FRISCO, Texas – McNeese's Salome Fluri and Lamar's Rintaro Shukuda have won this week's Southland Conference Tennis Players of the Week awards, as announced by the Conference Office on Tuesday. Shukuda is a first-time winner while Fluri claims the honor for the second time in her career. 

Men's Player of the Week: Rintaro Shukuda, Lamar – Fr. — Sapporo Hokkaido, Japan
Shukuda has started the season with two singles wins and a doubles victory as the Cardinals have played a tough non-conference schedule to this point. Shukuda opened the year by defeating the No. 34 singles player in the country, Br. Hernandez Cortes, 1-6, 6-4, 6-4, in the season opener against No. 7 Mississippi State. Shukuda and Lamar have played three nationally ranked teams in their first seven matches, No. 7 Mississippi State and a doubleheader against No. 16 Baylor.
Honorable mention: Loic Young Kriegel, UTRGV | Josef Zapletal, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi)

Women's Player of the Week: Salome Fluri, McNeese –  So. – Lostorf, Switzerland (Kantonsschule Solothurn)
Fluri posted an overall 5-1 record last week.  She totaled a perfect 3-0 singles record in home wins over Alcorn and Lubbock Christian and a road win at Sam Houston.  Here singles wins extended her continuous singles winning streak to 22 matches dating back to Feb. 7 last season. She posted a singles set record of 6-1 winning two of the three matches in straight sets.In doubles, she and partner Erica Hagi posted a 2-1 record as the Cowgirls No. 2 doubles team. 
Honorable mention: Sonja Rooth, SFA

2026 Southland Tennis Players of the Week

Date	Men's Player of the Week	Women's Player of the Week
Feb. 3	Rintaro Shukuda, Lamar	Salome Fluri, McNeese

 

Southland weekly award winners are nominated and voted upon by each school’s sports information director. Voting for one’s own athlete is not permitted. To earn honorable mention, a student-athlete must appear on 25 percent of ballots.