{"id":437188,"date":"2026-01-27T20:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T20:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/437188\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T20:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T20:55:09","slug":"valeriia-krokhotina-tabbed-big-12-tennis-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/437188\/","title":{"rendered":"Valeriia Krokhotina Tabbed Big 12 Tennis Player of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IRVING, Texas\u00a0\u2014 After a weekend that saw the Cougars extend their season opening sweep streak to five games, University of Houston Tennis standout <a href=\"https:\/\/uhcougars.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/valeriia-krokhotina\/9479\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9479\" target=\"_blank\">Valeriia Krokhotina<\/a> was named the Big 12 Player of the Week the league announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Krokhotina is the first Houston Tennis student-athlete to win a Big 12 Conference weekly award since joining the league in 2023. She is also the first student-athlete since Azul Pedemonti was the American Athletic Conference&#8217;s Player of Week in the week of March 2, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The St. Petersburg, Russia, native posted a 4-0 record on the weekend with two wins each in singles and doubles to help the Cougars continue their undefeated start to the season.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nKrokhotina has tallied four singles and three doubles victories on the young season.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nHouston looks to continue its perfect season when it hosts UTRGV and New Mexico in a doubleheader at the Barabara Wallace Winston Tennis Facility on Saturday, Feb. 7 at 9:30 a.m. and 2 p.m., respectively. Admission is free for all home tennis matches.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSUPPORT YOUR COOGS<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFans can make a direct impact on the success of Houston Tennis by <a href=\"https:\/\/app.uhcougars.com\/UH25PartnerWSA?utm_medium=email&amp;elq_cid=535077&amp;RSRC=Email&amp;RDAT=1389&amp;ehash=b7f491ff42331f557fe859ad04cd3438c083957d629518a46cce2a8f756df6de&amp;aid=16089&amp;pid=uh_email_eloqua&amp;rid=1389\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">providing NIL opportunities<\/a> and by joining the <a href=\"https:\/\/uhcougarpride.com\/membership-center\/giving-opportunities\/sport-specific-clubs\/center-court-club\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Center Court Club<\/a>, which provides financial support directly to Houston Tennis for needs beyond its operating budget.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSTAY CONNECTED<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFans can receive updates by following <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UHCougarTennis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@UHCougarTennis<\/a> on X, formerly known as Twitter and catch up with the latest news and notes on the team by clicking LIKE on the team&#8217;s Facebook page at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UHCougarTennis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UHCougarTennis<\/a> or on the team&#8217;s Instagram page at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/uhcougartennis\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@uhcougartennis<\/a>.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 UHCougars.com \u2013<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IRVING, Texas\u00a0\u2014 After a weekend that saw the Cougars extend their season opening sweep streak to five games,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-437188","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\/437188","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=437188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}