  {"id":229878,"date":"2026-02-23T15:45:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T01:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=229878"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:45:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T01:45:58","slug":"uh-tennis-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/02\/23\/uh-tennis-player-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Warrior tennis player earns player of the week recognition"},"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\/2026\/02\/manoa-mens-tennis-li.jpg\" alt=\"Big West Men&#039;s Tennis Player of the Week graphic\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-229855\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/manoa-mens-tennis-li.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/manoa-mens-tennis-li-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/manoa-mens-tennis-li-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University of <span lang=\"haw\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa tennis player Timothy Li earned Big West Player of the Week honors after going 2-0 in both singles and doubles in three road matches. This is Li\u2019s first career weekly award.<\/p>\n<p>In <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s Big West opener at <abbr title=\"University of California\">UC<\/abbr> Riverside, Li defeated Ivaylo Simeonov in straight sets on the <abbr title=\"Number\">No.<\/abbr> 2 singles court. At Northern Arizona, Li paired with Kosuke Nakanishi to earn a 6-0 decision against Vincent Vohl and Takumi Katsuda in <abbr title=\"Number\">No.<\/abbr> 1 doubles.<\/p>\n<p>In a battle at Grand Canyon, Li and Nakanishi took down Daniel Jankoski and Brice Patoux in a tiebreaker in <abbr title=\"Number\">No.<\/abbr> 1 doubles. Li also got the win in <abbr title=\"Number\">No.<\/abbr> 2 singles in straight sets over Andreas Loizas.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2026\/2\/18\/li-tabbed-mens-tennis-big-west-player-of-the-week.aspx\">Hawaiiathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s Timothy Li scored his first Big West weekly honor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":229855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,1365,9,550],"class_list":["post-229878","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\/02\/manoa-mens-tennis-li.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229878","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=229878"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229891,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229878\/revisions\/229891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}