EDINBURG – The Western Athletic Conference announced on Tuesday that University of Texas Rio Grande Valley men's tennis junior Juan Cruz Soria has been named WAC Tennis Player of the Week.
 
Soria went undefeated on the weekend after going 3-0 in singles and 2-0 in doubles. He improved to a team leading 5-2 in singles on the season, while playing all of his matches at the No. 1 spot.
 
Soria defeated No. 3 Texas A&M's Aleksandre Bakshi 7-6, 3-6, 10-7 in the first of two singles matches on Friday. He then closed out his day with a 6-2, 7-5 win over Prairie View A&M's Christian Waldron. Soria returned home on Sunday to defeat Lamar's Michael Feucht 7-6, 6-4 as he recorded the lone point for the Vaqueros against the Cardinals.
 
In doubles, he teamed with freshman Yehonatan Kaufman for the first time this season as they defeated Prairie View A&M's Waldron and Sergio Avella 7-5. They remained unbeaten on the weekend after defeating Lamar's Jeandre Hoogenboezem and Nikita Lis 6-3 on Sunday.
 
It is the second straight week that the Vaqueros earn WAC Tennis Player of the Week after Kaufman earned the award last week.
 
The Vaqueros will be back in action on February 20 when they head to San Antonio to face the University of the Incarnate Word Cardinals and Our Lady of the Lake University Saints in a doubleheader.

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