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UMW’s Riordan, UCSC’s Yung Named C2C Tennis Players of the Week

UMW’s Riordan, UCSC’s Yung Named C2C Tennis Players of the Week

The Coast-To-Coast Athletic Conference (C2C) has announced its weekly awards following the ninth week of the 2026 spring tennis season.  Mary Washington's Jack Riordan claimed C2C Men's Tennis Player of the Week honors, while UC Santa Cruz's Lucy Yung was tabbed C2C Women's Tennis Player of the Week.

 

MEN'S TENNIS PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Jack Riordan, Mary Washington

Mary Washington junior Jack Riordan turned in a successful weekend, as #15 Mary Washington hosted seven top-25 schools this weekend. On Friday in UMW's 4-2 loss to #9 Carnegie Mellon, Riordan defeated Raghav Jangbahadur at three singles, 6-3, 6-3. On Saturday, he defeated John Wehrle of #22 Pomona Pitzer, 4-6, 7-5, 6-4, at three for the clinching point in a 4-2 Eagle victory. In addition, Riordan and freshman Ryan Gipner won their match at two doubles against Pomona Pitzer, with another, in a win over #17 Gustavus Adolphus, unfinished on serve at 3-4.

 

WOMEN'S TENNIS PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Lucy Yung, UC Santa Cruz

UC Santa Cruz freshman Lucy Yung went 3-0 in No. 2 singles on the weekend and 3-0 in No. 1 doubles, helping lead the Banana Slugs a perfect 3-0 weekend against North Park, North Central, and Lake Forest.

 

HONORABLE MENTION

MEN: Gurv Suri, Salisbury; Barrett Foster, Christopher Newport

WOMEN: Natalie Kim, Mary Washington; Kendal Chang, Christopher Newport

 

C2C HIGHLIGHTS

Salisbury's Gurv Suri went 2-1 in both singles and doubles play during the Sea Gulls' three-day, three-match weekend against Catholic, Stevens, and NYU. He and Aron Bursztyn won back-to-back first doubles tilts against Catholic (6-4), and Stevens (6-3). Suri followed that up with two straight-sets dubs in first singles against Catholic (6-2, 6-3) and Stevens [7-6 (7-5), 6-2]… Facing Virginia Wesleyan University, Christopher Newport grad transfer Barrett Foster won both of his matches to help CNU secure a 6-1 win. He paired with Vincent Truong for a 6-2 win at No. 1 doubles against Jed Platts and Ayaan Choudhary before also earning a win over Josh Buckland at No. 3 singles 6-1, 6-1… Mary Washington's Natalie Kim went undefeated this week for the 26th ranked Eagles, winning a pair of matches at two singles and one doubles, as the Eagles topped Washington College, 6-1, and were edged by #21 Swarthmore, 4-3. On Friday, she and Addison Felts won at one doubles against Washington, 6-4, before winning at two singles, 3-6, 6-0, 6-4. Then on Saturday Kim and Felts won at one doubles, 6-1, before Kim took a 1-6, 6-4, 6-4 win at two… Christopher Newport's Kendal Chang won two of her three singles matches this week in Atlanta as the Captains faced No. 29 Sewanee, No. 6 Johns Hopkins, and No. 11 Emory. Playing at No. 2 singles, Chang defeated Harper High (Sewanee) by a score of 6-3, 6-0 and Sahana Sanjeev (Johns Hopkins) in a 6-3, 6-2 final. She lost to Emory's nationally-ranked Iris Berman 3-6, 2-6 in the final match of the week. She dropped three doubles matches against three of the top pairs in the country including a 6-7 setback to Sewanee's Mariella Congeni and Ivy Wilson, a 2-6 loss to No. 1 Ava Li and Kamila Wong from Hopkins, and a 3-6 defeat against Emory's Emily Kantrovitz and Iris Berman.

 

PREVIOUS WINNERS

Feb. 16: M: Trevor Rein, Mary Washington; W: Kylie Schaefer, Christopher Newport

Feb. 23: M: Jack Riordan, Mary Washington; W: Evelyn Whiteside, Salisbury

March 2: M: Gurv Suri, Salisbury; W: Gibelle Beaujon, Salisbury

March 9: M: Ryan Gipner, Mary Washington; W: Addison Felts, Mary Washington

March 16: M: Asher Willenborg, Mary Washington; W: Kendal Chang, Christopher Newport

March 23: M: Asher Willenborg, Mary Washington; W: Gibelle Beaujon, Salisbury

March 30: M: Barrett Foster, Christopher Newport; W: Kylie Schaefer, Christopher Newport

April 6: M: Trevor Rein, Mary Washington; W: Addison Felts, Mary Washington

April 13: M: Jack Riordan, Mary Washington; W: Lucy Yung, UC Santa Cruz