{"id":236579,"date":"2025-10-24T03:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/236579\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T03:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:11:07","slug":"mens-tennis-prepares-for-big-south-conference-fall-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/236579\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Tennis Prepares for Big South Conference Fall Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ASHEVILLE, N.C. &#8211; UNC Asheville Men&#8217;s Tennis prepares for the Big South Conference Fall Championships this weekend (Oct. 24-26). Winners clinch a berth in the ITA Conference Masters Championships.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nUNC Asheville at the Big South Conference Fall Championships | Oct. 24-26 | Rock Hill, S.C. | Rock Hill Tennis Center<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bigsouthsports.com\/sports\/2025\/9\/26\/MTEN_0926254756.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tournament Central<\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAbout the Bulldogs &#8211; Six Bulldogs return from a season ago including 2025 All-Conference Doubles selection <a href=\"https:\/\/uncabulldogs.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/cian-ingles\/4224\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4224\" target=\"_blank\">Cian Ingles<\/a>. The Bulldogs also add Division II transfer <a href=\"https:\/\/uncabulldogs.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/jip-mens\/4948\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4948\" target=\"_blank\">Jip Mens<\/a> and freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/uncabulldogs.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/daniel-franco-key\/4949\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4949\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Franco-Key<\/a>. Mens is the No. 9 seed in singles play, while <a href=\"https:\/\/uncabulldogs.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/daniel-franco-key\/4949\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4949\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Franco-Key<\/a> is the No. 16 seed. <a href=\"https:\/\/uncabulldogs.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/griffin-lovern\/4946\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4946\" target=\"_blank\">Griffin Lovern<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/uncabulldogs.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/cian-ingles\/4224\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4224\" target=\"_blank\">Cian Ingles<\/a> are the No. 8 seed in doubles play.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAbout the Tournament Field &#8211; The Bulldogs will face some tough competition throughout the conference in Bryant, Gardner-Webb, Longwood, NJIT and Presbyterian.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFrom Head Coach Dustin Hale &#8211; &#8220;We are looking forward to testing ourselves against the top players in the Big South. There are no easy matches or draws at this event, so we are looking forward to the challenge.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ASHEVILLE, N.C. &#8211; UNC Asheville Men&#8217;s Tennis prepares for the Big South Conference Fall Championships this weekend (Oct.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-236579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}