{"id":97080,"date":"2019-05-22T13:05:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T23:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=97080"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:37:55","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T02:37:55","slug":"melounova-advances-ncaa-round-of-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/05\/22\/melounova-advances-ncaa-round-of-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Melounova advances to NCAA<\/abbr> women\u2019s singles championships Round of 16"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

Editor’s note (May 22, 2019): Melounova\u2019s run in the NCAA<\/abbr> tournament came to an end with a loss to Texas Tech\u2019s Felicity Maltby.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Melounova<\/p>\n

University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa women\u2019s tennis<\/a> player Petra Melounova<\/strong> cruised to a 6-4, 6-1 straight-set win over Michigan\u2019s 47th-ranked Chiara Lommer in the second round of the NCAA<\/abbr> Women’s Singles Championships on May 21. Melounova made history by becoming the first Rainbow Wahine to win two matches at the NCAA<\/abbr> Tournament to advance into the Round of 16 at the USTA<\/abbr> National Campus in Orlando, Fla.. Melounova will take on the Felicity Maltby (Texas Tech) on Wednesday at 12 p.m. HT<\/span> on Court 2.<\/p>\n

It marked Melounova\u2019s ninth-straight singles win as she improved to 15-4 this season. She is the first player from the Big West Conference to advance to the NCAA<\/abbr> tournament\u2019s Round of 16 since UC<\/abbr> Santa Barbara\u2019s Jean Okada accomplished the feat in 1996.<\/p>\n

For more go to the UH<\/abbr> Mānoa Athletics website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UH<\/abbr> Mānoa women\u2019s tennis player Petra Melounova made history by becoming the first Rainbow Wahine to win two matches at the NCAA Tournament to advance into the Round of 16 at the USTA<\/abbr> National Campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,660,9,550],"class_list":["post-97080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-student-recognition","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\/97080","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=97080"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97168,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97080\/revisions\/97168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}