{"id":441377,"date":"2026-09-19T21:04:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T21:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/441377\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T21:04:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T21:04:19","slug":"ahamout-suarez-advance-to-finals-on-day-2-of-acu-invite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/441377\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahamout, Suarez Advance to Finals on Day 2 of ACU Invite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     ABILENE, Texas \u2013 The UT Arlington women&#8217;s tennis team wrapped up Day 2 of the ACU Invite on Saturday, with <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/tasnime-ahamout\/15094\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15094\" target=\"_blank\">Tasnime Ahamout<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/maria-isabel-suarez\/15092\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15092\" target=\"_blank\">Maria Isabel Suarez<\/a> advancing to their respective singles finals with semifinal victories.<\/p>\n<p>Ahamout claimed the opening set 6-3 and held a 1-0 lead in the second set of her semifinal match before Texas State&#8217;s Kinley Van Pelt retired due to injury, sending Ahamout to the Flight C championship match. She will face Giuliana Ciangherotti of North Texas on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Suarez rebounded after dropping the first set, 4-6, to ACU&#8217;s Ann Krlljic, winning the next two sets 6-3 and 7-5 to secure a spot in the Flight D final. She will take on Polina Sleptsova of Texas Tech on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>In Flight A semifinal action, <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/diana-kaibara\/15090\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15090\" target=\"_blank\">Diana Kaibara<\/a> fell to SMU&#8217;s Allie Bittner in straight sets, 2-6, 4-6, concluding her weekend of competition.<\/p>\n<p>NEXT UP<br \/>Day 3 of the ACU Invite begins Sunday at 9 a.m. CT with the singles championship matches.<br \/>\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;\u00a0#BuckEm\u00a0&#8212;<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>FOLLOW ALONG<br \/>\nFor updates, behind-the-scenes photos, videos, and more engaging, personal content, follow the women&#8217;s tennis program on X (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/utamavswtennis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@utamavswtennis<\/a>), Instagram (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/utamavswtennis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@utamavswtennis<\/a>), and Facebook (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UTAMavsWTennis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\/utamavswtennis<\/a>).<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; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; ABILENE, Texas \u2013 The UT Arlington women&#8217;s tennis team wrapped up Day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-441377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441377","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=441377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}