{"id":905527,"date":"2026-09-22T16:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T16:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/905527\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T16:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T16:24:10","slug":"tennis-starts-fall-with-strong-showing-in-pair-of-tournaments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/905527\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis Starts Fall with Strong Showing in Pair of Tournaments"},"content":{"rendered":"

CARY, N.C.\/ABILENE, TX \u2013 The UNT tennis team kicked off its fall season with strong showings in a pair of tournaments over the weekend.
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\nThe Mean Green sent three athletes each to Cary, N.C., and Abilene, Texas, to compete in the ITA All-American Championships and the ACU Invite, respectively.
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\nAt the All-American Championships, true freshman Zimora McKnight<\/a> kicked her UNT career off with a bang with a 7-5, 6-0 win over Brown’s Abigail Lee to advance to the second round of pre-qualifying. McKnight would go on to drop her next matchup in the against Ava Krug from Duke 6-4, 6-2.
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\nElsewhere in the All-American, the doubles combination of Lou Chalard<\/a> and Lilly Schultz<\/a> found themselves in a consolation matchup against TCU’s Cayetena Gay and Christian Ramos Sierra, both of who were All-Big 12 performers for the Horned Frogs a season ago.
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\nChalard and Schultz continued their impressive play, dismantling Gay and Ramos Sierra 6-4, 6-3 to leave North Carolina with a win.
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\nAt the ACU Invite, Ujin Batsukh<\/a>, Maya Chen<\/a> and Giuliana Ciangherotti<\/a> all competed in singles and Batsukh and Chen teamed up to play in doubles.
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\nThe doubles combo of Batsukh and Chen highlighted the competition for the Mean Green, sweeping through the main draw with a 6-1 win over UTA on day one, a 6-2 victory over SMU on day two and then winning the main draw championship with a 6-3 victory over Texas State in the title match.
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\nIn addition, both Chen and Ciangherotti advanced all the way to the championship match in their respective draws.
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\nPlaying in Draw “B” Chen opened with a 7-5, 6-4 win over Sofia Selle of UTA and followed it with a 6-3, 6-1 victory over Anna Huisgen from Tarleton State. She then fell in a three-set thriller in the title match against Texas Tech’s Raegan Farm 4-6, 6-3, 10-4.
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\nA similar fate met Ciangerhotti playing in Draw “C” as she opened the tournament with a 6-1, 7-6 (7-3) win over Alejandra Corroto Etchenique from ACU and followed it with a 6-4, 3-6, 6-1 victory over Texas State’s Avery Arant to advance to the draw championship. In the final, Ciangherotti fell 6-4, 6-3 against UTA’s Tasnime Ahamout.
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\nPlay in Draw “A”, Batsukh fell in her first matchup of the tournament in a thriller 4-6, 6-4, 11-9. She bounced back in a big way, however, winning 6-3, 6-2 over Charlotte Roesch from Texas State and taking the consolation title.
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\nThe Mean Green are back in action this weekend as they compete in the Lumberjack Classic hosted by Northern Arizona in Flagstaff, Arizona.
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\nITA Championship UNT Results
\nSaturday, Sept. 19
\nSingles Main Draw
\nZimora McKnight<\/a> (UNT) def. Abigail Lee (Brown), 7-5, 6-0
\nJaquelyn Ogunwale (Miami) def. Lou Chalard<\/a> (UNT), 7-6 (7-2), 6-1
\nDoubles Main Draw
\nAddison Lanton\/Aya El Aouni (LSU) def. Lou Chalard<\/a>\/Lilly Schultz<\/a> (UNT), 6-3, 6-2
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\nSunday, Sept. 20
\nSingles Main Draw
\nAva Krug (Duke) def. Zimora McKnight<\/a> (UNT), 6-4, 6-2
\nSingles Consolation Draw
\nLou Chalard<\/a> (UNT) def. Randy Rakotoarilala (NCCU), 6-4, 6-3
\nDoubles Consolation Draw
\nLou Chalard<\/a>\/Lilly Schultz<\/a> (UNT) def. Cayetana Gay\/Cristina Ramos Sierra (TCU), 6-4, 6-3
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\nACU Invite UNT Results
\nFriday, Sept. 18
\nSingles Draw A
\nElla Brownback (TTU) def. Ujin Batsukh<\/a> (UNT), 4-6, 6-4, 11-9
\nSingles Draw B
\nMaya Chen<\/a> (UNT) def. Sofia Selle (UTA), 7-5, 6-4
\nSingles Draw C
\nGiuliana Ciangherotti<\/a> (UNT) def. Alejandra Corroto Etchenique (ACU), 6-1, 7-6 (7-3)
\nDoubles Draw A
\nUjin Batsukh<\/a>\/Maya Chen<\/a> (UNT) def. Sofia Selle\/Tasnime Ahamout (UTA), 6-1
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\nSaturday, Sept. 19
\nSingles Draw A
\nUjin Batsukh<\/a> (UNT) def. Charlotte Roesch (TXST), 6-3, 6-2
\nSingles Draw B
\nMaya Chen<\/a> (UNT) def. Anna Huisgen (TARL), 6-3, 6-1
\nSingles Draw C
\nGiuliana Ciangherotti<\/a> (UNT) def. Avery Arant (TXST), 6-4, 3-6, 6-1
\nDoubles Draw A
\nUjin Batsukh<\/a>\/Maya Chen<\/a> (UNT) def. Natalie Stasny\/Allie Bittner (SMU), 6-2
\nCHAMPIONSHIP MATCH: Ujin Batsukh<\/a>\/Maya Chen<\/a> (UNT) def. Kinley VanPelt\/Charlotte Roesch (TXST), 6-3
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\nSunday, Sept. 20
\nSingles Draw A Consolation Championship
\nTeodora Prisadnikova (TTU) def. Ujin Batsukh<\/a> (UNT), 6-3, 4-6, 10-5
\nSingles Draw B Championship
\nRaegan Farm (TTU) def. Maya Chen<\/a> (UNT), 4-6, 6-3, 10-4
\nSingles Draw C Championship
\nTasnime Ahamout (UTA) def. Giuliana Ciangherotti<\/a> (UNT), 6-4, 6-3
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— GMG —<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CARY, N.C.\/ABILENE, TX \u2013 The UNT tennis team kicked off its fall season with strong showings in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":905528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-905527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}