{"id":176719,"date":"2023-05-01T14:01:10","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T00:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=176719"},"modified":"2023-05-01T14:01:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T00:01:10","slug":"rainbow-wahine-tennis-2023-big-west-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/05\/01\/rainbow-wahine-tennis-2023-big-west-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Wahine tennis wins 2023 Big West championship"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

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The top-seeded University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa women’s tennis<\/a> team defeated California Polytechnic State University, 4-2 to capture the 2023 Big West Championship. This is the first time that UH<\/abbr> has won both the Big West regular season and tournament titles in the same season. With the win, UH<\/abbr> receives the league’s automatic bid into the NCAA<\/abbr> Championship tournament.<\/p>\n

Cal Poly edged out UH<\/abbr> to win the doubles point and take an early 1-0 lead. However in singles, the Rainbow Wahine battled back, quickly taking a 3-1 lead. UH<\/abbr>‘s No. 4 Klara Novakova cruised past Cal Poly\u2019s Delanie Dunkle, 6-2, 6-2 and No. 3 Satsuki Takamura knocked off Cal Poly\u2019s Peyton Dunkle by the same score. Cal Poly then recorded its only singles win, but UH<\/abbr>‘s No. 1 Ana Vilcek clinched the match with a 6-4, 1-6, 6-2 win to propel UH<\/abbr> to the tourney crown.<\/p>\n

This is UH<\/abbr>\u2019s third conference tournament title and NCAA<\/abbr> team appearance. The Rainbow Wahine won the Western Athletic Conference in 2012<\/a> and the Big West in 2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Rainbow Wahine will learn its draw for the NCAA<\/abbr> tournament on Monday, May 1 at 12 p.m. HST<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n

For more, visit hawaiiathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the team\u2019s third conference tournament title and NCAA<\/abbr> team appearance.<\/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":[58,660,714,1365,9,550],"class_list":["post-176719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-student-recognition","tag-student-athlete","tag-tennis","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t