{"id":864411,"date":"2026-09-29T06:32:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T06:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/864411\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T06:32:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T06:32:50","slug":"mm-9-28-maryland-womens-tennis-oliwia-orlinska-advances-through-ita-all-american-championship-qualifying-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/864411\/","title":{"rendered":"MM 9.28: Maryland women\u2019s tennis\u2019 Oliwia Orlinska advances through ITA All-American Championship qualifying draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">With six Maryland women\u2019s tennis players competing in Cary, North Carolina, at the ITA All-American Championships, Oliwia Orlinska stole the headlines. The 2026 All-Big Ten second-team honoree advanced through the qualifying draw into the Round of 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">A mainstay as the Terps\u2019 top singles weapon during her sophomore season, No. 6-seed Orlinska has picked up where she left off. She defeated Wake Forest\u2019s Eva Oxford in straight sets on Monday, needing a tightly-contested first-set tiebreaker to start off strong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">While Orlinska\u2019s second-round match was far from smooth sailing, the junior broke Oklahoma\u2019s Gloriana Nahum multiple times in the decisive set to secure a three-set victory. Orlinska cruised through the first-set tiebreaker before dropping the second set in close fashion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Orlinska will face Ohio State\u2019s Audrey Spencer, who came back from a set down on Tuesday, in the next round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Maryland volleyball dropped its 15th consecutive Big Ten match and ninth straight without winning a set in its straight-set loss to No. 18 Indiana. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.testudotimes.com\/maryland-terps-sports\/93560\/maryland-volleyball-succumbs-to-no-18-indiana-3-0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Southall reported on the game.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Maryland wrestling announced the date for its intrasquad matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Four former Maryland women\u2019s basketball players will be playing in the WNBA playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With six Maryland women\u2019s tennis players competing in Cary, North Carolina, at the ITA All-American Championships, Oliwia Orlinska&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428,125305],"class_list":["post-864411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-the-maryland-minute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}