HONOLULU--The University of Hawai'i women's tennis team continued action on Day 2 of the Weinman Foundation Invitational at the UH Tennis Complex on Friday. Once again the Rainbow Wahine won three of their doubles matches, while four players etched their names in the win column against top-notch competition.

All teams started with doubles. For the second-straight day, both UH pairings of Nikola Homolkova/Klara Novakova and Kaitlyn Ralar/Ana Vilcek recorded wins. Homolkova and Novakova cruised past California's Haley Giavara and Katja Wiersholm, 6-1, while Ralar and Vilcek defeated their opponents, Isabella Lee and Gabrille Lee by the same score, 6-1. The UH duo of Alexis Merrill and Rita Pinto combined for their first win of the season, knocking off WSU's Stefaniia Mikhailova and Hania Abouelsaad, 6-2.

Four Rainbow Wahine notched their first singles wins of the season with three going the distance. Kim led off with a straight set win over Cal's Cami Brown, 6-0, 6-3. Novakova bounced back after dropping her second set to blank Cal's Erin Richardson in the third, 6-2, 2-6, 6-0. Homolkova battled back after falling in the first set by a break, to win the final two sets which ended in a tie-breaker over Cal's Makenna Thiel, 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (4). In the last match of the day, UH's Merrill outlasted USC's Gabrielle Lee in three, 6-4, 2-6, 6-2.

The five team Weinman Foundation Invitational will conclude on Saturday, Jan. 7 with first serve slated for 9:00 a.m. HT.

Weinman Foundation Inv - Day 2 Results
Honolulu, O'ahu (UH Tennis Complex)
Jan 06, 2023

Singles competition
Kadleckova, Miska (Iowa State) def. Fifa Kumhom (Washington State) 6-3, 6-3
Yura Nakagawa (Washington State) def. Supapitch Kuearum, A (Iowa State) 6-4, 3-6, 6-3
Naklo, Thasaporn (Iowa State) def. Maxine Murphy (Washington State) 6-2, 6-1
Kajuru, Ange Oby (Iowa State) def. Eva Alvarez Sande (Washington State) 6-3, 6-1
Cabezas, Sofia (Iowa State) def. Elyse Tse (Washington State) 6-2, 2-6, 6-2
Hsieh, Christin (Iowa State) def. Yang Lee (Washington State) 6-3, 2-6, 6-4
Stefaniia Mikhailova (Washington State) def. Rita Pinto (Hawaii) 6-4, 6-0
McKenna Koenig (USC) def. Jessica Alsola (California) 2-6, 6-1, 7-6 (7-5)
Haley Giavara (California) def. Emma Charney (USC) 7-5, 1-6, 6-4
Naomi Cheong (USC) def. Ana Vilcek (Hawaii) 4-6, 6-4, 6-4
Nikola Homolkova (Hawaii) def. Makenna Thiel (California) 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7-4)
Madison Kim (Hawaii) def. Cami Brown (California) 6-0, 6-3
Grace Piper (USC) def. Hanna Viller Moeller (California) 7-6 (9-7), 4-6, 7-5
Nathalie Rodilosso (USC) def. Berta Passola (California) 6-1, 6-3
Klara Novakova (Hawaii) def. Erin Richardson (California) 6-2, 2-6, 6-0
Alexis Merrill (Hawaii) def. Gabrielle Lee (USC) 6-4, 2-6, 6-2
Isabelle Lee (USC) def. Anna Kern (Hawaii) 6-3, 6-4

Doubles competition
Kadleckova, Miska/Cabezas, Sofia (Iowa State) def. Fifa Kumhom/Yura Nakagawa (Washington State) 6-2
Kajuru, Ange Oby/Hsieh, Christin (Iowa State) def. Elyse Tse/Yang Lee (Washington State) 6-1
Naklo, Thasaporn/Supapitch Kuearum, A (Iowa State) def. Maxine Murphy/Eva Alvarez Sande (Washington State) 7-5
Alexis Merrill/Rita Pinto (Hawaii) def. Stefaniia Mikhailova/Hania Abouelsaad (Washington State) 6-2
Cami Brown/Hanna Viller Moeller (California) def. Anna Kern/Madison Kim (Hawaii) 6-2
Erin Richardson/Makenna Thiel (California) def. Nathalie Rodilosso/Sloane Morra (USC) 6-4
Grace Piper/Naomi Cheong (USC) def. Jessica Alsola/Berta Passola (California) 6-4
Nikola Homolkova/Klara Novakova (Hawaii) def. Haley Giavara/Katja Wiersholm (California) 6-1
McKenna Koenig/Emma Charney (USC) def. Alexis Merrill/Rita Pinto (Hawaii) 6-1
Kaitlyn Ralar/Ana Vilcek (Hawaii) def. Isabelle Lee/Gabrielle Lee (USC) 6-1