Tennis: UNLV players headed to NCAA tournaments

Friday, May 4, 2001 | 10:33 a.m.

UNLV will send a representative to both the men's and women's NCAA tennis tournaments for the first time since 1998.

Senior Nenad Zivkovic, ranked 87th nationally but second in the region, earned his first bid to the national singles tournament. The native of Belgrade, Serbia, went to the 1999 doubles event with Gregor Skorin, and lost in the first round.

Zivkovic posted a record of 17-10 overall this season and stands 54-49 in his career. The men's singles tournament will run from May 24-28 in Athens, Ga.

On the women's side the team's No. 1 player, Paulina Janus, received an at-large bid into the NCAA's 64-player draw.

Janus, a sophomore from Warsaw, Poland, transferred to UNLV this spring from Azusa Pacific. She earned her spot by going 16-11 overall, including a late-season surge that saw her win 10 of 11.

The women's tournament runs from May 21-25 in Stone Mountain, Ga.

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