{"id":255717,"date":"2026-05-02T19:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T19:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/255717\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T19:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T19:04:13","slug":"no-17-florida-shuts-out-toledo-to-advance-in-ncaa-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/255717\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 17 Florida shuts out Toledo to advance in NCAA Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida women\u2019s tennis peaked at the right moment ahead of the NCAA tournament. Dominating on every court, the Gators showed out in their opening match against Toledo.\u00a0<\/p>\n

UF (17-7) routed the Toledo Rockets (13-9), 4-0, on Saturday to advance to the second round of the NCAA Tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In doubles, the Gators didn\u2019t drop a single set.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The pair of Brooke Black and Valery Gynina took a dominant 6-0 victory over Akuginova and Gabriella Rodon, the Florida pair\u2019s fifth win in their last six doubles matches.<\/p>\n

On court three, the freshman-graduate duo of Lucie Pawlak and India Houghton finished Iva Jankovic and JJ Scholten, 6-3.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After taking the doubles point, Florida continued to stay hot in singles.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gabia Paskauskas served a clean 6-1, 6-0 win over Toledo\u2019s Jone Ibanez in the first singles match, adding to her impressive 19-8 record on the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Daubnerova quickly followed, going 6-1, 6-0 over Annika Munson.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With the Gators in need of just one more win to seal the victory,none other than Pawlak delivered.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Florida freshman dominated both sets to take a 6-1, 6-2 victory over Neha Guru. Pawlak continues to lead the Gators with an impressive 22 wins on the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tournament play continues on Sunday, as the Gators prepare to face the winner of No. 12 Michigan and Illinois State. First serve is set for 1 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Contact Sofia Alamo at salamo@alligator.org<\/a>. Follow her on X @alamosofiaa.<\/p>\n

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Sofia Alamo<\/p>\n

Sofia Alamo is a Sports Journalism freshman at UF and the university\u2019s Women\u2019s Tennis beat reporter. Her favorite sports are soccer and tennis, and she aspires to be a sports broadcaster in the future.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida women\u2019s tennis peaked at the right moment ahead of the NCAA tournament. Dominating on every court, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-255717","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\/255717","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=255717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}