Varon will play for ITA Florida Regional Women's Singles Championship Sunday

It was a great day for Eastern Florida State College women's tennis player Luisa Varon.

And Sunday is going to be pretty busy, too.

Varon, the No. 4 seed at the ITA Florida Regional Championships advanced to the singles finals with a 6-2, 6-4 victory over No. 2 Emily Chang of ASA Miami on Saturday at the Titan Tennis Complex.

The sophomore from Valencia, Venezuela will play No. 1 seed Maria Medina of State College of Florida Sunday at 9 a.m.

Medina defeated Varon's teammate Lea Stormer 6-1, 6-2 in Saturday's other semifinal.

Varon will then team with Josephine Karcher in a noon doubles semifinal against the second-seeded team of Kokoro Chishaki and Anita Detlava.

The doubles semifinals were scheduled to be played on Saturday, but were postponed by a lightning storm.

Should the fourth-seeded Varon and Karcher win their semifinal match, they would play for the doubles title later Sunday afternoon. 

One day, two possible titles.

It doesn't get much better than that.

Varon, who finished last season ranked sixth in the ITA world rankings, was in control for most of her match against Chang, who was ranked fourth. However, Chang put on a late rally in the second set, closing the gap from 5-2 to 5-4 before Varon was able to put her away.

Earlier in the day, Varon won her quarterfinal match against Rhoda Tanui of SCF when an injury forced Tanui to retire after trailing 6-3, 1-0.

"Luisa is having a tremendous Fall season, winning six straight matches to open the year and 12 of 13 sets is impressive," Eastern Florida State College women's tennis coach Jerry Thor said. "She's adjusted very well to Eastern Florida State College and our tennis program and is certainly living up to the high expectations I've had for her."

Stormer also won her quarterfinal match when her opponent retired. The freshman lost the first set to State College of Florida's Julia Sergheeva 6-4 and was leading 4-1 in the second when Sergheeva retired.

Though she did not get to the finals, Stormer was pleased with her tournament, which included knocking off ASA Miami's No. 2 player, Yuliana Monroy in the first round.

"I played good in the semifinals. (Medina) was just better," Stormer said. "It sounds so clear, because I lost 1 and 2, but it wasn't like (that). Every game was like 30-all.

"It was OK. I'm happy."