{"id":209069,"date":"2025-01-10T14:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T00:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=209069"},"modified":"2025-01-10T14:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T00:53:12","slug":"visaya-big-west-player-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/01\/10\/visaya-big-west-player-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Visaya earns Big West Player of the Week honors"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

\"Visaya<\/p>\n

University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> at Mānoa men\u2019s tennis<\/a> player Azuma Visaya earned his first Big West Player of the Week award on January 8. The 77th-ranked Visaya notched a singles win over a Top 25 player and recorded a pair of doubles wins with partner Tianhao Hou to open the 2025 season.<\/p>\n

Visaya began the 2025 season with a bang, upsetting No. 22 Jamie Connel of 10th-ranked Florida State University (FSU<\/abbr>) on the opening day of the Mānoa Classic. Visaya won his first set against Connel by a break. But the second set was a back-and-forth battle in which Visaya was able to edge out Connel 11-9 in a hard fought tiebreaker to end the straight-set win, 6-4, 7-6 (11-9).<\/p>\n

In doubles, Visaya and Hou won their first match together by knocking off FSU<\/abbr>\u2019s Joshua Dous-Karpenschif and Jan Sebasta, 6-3 in the Mānoa Classic. Later, Visaya and Hou defeated FSU<\/abbr>\u2019s Alex Bulte and Erik Schlessl by a break, 6-4 to clinch the doubles point in ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr>\u2019s first dual match of the season.<\/p>\n

For more on Visaya go to HawaiiAthletics.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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