SAN DIEGO, Calif.—The third-seeded University of Hawai'i women's tennis team (12-8, 7-2 Big West) saw its season come to an end with a 4-2 loss to second-seeded Cal Poly in the Big West Championship's semifinal round. Friday's match at the Barnes Tennis Center marked the final collegiate match for UH's three seniors—Gitte Heynemans, Nidhi Surapaneni and Tal Talya Zandberg.
 
It was the eighth time since rejoining the Big West in 2013 that the Rainbow Wahine had advanced to the BWC Championship semifinal round (there was no BWC tourney in 2020 due to COVID-19).
 
The Mustangs got on the scoreboard first, winning on Courts No. 2 and 1 for the doubles point.  Cal Poly's No. 2 pair of Delanie Dunkle and Melissa LaMette defeated UH's Heynemans and Zandberg. 6-2 and CP's Emily Ackerman and Kim Bhunuu held off UH's Léa Romain and Satsuki Takamura by a break, 6-4.
 
Hawai'i evened the score at 1-1 with UH's Romain cruising past CP's Bhunuu, 6-1, 6-3 on the No. 1 court. Cal Poly's No. 2 Laura Bente then knocked off UH's Takamura in straight sets, 6-3, 6-2. But the 'Bows leveled the score at 2-2 as Heynemans defeated Cal Poly's Dunckle, 6-1, 7-6 at No. 5. But the Mustangs' No. 4 Ackerman pulled away to defeat UH's Zandberg in three sets, 6-3, 3-6, 6-0 and later on the No. 6 court, CP's Dunkle rallied to clinch the match with a 6-2, 7-6 win over Hawai'i's Nidhi Surapaneni.

The Rainbow Wahine finished the season with double-digit wins for the seventh time in the last nine years. The two years that UH was unable to reach the 10-win mark were in 2020 when COVID-19 shut down the season in March and in 2021 when UH played an abbreviated schedule due to COVID.