BATON ROUGE — LSU women’s tennis head coach Tony Minnis will coach his Southern Girls 18s National Team at the USTA National Teams Championship match Friday at 10:30 a.m. CT in Novato, Calif.
The tournament is a competition held between each section — 17 total — to determine which area has the best talent in America.
Minnis’ team includes girls from the Southern section, which is comprised of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.
The team has been victorious in three rounds of matches as they defeated the Southwest section, 7-0, in the first round, the Intermountain section, 6-1, in the second round and the Southern California section, 4-3, in the third round.
The Southern section will face the Texas section in tomorrow’s championship match. To advance to the final round of the tournament Texas defeated the Florida section, 4-3, in round three.
This is the first time in 10 years that the Southern section has made it to the final round of the National Teams Championship.