LAKE CHARLES, La. – Day One of the 2026 Southland Conference Individual Tennis Championships wrapped up on Friday afternoon, with six women’s matches taking place. The event is being hosted at the Nancy Hank Tennis Center, the home courts of the McNeese programs.
 
SFA senior Ana Paula Chavez defeated UTRGV’s Luna Buijtenhuijs 7-5, 6-0 in the first singles match of the day, earning her way to the semifinal round on Saturday. Leticia Tarocco of TAMUCC knocked off Nicholls junior Blanca Losada 6-1, 6-2 to punch her ticket to the semifinal round, where she will meet Lamar’s Arina Gudovskaya, who advanced with a 6-1, 4-6, 7-6 victory over Southeastern’s Mariam Makashvili.
 
In doubles play, the SLU tandem of Mariam Tetradze and Kennedy Hutto picked up 4-6, 6-4 (10-8) victory to advance to Saturday’s semis, where they will face top-seeded Yana Mykytyn and Kseniya Ramanouskaya of Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. SFA’s Avery Kinsey and Juliane Kochinski picked up the win in the #3/#6 matchup, and they will face off with the McNeese duo of Ana Hollweg and Elena Morales in the other semifinal matchup.
 
To view results from Friday’s action, please click here. To follow along with live results for the rest of the weekend, please click here for Saturday and here for Sunday.
 
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24
10:00 a.m. – Singles Play
- Women’s Semifinal: #1 Salome Fluri (McNeese) vs. Ana Paula Chavez (SFA)
- Women’s Semifinal: Leticia Tarocco (TAMUCC) vs. Arina Guovskaya (LU)
 
12:00 p.m. – Doubles Play
- Women’s Semifinal: #1 Mykytyn/Ramonouskaya (TAMUCC) vs. Tetradze/Hutto (SLU)
- Women’s Semifinal: Kinsey/Kochinski (SFA) vs. Hollweg/Morales (McNeese)