The Tribune

BAHAMIAN tennis ace Christian Cargill is making his presence felt as a freshman and is having an immediate impact on the William and Mary Tribe men’s tennis programme.

This weekend at the ITA Atlantic Region Championship, Cargill pulled a stunning upset over No.29 nationally ranked Leo Stakhovsky of Penn State, 6-3, 6-2.

Stakhovsky was the tournament’s No. 3 seed after earning First Team All-Big Ten honours last season and receiving a bid to the NCAA Singles Championship.

In the round of 16, he will advance to face another Cavaliers product in No.9 seeded Luca Corinteli. Singles play resumes Sunday at 10:30am.

Cargill made William and Mary history as he earned the highest ranked win of any player this season. With the win he advanced to the round of 16 at the event, hosted by The University of Virginia Cavaliers at the Snyder Tennis Center in Charlottesville.

Cargill opened the tournament with he upset home-court favourite Jai Corbett of Virginia in three sets, 6-3,1-6, 6-3.

The singles and doubles winners of the ITA Atlantic Regional will earn a spot in the exclusion USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, New York, November 6-9.

Headed into college, Cargill was ranked a four-star recruit by the Tennis Recruiting Network and was ranked as high as No. 45 nationally by the same media outlet.

He was named the Player of the Year for Saddlebrook Tennis Academy during both his junior and senior years of high school and was rated No. 211 in the ITF World Junior RankingsIn 2014.

Prior to the start of his collegiate career, Cargill had a productive summer on the aforementioned ITF tour where he was a singles finalist at a Grade 4 ITF in Guatemala in March.

He also advanced to the singles quarter-finals in the Grade 3 ITF Costa Rica event in March and a doubles finalist at the Grade 4 Bahamas ITF in July. He is the son of Patrick and Susan Cargill and the younger brother of Ondre, who plays on the men’s tennis team at Temple.