Women’s Tennis Postseason Run Comes to a Close in MW Semifinals

LAS VEGAS - After putting its stamp on the 2025 Credit Union 1 Mountain West Championship, Air Force Women's Tennis' season came to a close on Friday afternoon as the Falcons fell 4-1 to three-seed UNLV at the Darling Tennis Center in Las Vegas.

Air Force picked up its one win on the day in perhaps its most challenging doubles stage of the year. After Sofia Mavor/Shivaani Selvan picked up a 6-1 win on court three, both remaining matches played into a tiebreak. Odom/Michalski (13-5) and Cindy Hu/Coco Zhao (16-2) were both defending respective win streaks of seven and nine matches on line two. Odom/Michalski went down 7-5 in the tiebreak to leave the doubles point up to a line one decision.

UNLV's Nikol Mircheva/Hanna Vinahradava led the majority of their set against Arianna Van Houweling/Nadia Kojonroj, but the Falcon duo did not allow their opponents beyond a one-game advantage and tied the set four times to force the tiebreak. Van Houweling/Kojonroj scored a narrow 8-6 win in the tiebreak to clinch Air Force's ninth-straight doubles point.

In singles, the Falcons went down on lines three (Kojonroj vs. Zhao), two (Van Houweling vs. Veronika Kliuch), five (Michalski vs. Kaho Oyama) and six (Selvan vs. Vinahradava) in order. Odom, facing Hu on court one and Mavor versus Mircheva on court four, both split results in the first two sets, but trailed in the third as UNLV clinched its berth in tomorrow's championship round.

Air Force closes its 2025 dual season at 12-14 with a 4-6 mark in Mountain West play. Collectively, the Falcons close with a 41-22 (.651) record in doubles play and 59-60 (.496) in singles.

2025 MW Women's Tennis Championship - Semifinals
Tennis Match Results - #3 UNLV vs #7 Air Force
4/25/2025 at Las Vegas, Nevada (Darling Tennis Center)

UNLV 4, Air Force 1

Singles Competition:
1. Alexis Odom (AF) vs. Cindy Hu (UNLV) 2-6, 6-4, 0-5, unfinished
2. Veronika Kliuch (UNLV) def. Arianna Van Houwelin (AF) 6-3, 6-3
3. Coco Zhao (UNLV) def. Nadia Kojonroj (AF) 6-3, 6-2
4. Sofia Mavor (AF) vs. Nikol Mircheva (UNLV) 7-6 (9-7), 3-4, unfinished
5. Kaho Oyama (UNLV) def. Maya Michalski (AF) 6-4, 6-1
6. Hanna Vinahradava (UNLV) def. Shivaani Selvan (AF) 3-6, 6-1, 6-1
Order of Finish: Singles 3,2,5,6

Doubles Competition:
1. Arianna Van Houwelin/Nadia Kojonroj (AF) def. Nikol Mircheva/Hanna Vinahradava (UNLV) 7-6 (8-6)
2. Cindy Hu/Coco Zhao (UNLV) def. Maya Michalski/Alexis Odom (AF) 7-6 (7-5)
3. Sofia Mavor/Shivaani Selvan (AF) def. Kaho Oyama/Sofiia Sokolvak (UNLV) 6-1
Order of Finish: 3,2,1

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