{"id":423807,"date":"2026-10-10T00:38:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T00:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/423807\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T00:38:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T00:38:23","slug":"owen-upsets-top-seed-as-redhawks-open-ita-ohio-valley-regional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/423807\/","title":{"rendered":"Owen Upsets Top Seed as RedHawks Open ITA Ohio Valley Regional"},"content":{"rendered":"

MASON, Ohio \u2013 The Miami University women’s tennis team opened play at the ITA Ohio Valley Regional Championships on Thursday. The RedHawks went 7-1 in singles on the day, with Clara Owen<\/a>, Evelyn Risner<\/a>, and Nina Chavez<\/a> each winning twice to advance to the round of 16.<\/p>\n

Complete results can be found below.<\/p>\n

Singles Results<\/p>\n

Round of 64<\/p>\n


\n\tClara Owen<\/a> (Miami) def. Gherghe (Dayton), 6-3, 6-2
\n\tZara Darken<\/a> (Miami) def. Black (Xavier), 6-2, 6-4
\n\tEvelyn Risner<\/a> (Miami) def. Zakic (Northern Kentucky), 6-3, 6-2
\n\tNina Chavez<\/a> (Miami) def. No. 16 seed Fuduric (Cincinnati), 7-5, 6-4 <\/p>\n

Round of 32<\/p>\n


\n\tClara Owen<\/a> (Miami) def. No. 1 seed Vustsina (Louisville), 4-6, 6-0, 6-1
\n\tNo. 2 seed Smith (Louisville) def. Zara Darken<\/a> (Miami), 7-5, 6-1
\n\tEvelyn Risner<\/a> (Miami) def. Saito (Austin Peay), 6-4, 6-4
\n\tNina Chavez<\/a> (Miami) def. Stoyanov (Lipscomb), 7-5, 6-4 <\/p>\n

Highlights<\/p>\n

Clara Owen<\/a> knocked off the tournament’s No. 1 seed, Louisville’s Vustsina, after dropping the first set. Owen took over from there, winning 12 of the final 13 games to close out a 4-6, 6-0, 6-1 victory. Nina Chavez<\/a> also earned a win over a seeded opponent, defeating No. 16 seed Fuduric of Cincinnati in straight sets before adding a second straight-set win over Lipscomb. Evelyn Risner<\/a> did not drop a set on the day, and Zara Darken<\/a> picked up a straight-set win over Xavier in her opening match.<\/p>\n

Up Next:\u00a0The RedHawks continue play on Friday, Oct. 9. In singles, Owen will face No. 2 seed Smith (Louisville), Risner will take on Kurepa (Cincinnati), and Chavez will meet Aulia (Tennessee) in the round of 16. In doubles, Owen and Chavez will face Magarira\/Oved (UT Chattanooga) at 2:30 p.m., and Allie Faulkner<\/a> and Maria Luisa Oliveira<\/a> will play Cooksey\/Tungamirai (Tennessee State) at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MASON, Ohio \u2013 The Miami University women’s tennis team opened play at the ITA Ohio Valley Regional Championships…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-423807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423807","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=423807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}