{"id":159684,"date":"2026-02-11T07:57:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T07:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/159684\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T07:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T07:57:16","slug":"arsic-named-big-12-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/159684\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsic named Big 12 Player of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LUBBOCK, Texas \u2013 After going 4-0 to help the Red Raiders sweep both New Mexico State and UTRGV this past weekend, junior <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/niksa-arsic\/13885\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13885\" target=\"_blank\">Niksa Arsic<\/a> was named the Big 12 Player of the Week announced by the league office on Tuesday afternoon.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nArsic earned his first career weekly conference award with an undefeated Saturday. In Tech&#8217;s first match against New Mexico State, Arsic and teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/thiago-guglieri\/13886\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13886\" target=\"_blank\">Thiago Guglieri<\/a> paired up at the top court to clinch the doubles point with a 7-5 win over Holland Snell and Lance Urlaub. He would make the match 2-0 in Tech&#8217;s favor with a straight set win over Roko Stipetic, 6-0, 6-4, also at court one.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAgainst UTRGV, Arsic and Guglieri aided the Red Raiders to another doubles point after defeating Sam Whitehead and Will Roberts, 6-1. Arsic clinched the match with a 6-3, 6-1 victory against Ivo Isqueiro at the top court to cap off the weekend without dropping a set. Arsic ties for the team lead with five dual singles wins and six dual doubles wins, all coming at court one.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nUp next, the Red Raiders host Louisiana and New Mexico this Friday and Sunday at the McLeod Tennis Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas \u2013 After going 4-0 to help the Red Raiders sweep both New Mexico State and UTRGV&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-159684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}