{"id":297475,"date":"2026-05-17T22:32:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T22:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/297475\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T22:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T22:32:16","slug":"uva-tennis-hoos-rally-to-beat-texas-4-3-to-win-2026-national-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/297475\/","title":{"rendered":"UVA Tennis: \u2018Hoos rally to beat Texas, 4-3, to win 2026 national title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tennis.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"tennis\" width=\"555\" height=\"312\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tennis.jpg\"\/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tennis.jpg\" alt=\"tennis\" width=\"555\" height=\"312\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a>Photo: \u00a9 Mikael Damkier\/stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n<p>Dylan Dietrich, the 2026 ACC Player of the Year, rallied from a third-set deficit to put away the final match of the day, lifting Virginia to the 2026 national title with a 4-3 win over second-ranked Texas on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>It was the second comeback win of the weekend for UVA (28-4), the #4 national seed, which had to rally to win the final three matches in Saturday\u2019s semifinal win over top-ranked Wake Forest.<\/p>\n<p>In Sunday\u2019s national title matchup, Texas scored the doubles point, taking all three head-to-head matchups.<\/p>\n<p>Keegan Rice, Jangjun Kim and Stiles Brockett posted straight-set wins in their singles matches to get the \u2018Hoos to three points on the day.<\/p>\n<p>Texas got wins for Lucas Marionneau (over Mans Dahlberg) and Oliver Ojakaar (over Andres Santamarta) to get the match to square.<\/p>\n<p>Dietrich lost the first set in his match with Sebastian Gorzny by tiebreaker, then forced a third set with a 6-4 second-set win.<\/p>\n<p>In the deciding set, Gorzny got an early break to go up 3-1, before Dietrich rallied to win four straight, then after dropping a game to Gorzny on serve, served the match out, getting the final point on a service winner when Gorzny returned a second serve into the net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: \u00a9 Mikael Damkier\/stock.adobe.com Dylan Dietrich, the 2026 ACC Player of the Year, rallied from a third-set deficit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[108265,27,29,28,108266],"class_list":["post-297475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-go-hoos","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-uva-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297475","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=297475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}