Women's Tennis Bounces Back with 7-0 Win Over Bethune-Cookman

Sunday, February 22

Gainesville, Fla.

1 PM

Florida Gators

Bethune-Cookman

Valery Gynina with the forehand against Auburn

Women's Tennis Bounces Back with 7-0 Win Over Bethune-Cookman

Sunday, February 22, 2026 | Women's Tennis

By: John Maxwell

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Women's Tennis Team took a break from SEC competition Sunday, picking up a 7-0 non-conference victory over visiting Bethune-Cookman. The Wildcats were short-handed, traveling five players, which forced them to forfeit number three doubles and number six singles. The Gators dropped just nine games over 10 sets in singles, and two games during doubles play.

Doubles
With Bethune-Cookman forfeiting at number three doubles, all Florida needed to do to garner the doubles point was win one match, and (#23) Xinyi Nong and Nikola Daubnerova topped Rosalida Asumwa and Maria Romero Vargas in the number one slot, 6-1. Gabia Paskauskas and Lucia Pawlak were leading Zahara El-Zein and Jalayah Shaw 4-1 at number two doubles, when Nong and Daubnerova won their match.

Singles
(#80) Pawlak put the Gators one win away from clinching the team win when she blanked El-Zein 6-0, 6-0 at number three singles. (#54) Valery Gynina bested Shaw 6-0, 6-1 at number one to put Florida up 4-1, while (#97) Nong only dropped two games to Taylor O'Neal at number five singles winning 6-0, 6-2. At number four singles, (#92) Daubnerova upended Asumwa 6-3, 6-0, and (#23) Paskauskas topped Vargas 6-1, 6-2 in the second slot to complete the sweep.

Florida	5-2
Bethune-Cookman	0-2

FINAL RESULTS
Singles

1	#54	Valery Gynina (UF)	def.	xxx	Jalayah Shaw (BC)	6-0, 6-1
2	#23	Gabia Paskauskas (UF)	def.		Maria Romero Vargas (BC)	6-1, 6-2
3	#80	Lucie Pawlak (UF)	def.		Zahara El-Zein (BC)	6-0, 6-0
4	#92	Nikola Daubnerova (UF)	def.		Rosalida Asumwa (BC)	6-3, 6-0
5	#97	Xinyi Nong (UF)	def.		Taylor O'Neal (BC)	6-0, 6-2
6			forfeit

Order of Finish 3, 1, 5, 4, 2

Doubles

1	#23	Nong / Daubnerova (UF)	def.	xxx	Asumwa / Vargas (BC)	6-1
2		Paskauskas / Pawlak (UF)	unf.		El-Zein / Shaw (BC)	4-1
3			forfeit

Order of Finish 1

FROM THE GATORS' MOUTHS
Head Coach Per Nilsson on the match ...

"Sometimes these matches can be harder than yesterday's [against nationally-ranked Auburn] because you're really pumped up to play a highly-ranked team in conference, and then today the competition is not at the same level, but you still have to come out and do your job. We have windy conditions. We had a couple of people who sat because of some nagging injuries. It can be tough to go out there and get the job done, but you have to and its also awesome in that you get players in that really need some matches so it was a good day for us."

UP NEXT
The Gators resume conference play this week when they travel to Arkansas for a Thursday, Feb 28 meeting with the Razorbacks at 6 p.m. EST.

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