{"id":938658,"date":"2026-10-24T00:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T00:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/938658\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T00:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T00:36:11","slug":"vargas-punches-ticket-to-semifinals-at-american-individual-championships-utsa-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/938658\/","title":{"rendered":"Vargas punches ticket to semifinals at American Individual Championships &#8211; UTSA Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2013 Junior <a href=\"https:\/\/goutsa.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/player\/enzo-vargas\" title=\"Enzo Vargas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Enzo Vargas<\/a> had another successful day representing the UTSA men\u2019s tennis team at the American Individual Championships, advancing to the semifinals at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>After picking up a pair of wins on Thursday, Vargas topped Alex Santino Nunez Vera of Tulsa, 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-4) to punch his ticket to the semifinals. On Saturday, he\u2019ll meet No. 2 seed Daniel Philips of Tulane, and fans can follow all the action at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goUTSA.com\/mtenresults\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.goUTSA.com\/mtenresults<\/a> with live video available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goUTSA.com\/mtenwatch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.goUTSA.com\/mtenwatch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A separate contingent competed at the Waco Invite, hosted on Baylor\u2019s campus at the Hurd Tennis Center, with freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/goutsa.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/player\/joel-hansson\" title=\"Joel Hansson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joel Hansson<\/a> besting Alejandro Verdasco, 6-4, 7-6 (7-3). Hansson will move on and face Drew Hedgecoe of Baylor on Saturday,<\/p>\n<p>Junior <a href=\"https:\/\/goutsa.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/player\/dmitri-goubin\" title=\"Dmitri Goubin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dmitri Goubin<\/a> also competed, losing to Louis Bowden of the host school 6-3, 6-2, while sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/goutsa.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/player\/victor-rocha\" title=\"Victor Rocha\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Victor Rocha<\/a> couldn&#8217;t overcome Radek Chodora, also of Baylor, 6-2, 6-2. The tandem, however, had better luck in doubles, earning an 8-2 win over an Abilene Christian duo to reach the East division semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Live video at the Hurd Tennis Center is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/utsa.pro\/487uW9U\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">utsa.pro\/487uW9U<\/a> and live results can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/utsa.pro\/4zE1LqW\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">utsa.pro\/4zE1LqW<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Keep up with UTSA Tennis on <a href=\"https:\/\/goutsa.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">goUTSA.com<\/a>, and by following the program on Facebook at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UTSAMT\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\/UTSAMT<\/a>, Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/UTSAMT\" rel=\"nofollow\">@UTSAMT<\/a>, and on Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/utsamtennis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@utsamtennis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">-UTSA-<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 Junior Enzo Vargas had another successful day representing the UTSA men\u2019s tennis team at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":938659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-938658","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\/938658","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=938658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/938659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}