{"id":228332,"date":"2026-01-15T16:02:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=228332"},"modified":"2026-01-15T16:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:05:16","slug":"visaya-big-west-tennis-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/01\/15\/visaya-big-west-tennis-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Warrior Visaya earns first 2026 Big West tennis weekly award"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

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University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa men’s tennis<\/a> player Azuma Visaya earned the first Big West Player of the Week award for 2026. The recognition marks Visaya’s fourth career weekly conference honor.<\/p>\n

The Rainbow Warrior recorded a 2\u20131 record on the No.<\/abbr> 1 singles court while going 1\u20132 in No.<\/abbr> 2 doubles. Visaya opened the season against 15th-ranked UC<\/abbr> Berkeley by edging out Fryderyk Lechno-Wasiutynski in a third-set super tie-breaker. With the match tied at a set apiece and the team match already in hand, Visaya jumped out to a 5\u20130 lead in the super tie-breaker and traded points down the stretch to win 10\u20135.<\/p>\n

In UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s second match of the season, Visaya defeated Gonzaga’s Giovanni Branchetti in straight sets, 6\u20131, 6\u20134.<\/p>\n

Read more at Hawaiiathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa men\u2019s tennis player Azuma Visaya was recognized for strong performances against UC<\/abbr> Berkeley and Gonzaga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":228330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,1365,9,550],"class_list":["post-228332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-tennis","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/manoa-mtennis-visaya-award.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228332","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=228332"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228369,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228332\/revisions\/228369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}