MURFREESBORO, Tenn. \u2013 10th-seed Middle Tennessee (8-14) started Conference USA Tournament play with a win over 7th-seed New Mexico State (10-10) at the Adams Tennis Complex.<\/p>\n
The Blue Raiders took an early lead by winning the doubles point on Courts 2 and 3.\u00a0Rutuja Chaphalkar<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Zora Koenig<\/a>\u00a0won 6-2 against Anna Klimova and Montana Parkinson-Lubold.\u00a0Lena Peyer<\/a>\u00a0and Sze Xuan Lim secured the doubles point with a 6-4 win over Mariella Gelbke and Anna Pinaieva. On Court 1,\u00a0Sara Conde<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Cara Szilasi<\/a>\u00a0were ahead 5-3 when the match was left unfinished.<\/p>\n New Mexico State responded in singles with wins at the top three courts, as Whitney Moon defeated\u00a0Lena Peyer<\/a>\u00a06-4, 6-4, Anna Pinaieva edged\u00a0Zora Koenig<\/a>\u00a07-6, 6-3, and Parkinson-Lubold topped Sthefany Rodrigues De Lima 6-4, 6-2. With the Aggies leading 3-1 before Conde won on court four, defeating Emma Petton 6-4, 6-4.\u00a0Zenn Lim<\/a>\u00a0sealed the overall victory for the Blue Raiders with a three-set comeback win at No. 6, defeating Mariella Gelbke 6-2, 5-7, 6-4 after dropping the second set. In the third set, Lim tied it 4-4 before clinching the next two games. \u00a0<\/p>\n With the match tied 3-3, junior\u00a0Sadbaroy Kholdarova<\/a>\u00a0stepped up on court five, battling through a three-set win over Anna Klimova 3-6, 6-3, 6-4. Kholdarova dropped the first set and allowed just three breaks in the second and four in the third set, ultimately sealing the team victory for Middle Tennessee. \u00a0<\/p>\n UP NEXT: The Blue Raiders took on the Panthers in Miami earlier this season. The Blue Raiders secured the doubles point to take an early lead, but FIU would win the four courts on singles to clinch 4-1. The Blue Raiders are still looking for their first win against FIU, coming into this match 0-15 in the all-time series. \u00a0<\/p>\n BOX SCORE\u00a0 Singles \u00a0 Match Notes: \u00a0
MTSU will play the 2 seed FIU tomorrow, April 16, at 12 pm.\u00a0<\/p>\n
(10) MTSU 4, (7) NM State
Doubles \u00a0
No. 1: Whitney Moon\/Nadia Nemeth (NM) vs.\u00a0Sara Conde<\/a>\/Cara Szilasi<\/a>\u00a0(MTSU) 5-3, unfinished
No. 2:\u00a0Rutuja Chaphalkar<\/a>\/Zora Koenig<\/a>\u00a0(MTSU) def. Anna Klimova\/Montana Parkinson-Lubold (NM) 6-2
No. 3:\u00a0Lena Peyer<\/a>\/Sze Xuan Lim def. Mariella Gelbke\/Anna Pinaieva (NM) 6-4<\/p>\n
No. 1: Whitney Moon (NM) def.\u00a0Lena Peyer<\/a>\u00a0(MTSU) 6-4, 6-4
No. 2: Anna Pinaieva (NM) def.\u00a0Zora Koenig<\/a>\u00a0(MTSU) 7-6, 6-3
No. 3: Montana Parkinson-Lubold (NM) def. Sthefany Rodrigues De Lima (MTSU) 6-4, 6-2
No. 4:\u00a0Sara Conde<\/a>\u00a0(MTSU) def. Emma Petton (NM) 6-4, 6-4
No. 5:\u00a0Sadbaroy Kholdarova<\/a>\u00a0(MTSU) def. Anna Klimova (NM) 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
No. 6: Sze Xuan Lim (MTSU) def. Mariella Gelbke (NM) 6-2, 5-7, 6-4<\/p>\n
10-seed MTSU (8-14)
7-seed NM State (10-10)
Order of finish: Doubles (2-3); Singles (2-3-1-4-6-5)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MURFREESBORO, Tenn. \u2013 10th-seed Middle Tennessee (8-14) started Conference USA Tournament play with a win over 7th-seed New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-609847","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\/609847","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=609847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}