WICHITA FALLS, Texas – Midwestern State had players reach the final in five of eight singles flights at the Midwestern State Invitational, and three Mustangs won their respective flights. In doubles, five pairings donning maroon and gold reached the final in three of the four flights.
Victoria Vieten won all three of her matches in the women's singles Blue Flight, while Camila Garcia won the Red Flight in women's singles. Cesar Loeches Llamas went through the men's Green Flight undefeated.
Vieten won her first two matches in straight sets before outlasting Ilona Hernandez Sanchez in the final, 6-3, 6-1, (10-3).
Garcia defeated Madalyn Smelley of St. Mary's in the final, 6-3, 6-1, after winning a match tiebreak against Jasel Bailey of Washburn in the semifinal, 6-2, 2-6, (10-7).
Loeches Llamas also won a match tiebreak in the semifinals, eliminating Andres Serrano of Cameron 6-7 (5), 6-3, (14-12). Nikita Gavrilonoks of St. Mary's took the first set of the final 6-0, but Loeches Llamas won the second set 6-1 and prevailed in the match tiebreak (10-4).
Bruno Sanchez won his first two matches in straight sets but was defeated in the men's singles Blue Flight final by Kilian Martinez of Washburn, who also eliminated Filip Vacula from the East draw stage with 6-4, 6-1 victory. Martinez defeated Sanchez, 6-1, 6-2.
Shiori Takeda of St. Mary's won back-to-back matches against Mustangs in the women's singles Green Draw. Takeda eliminated Jasmine Crain in the semifinals, 6-4, 6-3, and squeaked by Ekin Ozmen in the final, 7-5, 7-6 (3).
Sanchez and Filip Vacula defeated Tom Debonne and Zoheir Fardoun of Cameron, 6-3, in the men's doubles Blue Flight final. The Mustangs abandoned the Red Flight final after Tomas Leguizamon and Marc Sampol Valverde reached the final from the top half of the draw, and Rynard van der Laan and Jack Franklin came through in the bottom half of the draw.
Vieten and Garcia advanced to the women's Blue Flight final along with teammates Alessia Dolce and Emilia Gyorgy, and the final match was abandoned.
Midwestern State hosted St. Mary's, Cameron and Washburn for the compass-draw event, which featured 32 men's singles players and 29 women's singles players competing in four flights for both genders. There were two flights of doubles for both men and women. There were 15 doubles teams on the men's side and 14 doubles teams on the women's side.
The ITA South Central Regional for both men and women is scheduled for Oct. 22-25 in Tyler, Texas.
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