LUBBOCK, Texas \u2013 It was a dominant day from start to finish as the No. 30 Texas Tech Lady Raiders swept the No. 61 Colorado Buffaloes, 4-0, on Saturday afternoon at the McLeod Tennis Center.<\/p>\n
Texas Tech (14-7, 5-4 Big 12) opened the match with a gritty doubles point against Colorado (10-9, 2-7 Big 12). Getting the first win on the day was Elena Daskalova<\/a> and Mariia Hlahola<\/a> over Aya El Sayed and Yukiko Ikedo at court two. After going down 1-2 on a broken serve, the Lady Raider duo tied things at 3-3, then won the next three games for a 6-3 victory.<\/p>\n At court three, Colorado’s Ema Bubalo and Anya Nelson evened the score after beating Ella Brownback<\/a> and Polina Sleptsova<\/a>, 6-4. It would be No. 38-ranked Yekaterina Dmitrichenko<\/a> and Hailey Murphy<\/a> to clinch the doubles point after defeating Rixt van der Werff and Lera Alexin at court one. Both teams traded games until it was tied at 5-all. Then, the Lady Raiders claimed the next two games to win it by a 7-5 score.<\/p>\n Texas Tech increased its lead to 2-0 after Havana Kadi<\/a> made quick work of Heidi Crncan at court five, winning her match by a 6-3, 6-0 score. Brownback picked up a singles win against Ikedo at court six after beating the Buff, 6-4, 6-3, to make it 3-0 in Tech’s favor.<\/p>\n Clinching the match was Daskalova at court four over Nelson. Daskalova and Nelson went back-and-forth in the first set to force a tiebreaker. In the breaker, Daskalova dominated from start to finish, winning it 7-3. They tied 1-1 in the second set, until Daskalova rattled off five-straight games for the 6-1 win to clinch the 4-0 sweep.<\/p>\n Up next, the Lady Raiders head to Tempe, Ariz., to take on the Arizona State Sun Devils on Friday, April 3 at 6 p.m. CT.<\/p>\n RESULTS Doubles Order of finish: Doubles (2, 3, 1); Singles (5, 6, 4)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas \u2013 It was a dominant day from start to finish as the No. 30 Texas Tech…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-225654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225654","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=225654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n#30 Texas Tech 4, #61 Colorado 0
\nSingles
\n1. Hailey Murphy<\/a> (TTU) vs. Aya El Sayed (COL) 6-1, 3-6, 2-5, unfinished
\n2. Yekaterina Dmitrichenko<\/a> (TTU) vs. Rixt van der Werff (COL) 6-3, 6-6 (3-1), unfinished
\n3. Mariia Hlahola<\/a> (TTU) vs. Lera Alexin (COL) 6-7 (5-7), 2-5, unfinished
\n4. Elena Daskalova<\/a> (TTU) def. Anya Nelson (COL) 7-6 (7-3), 6-1
\n5. Havana Kadi<\/a> (TTU) def. Heidi Crncan (COL) 6-3, 6-0
\n6. Ella Brownback<\/a> (TTU) def. Yukiko Ikedo (COL) 6-4, 6-3<\/p>\n
\n1. #38 Yekaterina Dmitrichenko<\/a>\/Hailey Murphy<\/a> (TTU) def. Rixt van der Werff\/Lera Alexin (COL) 7-5
\n2. Elena Daskalova<\/a>\/Mariia Hlahola<\/a> (TTU) def. Aya El Sayed\/Yukiko Ikedo (COL) 6-3
\n3. Ema Bubalo\/Anya Nelson (COL) def. Ella Brownback<\/a>\/Polina Sleptsova<\/a> (TTU) 6-4<\/p>\n