NEW ORLEANS – The Sun Belt Conference announced the winners of the league's 2020-21 postseason awards on Wednesday afternoon. The University of South Alabama women's tennis team landed a pair of individual awards and had four Jaguars earn All-Sun Belt honors.

Senior Yu Fujioka was named the Sun Belt's Women's Tennis Player of the Year for the second time in her career with the Jags. She was previously given the honor during her sophomore year in the 2018-19 season. Fujioka was also named to the first-team all-Sun Belt in singles. She currently holds an overall 15-4 record in singles this spring, with a 14-4 mark coming at the No. 1 position and eight victories ending in straight sets. The Funabashi, Japan, native has a 6-1 record in league play and is second in the Sun Belt in win percentage at the No. 1 flight (.857).

In singles, senior Nikola Kohoutova was named to the first-team all-Sun Belt in singles, while freshman Otoha Aoki was named Freshman of the Year and honored to second-team all-Sun Belt in singles. Kohoutova finished the season with a 14-4 overall singles record, with a 12-2 mark at No. 2 flight and nine wins finishing in straight sets.  The Kralupy nad Vltavou, Czech Republic, native played to a perfect 7-0 record in league play, with all seven wins coming on court two.

Freshman Otoha Aoki closed out the season with an overall 17-2 singles record, with 12 wins coming in straight sets. She went 9-0 in conference play for the league's best record and finished the season on an 11-match winning streak. The Komaki, Japan, native is top in the league at the No. 4 position with a 5-0 record and third (2-0) at the No. 5 position.

Doubles team Aoki and Aina Domingo-Bernabeu were selected as the league's first-team all-Sun Belt after their impressive performance this season. The doubles pair won nine of their 13 doubles matches this season at the No. 3 position. They also hold the best record in the league, with a perfect 7-0 record in conference play. 

Doubles team Kohoutova and Fujioka were one of the three teams selected as the second-team all-Sun Belt. The duo recorded an overall 12-4 record in doubles play with an 11-2 mark at No. 2. They currently have a 5-2 record in conference play with a .714 winning percentage.
 
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2020-21 SUN BELT WOMEN'S TENNIS POSTSEASON AWARDS
Individual Awards
Coach of the Year - Sean McCaffrey, Georgia Southern
Player of the Year - Yu Fujioka, South Alabama (Sr. Funabashi, Japan)
Player to Watch - Carla Pons, UT Arlington (Jr. Valencia, Spain)
Newcomer of the Year - Hana Kvapilova, Texas State (Sr. Usti nad Orlici, The Czech Republic)
Freshman of the Year - Otoha Aoki, South Alabama (Fr. Komaki, Japan)
 
First-Team All-Conference Singles
Yu Fujioka, South Alabama (Sr. Funabashi, Japan)
Hana Kvapilova, Texas State (Sr. Usti nad Orlici, The Czech Republic)
Somer Dalla-Bona, Coastal Carolina (Sr. Bokarina, Australia)
Nadja Meier, Georgia Southern (So. Potsdam, Germany)
Momoka Horiguchi, UT Arlington (Jr. Osaka, Japan)
Nikola Kohoutova, South Alabama (Sr. Kralupy nad Vltavou, Czech Republic)

First-Team All-Conference Doubles
Charlotte Van Diemen (Sr. Berkel and Rodenrijs, Netherlands) and Sophie Wagemaker (Fr.
Zuid-Scharwoude, Netherlands), Georgia Southern
María José Zacarias (Fr. San Luis Potosi, Mexico) and Ksenia Aleshina (Fr. Moscow Russia), App State
Otoha Aoki (Fr. Komaki, Japan) and Aina Domingo-Bernabeu (Fr. Barcelona, Spain), South Alabama

Second-Team All-Conference Singles
Otoha Aoki, South Alabama (Fr. Komaki, Japan)
Carla Pons, UT Arlington (Jr. Valencia Spain)
Victoire De Samucewicz, Coastal Carolina (So. Paris, France)
Matea Mihaljevic, Troy (Sr. Osijek, Croatia)
Floriane Picaut, Louisiana (Jr. Verrieres le Buisson, France)
Andreea Stanescu, Georgia State (Jr. Bucharest, Romania)

Second-Team All-Conference Doubles
Somer Dalla-Bona (Sr. Bokarina, Australia) and Jessie Mount (Sr. Melbourne, Australia), Coastal Carolina
Nikola Kohoutova (Sr. Kralupy nad Vltavou, Czech Republic) and Yu Fujioka (Sr. Funabashi, Japan) South Alabama
Floriane Picaut (Sr. Verrieres le Buisson France) and Clara Mantaux (Sr. Montbeliard, France), Louisiana