SAVANNAH, Ga. – September 22-24, 2007 – For the second straight fall, the Clayton State Laker women’s tennis doubles duo of Julia Chergova and Anna Redecsi is on top at the ITA Division II Mid-Atlantic Regional.

The Laker duo successfully repeated as doubles champions at the ITA Mid-Atlantic Regional on Monday after a weekend of near-flawless tennis. Chergova and Redesci defeated Francis Marion’s Sarka Vitkova and Jenny Ludwig 8-2 in the final match. The victory advances Chergova and Redecsi again to the ITA Division II National Championships, which be in Mobile, Ala., on Oct. 11-14.

Last season, Chergova and Redecsi advanced to the championship finals before falling to West Florida’s Tammy Kevey and Mandy Septoe.

As the top-seeded team in women’s doubles championship division, Chergova and Redecsi breezed through the early rounds. They opened with an 8-1 victory over Nicholi Marsh and Hayley Sayer from Lander, followed by an 8-3 victory over Augusta State’s Biancaa Machado and Laura Ferreia in the second round.

Advancing to the third round, Chergova and Redecsi defeated the USC-Aiken team of Kristin Hunter and Mathilde Grenet 8-2 to advance to the semifinals against Armstrong Atlantic’s fourth-seeded team of Martina Beckmann and Alida Muller-Wehlau. In what was one of the more exciting matches in the draw, Chergova and Redecsi earned the berth in the finals with a thrilling 9-7 victory.

Chergova and Redecsi weren’t the only Clayton State players that were victorious on Monday.

In the women’s singles "B" draw, the Lakers’ Veronika Jasenovcova knocked off USC-Aiken’s Marianna Blattes 6-2, 6-4 in the finals, while Jasenovcova teamed with freshman Allison Evans to win the women’s doubles "B" draw with an 8-4 victory over Blattes and Brittany Telford from USC-Aiken.