{"id":168931,"date":"2026-02-08T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T06:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/168931\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T06:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T06:00:16","slug":"five-singles-wins-propel-womens-tennis-to-victory-over-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/168931\/","title":{"rendered":"Five singles wins propel Women\u2019s Tennis to victory over San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"

TEMPE \u2013 Sun Devil Women\u2019s Tennis defeated San Diego, 6-1, Saturday afternoon at Whiteman Tennis Center in its only home match in February. ASU has won 10 of its last 11 matches over San Diego following today\u2019s win.<\/p>\n

The Sun Devils will head to Malibu, Calif. next weekend, Feb. 15, to take on No. 19 Pepperdine at the Ralphs-Straus Tennis Center at 11 a.m. MST. Live stats can be found on StatBroadcast and followed on the team\u2019s social media accounts on X @SunDevilWTennis and on Instagram at @SunDevilWtennis.<\/p>\n

Arizona State 6, San Diego 1
In doubles, the Sun Devils started the match strong with a 6-2 victory from graduate Vivian Ovrootsky<\/a> and junior Emilija Tverijonaite<\/a> on court one. Sophomore Lily Taylor<\/a> and junior Karsyn Evans<\/a> clinched the doubles point for ASU with a 7-5 win after fighting back from a 2-5 deficit. Sara Svetac<\/a> and Zlata Bartanusz<\/a> on court two were battling back, down 6-5 when it was declared unfinished.<\/p>\n

In singles, No. 16 Emilija Tverijonaite<\/a> earned her third dual win of the spring, defeating her third-ranked opponent of the season with a 6-4, 6-0 straight sets win over No. 94 Hannah Read. Svetac got her second win of the spring with a 6-2, 6-3 win over Vil Krebs Hyllested which gave the Sun Devils a 3-1 lead. Then, Ovrootsky clinched the match on court two with a 6-3, 6-3 straight-sets win to clinch the dual against San Diego.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Taylor would go on and win her match on court No. 4, 7-5, 6-3, to give ASU a fifth point, then Evans would win the tiebreaker in the second set, 7-4, to win 6-1, 7-6 to solidify the win for ASU.<\/p>\n

Doubles results\u00a0
1. Vivian Ovrootsky<\/a>\/Emilija Tverijonaite<\/a> (ASU) def. Vil Krebs Hyllested\/Kristina Nordikyan (USD) – 6-2\u00a0
2. Sara Svetac<\/a>\/Zlata Bartanusz<\/a> (ASU), Gabby Gregg\/Hannah Read (USD) – 6-5 (unfinished)\u00a0
3. \u00a0Lily Taylor<\/a>\/Karsyn Evans<\/a> (ASU) def. Charlotte Keitel\/Maria Shmakova (USD) – 7-5<\/p>\n

Order of finish: 1, 3, 2<\/p>\n

Singles results
1. #16 Emilija Tverijonaite<\/a> (ASU) def. #94 Hannah Read (USD) 6-4, 6-0
2. Vivian Ovrootsky<\/a> (ASU) def. Charlotte Keitel (USD) 6-3, 6-3
3. Sara Svetac<\/a> (ASU) def. Vil Krebs Hyllested (USD) 6-2, 6-3
4. Lily Taylor<\/a> (ASU) def. Gabby Gregg (USD) 7-5, 6-3
5. Maria Shmakova (USD) def. Zlata Bartanusz<\/a> (ASU) 6-2, 6-3
6. Karsyn Evans<\/a> (ASU) \u00a0def. Ines Leon (USD) 6-1, 7-6 (4)<\/p>\n

Order of finish: 1, 5, 3, 2, 4, 6\u00a0<\/p>\n

Follow along
Fans can keep up with all the live action and news of Sun Devil Women\u2019s Tennis by following @sundevilwtennis on Instagram and X, Sun Devil Women\u2019s Tennis on Facebook, and on sundevils.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEMPE \u2013 Sun Devil Women\u2019s Tennis defeated San Diego, 6-1, Saturday afternoon at Whiteman Tennis Center in its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[17864,17862,13651,74,76,75,17863],"class_list":["post-168931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-arizona-state-athletics","tag-arizona-state-university","tag-arizona-state-sun-devils","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-sun-devils"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}