The Georgia Gwinnett College men's and women's tennis teams begin the road toward another championship season as players will be competing in the Thomasville College (Ga.) Invitational and the Seahawk Fall Invitational University at the University of North Carolina Wilmington on Friday through Sunday, Sept. 13-15.

This action will open a busy fall portion of the 2019-20 season, with seven tournaments on the schedule. An interesting feature of this weekend's tournaments is that all matches will be contested on clay courts.

Both GGC teams are the defending NAIA championships, with players that earned individual national titles last fall.

The men's tennis team will be sending several singles players to Georgia and North Carolina, while the women's team will have four players competing in singles and doubles matches at Thomasville.




UNC Wilmington Draw

Junior Federico Bonacia is the top-seeded singles player at the UNC Wilmington invitational, facing No. 4-seeded Brian Berdusco of the University of Florida on Friday at noon. He and junior Valentino Caratini are the No. 4 doubles team in the field. They will play a team from the host Seahawks on Friday at 9 a.m. Caratini will play Breno Plentz of George Washington University in a match within the second singles flight.

Senior Federico Herrera Duran will face the Gators' Blaise Bicknell in the top singles flight, while sophomore Jose Dugo, the top seed in the second singles flight, will wait until Friday at 3 p.m. to play the winner of a first-round match between Timo Zgaggem of Virginia Commonwealth University and Grey Cacciatore from Florida.

Then, Duran and Dugo, the No. 4 seed in the second doubles flight, will open tournament play with a match against a team from UF.

Senior Sergio Valinotti is the No. 3-seed in the third singles flight. He will play the winner of a match between Daiki Tanabe of Coastal Carolina University and Federico Nani of the University of North Florida.

Meanwhile, in Thomasville junior Madeline Bosnjak is the top-ranked NAIA singles player, while senior Gabrielle Robinson and sophomore Tereza Koplova are also preparing to build off strong 2019 spring seasons.