ARKANSAS CITY, Kan. – Cameron tennis student-athletes began their fall season with the Tiger/Jinx Invitational over the weekend hosted by Cowley College and Southwestern College; a pair of Aggie doubles teams brought home medals from the event. 

Men's Draws  |  Women's Draws  |  Consolation Draws
 
The Division II fall tennis season is highlighted by the ITA Regional in late-September/early-October. Cameron tennis head coach Josh Cobble decided to give his squads a chance to tune-up for the big event this weekend in Kansas. 
 
Over the two-day invitational, Cameron's highlight came in both the men's and women's A draw. On the men's side, Carlos Vidal and Baptiste Mercier, listed as the two seed in the bracket, won all four of their matches on their way to claimed the draw win. Additionally, Joao Duleba and Thomas Guedes de Almeida also competed in the draw, but lost in the opening round. 
 
In the singles draw A, Vidal made it to the quarterfinals before falling in three sets, as did Almeida. The two seed, Mercier made it to the semifinals of the draw, falling 6-4, 6-3 to the Tigers' Boruch Skierkier. 
 
For the women, Vasilisa Polunova and Magda Wawrowska won three matches to make it to the final before falling to Cowley's Neyra and Koroleva, who knocked out CU's Julianne Garcia and Lia Woods in the quarterfinals. 
 
Polunova won her first match in the singles draw A and Garcia did the same for Cameron, but both fell in the next round. Wawrowska, Woods and Anshu Okamura all lost in the first rounds of their respective draws and were pushed to the consolation bracket. Okamura and Woods both ended up winning their bracket, while Wawrowska failed to win a match in singles. 
 
Cameron's next test is the previously mentioned ITA South Central Regionals. The women's event will take place in San Angelo, Texas, Sep. 23-25. The men will play in Wichita Falls, Texas, Sep. 30-Oct. 2.