COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS \u2013 The No. 22 South Carolina women\u2019s tennis team fell to No. 5 Texas A&M, 4-0, on Saturday afternoon in College Station.\u00a0<\/p>\n
All three doubles pairs battled back and forth, each tying their courts up at 4-4. Over on court five, the pair of Kaitlyn Carnicella and Jana Stojanova came up just shy, falling 7-5 to the Aggies duo. Jane Dunyon and Sara Borkop fought hard but were overtaken on court three, 6-4, leading to Texas A&M claiming the doubles point.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Helena Buchwald earned a 7-5 first-set win on court two, as well as Jana Stojanova (7-6) on court six. The Aggies were able to control the pace of the match and were the first to four wins, including singles victories on courts three, four and five.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Gamecocks will return to Columbia to host No. 3 Auburn (March 19) and No. 23 Florida (March 21) for Alumni Weekend. First serve is set for 5 p.m. and 1 p.m., respectively.<\/p>\n
No. 22\u00a0 South Carolina 0, No. 5 Texas A&M 4<\/p>\n
Doubles (order of finish: 2,3)<\/p>\n
No. 21 Helena Buchwald & Lauren Friedman (SC) vs. Mia Kupres & Lucciana Perez (TAMU) 5-5 unf.\u00a0
\nVioleta Martinez & Anna Perelman (TAMU) def. Jane Dunyon & Sara Borkop (SC) 6-4
\nLexington Reed & Daria Smetannikov (TAMU) def. Kaitlyn Carnicella & Jana Stojanova (SC) 7-5<\/p>\n
Singles (order of finish: 5, 3,4 )<\/p>\n
Lucciana Perez (TAMU) vs.\u00a0 Kaitlyn Carnicella (SC) 6-2, 5-5 unf.\u00a0
\nMia Kupres (TAMU) vs. No. 77 Helena Buchwald (SC) 5-7, 5-2 unf.
\nLexington Reed (TAMU) def. Sara Borkop (SC) 6-3, 6-4
\nVioleta Martinez (TAMU) def. Taylor Goetz (SC) 6-2, 6-2
\nDaria Smetannikov (TAMU) def. Jane Dunyon (SC) 6-3, 6-1
\nAnna Perelman vs. Jana Stojanova (SC) 6-7 (2-7), 3-0 unf.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS \u2013 The No. 22 South Carolina women\u2019s tennis team fell to No. 5 Texas A&M,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,17412,8115,20114,20112,20111,20113,8447,1227,85,747,8453,30571],"class_list":["post-540605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-carolina","tag-columbia","tag-featured-articles-home-page","tag-fighting-gamecocks","tag-gamecocks","tag-headlines-home-page","tag-south-carolina","tag-south-carolina-gamecocks","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-usc","tag-women-s-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540605","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=540605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}