{"id":601540,"date":"2026-04-12T06:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T06:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/601540\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T06:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T06:35:08","slug":"blue-raiders-defeat-eku-on-senior-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/601540\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Raiders Defeat EKU on Senior Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. \u2014 Middle Tennessee closed out the regular season defeating Eastern Kentucky at the Outdoor Tennis Complex.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Blue Raiders secured the doubles point with wins from the pair of Rutuja Chaphalkar<\/a> and Zora Koenig<\/a>, along with Zenn Lim<\/a> and Lena Peyer<\/a>, both with the score 7-5. \u00a0<\/p>\n

In singles play, Middle Tennessee continued its dominance, earning victories on four courts. Lena Peyer<\/a> set the tone with a straight-set win, while Sthefany Lima<\/a>, Sadbaroy Kholdarova<\/a>, and Zenn Lim<\/a> each added points to seal the team victory. On court three, Lima beat Ceylin Ipek 6-1, 6-1, only letting Ipek break twice. Kholdarova won 6-3, 6-1, beating Izem Elif Olcer on court five. Peyer sealed the deal, the match reaching four\u00a0for\u00a0the Blue Raiders on court one, battling 7-6 (8-6) and in the second set 7-6 (7-5). On court six, when Lim won the first set and lost the second set, she was leading 5-3 before her opponent retired.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Eastern Kentucky picked up singles wins on two courts, but it was not enough to overcome the gap on courts two and four. Koenig lost to Masha Fedenko 5-7, 4-6 on court two, while winning 9 games combined, it wasn’t enough. Sara Conde<\/a> fell on court four to Marilou Cote 3-6, 6-4. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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\nMiddle Tennessee will shift focus to the Conference USA Tournament, set to take place April 15\u201318\u00a0at the Adams Tennis Complex and Outdoor Tennis Complex.<\/p>\n

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\nFollow Middle Tennessee Women’s Tennis on social media on Facebook (BlueRaiderWomensTennis), X (MT_WomensTennis) and Instagram (mt_womenstennis).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MURFREESBORO, Tenn. \u2014 Middle Tennessee closed out the regular season defeating Eastern Kentucky at the Outdoor Tennis Complex.\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-601540","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\/601540","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=601540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}