{"id":299929,"date":"2025-11-21T20:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T20:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/299929\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T20:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T20:14:08","slug":"kubos-run-ends-in-ncaa-championship-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/299929\/","title":{"rendered":"Kubo\u2019s Run Ends in NCAA Championship Quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 A historic run ended Friday morning as Kansas tennis All-American <a href=\"https:\/\/kuathletics.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/kyoka-kubo\/16759\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"16759\" target=\"_blank\">Kyoka Kubo<\/a> lost to California&#8217;s Berta Passola Folch, 7-5, 6-2, in the quarterfinals of the 2025 NCAA Championship at USTA National Campus in Orlando, Florida.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;We couldn&#8217;t be prouder of Kyoka,&#8221; Kansas head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/kuathletics.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/coaches\/todd-chapman\/986\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"986\" target=\"_blank\">Todd Chapman<\/a> said. &#8220;From where she was at the beginning of the fall with her tennis to where she is today is something she can be really proud of.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn advancing to the Round of 16 on Wednesday, Kubo, earned Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) All-American status. Kubo, junior from Yokohama, Japan, becomes the first Kansas ITA All-American since two-time All-American Anastasia Rychagova in 2019. Rychagova also was a 2017 ITA All-American.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWith her win over Duke&#8217;s Irina Balus (6-4, 6-1) in the Round of 16 on Thursday, Kubo became the first Jayhawk since Kylie Hunt in 1996 to advance to the NCAA Championship quarterfinals.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;Kyoka experienced and conquered so many things this fall and this historic run this week is the culmination of a lot of hard work,&#8221; Chapman said. &#8220;Kyoka is disappointed but as I just talked to her about after the match, the positives this week drastically outweigh her loss today. She leaves Orlando as a First Team All-American and has so much to look forward to with her tennis.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nKubo opened the NCAA Championship on Tuesday, Nov. 18, in the Round of 64, and defeated Kritina Paskauskas of Alabama (6-1, 4-6, 6-2).<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 A historic run ended Friday morning as Kansas tennis All-American Kyoka Kubo lost to California&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-299929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299929","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=299929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}