{"id":247861,"date":"2026-04-02T04:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/247861\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T04:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:00:12","slug":"cecilia-costa-earns-back-to-back-big-west-player-of-the-week-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/247861\/","title":{"rendered":"Cecilia Costa Earns Back-To-Back Big West Player Of The Week Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, Calif &#8212; Long Beach State&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/cecilia-costa\/9576\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9576\" target=\"_blank\">Cecilia Costa<\/a> has been named the Big West Women&#8217;s Tennis Player of the Week for the second consecutive week, marking her third honor of the season following her standout performance in the Beach&#8217;s 4-3 victory over Cal State Fullerton at the Rhodes Tennis Center.<\/p>\n<p>Competing at the top of the lineup, Costa delivered a strong showing in singles, earning a straight-set win over Cal State Fullerton&#8217;s Martina Markov, 6-2, 6-4. She controlled the match from start to finish, using consistent baseline play and composure in key moments to secure an important point for Long Beach State.<\/p>\n<p>Costa also competed at No. 1 doubles alongside Paulina Franco, where the pair recorded a 6-2 win over Emilie Lugon-Moulin and Seha Yu. The duo&#8217;s performance marked the only doubles victory for the Beach in the match.<\/p>\n<p>Costa finished the day undefeated across both singles and doubles play while competing in the most competitive positions in the lineup. Her performance at No. 1 singles proved pivotal in Long Beach State&#8217;s narrow 4-3 win.<\/p>\n<p>With the recognition, Costa continues to be a consistent force at the top of the lineup, earning back-to-back weekly honors and her third Big West Player of the Week award this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif &#8212; Long Beach State&#8217;s Cecilia Costa has been named the Big West Women&#8217;s Tennis Player&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-247861","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\/247861","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=247861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}