  {"id":175023,"date":"2023-03-30T13:25:41","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T23:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=175023"},"modified":"2023-04-05T08:22:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T18:22:50","slug":"homolkova-big-west-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/03\/30\/homolkova-big-west-player-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Homolkova earns first Big West Women&#8217;s Tennis Player of the Week Award"},"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\/2023\/03\/manoa-athletics-homolkova-big-west.jpg\" alt=\"Nikola Homolkova\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-175030\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/manoa-athletics-homolkova-big-west.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/manoa-athletics-homolkova-big-west-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/manoa-athletics-homolkova-big-west-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa women\u2019s tennis player <strong>Nikola Homolkova<\/strong> earned her first Big West Player of the Week award on March 29. Homolkova helped lead <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> to a pair of conference wins last week. Overall she has a 7-6 record but is undefeated at 4-0 in conference play.<\/p>\n<p>Homolkova won six of her last eight matches. Last week, after dropping the first set against California State University, Northridge\u2019s (<abbr>CSUN<\/abbr>) Sasha Turckak, Homolkova battled back to edge out the Matador in three sets, 6-7 (4), 7-5, 7-6 (6). On Sunday against University of California, Santa Barbara (<abbr>UCSB<\/abbr>), the match hinged on the results of Homolkova\u2019s match against Camille Kiss as the two teams were tied at 3-3. Homolkova was down 1-2 in the third set, but then powered past Kiss, winning the final five games to clinch the match, 6-4, 5-7, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>In doubles, Homolkova and partner <strong>Ana Vilcek<\/strong> split their matches last week. <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr>\u2019s No. 2 duo defeated <abbr>CSUN<\/abbr>\u2019s Vito Solis Urdiales and Jacqueline O\u2019Neill, 6-3, but fell to <abbr>UCSB<\/abbr>\u2019s Marta Gozalez and Kiss, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2023\/3\/29\/homolkova-earns-first-big-west-womens-tennis-player-of-the-week-award.aspx\">For more go to hawaiiathletics.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa&#8217;s Nikola Homolkova overall has a 7-6 record but is undefeated at 4-0 in conference play.<\/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":[58,660,1365,9,550],"class_list":["post-175023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-student-recognition","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\/175023","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=175023"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175368,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175023\/revisions\/175368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}