{"id":392169,"date":"2026-04-14T20:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T20:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/392169\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T20:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T20:59:09","slug":"drapeau-earns-caa-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/392169\/","title":{"rendered":"Drapeau earns CAA Player of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     BUIES CREEK, N.C. \u2013 Campbell senior <a href=\"https:\/\/gocamels.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/thomas-drapeau\/10890\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10890\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Drapeau<\/a> was named the CAA Men&#8217;s Tennis Player of the Week, the conference announced Tuesday afternoon.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nDrapeau went 2-0 at No. 1 singles this week, helping the Camels to two important conference victories in the final week of the season over Charleston (4-3) and N.C. A&amp;T (5-2).<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nWith the match against Charleston tied at 3-3, the senior edged Jakub Solarski, 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (5) to give the Camels the win. He followed by beating A&amp;T&#8217;s Jindrich Brill, 6-3, 6-4 for his team-best 11th singles victory. Drapeau finished the regular season 4-1 against CAA competition, all at No. 1 singles.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nDrapeau and partner <a href=\"https:\/\/gocamels.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/aleksandar-hudjec\/10895\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10895\" target=\"_blank\">Aleksandar Hudjec<\/a> also clinched the doubles point against the Aggies with a 6-4 triumph at No. 2.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nDrapeau now leads the Camels into the CAA tournament, which begins on Friday in Williamsburg, Va. The Camels are the No. 3 seed and will face off against the host team, six-seed William &amp; Mary in the quarterfinals.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFollow the Camels on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cutennis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GoCamelsTennis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/gocamelsmtennis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a> for up-to-date information and content throughout the year.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; BUIES CREEK, N.C. \u2013 Campbell senior Thomas Drapeau was named the CAA Men&#8217;s Tennis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-392169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}