{"id":186821,"date":"2026-02-21T00:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/186821\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T00:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:19:10","slug":"csun-tennis-wins-in-dominant-fashion-against-san-jose-state-7-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/186821\/","title":{"rendered":"CSUN Tennis Wins in Dominant Fashion Against San Jose State, 7-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NORTHRIDGE,\u00a0Calif.\u00a0&#8212; CSUN (4-1) rolled to a 7-0 sweep over San Jose State on Thursday afternoon at the Matador Tennis Complex, improving to 4-1 on the season.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Matadors won the first two doubles matches to secure the doubles point and only dropped one set in all six singles matches to claim victory.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHOW IT HAPPENED<br \/>\nCSUN grabbed the early advantage by taking the first two doubles matches. The tandem of <a href=\"https:\/\/gomatadors.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/emma-moratalla-sanz\/6586\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6586\" target=\"_blank\">Emma Moratalla Sanz<\/a> and Sandra Arguelles posted a 7-5 win over Tara Mihaljevic and Camila Celis at Court\u00a0No. 2\u00a0for the first half point. The next half point would be won when <a href=\"https:\/\/gomatadors.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/madison-shepperson\/6590\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6590\" target=\"_blank\">Madison Shepperson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gomatadors.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/satsuki-ishikawa\/7162\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7162\" target=\"_blank\">Satsuki Ishikawa<\/a> defeated Soledad Capilla and Cristina Losada at Court\u00a0No. 3\u00a0by a score of 6-4.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSINGLES<br \/>\nIn singles play, the Matadors continued to control the match. <a href=\"https:\/\/gomatadors.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/nicole-west\/6593\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6593\" target=\"_blank\">Nicole West<\/a> was first off the court with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Soledad Capilla at Court No. 2 to give the Matadors a 2-0 lead.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gomatadors.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/sofia-dermenjyan\/6582\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6582\" target=\"_blank\">Sofia Dermenjyan<\/a> followed with a 6-1, 7-5 victory over Celis at Court No. 5 to extend the lead to 3-0.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nDermenjyan commented on today&#8217;s performance,\u00a0&#8220;I&#8217;m incredibly proud of all of my teammates today. We fought hard and had good energy that carried out across all courts. In my match, I felt I had a clear game plan in mind and was able to execute.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gomatadors.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/angela-ho\/6585\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6585\" target=\"_blank\">Angela Ho<\/a> added a 6-3, 6-4 triumph over Duru Durgun at the top spot. Ho now remains undefeated in singles play at 5-0 to begin the year. The win by Ho clinched the victory for the Matadors.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nCourt No. 3 brought the fans the closest matchup of the day. Moratalla Sanz rallied for a 5-7, 6-3, 10-5 win over Emma Fantousis in the lone three-set contest of the day. That victory made it a 5-0 game.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gomatadors.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/tallia-harper\/6584\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6584\" target=\"_blank\">Tallia Harper<\/a> outlasted Mihaljevic 6-3, 7-6 (7-1) at Court No. 4, and Shepperson closed the sweep with a 6-3, 7-6 (7-4) victory over Losada at Court No. 6.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nShepperson added her thoughts on today&#8217;s team performance, &#8220;It felt really good playing well and getting the win in both doubles and singles. I was extremely happy and proud with how the rest of the team played. \u00a0We plan on keeping that intensity and energy for the next match.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nNOTES OF THE GAME<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tCSUN has now won three consecutive matches by a score of 7-0 and it is the fourth time this has happened out of five duals.&#13;<br \/>\n\tMoratalla Sanz and Shepperson remain undefeated\u00a0at 4-0 and 3-0, respectively, in\u00a0singles play.&#13;<br \/>\n\tHarper has won three singles matches in a row.&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe doubles team of Ishikawa and Shepperson are now 2-0.&#13;<br \/>\n\tSan Jose State was 4-0 entering today&#8217;s contest as the Matadors handed the Spartans their first defeat.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>UP NEXT<br \/>\nCSUN is back home for the first contest of Big West play when it takes on Cal Poly, 11:00 a.m. this Sunday at Matador Tennis Complex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTHRIDGE,\u00a0Calif.\u00a0&#8212; CSUN (4-1) rolled to a 7-0 sweep over San Jose State on Thursday afternoon at the Matador&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":{"0":"post-186821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-san-jose","9":"tag-san-jose-headlines","10":"tag-san-jose-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186821","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=186821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}