TYLER, Texas – There are nine men from Midwestern State in the 60-player singles draw for the 2026 ITA Division II South Central Regional Championship hosted by UT Tyler. The first round of the tournament gets underway on Thursday. The tournament runs through Sunday and includes a consolation bracket.

The Mustangs have three of the top 16 seeds in the singles draw. No.-4 seed Bruno Sanchez has a bye into the second round and faces either Victor Velter of St. Mary's or Juan Luis Aguirre of UT Dallas in the second round. Filip Vacula is seeded No. 7 and meets Alexandre Sulpicy of UT Dallas in his first-round match. Jose Portillo is the No. 12 seed and opens against Andrea Rossi Principe of Lubbock Christian in the first round.

Tomas Leguizamon is with Sanchez in the top half of the draw and tangles with No. 8-seeded Abubakari Yakubu Lea of Cameron in the first round. Marco Sampol Valverde is squaring off with Leonardo Fabbri of St. Mary's in the opening round.  Martin Pagés plays Enrique Silveria of UT Permian Basin in his first-round match. 

Jack Franklin joins Vacula and Portillo in the bottom half of the draw and sees Nikita Gavrilonoks of St. Mary's in his first match of the tournament.  Rynard van der Laan draws the No. 11 seed from UT Permian Basin in the first round — Lucas Nakasoto. Ceaser Loeches Llamas takes on Tom Debonne of Cameron in the opening round. 

Midwestern State has four of the 30 doubles teams competing this week, including the No. 3-seeded pairing of Sanchez and Vacula. The MSU duo opens with Lucas Yamaguti and Jack Hansen Ratter of UT Permian Basin in the top half of the draw. 

Pagés and Sampol Valverde are also in the top half of the draw and meet Zoheir Fardoun and Tom Debonne of Cameron in the first round. 

Portlillo and Loeches Llamas are matched up against the No. 5-seeded pairing from UT Permian Basin — Nehal Naidoo and Joao D'Amorim — in the bottom half of the draw. Franklin and van der Laan battle Leonardo Fabbri and Prateek Singla in a first-round match.

The top-two seeds in the doubles draw receive a first-round bye.