NATCHITOCHES, La. – For the second year in a row in the second annual SLC Fall Individual Championships, the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi men's tennis team have produced the doubles bracket champions as
Matthieu Coignet and
Mikel Garmendia won the title Friday.
Coignet and Garmendia were the No. 3 seed entering the weekend and started by surging past No. 2 Lamar's team of Fabian Anthin and Leon Nickel 6-3, 6-4. They faced No. 1 Alejandro Hernandez and Emilio Vila of UIW in the championship match, carrying that success over with a hard fought 6-3, 6-7, 10-4 triumph.
It came just a few days after the pairing posted a semifinal finish at ITA Texas Regionals by defeating the nation's No. 1 doubles pair from Baylor. They also defeated the doubles pair from #8 Texas A&M and #9 TCU during their run earlier this week.
The duo has now earned the league's automatic qualifier to the 2025 ITA Conference Masters Championship on Nov. 6-9. From this, three doubles teams will qualify for the NCAA Doubles Championship through the Conference Masters (champion, finalist, third place).
It is the second year the Islanders sends a men's doubles team to the ITA Fall Masters after now-graduated
Tom Berry/
Harry Fouzas stormed through the 2024 SLC Individual Championships for the berth.
The women nearly accomplished the same feat, as the pairing of
Yana Mykytyn and
Kseniya Ramanouskaya reached the championship match after defeating UTRGV's Rhea Makesar/Mariia Bakhtina and Southeastern's Bente Bierma/Paige Duncan. In the finals, they fell just short in three-sets to the top-seeded pairing of Ksenia Mamontova/Jemma Cave from SFA.
The full tournament results from the weekend can be viewed
here.
A&M-Corpus Christi Tennis
- 17 NCAA Tournaments
- 37 SLC Championships
- 4 Top-40 National Rankings
- 3.0 GPA 45 Straight Semesters
- Islanders have received a No. 3 seed at the NCAA Tournament three times
- Women's tennis has cracked the ITA top-75 national rankings three times
- Men's tennis has cracked the ITA national rankings 10 consecutive years
- Ranked nationally in NCAA DI as high as No. 35 for the men and No. 60 for the women
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