{"id":220154,"date":"2026-03-15T00:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T00:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/220154\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T00:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T00:56:09","slug":"no-28-shockers-dominate-no-62-long-beach-state-in-rematch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/220154\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 28 Shockers Dominate No. 62 Long Beach State in Rematch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/South_Florida.png\" alt=\"South Florida\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Match:<\/p>\n<p> South Florida<\/p>\n<p>3\/27\/2026 | 11:00 AM CT<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Mar. 27 (Fri) \/ 11:00 AM CT&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/South_Florida.png\" alt=\"South Florida\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        \u00a0South Florida&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/goshockers.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/opponent-history\/south-florida\/277\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2014\u00a0No. 28 Wichita State left little doubt in a crushing 6-1 win over No. 62 Long Beach State on Saturday afternoon at Rhodes Tennis Center.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWichita State (14-3) extended its winning streak to 12 matches with the victory over Long Beach State (9-7). The Shockers now have their highest win total in a season since 2019, when they also won 14.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn doubles, <a href=\"https:\/\/goshockers.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/anne-knuettel\/9507\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9507\" target=\"_blank\">Anne Knuettel<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/goshockers.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/vichitraporn-vimuktananda\/9514\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9514\" target=\"_blank\">Vichitraporn Vimuktananda<\/a> delivered the first blow with a 6-1 win at No. 3. Soon after, No. 12-ranked <a href=\"https:\/\/goshockers.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/giorgia-roselli\/9512\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9512\" target=\"_blank\">Giorgia Roselli<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/goshockers.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/xin-tong-wang\/9513\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9513\" target=\"_blank\">Xin Tong Wang<\/a> sealed the point for the Shockers with a 6-3 win at No. 1. Playing the final match out, <a href=\"https:\/\/goshockers.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/theodora-chantava\/9506\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9506\" target=\"_blank\">Theodora Chantava<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/goshockers.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/kristina-kudryavtseva\/9508\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9508\" target=\"_blank\">Kristina Kudryavtseva<\/a> secured a 6-4 win at No. 2 to give the Shockers a clean sweep in doubles.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn singles, the Shockers kept control by winning five of six first sets.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nNo. 106-ranked Chantava improved to 10-1 on the season with a 6-4, 6-2 win at No. 3 to put the Shockers up 2-0.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSoon after, Roselli made the score 3-0 with a 6-2, 6-0 win at No. 2 \u2014 her team-leading 12th singles victory of the season \u2014 improving to 12-1 in dual matches.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nVimuktananda clinched the Shocker victory with a dominant 6-2, 6-2 win at No. 5. She is now 11-1 in singles this season and has won 10 in a row.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nPlaying the remaining matches out, No. 124-ranked Wang added another point, earning a 6-4, 6-1 victory at No. 1 for her fifth consecutive singles win.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/goshockers.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/tatyana-nikolenko\/9511\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9511\" target=\"_blank\">Tatyana Nikolenko<\/a> secured the fifth singles win of the day with a 6-3, 6-3 victory at No. 6 to make the score 6-0.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLong Beach State closed the match with its lone victory, a 6-4, 7-6 (7) triumph over Kudryavtseva at No. 4.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nUp next<br data-end=\"2102\" data-start=\"2099\"\/><br \/>\nWichita State returns home to face American Conference foe South Florida on Friday, March 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Match: South Florida 3\/27\/2026 | 11:00 AM CT &#13; Mar. 27 (Fri) \/ 11:00&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-220154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220154","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=220154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}