{"id":227816,"date":"2026-04-11T18:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T18:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/227816\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T18:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T18:34:15","slug":"womens-tennis-falls-to-florida-atlantic-in-regular-season-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/227816\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Tennis Falls to Florida Atlantic in Regular Season Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/CUSA_Primary_200x200.png\" alt=\"CUSA Championships\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Match:<\/p>\n<p>vs. CUSA Championships<\/p>\n<p>4\/15\/2026 | TBD<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Apr. 15 (Wed) \/ TBD&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/CUSA_Primary_200x200.png\" alt=\"CUSA Championships\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        vs.\u00a0CUSA Championships&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/fiusports.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/opponent-history\/cusa-championships\/462\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    MIAMI \u2014\u00a0FIU&#8217;s women&#8217;s tennis team fell 4-1 to Florida Atlantic on Saturday afternoon at the PayCargo Tennis Center, closing out the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>The match also marked Senior Day for <a href=\"https:\/\/fiusports.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/katerina-mandelikova\/13294\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13294\" target=\"_blank\">Katerina Mandelikova<\/a>, who was honored prior to the match for her contributions to the program.<\/p>\n<p>FIU dropped the doubles point, as Florida Atlantic secured wins on Courts 2 and 3 to take an early 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>In singles play, the Owls extended their advantage with straight-set victories on Courts 2 and 3. FIU responded on Court 5, where <a href=\"https:\/\/fiusports.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/viktorie-hazmukova\/13302\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13302\" target=\"_blank\">Viktorie Hazmukova<\/a> delivered a dominant 6-2, 6-2 win to put the Panthers on the board.<\/p>\n<p>Florida Atlantic clinched the match with a three-set victory on Court 6, sealing the 4-1 decision.<\/p>\n<p>Two matches went unfinished, including Mandelikova&#8217;s battle at No. 1, where she led 5-3 in the third set, and <a href=\"https:\/\/fiusports.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/maria-lucia-araoz-gosn\/13419\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13419\" target=\"_blank\">Maria Lucia Araoz-Gosn&#8217;s<\/a> match at No. 4.<\/p>\n<p>With the loss, FIU closes the regular season at 9-10 overall.<\/p>\n<p>UP NEXT<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Panthers will travel to Murfreesboro for the Conference USA Championships, hosted by Middle Tennessee State University.<\/p>\n<p>SOCIAL MEDIA<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFans are encouraged to follow the Panthers on Instagram\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fiuwtennis\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@FIUWTENNIS<\/a>), Twitter\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIUWTENNIS\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@FIUWTENNIS<\/a>), and Facebook (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FIUMensBball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook.com\\FIUWTN<\/a>) for all the latest Women&#8217;s Tennis news.<\/p>\n<p>General athletic news can also be found at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3BMFNUU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@FIUSports<\/a>\u00a0on Facebook and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3mQydmh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@FIUAthletics<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter and Instagram.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Match: vs. CUSA Championships 4\/15\/2026 | TBD &#13; Apr. 15 (Wed) \/ TBD&#13; &#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-227816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}