{"id":296753,"date":"2025-11-21T03:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T03:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/296753\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T03:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T03:26:10","slug":"kubo-advances-to-ncaa-championship-quarterfinals-earns-all-american-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/296753\/","title":{"rendered":"Kubo Advances to NCAA Championship Quarterfinals, Earns All-American Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ORLANDO, Fla. &#8211; Kansas women&#8217;s tennis junior <a href=\"https:\/\/kuathletics.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/kyoka-kubo\/16759\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"16759\" target=\"_blank\">Kyoka Kubo<\/a> dominated Duke&#8217;s Irina Balus 6-4, 6-1, to advance to the quarterfinals of the 2025 NCAA Championship at USTA National Campus in Orlando, Florida, Thursday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nKubo, who has won over many fans with the use of an occasional underhand serve, will face Berta Passola-Folch of California in the quarterfinals Friday at 9 a.m. (Central). Kubo is the first Jayhawk since Kylie Hunt in 1996 to advance to the NCAA Championship quarterfinals.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn advancing to the Round of 16, Kubo posted a come-from-behind three-set win against Mia Yamakita of Vanderbilt in the Round of 32 on Wednesday. By advancing to the events round of 16, Kubo earned Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) All-American status, becoming 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 \/>\nKubo, from Yokohama, Japan, lost the first set to Yamakita, 6-3, and was trailing 5-3 in the second before mounting a comeback where she sent the second set into a 6-6 tiebreaker. Kubo would win the tiebreaker, 7-5, forcing a third and deciding set which she won 6-3, advancing to the round of 16.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nOn Tuesday, Nov. 18, in the Round of 64, Kubo also won a three-set match defeating Kritina Paskauskas of Alabama (6-1, 4-6, 6-2).<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFor the NCAA Championships singles bracket one can go <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/_flysystem\/public-s3\/images\/2025\/11\/18\/25%20W%20Singles_111825.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> with live scoring <a href=\"https:\/\/ncaad1tennisscoring.smtinternetservices.com\/ob\/draws\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. &#8211; Kansas women&#8217;s tennis junior Kyoka Kubo dominated Duke&#8217;s Irina Balus 6-4, 6-1, to advance to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-296753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}