By: Diego Macaraeg (@DiegoMac_sports) – Spear Reporter | Sophomore Emma Fantousis prepares to serve the ball at the SJSU Fall Invite on Oct. 26, 2025. (Photo by Otis White – Spear Photographer).
With the fall season ending in Northridge, sophomores Soledad Fayos Capilla and Cristina Mateos Losada left their mark on San Jose State women’s tennis season finale at the CSUN Invitational this weekend.
Mateos Losada capped the weekend with a dominant 6-3, 6-0 win on Sunday and also earned an earlier straight-set victory, 6-4, 6-2, to lead SJSU in singles play.
Sophomore Katarina Brajovic battled through a third-set tiebreak to claim a hard-fought 6-2, 3-6, 11-9 win, while Fayos Capilla opened the event defeating UC Irvine’s senior Carolyna Fowler, 6-3, 6-2.
As a team, day one of the three-day CSUN Invitational had not gone as planned for SJSU head coach Chad Skorupka.
“We didn’t come out here focused,” Skorupka said. “We’ve got to want it more, we’ve got to fight.”
Sophomore Emma Fantousis showed that grit that Skorupka was looking for in one of the team’s most resilient performances of the weekend, rallying from a set down to defeat Long Beach State University’s sophomore Johanna Hiesmair, 3-6, 6-0, 6-2.
Fantousis also teamed up with junior Duru Durgun for a 6-3 doubles win over New Mexico’s freshman sisters Vianca and Vivica Corley, giving the Spartans one of their strongest doubles outings of the tournament.
Consistency in doubles remained a challenge, but freshman Tara Mihaljevic and the rest of the Spartans demonstrated their composure, as she added a straight-set win against LBSU’s sophomore Daisy Carpenter, 6-2, 6-4.
The invitational, which featured a deep field from LMU, UC Irvine, LBSU, New Mexico and Pacific, marked a valuable end of the season lesson for a young Spartans roster looking to translate its fall progress into the next year.
The Spartans will open their spring season at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 20 at UC Riverside.
