TEANECK, N.J. -- The Fairleigh Dickinson men's and women's tennis teams will return to action this weekend with the men's team traveling to Flushing Meadows, N.Y. for the USTA NTC Invitational and the women's team heading to West Point, N.Y. to play in the Army Invitational. Both competitions are scheduled to begin on Friday, Sept. 21, and run through Sunday, Sept. 23. 

The men's team opened the season last weekend at the Farnsworth/Princeton Invitational highlighted by sophomore Arvis Berzins (Adazi, Latvia/Riga Language School) taking down Jonathan Ho at Wake Forest, 6-3, 4-6, 1-0(7), in the consolation final on Sunday.

Berzins also beat Bucknell's Nick Bybel, 6-3, 6-0, along the way. Other singles wins for FDU came courtesy of senior Mark Hemy (Suffolk, England/Ipswich School) over Binghamton's Alexander Maisin and fellow senior Ibrahim Shams (Cairo, Egypt/Manor House) scoring a win against UPenn's Nikola Kocovic.

The women's team is coming off the Stony Brook Classic from last weekend. The Knights burst onto the scene with six singles wins in the opening day of competition. Seniors Anna Rapoport (Moscow, Russia/#1239 ) and Egzona Morina (Prishtina, Kosovo/American School of Kosovo), junior Manuela Leme (Varginha, Brazil/E.E. Antania Alves Cruz), sophomore Dina Guzairova (Sochi, Russia/Chelyabinsk #8 ) and freshmen Nicole Chis (Highland Park, N.J./Highland Park) and Celine Maier (Nuremberg, Germany /Bertolt-Brecht-Schule Nuremberg) all picked up wins on the day.

Chis, a local product from Highland Park, N.J., went a perfect 4-0 in singles action over the three days to earn the Flight C title.

The women's side will host Monmouth in the team's first home and Northeast Conference dual match of the season on Thursday, Sept. 27, at 3:30 p.m. at the FDU Tennis Center in Teaneck, N.J. The men's team is set to also make its home dual debut on Wednesday, Oct. 3, versus Hofsta at 3 p.m.