  {"id":194190,"date":"2024-03-21T16:00:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T02:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=194190"},"modified":"2024-03-21T16:00:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T02:00:19","slug":"knezkova-first-big-west-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/03\/21\/knezkova-first-big-west-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"Knezkova earns first Big West tennis honor"},"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><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/manoa-big-west-knezkova.jpg\" alt=\"Nelly Knezkova\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-194195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/manoa-big-west-knezkova.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/manoa-big-west-knezkova-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/manoa-big-west-knezkova-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\">women&#8217;s tennis<\/a> player Nelly Knezkova earned her first The Big West Women&#8217;s Tennis Player of the Week after a pair of winning sweeps last week.<\/p>\n<p>Knezkova won both her singles matches while splitting her doubles matches with partner Sheena Masuda. In singles, playing on the <abbr title=\"Number\">No.<\/abbr> 2 court, Knezkova swept Illinois State&#8217;s Lana Caculovic, 6-3, 6-3. She then made her debut playing at <abbr title=\"Number\">No.<\/abbr> 1, notching a win over Pacific&#8217;s Klara Kosan, 6-3, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>In doubles, Knezkova and Masuda won 6-3 to secure Hawaii&#8217;s lone doubles win.<\/p>\n<p>For more on Knezkova, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2024\/3\/20\/knezkova-named-big-west-womens-tennis-player-of-the-week.aspx\">HawaiiAthletics.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nelly Knezkova wins consecutive single games.<\/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-194190","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":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194190","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=194190"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194213,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194190\/revisions\/194213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}