 singles player started out with a 6-1, 6-1 win against No. 35 Thomas Pudney of CSU-Pueblo. Zielinski's one loss came against No. 6 Sherif Abohabaga of Southwest Baptist, 6-3, 6-2. He responded with a 7-5, 6-4 win over MSU-Denver's No. 1 player. Zielinski also teamed up with
Mateo Velasco to get wins in the No. 1 doubles spot in all three of CU's matches.
Shviadok and Zielinski will lead their teams back onto the courts this weekend, as they travel to San Antonio, Texas to take on St. Marys for a pair of matches starting at 9:30 a.m.