{"id":466756,"date":"2026-02-10T22:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T22:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/466756\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T22:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T22:50:08","slug":"vela-wins-ovc-singles-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/466756\/","title":{"rendered":"VELA WINS OVC SINGLES PLAYER OF THE WEEK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                 BRENTWOOD, TN \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/bryantbulldogs.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/natalia-vela\/16470\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"16470\" target=\"_blank\">Natalia Vela<\/a> earned OVC singles player of the week honors, announced by the conference on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Vela swept the weekend in singles play. She defeated Quinnipiac on Saturday 7-5, 6-4 at No. 2 singles and beat Hofstra on Sunday 6-4, 6-2 at No. 1 singles. She also earned the win at No. 1 doubles with <a href=\"https:\/\/bryantbulldogs.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/maria-jose-hernandez\/16462\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"16462\" target=\"_blank\">Maria Jose Hernandez<\/a> over Hofstra, 6-3.\u00a0Vela improved her singles record in dual matches to 3-1 this spring.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time this season Bryant has received an OVC player of the week award in women&#8217;s tennis.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulldogs return on Saturday against Marist at 4:30 PM at Fore Court in Cumberland, RI.<\/p>\n<p>For more coverage on the Bryant women&#8217;s tennis team, you can follow @bryantwtennis on Instagram and @BryantWTennis on X.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; BRENTWOOD, TN \u2013 Natalia Vela earned OVC singles player of the week honors,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-466756","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\/466756","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=466756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}