{"id":936183,"date":"2026-10-21T22:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T22:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/936183\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T22:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T22:34:09","slug":"mens-tennis-to-compete-at-american-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/936183\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Tennis to Compete at American Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOCA RATON, Fla. \u2013 The Florida Atlantic&#8217;s men&#8217;s team duo of <a href=\"https:\/\/fausports.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/lucca-pignaton\/19416\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19416\" target=\"_blank\">Lucca Pignaton<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fausports.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/jose-david-segovia\/19419\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19419\" target=\"_blank\">Jose David Segovia<\/a> will represent the Owls in both singles and doubles play at the 2026 American Conference Championships, scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 22 through Sunday, Oct. 25 in Houston, Texas. Rice University will serve as the host site.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nPignaton, a junior and native of Brazil, will open play for the Owls with a first-round match versus Wichita State&#8217;s Pablo Roche Alcaya at 10 a.m. Thursday. The transfer Segovia earned a first-round bye and is slated to face Benjamin Martin of Memphis at 3:30 p.m. Thursday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe duo will first take the courts together with a doubles match scheduled for 9 a.m. Thursday.\u00a0 They are scheduled to play Tulane&#8217;s Alec Gaudin and Daniel Phillips.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nCHAMPIONSHIP INFORMATION<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fausports.com\/news\/2026\/10\/21\/2026%20Individual%20Tennis%20Championship%20Central%20&#x2013;%20American%20Conference\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Championship Homepage<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/colleges.wearecollegetennis.com\/Competitions\/ITA\/Tournaments\/Overview\/38a27f36-075b-45b9-a112-f44f78277ebe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ITA Homepage<\/a><br \/>\nTitle match to air on ESPN+ (All Sunday matches)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/riceowls.com\/sports\/2026\/4\/13\/tennis-live-12-court-config\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Live Scoring<\/a>, Thursday \u2013 Saturday matches<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFOLLOW ALONG<br \/>\nFollow the Owls socially, visit @faumtennis, or for the most up-to-date information, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fausports.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.fausports.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>#WIP<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOCA RATON, Fla. \u2013 The Florida Atlantic&#8217;s men&#8217;s team duo of Lucca Pignaton and Jose David Segovia will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":936184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-936183","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\/936183","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=936183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}