LUBBOCK, Texas \u2013 The Texas Tech Lady Raiders fell to the No. 53 BYU Cougars, 4-3, on Saturday afternoon\u00a0at the McLeod Tennis Center.<\/p>\n
Texas Tech (13-7, 4-4 Big 12) earned the doubles point to open the match against the BYU Cougars (15-4, 4-3 Big 12) after dropping the set on court three. No. 38-ranked Lady Raider duo Yekaterina Dmitrichenko<\/a> and Hailey Murphy<\/a> took down Cougar duo Gracie Levelston and Karina Mohamed, 6-1, on court one to open up doubles.\u00a0Shortly following, Polina Sleptsova<\/a> and Ella Brownback<\/a> dropped their match on court three after Bella Lewis and Sue Yan Tan won, 6-2. After being down 3-5 on court two Mariia Hlahola<\/a> and Elena Daskalova<\/a> fought back to clinch the doubles point over Kendall Kovick and YuYun Chen in a tiebreaker set, 7-6 (2).<\/p>\n To continue the Lady Raiders’ momentum into singles play, Dmitrichenko took down Kovick in straight sets on court two, 6-4, 6-0.\u00a0The Cougars then earned singles points on court three over Hlahola, 6-2, 6-3, and on court five over Havana Kadi<\/a>, 6-2, 6-3, to tie things at 2-all.\u00a0On court one, Murphy gave the Lady Raiders back the lead with a win over Levelston,\u00a07-5, 6-2. However, BYU brought the score back to a tie at 3-3 after play on court six resulted in a loss for Brownback, 7-6 (3), 6-2. To clinch the match, Chen defeated Sleptsova in a third set to give BYU a ranked team\u00a0win, 3-6, 6-3, 6-1.<\/p>\n Up next, the Lady Raiders play the Colorado Buffaloes at home next Saturday\u00a0at 12 p.m. in the McLeod Tennis Center.<\/p>\n RESULTS Doubles Order of finish: Doubles (1, 3, 2); Singles (2, 3, 5, 1, 6, 4)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas \u2013 The Texas Tech Lady Raiders fell to the No. 53 BYU Cougars, 4-3, on Saturday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-215739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n#29 Texas Tech 3, #53 BYU 4
\nSingles
\n1. Hailey Murphy<\/a> (TTU) def. Gracie Levelston (BYU) 7-5, 6-2
\n2. Yekaterina Dmitrichenko<\/a> (TTU) def. Kendall Kovick (BYU) 6-4, 6-0
\n3. Sue Yan Tan (BYU) def. Mariia Hlahola<\/a> (TTU) 6-2, 6-3
\n4. YuYun Chen (BYU) def. Polina Sleptsova<\/a> (TTU) 3-6, 6-3, 6-1
\n5. Sage Bergeson (BYU) def. Havana Kadi<\/a> (TTU) 6-2, 6-3
\n6. Karina Mohamed (BYU) def. Ella Brownback<\/a> (TTU) 7-6 (7-3), 6-2<\/p>\n
\n1. #38 Hailey Murphy<\/a>\/Yekaterina Dmitrichenko<\/a> (TTU) def. Gracie Levelston\/Karina Mohamed (BYU) 6-1
\n2. Mariia Hlahola<\/a>\/Elena Daskalova<\/a> (TTU) def. Kendall Kovick\/YuYun Chen (BYU) 7-6 (7-2)
\n3. Bella Lewis\/Sue Yan Tan (BYU) def. Polina Sleptsova<\/a>\/Ella Brownback<\/a> (TTU) 6-2<\/p>\n