BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. – The Mountain East Conference has announced the winners of this week’s Male and Female Tennis Player of the Week awards. The MEC Player of the Week awards are presented by The Health Plan.
 
Charleston’s Elias Lagger has been named the MEC Men’s Tennis Player of the Week while Fairmont State’s Maria Forsecca has been named the MEC Women’s Tennis Player of the Week.
 
Lagger, a junior from Austria, against Frostburg, Elias won his doubles match 6-0, and singles match 3-6, 6-3, 6-2. Against WV Wesleyan, he won his doubles 6-4 and his singles 6-3, 7-6.
 
Forsecca, a senior from Porto, Portugal, went 2-0 on the week as Maria Fonseca led the way with a 4-0 week. In the team's 5-2 win over West Virginia Wesleyan, Fonseca and Stephanie Gopar defeated Andrea Martinez Garrido/ Emilie Bergmann at No. 2 doubles, 6-3. At No. 1 singles, Fonseca bested Dominique Jansen van Vuuren, 6-4/6-4. The Falcons then swept West Virginia State, 7-0 as Fonseca and Gopar took down Talia Nichols/ Daniela Cruzado Fretel at No. 2 doubles, 6-3. Then at No. 1 singles, Fonseca defeated Maria Mercedes Kaltakian, 6-4/6-4.
 
2026 TENNIS PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
Male
2/9: Noah Liedtke, Fairmont State
2/16: Kusunoki Haruto, Fairmont State
2/23: Alberto Nordio, Charleston
3/2: Keagan Karungagran, Fairmont State
3/9: Felipe Mioch, West Virginia Wesleyan
3/16: Kusunoki Haruto, Fairmont State
3/23: Nils Potterbeck, Charleston
3/30: Christo Wirahadipoernomo, Davis & Elkins
4/6: Elias Lagger, Charleston
 
Female
2/9: Sara Martinez, Charleston
2/16: Sara Martinez, Charleston
2/23: Sara Martinez, Charleston
3/2: Julia Ramos Bentham, Frostburg State
3/9: Alyssa Kush, Frostburg State
3/16: Dominique Jansen van Vuuren, WV Wesleyan
3/23: Julia Ramos, Frostburg State
3/30: Sofiia Krasikova, Charleston
4/6: Maria Forsecca, Fairmont State