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RELMS, France- McNeese women’s tennis sophomore Salome Fluri has been selected to represent Switzerland at the upcoming Master’U BNP Paribas Championships in Relma, France scheduled for December 5-7.  This is the second consecutive year Fluri will take part in the championship.

In its 18th year, the Master’U BNP Paribas Championships is the world event of university tennis and features an eight-nation field.

At total of 34 current and former NCAA student-athletes will represent eight nations.  The nations include Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Switzerland, and the United State.  Each nation has players who are actively competing within their university.

These players will all be representing their country in a unique format of play where there will be two women’s singles matches, two men’s singles matches, one men’s doubles match, and one mixed doubles match.  The country that wins four of these seven matches is declared the winner and advances in the tournament.

Team Australia




Player
School




Catherine Aulia
Tennessee


Alex Bulte
Florida State


Melisa Ercan
Oklahoma State


Jeremy Jin
Florida


Nikita Volonski
Grand Canyon/Tulsa

Team Belgium




Player
School




Margaux Maquet
Charlotte/Alabama


Alessio Basile
Oklahoma State


Zian Vanderstappen
Oregon


Harold van Raemdonck
South Alabama

Team France




Player
School




Anaelle Leclercq
Ole Miss


Hugo Car
South Florida

Team Germany




Player
School




Julia Zhu
Kentucky


Anastasia Simonov
Denver


Benito Sanchez
Mississippi State


Alessio Vasquez
LSU


Jonas Hartenstein
Mississippi State/North Florida

Team Great Britain




Player
School




Grace Piper
USC


Sofia Johnson
Old Dominion


Finn Murgett
Auburn


Jamie Connel
Furman/Florida State


Oliver Okonkwo
Illinois

Team Ireland




Player
School




Breda Brennan
Wofford


Conor Gannon
Tennessee/Memphis


Freddy Murray
UNC Asheville/MTSU


Cian McDonnell
North Dakota/Hawaii Hilo

Team Switzerland




Player
School




Sophie Luscher
Oregon/Washington


Salome Fluri
McNeese State


Angelina Hug
UNC Asheville

Team United States




Player
School




Reese Brantmeier
North Carolina


Luciana Perry
Ohio State


Valerie Glozman
Stanford


Aidan Kim
Ohio State


Samir Banerjee
Stanford


Nicolas Kotzen
Columbia