{"id":449803,"date":"2026-09-28T03:34:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T03:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/449803\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T03:34:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T03:34:20","slug":"newcomers-shine-in-houston-utsa-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/449803\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcomers shine in Houston &#8211; UTSA Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON \u2013 The Roadrunners made their first trip of the fall over the weekend, visiting Rice\u2019s Fall Invitational from George R. Brown Tennis Center. The field consisted of 10 teams, including seven from Texas. Singles action wrapped up on Sunday, with <a href=\"https:\/\/goutsa.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/player\/celine-absawi\" title=\"Celine Absawi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Celine Absawi<\/a> headlining the action in a consolation finals victory in Flight 2.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, doubles play concluded as <a href=\"https:\/\/goutsa.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/player\/gabriela-felix-da-silva\" title=\"Gabriela Felix da Silva\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gabriela Felix da Silva<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/goutsa.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/player\/katsiaryna-dubik\" title=\"Katsiaryna Dubik\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Katsiaryna Dubik<\/a> made up UTSA\u2019s top pairing. The duo prevailed in the Flight 1 consolation finals bout by a 6-1 mark over Sam Houston. Meanwhile, Aoka Nagasawi and <a href=\"https:\/\/goutsa.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/player\/celine-absawi\" title=\"Celine Absawi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Celine Absawi<\/a> took home one victory across three doubles contests in Flight 2.<\/p>\n<p>Absawi dropped her opening matchup in Flight 2 of singles play before taking down representatives from LA Tech (6-3, 6-3) and UTRGV (6-0, 1-6, 7-6 [10-5 tiebreaker]). The sophomore sealed a consolation title as the Roadrunners\u2019 top member in singles.<\/p>\n<p>Two Roadrunners \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/goutsa.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/player\/katsiaryna-dubik\" title=\"Katsiaryna Dubik\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Katsiaryna Dubik<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/goutsa.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/player\/laia-tarazona-peyro\" title=\"Laia Tarazona Peyro\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Laia Tarazona Peyro<\/a> \u2013 bowed out in the semifinals of Flight 4. In Flight 6, <a href=\"https:\/\/goutsa.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/player\/aoka-nagasawa\" title=\"Aoka Nagasawa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aoka Nagasawa<\/a> made her way to the title match with wins over Sam Houston (7-6 [10-5 tiebreaker], 2-0 [retired]) and UTRGV (6-4, 6-1).<\/p>\n<p>UP NEXT<\/p>\n<p>UTSA returns to the Hill Country for a weekend stay at Texas State\u2019s River State Shootout. All the action will take place from Bobcat Tennis Complex.<\/p>\n<p>For complete coverage of UTSA Women\u2019s Tennis during the 2026-27 season, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/goutsa.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">goutsa.com<\/a>. On social media, follow the Roadrunners on Twitter\/X (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/UTSAWT\" rel=\"nofollow\">@UTSAWT<\/a>), Instagram (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/utsawt\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">utsawt<\/a>) and Facebook (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UTSAWT\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UTSA Women\u2019s Tennis<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">-UTSA-<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2013 The Roadrunners made their first trip of the fall over the weekend, visiting Rice\u2019s Fall Invitational&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-449803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449803","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=449803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}