FORT MYERS, Fla. – After playing through constant winds all morning and afternoon, the FGCU women's tennis team capped off day two at the FGCU Invite with a pair of singles titles as Joselyn Treyes Albarracin defeated teammate Julia Ascúa in the 'B' draw championship and Julianna Curtis downed Jaide Collins of St. John's in the 'C' draw finals.
 
"Today was a really good day of competition for the ladies," said FGCU head coach Courtney Vernon. "We faced a lot of adversity with the wind and hopefully learned from those challenges. We won two of the three flights in singles play and made some good steps today. We're looking forward to playing again tomorrow."
 
After going 2-0 during the opening day of spring competition on Saturday, both Ascúa (Santa Fe, Argentina/Domingo G. Silva) and Treyes Albarracin (Guayaquil, Ecuador/InterAmerican Academy) won their semifinal matches in straight sets. The Ecuador native defeated St. John's Zofia Stanisz 6-1, 6-1, while fellow freshman Ascúa downed Tjasa Jerse of Southern Miss 6-1, 6-4 to set up the all-FGCU final match. Treyes Albarracin got the best of her teammate in the finals as she defeated Ascúa 6-2, 6-1 to claim the singles title.
 
Curtis (Tampa, Fla./Allendale Academy), who entered the 'C' draw championship after also going 2-0 in singles play on Saturday, defeated Collins in the final match and claimed her singles title after posting identical sets of 6-2, 6-2.
 
In 'A' draw singles play, both Elizabeth Means (Washington, D.C./Wiregrass Ranch HS) and Breana Stampfli (Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago/St. Joseph's Convent) dropped hard-fought matches. Means forced a tiebreak in her first set against Carolin Drescher of Southern Miss but ultimately lost 7-6, 6-4, while Stampfli fell in three sets to Arkansas State's Julie Gauguery, 6-3, 6-7, 10-5.
 
Doubles competition took place in the afternoon as Stampfli paired with Laura Falceto Font (Zaragoza, Spain/El Pilar Maristas Zaragoza) and advanced to Monday's 'B' draw finals. The duo were knotted in a 1-1 match with Southern Miss' Jerse and Elena Roca before the Golden Eagle duo retired due to an injury and paved the way for the Green and Blue tandem to make a championship appearance. Additionally, the FGCU teams of Curtis/Treyes Albarracin and Ascúa/Means dropped their doubles matches to duos from St. John's.
 
SUNDAY RESULTS
'A' Draw Singles – Consolation
Drescher (So. Miss) def. Means (FGCU): 7-6, 6-4
Gauguery (ASU) def. Stampfli (FGCU): 6-3, 6-7, 10-5

'B' Draw Singles – Semifinal
Ascua (FGCU) def. Jerse (So. Miss): 6-1, 6-4
Treyes Albarracin (FGCU) def. Stanisz (SJU): 6-1, 6-1
 
'B' Draw Singles – Final
Treyes Albarracin (FGCU) def. Ascua (FGCU): 6-2, 6-1
 
'C' Draw Singles - Final
Curtis (FGCU) def. Collins (SJU): 6-2, 6-2
 
'A' Draw Doubles - Quarterfinal
Collins/Morozova (SJU) def. Curtis/Treyes Albarracin (FGCU): 6-1
 
'A' Draw Doubles – Consolation
Arranz/Preotescu (SJU) def. Ascúa/Means (FGCU): 6-3

'B' Draw Doubles – Semifinal
Falceto Font/Stampfli (FGCU) def. Jerse/Roca (So. Miss): 1-1; retired due to injury

Tomorrow's competition is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. with two rounds of doubles play, followed by a sign-up to play singles session.

UP NEXT
Following the FGCU Spring Invite, the Eagles will start the dual season as they host in-state rival FIU at the FGCU Tennis Complex on Saturday, Jan. 23 at 1 p.m. FGCU is 1-3 all-time against FIU, with their lone win coming in 2013. It will mark the second time the Panthers have traveled to Fort Myers this season as they also competed in the Bedford Cup in October.
 
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HEAD COACH COURTNEY VERNON
FGCU's women's tennis team is led by Courtney Vernon, whose second season under the helm saw the Eagles finish third in the conference standings with the program's first-ever appearance in the Atlantic Sun Championship Final. She has produced nine A-Sun All-Conference selections and the 2014 A-Sun Freshman of the Year. She has led the Green and Blue to a 24-20 overall record (.545) and 10-4 conference record (.714) in her two years at FGCU.
 
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