FORT WORTH, Texas \u2014 BYU women\u2019s tennis wrapped up three days of competition at the Battle for the Boot Open, held Oct. 23\u201325 at TCU, recording a series of strong results in both singles and doubles play.<\/p>\n
The Cougars opened Thursday with a pair of doubles wins. Gracie Levelston<\/a> and Kendall Kovick<\/a> defeated Notre Dame\u2019s Rylie Hanford and Mari-Louise Van Zyl, 7-6 (5), while YuYun Chen<\/a> and Bella Lewis<\/a> earned a 6-3 win over Notre Dame\u2019s Jessica Kovalcik and Esther Vyrlan. Sage Bergeson<\/a> and Karina Mohamed<\/a> dropped their opener to TCU\u2019s Maya Drozd and Cayetana Gay, 6-3.<\/p>\n In singles play, Levelston battled back to top TCU\u2019s Cayetana Gay, 5-7, 6-0, 6-3, and Chen edged TCU\u2019s Letizia Corsini, 7-5, 2-6, 6-2. Kovick, Mohamed, Bergeson and Lewis each came up short against TCU opponents.<\/p>\n Friday featured several wins across the lineup. Levelston and Kovick posted a 6-3 doubles victory over Texas Tech\u2019s Hailey Murphy and Kseniia Logvin, and Bergeson and Mohamed defeated Texas Tech\u2019s Ella Brownback and TCU\u2019s Letizia Corsini, 6-1. In singles, Levelston defeated Rice\u2019s Francesca Maguina, 6-1, 6-2, while Chen, Mohamed, Bergeson and Lewis each added wins against Rice players.<\/p>\n The Cougars finished the weekend Saturday with doubles and singles matchups against SMU, Nebraska and Baylor. Levelston and Kovick earned a 6-3 win over SMU\u2019s Caroline McGinley and Allie Bittner. In singles, Levelston defeated Baylor\u2019s Alian Zack, 7-6 (4), 7-5, Kovick beat Luna Ivkovic, 6-1, 6-3, and Chen, Mohamed, Bergeson and Lewis each recorded victories over Nebraska opponents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WORTH, Texas \u2014 BYU women\u2019s tennis wrapped up three days of competition at the Battle for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[8668,8674,8671,8677,8678,794,8670,8675,8673,8676,8669,8672,8680,8679,116,118,117],"class_list":["post-22331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-byu-athletics","tag-byu-baseball","tag-byu-basketball","tag-byu-cheer","tag-byu-cougarettes","tag-byu-cougars","tag-byu-football","tag-byu-gymnastics","tag-byu-soccer","tag-byu-softball","tag-byu-sports","tag-byu-volleyball","tag-byu-women","tag-cosmo-byu","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22331","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=22331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}