{"id":950611,"date":"2026-11-03T03:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T03:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/950611\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T03:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T03:40:09","slug":"paskauskas-gynina-pick-up-early-wins-at-utr-pro-fall-slam-chapel-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/950611\/","title":{"rendered":"Paskauskas, Gynina pick up early wins at UTR Pro Fall Slam Chapel Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHAPEL HILL, N.C. \u2014 The Florida Gators got two matches in the books Monday at the UTR Pro Fall Slam Chapel Hill as <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/gabia-paskauskas\/18582\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18582\" target=\"_blank\">Gabia Paskauskas<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/valery-gynina\/18580\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18580\" target=\"_blank\">Valery Gynina<\/a> both picked up straight-set victories.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe event features a 20-player, 7-day Pro Tennis Tour format, which uses a round-robin and playoff format, guaranteeing multiple matches for each participating player.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe 20-person main draw consists of four groups of five players each. The round-robin group stages will take place from Monday, Nov. 2 through Friday, Nov. 6. The playoff rounds will be single elimination, and consist of five draws of four players depending on the player&#8217;s group finishing (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or 5th) and will run from Saturday, Nov. 7 through Sunday, Nov. 8.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn Group A, Paskauskas made short work of South Carolina&#8217;s Sara B\u00f8rkop upending the sophomore 6-0, 6-3. Gynina, taking part in Group C in the round-robin portion, topped N.C. State&#8217;s Roison Gilheany in a razor-thin 7-5, 7-6 (7-4) decision.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTuesday will see Gynina take on N.C. State&#8217;s Georgia Cranford, while Paskauskas faces off against Auburn&#8217;s Natalie Outcalt. <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/scarlett-nicholson\/18581\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18581\" target=\"_blank\">Scarlett Nicholson<\/a> begins her run at the title in Group D tomorrow with a match against Chlo\u00e9 Zigliara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHAPEL HILL, N.C. \u2014 The Florida Gators got two matches in the books Monday at the UTR Pro&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-950611","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\/950611","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=950611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}