San Diego, Calif.----- The San Jose State University women's doubles pair of Miyo Kobayashi and Alba Pedrero Galindo posted the team's only win in a 4-0 loss to top-seed UNLV in a Mountain West Championship quarterfinal round match.
Kobayashi and Pedrero Galindo defeated UNLV's Connie Li and Samantha Li, 6-2, but the Rebels won the remaining two doubles matches to take a 1-0 lead going into the six singles matches.
UNLV (15-6) won at #1, #3 and #6-singles to clinch the match and advance to an April 26 semifinal contest.
In the regular-season match that the Rebels won over the Spartans, 4-0, Kobayashi was the only San Jose State player to win a set. When the Mountain West Championshiip match was halted, Kobayashi at #2-singles, Savannah Sendar at #4-singles, and Laura Malsert at #5-singles each had won the first set of their respective matches.
The Spartans (10-9) concluded their season with their fifth consecutive winning record in dual match action. Kobayashi, named All-Mountain West in singles, completed her four seasons as San Jose State's leader in combined career singles and doubles victories with 148.
San Jose State University women's tennis
Mountain West Championship
Quarterfinal round match
#8-seed San Jose State vs. #1-seed UNLV
Aztec Tennis Center, San Diego, Calif.
April 25, 2019
Final score – UNLV 4, San Jose State 0
| Doubles |
| Aiwen Zhu & En-Pei Huang (UNLV) def. Savannah Sendar & Laura Malsert (SJSU), 6-3 |
| Miyo Kobayashi & Alba Pedrero Galindo (SJSU) def. Connie Li & Samantha Li (UNLV), 6-2 |
| Izumi Asano & Anna Bogoslavets (UNLV) def. Tamara Culibrk & Mathilda Vidgren (SJSU), 6-3 |
| Order of finish: 1, 2, 3 |
| Singles |
| Aiwen Zhu (UNLV) def. Tamara Culibrk (SJSU), 6-1, 6-1 |
| Izumi Asano (UNLV) vs. Miyo Kobayashi (SJSU), 6-7 (0-3), 2-2, unfinished |
| En-Pei Huang (UNLV) def. Alba Pedrero Galindo (SJSU), 7-5, 6-2 |
| Anna Bogoslavets (UNLV) vs. Savannah Sendar (SJSU), 3-6, 3-4, unfinished |
| Jovana Kenic (UNLV) vs. Laura Malsert (SJSU), 2-6, 5-4 unfinished |
| Connie Li (UNLV) def. Mathilda Vidgren (SJSU), 6-4, 6-1 |
| Order of finish: 1,6,3 |
| Team records: UNLV – 15-6; San Jose State – 10-9 |