  {"id":135758,"date":"2021-02-19T13:41:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T23:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=135758"},"modified":"2021-02-19T13:41:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T23:41:20","slug":"alfonsin-demichelis-pepsi-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/02\/19\/alfonsin-demichelis-pepsi-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis wins lead to Pepsi Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_135774\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-135774\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/hilo-alfonsin-c.jpg\" alt=\"tennis players\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135774\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/hilo-alfonsin-c.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/hilo-alfonsin-c-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/hilo-alfonsin-c-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-135774\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carolina Alfonsin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/index.aspx\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> tennis players <strong>Carolina Alfonsin<\/strong> and <strong>Alessio Demichelis<\/strong> had big opening matches and earned the Pepsi Athletes of the Week award.<\/p>\n<p>Alfonsin had a smashing debut in a match against nationally ranked No. 5 <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> Pacific University (<abbr>HPU<\/abbr>). With the team score tied at 3-3, Alfonsin traded blows with <abbr>HPU<\/abbr>&#8216;s Valentina Mokrova, coming from behind to win the third set and the match for <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>Demichelis had a debut weekend to remember as well, winning two matches at the No. 2 singles slot against No. 5 nationally ranked <abbr>HPU<\/abbr>. In the morning match, Demichelis defeated Matej Panik 6-4, 6-3 and also won at No. 1 doubles with teammate Martin Soukal (who was named the PacWest Player of the Week).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2021\/2\/16\/mens-tennis-upset-tennis-wins-over-the-sharks-lead-to-pepsi-awards.aspx\">For more go to the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo Athletics website.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_135775\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-135775\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/hilo-demichelis-a.jpg\" alt=\"tennis player\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/hilo-demichelis-a.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/hilo-demichelis-a-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/hilo-demichelis-a-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-135775\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alessio Demichelis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo tennis players Carolina Alfonsin and Alessio Demichelis earned the Pepsi Athletes of the Week award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,14,151],"class_list":["post-135758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-uh-hilo","tag-hilo-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135758"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135760,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135758\/revisions\/135760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}