{"id":209589,"date":"2025-01-21T15:05:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T01:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=209589"},"modified":"2025-01-21T15:05:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T01:05:36","slug":"visaya-2nd-bw-player-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/01\/21\/visaya-2nd-bw-player-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Visaya earns 2nd Big West tennis Player of the Week"},"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><figure id=\"attachment_209597\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-209597\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/manoa-athletics-visaya-a.jpg\" alt=\"U H mens tennis player\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-209597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/manoa-athletics-visaya-a.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/manoa-athletics-visaya-a-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/manoa-athletics-visaya-a-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-209597\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Azuma Visaya<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\">men&#8217;s tennis <\/a>player Azuma Visaya has earned his second-straight Big West Player of the Week award after winning a pair of <abbr title=\"Number\">No.<\/abbr> 1 singles matches in two dual matches against Arkansas.<\/p>\n<p>Visaya, ranked <abbr title=\"Number\">No.<\/abbr> 77, won both matches in third-set super tie-breakers. In the first match, he came back from a set down to beat Bozo Barun, 4-6, 6-4, 1-0 (11-9). In the second, he defeated Lukas Palovic after losing the first set, winning 2-6, 7-6 (8-6), 1-0 (10-7).<\/p>\n<p>Visaya is 3-3 in singles this season.<\/p>\n<p>For more on Visaya, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2025\/1\/15\/mens-tennis-visaya-earns-second-straight-big-west-player-of-the-week-honor.aspx\">HawaiiAthletics.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Azuma Visaya earned his second-straight honor after winning a pair of No.1 singles matches against Arkansas. <\/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-209589","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\/209589","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=209589"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209595,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209589\/revisions\/209595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}