{"id":426573,"date":"2026-01-22T20:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T20:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/426573\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T20:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T20:32:08","slug":"primer-cyclones-open-regular-season-at-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/426573\/","title":{"rendered":"Primer: Cyclones Open Regular Season at Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"

AMES, Iowa \u2013\u00a0The Iowa State tennis team opens its regular season on the road Friday\u00a0morning\u00a0against Minnesota. The Cyclones are coming off a strong fall campaign where they\u00a0saw three players\u00a0qualify for\u00a0the\u00a0ITA Sectional Championships and the pairing of Mari Paz Alberto Vilar<\/a> and Stanislava Shulzhenko<\/a>\u00a0earn a berth in the NCAA Doubles Championships.<\/p>\n

2025\u00a0

\nAfter going just 4-17 and 2-11 in Big 12 play in 2024, the Cyclones saw major improvement in year two under head coach Jaron Maestas<\/a> in the 2025 spring season, going 11-11 and 5-8 in Big 12 play. Maestas and\u00a0Co. will look\u00a0for further improvement in\u00a02026.\u00a0<\/p>\n

THE SCHEDULE\u00a0

\nFriday, Jan. 23 \u2013 10 a.m. CT\u00a0

\nBaseline Tennis Center\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Minneapolis, MN\u00a0

\nIowa State (0-0) vs. Minnesota (0-0)\u00a0<\/p>\n

FOLLOWING THE MATCHES\u00a0

\nLive stats and video for the match are linked at the top of the page.\u00a0<\/p>\n

THE SERIES\u00a0

\nThis will be the 39th\u00a0all-time showdown between the Cyclones and Golden Gophers, with Minnesota leading the all-time series 35-3. The Gophers have won the last 34\u00a0matchups against the Cyclones, with ISU’s last win in the series coming in 1976.\u00a0Minnesota came out on top 4-3 in last year’s bout between the schools.\u00a0<\/p>\n

LAST TIME OUT\u00a0

\nIowa State\u00a0opened the spring season at the Kansas Jayhawk Invitational, where it totaled a record of 16-12 across a three-day span.\u00a0<\/p>\n

PLAYER TO WATCH\u00a0

\nSophomore Julia Camblor<\/a>\u00a0will look to build on one of the best\u00a0freshman\u00a0seasons in school history.\u00a0Camblor\u00a0tallied\u00a0six\u00a0conference\u00a0and\u00a025\u00a0overall\u00a0singles\u00a0wins\u00a0in her 2024-25 campaign, good for\u00a0third and sixth in school history, respectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n

FOLLOW THE CYCLONES\u00a0

\nKeep up with Iowa State Tennis by following @Cycloneten on X and Instagram and Iowa State Tennis on Facebook.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMES, Iowa \u2013\u00a0The Iowa State tennis team opens its regular season on the road Friday\u00a0morning\u00a0against Minnesota. The Cyclones…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-426573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426573","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=426573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}