{"id":514919,"date":"2026-03-03T00:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T00:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/514919\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T00:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T00:58:13","slug":"cats-fall-to-baylor-and-tcu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/514919\/","title":{"rendered":"Cats Fall to Baylor and TCU"},"content":{"rendered":"

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FORT WORTH, Texas.- No. 43 Arizona opened Big 12 play on the road this weekend, competing in its first conference matches of the season with a pair of competitive contests in Texas, falling 4-3 to No. 54 Baylor on Friday before dropping a 4-1 decision to No. 33 TCU on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Against Baylor, the Wildcats battled to the final court in a tightly contested match. Arizona dropped the doubles point after Kubacha\/Villegas (BAY) defeated Zoya Chulak<\/a> and Ciara Moore<\/a> 6-2, and Dong\/Zack (BAY) topped Danielle Tuhten<\/a> and Martyna Ostrzygalo<\/a> 6-1.<\/p>\n

In singles, Arizona responded with three wins. Josie Usereau<\/a> earned a ranked victory over No. 110 Zuzanna Kubacha (BAY) 6-3, 6-4, while Moore secured a 6-1, 7-5 win against Kennedy Gibbs (BAY). Tanvi Narendran<\/a> added a 6-4, 7-6 (7-3) victory over Luna Ivkovic (BAY). Baylor ultimately clinched with three-set wins on courts one, four and five to secure the 4-3 result.<\/p>\n

On Sunday against No. 33 TCU, Arizona opened strong by claiming the doubles point. Chulak and Moore defeated Gomez O’Hayon\/Tsai (TCU) 6-3, and Usereau and Maria Garcia<\/a> followed with a 6-1 win over Caballero Chica\/Jackson (TCU).<\/p>\n

TCU responded in singles, taking four completed courts to earn the 4-1 victory. Moore, Garcia, Narendran and Chulak competed in straight-set matches, while Ostrzygalo and Usereau were in third sets when the match was clinched.<\/p>\n

Arizona returns home Friday to host No. 42 University of Central Florida at the LaNelle Robson Tennis Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Story Links Baylor Results (PDF) TCU Results (PDF) …\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-514919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}