Kyle McCann was solid on an east coast road swing and Petra Melounova dominated the competition on a trip to the mainland.

McCann Helps Highlanders To 5-1 East Coast Trip

UC Riverside junior Kyle McCann (San Jose, Calif./Los Alamitos HS) collected his second career Big West Men’s Tennis Athlete of the Week honor following a productive east coast roadtrip.

McCann helped the Highlanders to a 5-1 record on the trip that resulted in wins over North Carolina A&T, Methodist, Hampton, Norfolk State and North Carolina Central.

Playing between No. 2 and No. 3 singles, McCann reeled off six straight singles victories, including four in three sets.  He had a 6-2, 3-6, 6-4 victory over Norfolk State’s Flavian Fernandez in a 4-3 team triumph.

WIth partner Filip Engstrom at No. 2 doubles, McCann registered a 5-1 record.  They eked out a 7-6 (4) win over North Carolina Central’s Gabriel Cucalon and Sebastian Bromley.

Others nominated: Josh Ortlip (Cal Poly); Daniel Gealer (UC Irvine); Nicolas Moreno de Alboran (UC Santa Barbara); Felix Albert (Hawai‘i)

Melounova Leads Hawai‘i to Central Coast Sweep

For the third time this season, Hawai‘i sophomore Petra Melounova (Havlíckuv Brod, Czech Republic/Gymnazium Havlíckuv Brod) notched Big West Women’s Tennis Athlete of the Week accolades.

Melounova was dominant on a Central Coast road trip in which the Rainbow Wahine defeated Cal Poly (7-0) and UC Santa Barbara (4-2).  She went 2-0 at No. 1 singles and 2-0 at No. 2 doubles with partner Roxanne Resma.

She recorded identical 6-1, 6-1 victories over Cal Poly’s MacKenzie Worsnop and UCSB’s Palina Dubavets.  In keeping with the theme, Melounova and Resma posted identical 6-2 wins in both of their doubles matches.
 
Others nominated: Molly Reed (Cal Poly); Sarah Nuno (Cal State Fullerton); Natalia Munoz (Long Beach State); Nikita Pradeep (UC Davis); Amanda Atanasson (UC Santa Barbara)