{"id":224277,"date":"2025-10-19T03:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T03:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/224277\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T03:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T03:57:07","slug":"azuma-nakanishi-advance-to-ita-southwest-regionals-doubles-round-of-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/224277\/","title":{"rendered":"Azuma, Nakanishi Advance to ITA Southwest Regionals&#8217; Doubles Round of 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     TEMPE, Ariz.\u2014The Intercollegiate Tennis Association&#8217;s (ITA) Southwest Regionals rolled on into its third day of competition at the Kiwanis Tennis Center. The University of Hawai&#8217;i doubles pair of <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/azuma-visaya\/22316\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"22316\" target=\"_blank\">Azuma Visaya<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/kosuke-nakanishi\/22322\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"22322\" target=\"_blank\">Kosuke Nakanishi<\/a> hung on to advance to Sunday&#8217;s Main Draw Round of 16.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn their first match playing together in an official match, Azuma and Nakanishi held off Grand Canyon&#8217;s Andreas Loizas and Tristan Berard by a break, 8-6 to remain in the hunt for the Regional title. Visaya and Nakanishi will take on UCLA&#8217;s Rudy Quan and Aadarsh Tripathi on Sunday at 9:00 a.m. HT.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nUH&#8217;s other doubles duo in action\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/timothy-li\/22319\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"22319\" target=\"_blank\">Timothy Li<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/kent-mueller\/22321\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"22321\" target=\"_blank\">Kent Mueller<\/a>\u2014fell to UC Santa Barbara&#8217;s Lorenzo Brunkow and Diogo Morais, 8-2.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn the singles Main Draw, Visaya battled hard, but fell just short. Visaya evened the match at a set apiece after dropping the first set, but was edged out by a break in the final frame to Arizona&#8217;s Cole Stelse, 4-6, 7-5, 6-4.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ITA Southwest Regionals<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nKiwanis Tennis Center \u2013 Tempe, Ariz.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSaturday, Oct. 18, 2025<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nDoubles \u2013 Main Draw &#8211; Round of 32<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nLorenzo Brunkow\/Diogo Morais (UCSB) def. <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/timothy-li\/22319\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"22319\" target=\"_blank\">Timothy Li<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/kent-mueller\/22321\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"22321\" target=\"_blank\">Kent Mueller<\/a> (UH), 8-2<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/azuma-visaya\/22316\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"22316\" target=\"_blank\">Azuma Visaya<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/kosuke-nakanishi\/22322\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"22322\" target=\"_blank\">Kosuke Nakanishi<\/a> (UH) def. Andreas Loizas\/Tristan Berard (GCU), 8-6<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nMain Draw Singles &#8211; Round of 32<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nCole Stelse (Arizona) def. <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/azuma-visaya\/22316\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"22316\" target=\"_blank\">Azuma Visaya<\/a> (UH), 4-6, 7-5, 6-4<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\nSunday Schedule<br \/>\n9:00 a.m. HT &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/azuma-visaya\/22316\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"22316\" target=\"_blank\">Azuma Visaya<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/kosuke-nakanishi\/22322\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"22322\" target=\"_blank\">Kosuke Nakanishi<\/a> (UH) vs. Rudy Quan\/Aadarsh Tripathi (UCLA)<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>#HawaiiMTEN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; TEMPE, Ariz.\u2014The Intercollegiate Tennis Association&#8217;s (ITA) Southwest Regionals rolled on into its third day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-224277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}