EL PASO, Texas – If the fall results have shown anything, the Tarleton tennis team has the talent and the will to defend its Western Athletic Conference regular season title.
 
This weekend, the Texans shined at the UTEP Invitational in El Paso, Texas, competing against UTEP, New Mexico, New Mexico State, UT Permian Basin and Weatherford College. Tarleton, who had all nine players participate in the three-day event from Friday-Sunday, went a combined 30-8, sporting a 22-4 singles record and an 8-4 doubles mark. With the event generally matching a team-vs.-team regular season style format, Tarleton defeated UTEP 5-2 on Day 1, Weatherford College 7-0 on Day 2, and New Mexico 5-2 on Day 3.
 
"What a great way to finish the fall season," head coach Elianne Douglas-Miron said. "Beating UTEP and New Mexico gave us a good understanding of where we are at and what we need to do in the offseason to get ready for January. We've seen 100 percent commitment to the team from all of our players this fall, and it has translated into the many wins at these tournaments. I'm very proud of our efforts and I'm excited we keep improving."
 
Five players went undefeated in singles, including Celia Vaudiau and Elif Albayrak, who also went unbeaten in doubles, each going 6-0 overall on the weekend. Eight of the nine Texans had winning records in singles, and three of their four pairs had winning records in doubles.
 
In singles, Vaudiau, Albayrak, Elsa Boisson, Ximena Morales and Clara Sobius each went 3-0, while Audrey Pacheco went 2-0. Martha Makantasi and Laure Razet each went 2-1, with Emma Persson finishing 1-2. In doubles, Vaudiau and Albayrak went 3-0 together. The pairs of Boisson-Morales and Sobius-Razet each went 2-1, with Makantasi and Persson going 1-2.
 
Vaudiau, who has rarely lost in any match dating back to last season, won her three singles matches against UTEP's Thassane Abrahim 6-4 3-6 6-3, Weatherford College's Telma Lorenzo Herreros 6-1 6-2, and New Mexico's Leonie Hoppe 6-1 6-0. She and Albayrak went 3-0 in doubles against UTEP's Elena Dibattista-Zuzanna Szczepanska 6-3, Weatherford College's Herreros-Amber Young 6-2, and New Mexico's Sarah O'Connor-Maria Sodre 7-6(6). Albayrak went unblemished in singles against UTEP's Paloma Hennicaux 6-3 6-3, Weatherford College's Lina Brandt 6-3 6-0, and New Mexico's Maud Vandeputte 6-3 6-0.
 
Boisson and Morales also each went 3-0 in singles while finishing 2-1 in doubles together. Boisson defeated UTEP's Dibattista 6-0 6-1, Weatherford College's Agathe Vaillant 6-3 6-3, and New Mexico's O'Connor 6-4 6-4, while Morales beat UTEP's Szczepanska 6-2 7-6, Weatherford College's Young 6-0 3-6 6-0, and New Mexico's Sodre 6-3 6-4. Together they defeated UTEP's Eve Daniels-Carlotta Mencaglia 6-4 and Weatherford College's Vaillant-Nicole Kells 6-0, losing to New Mexico's Hsuan Huang-Vandeputte 6-4.
 
Pacheco won both of her singles matches played on the weekend, defeating UTPB's Olga Guillamon 6-1 6-1 and UTPB's Briana Garcia 6-1 6-1.
 
Sobius went 3-0 in singles, Razet 2-1 in singles, and together went 2-1 in doubles. Sobius logged wins over New Mexico State's Georgia Townsend 6-1 6-4, UTPB's Viktoriia Sholudko 6-0 6-1, and New Mexico State's Dora Kurdi 6-4 6-1. Razet defeated UTEP's Daniels 6-4 6-2 and New Mexico State's Townsend 6-3 6-2, falling to New Mexico's Sofia Taborga 5-7 6-3 [8]. Together, they beat Weatherford College's Herreros-Young 6-3 and UTPB's Garcia-Sholudko 6-1, losing to New Mexico State's Kurdi-Melissa Cartis 4-6.
 
Makantasi went 2-1 in singles with wins over Weatherford College's Dari Sakhanova 6-2 6-1 and New Mexico's Katherine Jhang 6-1 6-4, falling to UTEP's Veronika Lebisova 2-6 6-0 4-6. Makantasi won a doubles match with Persson, defeating Weatherford College's Sakhanova-Brandt 6-0, falling to UTEP's Abrahim-Lebisova 1-6 and New Mexico's Jhang-Hoppe 4-6. In singles, Persson defeated Weatherford College's Kells 6-2 6-7 6-3, and lost to UTEP's Mencaglia 2-6 2-6 and New Mexico's Huang 5-7 0-6.
 
Tarleton will now await the spring portion of the season, which will begin in January. The Texans will announce their full remaining schedule soon.