ATLANTA, Ga. –On Friday, the Southern Athletic Association (SAA) announced the 2018 All-SAA Men's Tennis awards. The award winners were selected exclusively by the league's head coaches.
Seniors
Alex Centurion and
Diego Marti-Vertiz along with junior
Davis Plummer all earned spots on the All-SAA First Team. Millsaps was the only school in the conference to have multiple first team selections.
For Centurion it was the fourth time earning an all-conference designation from the league. He was Second Team All-SAA in both 2015 and 2016. In 2017 he was First Team All-SAA. This season he finished the year 30-8. He was 16-2 in doubles and 14-6 in singles. Inside the SAA he was an outstanding 7-1 in doubles and 6-2 in singles, with the only two losses coming at the hands of the conference champions Sewanee.
Centurion and Plummer are the number two ranked doubles combination in the Atlantic South region according to the most recent Oracle/ITA Division III Men's Rankings, and Plummer joined Centurion on the All-SAA First Team. For the junior it is his second consecutive year on the All-Conference team. Last season he was All-SAA Second Team. In 2018 Davis finished with a 30-6 overall record. He was 14-4 in singles and 16-2 in doubles. Inside conference play he posted a mark of 7-1 in doubles and 6-1 in singles.
Rounding out the selections for the Majors was Marti-Vertiz. Diego has had one of the most decorated careers of any men's tennis player to come through Millsaps, and he caps of that career with his fourth consecutive All-SAA First Team selection. He ranks as the number sixteen individual player in the Atlantic South after putting together a 22-14 record this season. He was 10-9 in singles and 12-5 in doubles. Inside the SAA he finished 3-5 singles and 7-3 in doubles.
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