University of North Carolina Ashville Athletics
Bierbaum and Patten Collect Weekly Awards from Big South Conference
03.27.2019 | Men's Tennis
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – UNC Asheville swept the Big South Men's Tennis weekly awards this week with Henry Patten named Player of the Week and Leo Bierbaum chosen Freshman of the Week.
The league office made the official announcement on Wednesday, March 27, 2019.
Patten has now been named Big South Men's Tennis Player of the Week twice in the 2019 spring season.
Patten was named Player of the Week three times last season. He garnered weekly laurels on Feb. 27, 2018, March 28, 2018 and April 4, 2018. Patten also garnered Player of the Week honors from the league office twice in 2017 (Feb. 1 and March 8).
In total, Patten has collected weekly plaudits from the conference office nine times in his career. He was also named Freshman of the Week twice (March 30 and April 6) in the 2016 season.
Bierbaum's honoring is the first of his career.
Patten opened up league play last week a perfect 2-0 in singles and doubles. In singles, Patten bested Radford's No. 1 Yevhen Sirous 6-1, 6-2. The next day he downed Winthrop's No. 1 Diego Quieroz 6-0, 6-7, 6-3.
In doubles, the Manningtree, Essex, United Kingdom native teamed with Olly Cull to down Radford's No. 1 doubles duo of Sirous and Rodrigo Magalhaes 6-1 before collecting a 6-3 win over Winthrop's No. 1 doubles duo of Gabriel Dias and Aditya Gokhale.
Patten has 11 wins already this season in singles and doubles.
Bierbaum was an impressive 2-0 last week for the Bulldogs to open league play. The Nürnberg, Germany native first bested Andres Silva of Radford 6-2, 5-7, 6-1 at No. 6 singles. He followed that up with a 7-6, 7-6 win over Lluis Miralles of Winthrop at No. 6 singles.
Bierbaum is 10-2 on the season in singles.
UNC Asheville men's tennis hosts USC Upstate at 3 p.m. today (Wednesday, March 27) at the Asheville Racquet Club Downtown.
The league office made the official announcement on Wednesday, March 27, 2019.
Patten has now been named Big South Men's Tennis Player of the Week twice in the 2019 spring season.
Patten was named Player of the Week three times last season. He garnered weekly laurels on Feb. 27, 2018, March 28, 2018 and April 4, 2018. Patten also garnered Player of the Week honors from the league office twice in 2017 (Feb. 1 and March 8).
In total, Patten has collected weekly plaudits from the conference office nine times in his career. He was also named Freshman of the Week twice (March 30 and April 6) in the 2016 season.
Bierbaum's honoring is the first of his career.
Patten opened up league play last week a perfect 2-0 in singles and doubles. In singles, Patten bested Radford's No. 1 Yevhen Sirous 6-1, 6-2. The next day he downed Winthrop's No. 1 Diego Quieroz 6-0, 6-7, 6-3.
In doubles, the Manningtree, Essex, United Kingdom native teamed with Olly Cull to down Radford's No. 1 doubles duo of Sirous and Rodrigo Magalhaes 6-1 before collecting a 6-3 win over Winthrop's No. 1 doubles duo of Gabriel Dias and Aditya Gokhale.
Patten has 11 wins already this season in singles and doubles.
Bierbaum was an impressive 2-0 last week for the Bulldogs to open league play. The Nürnberg, Germany native first bested Andres Silva of Radford 6-2, 5-7, 6-1 at No. 6 singles. He followed that up with a 7-6, 7-6 win over Lluis Miralles of Winthrop at No. 6 singles.
Bierbaum is 10-2 on the season in singles.
UNC Asheville men's tennis hosts USC Upstate at 3 p.m. today (Wednesday, March 27) at the Asheville Racquet Club Downtown.
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