{"id":611688,"date":"2026-04-16T23:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/611688\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T23:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:04:09","slug":"11-womens-tennis-drops-quarterfinal-match-to-31-texas-tech-4-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/611688\/","title":{"rendered":"#11 Women\u2019s Tennis drops quarterfinal match to #31 Texas Tech, 4-3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 No. 11 Sun Devil Women\u2019s Tennis fell in the quarterfinal round, 4-3, to Texas Tech at the Big 12 Tennis Tournament Thursday afternoon at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona State (19-5) had its nine-match winning streak snapped and was the longest since 2016. Texas Tech (18-9) took an early 1-0 lead in the match by winning the doubles point with wins on courts two and three.<\/p>\n<p>The Sun Devils won five of the six first sets to open singles play, leading to sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/thesundevils.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/player\/lily-taylor\" title=\"Lily Taylor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lily Taylor<\/a> to tie the match at one with a 6-1, 6-2, win on court three. ASU would take a 2-1 lead with a straight sets win by sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/thesundevils.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/player\/aiya-nupbay\" title=\"AIya Nupbay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AIya Nupbay<\/a>, 6-2, 6-3, from court four.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Red Raiders would tie the match at two, but freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/thesundevils.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/player\/sarang-lim\" title=\"Sarang Lim\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sarang Lim<\/a> won in straight sets 6-4, 6-2 to give the Sun Devils a 3-2 lead. Texas Tech then responded with wins on courts one and five in three sets to win the match, 4-3.<\/p>\n<p>The Sun Devils will return home and await their postseason fate with the NCAA Tennis selection show slated for April 27 at 1:30 MST on NCAA.com. The first and second rounds of the NCAA Women\u2019s Tennis Tournament are set to begin May 1-2 with location, dates and times to be determined.<\/p>\n<p>#31 Texas Tech 4, #11 Arizona State 3<br \/>Doubles results\u00a0<br \/>1. Ovrootsky\/Taylor (ASU) vs. #83 Murphy\/Dmitrichenko (TTU) &#8211; 6-5 (unfinished)<br \/>2. Hlahola\/Daskalova (TTU) def. Svetac\/Nupbay (ASU) &#8211; 6-4<br \/>3. Brownback\/Slepsova (TTU) def. Bartanusz\/Lim (ASU) &#8211; 7-5<br \/>Order of finish: 2, 3<\/p>\n<p>Singles results\u00a0<br \/>1. Hailey Murphy (TTU) def. <a href=\"https:\/\/thesundevils.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/player\/sara-svetac\" title=\"Sara Svetac\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sara Svetac<\/a> (ASU) \u00a0&#8211; 2-6, 7-5, 6-2<br \/>2. Tekaterina Dmitrichenko (TTU) def. <a href=\"https:\/\/thesundevils.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/player\/vivian-ovrootsky\" title=\"Vivian Ovrootsky\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vivian Ovrootsky<\/a> (ASU) &#8211; 6-4, 6-4<br \/>3. <a href=\"https:\/\/thesundevils.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/player\/lily-taylor\" title=\"Lily Taylor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lily Taylor<\/a> (ASU) def. Elena Daskalova (TTU) &#8211; 6-1, 6-2<br \/>4. <a href=\"https:\/\/thesundevils.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/player\/aiya-nupbay\" title=\"Aiya Nupbay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aiya Nupbay<\/a> (ASU) def. Mariia Hlahola (TTU) &#8211; 6-2, 6-3<br \/>5. Havana Kadi (TTU) def. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesundevils.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/player\/zlata-bartanusz\" title=\"Zlata Bartanusz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zlata Bartanusz<\/a> (ASU) \u00a0&#8211; 5-7, 6-3, 6-1<br \/>6. <a href=\"https:\/\/thesundevils.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/player\/sarang-lim\" title=\"Sarang Lim\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sarang Lim<\/a> (ASU) def. Ella Brownback (TTU) &#8211; 6-4, 6-2<br \/>Order of finish: 3, 4, 6, 2, 1, 5<\/p>\n<p>Follow along<br \/>Fans can keep up with all the live action and news of Sun Devil Women\u2019s Tennis by following @sundevilwtennis on Instagram and X, Sun Devil Women\u2019s Tennis on Facebook, and on sundevils.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 No. 11 Sun Devil Women\u2019s Tennis fell in the quarterfinal round, 4-3, to Texas Tech&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-611688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611688","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=611688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}