{"id":528095,"date":"2026-03-09T04:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T04:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/528095\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T04:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T04:27:08","slug":"12-womens-tennis-drops-matinee-match-to-25-ucf-4-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/528095\/","title":{"rendered":"#12 Women\u2019s Tennis drops matinee match to #25 UCF, 4-3"},"content":{"rendered":"

TEMPE\u00a0 \u2013 \u00a0No. 12 Sun Devil Women\u2019s Tennis fell to No. 25 UCF, 4-3, Sunday afternoon at Whiteman Tennis Center. Graduate Vivian Ovrootsky<\/a> picked up her 11th-consecutive win in singles with a 6-3, 7-5 victory.<\/p>\n

UCF scored the doubles point to take a 1-0 lead. The Sun Devils No. 1 pair of Ovrootsky and Svetac were able to secure the only doubles win, 7-6 (4) in a tiebreaker.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In singles play, junior and No. 19 Emilija Tverijonaite<\/a> secured her eighth singles win 6-3, 6-1 to tie the match at 1-1. Ovrootsky improved to 11-0 this spring to put the Sun Devils ahead, 2-1.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sophomore Aiya Nupbay<\/a> recorded her second win of the weekend in a hard-fought, 7-6 (3), 6-2 win to take a 3-2 lead. However, it wasn\u2019t enough for ASU, as UCF held on for the match win, securing victories on courts No. 4 and No. 2.<\/p>\n

The Sun Devils will return to action on Saturday, March 14 to face in-state rival Arizona at 12 p.m. MST at Whiteman Tennis Center. Live stats will be available on Statbroadcast and fans are encouraged to follow on the team\u2019s social media accounts @sundevilwtennis on Instagram and X, Sun Devil Women\u2019s Tennis on Facebook, and on sundevils.com.<\/p>\n

#25 UCF 4, #12 Arizona State 3\u00a0
Doubles results\u00a0
Ovrootsky\/Svetac (ASU) def. Tilbuerger\/Gatell (UCF) – 7-6 (4)
#80 Seye\/Bergler (UCF) def. Nupbay\/Taylor (ASU) – 7-5
Andreevskaya\/Psonka (UCF) def. Tverijonaite\/Lim (ASU) vs. \u00a0– 7-5<\/p>\n

Order of finish: 3, 1, 2<\/p>\n

Singles results
1. #19 Emilija Tverijonaite<\/a> (ASU) def. Olivia Bergler (UCF) – 6-3, 6-1
2. Jantje Tilbuerger (UCF) def. Sara Svetac<\/a> (ASU) \u00a0– 6-4, 4-6, 6-2
3. Vivian Ovrootsky<\/a> (ASU) def. Marina Gatell (UCF) – 6-3, 7-5
4. \u00a0Vladislava Andreevskaya (UCF) def. Lily Taylor<\/a> (ASU) – 6-1, 2-6, 4-6
5. Aiya Nupbay<\/a> (ASU) def. Lauren Seye (UCF) – 7-6 (3), 6-2
6. Jade Psonka (UCF) def. Sarang Lim<\/a> (ASU) – 0-6, 6-3, 6-1<\/p>\n

Order of finish: 1, 3, 5, 6, 4, 2<\/p>\n

Follow along
Fans can keep up with all the live action and news of Sun Devil Women\u2019s Tennis by following @sundevilwtennis on Instagram and X, Sun Devil Women\u2019s Tennis on Facebook, and on sundevils.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEMPE\u00a0 \u2013 \u00a0No. 12 Sun Devil Women\u2019s Tennis fell to No. 25 UCF, 4-3, Sunday afternoon at Whiteman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-528095","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\/528095","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=528095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}