LMU’s Hoffmann, Catawba’s Renteria Earn SAC Tennis Weekly Awards

ROCK HILL, S.C. – Lincoln Memorial senior Philipp Hoffmann and Catawba freshman Liz Renteria have been named the SAC Tennis Players of the Week, the league office announced on Monday.

Hoffmann led LMU to a pair of conference victories last week by going a perfect 4-0 combined in singles and doubles play.

Hoffman opened the week by picking up a pair of wins in the Railsplitters' 5-4 win over Anderson. He beat AU's Daniel Gonzalez, 6-2, 6-2, in the No. 1 singles position, and got an 8-4 doubles win with partner Alexey Minevskiy over the Trojans' Abdoulaye Camara and Jerome Branker in the No. 1 match.

The Kalsruhe, Germany native was also dominant in LMU's 6-3 Sunday win at Lenoir-Rhyne. He beat L-R's David Richardson, 6-2, 6-2, playing at No. 1 singles, and again teamed with Minevskiy to handle Filip Dobrosavljevic and Kilian Symalla, 8-3, in the No. 1 doubles match.

Hoffmann is now 5-0 in singles play and 3-2 in doubles matches on the season.

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Renteria, meanwhile, won four singles matches and two doubles contests for Catawba last week as the Indians went 3-1 as a team.

Renteria was perfect at the No. 1 singles position last week, getting wins over Carson-Newman's Stefy Stand, Tenn. Wesleyan's Ekaterina Vazhenkova, Mount Olive's Molly Sue Lentini and St. John Fisher's Katie Pasier.

The Mirimar, Fla.,native's doubles victories came alongside teammate Sloan Kessler at the No. 1 position against Carson-Newman's Stefy Stand and Patricia and St. John Fisher's Katie Pasier and Jenna Lerner.

In her first year on campus, Renteria is 13-2 in singles matches and 7-7 in doubles play so far this season.