{"id":502796,"date":"2026-02-25T09:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/502796\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T09:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:02:08","slug":"eagles-sweep-meac-weekly-tennis-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/502796\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles Sweep MEAC Weekly Tennis Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NORFOLK, Va. \u2013 The North Carolina Central men’s tennis team swept the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference weekly honors, announced Tuesday afternoon. Naresh Bharathy<\/a> was named Player of the Week, while Santiago Pinna<\/a> earned his second Rookie of the Week award.<\/p>\n

Bharathy went undefeated in singles and doubles last weekend, helping the Eagles go 2-0. At No. 1 singles, the senior posted a 6-2, 6-3 win over NC Wesleyan’s Indrek Raudkivi and followed with a three-set victory against Davidson’s Goyo Hidalgo.<\/p>\n

Teaming with Antoni Pankowski<\/a>, Bharathy also secured the doubles point in both matches, as the duo claimed victories at No. 2 doubles.<\/p>\n

Pinna improved to 3-2 in singles play with wins over the Bishops and Wildcats. The freshman defeated NC Wesleyan’s Julian Valverde 6-4, 6-1 and topped Davidson’s Daniel Cowan 6-1, 6-3.<\/p>\n

The Eagles travel to UNC Asheville on Saturday, Feb. 28, starting play at 1 p.m. <\/p>\n

For more information on NCCU Athletics, visit NCCUEaglePride.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Story Links NORFOLK, Va. \u2013 The North Carolina Central men’s tennis team swept the Mid-Eastern Athletic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-502796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502796","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=502796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}