Quevedo Named Mountain West Player of the Week

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Maybe Danielle Quevedo should get hit in the face more often.
 
The lady they call DQ was as cool as, well, DQ, as Danielle Quevedo went a perfect 4-0 lead week, including a doubles win over a nationally-ranked opponent and a clinching singles win in a 4-3 victory of Wyoming.  That effort earned her Mountain West Women’s Tennis Player of the Week honors.
 
She becomes the first Lobo women’s tennis player to earn the honor in over three years, when Natasha Smith was named MW women’s tennis player of the week on April 2, 2015.
 
Quevedo is one of seven freshmen on the women’s tennis team (which also had one sophomore and one junior) and her 14-8 record leads the team in terms of singles wins.
 
Quevedo’s doubles wins were both big, starting on Saturday against the nation’s No. 23 ranked doubles team from Denver.  Playing at No. 1 doubles and with the match tied 1-1 early, Quevedo was at the net when she took a ball square to the face.  After taking a minute to compose herself, she and teammate Hsaing-Wen “Albie” Huang reeled off five straight games to easily that the set at 6-1.
 
On Sunday, her win clinched the doubles point, a big point in a 4-3 win over Wyoming.  Down 3-0 in a tiebreaker, again at No. 1 doubles, she and Huang won seven of the next eight points in taking the set 7-6 (7-4).
 
Later in the match, she won 6-4, 7-5 at No. 4 singles, playing up a slot from her normal No. 5 singles due to a late scratch.  That win clinched a 4-3 victory which pushed UNM to 9-7 overall and 2-0 in the Mountain West.  The Lobos have won 12 of 13 conference matches over the last three-plus seasons.
 
The Lobos are on the road this week, taking on Boise State on Friday at 5 p.m. and Utah State at 10 a.m.  UNM’s final home match is on April 21 against Air Force.