{"id":235471,"date":"2026-04-05T00:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T00:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/235471\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T00:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T00:35:07","slug":"womens-tennis-drops-a-pair-of-matches-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/235471\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Tennis Drops a Pair of Matches in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

DENTON, Texas.\u00a0\u2013 The Liberty women’s tennis team (12-8) faced a challenging weekend in Denton, Texas, falling to host North Texas (14-6) 4-3 on Friday and No. 26 Wichita State (16-3) 4-0 in a neutral-site match on Saturday.
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\nLiberty came back against North Texas, evening the match at 3-3. Milana Tsulygina<\/a> was unable to overcome a first-set loss as the Mean Green sealed the victory. The Lady Flames nearly earned the doubles point against Wichita State and were unable to secure a match point in singles.
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\nThe Lady Flames fall to 6-7 away from Lynchburg this season. Liberty is 3-4 on a stretch of eight consecutive road matches to conclude the regular season.
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\nNorth Texas 4, Liberty 3
\nLiberty secured three singles victories but struggled in doubles. The competition began with North Texas claiming the doubles point, starting with Lou Chalard and Lilly Schultz defeating Yoanna Radulova<\/a> and Maria Turchetto<\/a>, 6-1 on court one. Liberty’s Anika Lemus<\/a> and Candy Wai<\/a> responded with a 6-3 victory at No. 3 doubles over Pia Petelinsek and Carolina Laydner. North Texas managed to clinch the critical doubles point with a 7-5 win at No. 2 doubles by Ujin Batsukh and Marina Adati against Daniella O’Neill and Milana Tsulygina<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In singles, Liberty leveled the score with Wai’s straight-set win at No. 5 singles, 6-4, 6-4, against Batsukh. Celina Joseph<\/a> followed with a decisive 6-0, 7-5 victory at No. 6 singles over Giulianna Ciangherot, giving Liberty a 2-1 lead. However, the Mean Green tied the match at 2-2 when Chalard defeated Radulova, 6-3, 6-4 on court two. Turchetto then pushed Liberty ahead once more with a three-set win at No. 3 singles, overcoming Adati, 7-5, 1-6, 6-0. Unfortunately, North Texas responded with victories at No. 1 and No. 4 singles, leading to a 4-3 overall win for the Mean Green.

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\nSingles Competition

\n1. Carolina Laydner (UNT) def. Daniella O’Neill (LIBERTYW) 6-1, 1-6, 6-0

\n2. Lou Chalard (UNT) def. Yoanna Radulova<\/a> (LIBERTYW) 6-3, 6-4

\n3. Maria Turchetto<\/a> (LIBERTYW) def. Marina Adati (UNT) 7-5, 1-6, 6-0

\n4. Lilly Schultz (UNT) def. Milana Tsulygina<\/a> (LIBERTYW) 6-4, 4-6, 6-3

\n5. Candy Wai<\/a> (LIBERTYW) def. Ujin Batsukh (UNT) 6-4, 6-4

\n6. Celina Joseph<\/a> (LIBERTYW) def. Giulianna Ciangherot (UNT) 6-0, 7-5

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\nDoubles Competition

\n1. Lou Chalard\/Lilly Schultz (UNT) def. Yoanna Radulova<\/a>\/Maria Turchetto<\/a> (LIBERTYW) 6-1

\n2. Ujin Batsukh\/Marina Adati (UNT) def. Daniella O’Neill\/Milana Tsulygina<\/a> (LIBERTYW) 7-5

\n3. Anika Lemus<\/a>\/Candy Wai<\/a> (LIBERTYW) def. Pia Petelinsek\/Carolina Laydner (UNT) 6-3

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\nLiberty 12-7

\nNorth Texas 14-6

\nOrder of Finish: Doubles (1,3,2); Singles (5,6,2,3,1,4)

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\n#26 Wichita State 4, Liberty 0

\nIn the following match against Wichita State, Liberty dropped the doubles point despite a win at the No. 2 doubles position. Wichita State’s No. 2 doubles team of Kris. Kudryavtseva and Theodora Chantava were defeated by Tsulygina and O’Neill, who claimed a 6-1 victory. Wichita State secured the doubles point with wins on the remaining courts, including a 6-3 victory by their No. 1 doubles pair, ranked No. 24, Xin Tong Wang and Giorgia Roselli, over Turchetto and Radulova. The Shockers survived in the doubles round with a 7-5 win at No. 3 doubles by Anne Knuettel and Palmy Vimuktananda against Wai and Lemus, coming back from a 5-1 deficit.<\/p>\n

In singles, the Shockers extended their lead with Chantava defeating Radulova in straight sets, 6-3, 6-1, at No. 3 singles, and Wang securing a 6-3, 6-2 win over O’Neill at No. 1 singles. Vimuktananda then clinched the match with a 6-0, 6-4 win against Tsulygina at No. 4 singles.<\/p>\n

Three matches went unfinished. Lemus’ match at No. 6 singles ended at 7-5, 1-1. Turchetto faced a tough battle at No. 2 singles, ultimately falling 7-5 in the first set to Roselli. Joseph’s encounter at No. 5 singles was tightly contested, with Kudryavtseva taking the first set 7-6(4) before she led 4-0 in the second set when the match was halted.

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\nSingles Competition

\n1. Xin Tong Wang (WSU) def. Daniella O’Neill (LIBERTYW) 6-3, 6-2

\n2. Giorgia Roselli (WSU) vs. Maria Turchetto<\/a> (LIBERTYW) 7-5, unfinished

\n3. Theodora Chantava (WSU) def. Yoanna Radulova<\/a> (LIBERTYW) 6-3, 6-1

\n4. #90 Palmy Vimuktananda (WSU) def. Milana Tsulygina<\/a> (LIBERTYW) 6-0, 6-4

\n5. Kris. Kudryavtseva (WSU) vs. Celina Joseph<\/a> (LIBERTYW) 7-6 (7-4), 0-4, unfinished

\n6. Tatyana Nikolenko (WSU) vs. Anika Lemus<\/a> (LIBERTYW) 5-7, 1-1, unfinished

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\nDoubles Competition

\n1. #24 Xin Tong Wang\/Giorgia Roselli (WSU) def. Maria Turchetto<\/a>\/Yoanna Radulova<\/a> (LIBERTYW) 6-3

\n2. Milana Tsulygina<\/a>\/Daniella O’Neill (LIBERTYW) def. Kris. Kudryavtseva\/Theodora Chantava (WSU) 6-1

\n3. Anne Knuettel\/Palmy Vimuktananda (WSU) def. Candy Wai<\/a>\/Anika Lemus<\/a> (LIBERTYW) 7-5

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\nLiberty 12-8

\nWichita State 16-3; National ranking #26

\nOrder of Finish: Doubles (2,1,3); Singles (3,1,4)

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\nLady Flames News & Notes
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\n\tLiberty is now 67-39 (.632) collectively in singles and 31-20 (.608) in doubles.
\n\tO’Neill had a six-match winning streak snapped against North Texas, all in the No. 1 singles position.
\n\tTurchetto made her fifth appearance in the No. 2 singles slot while Joseph made her sixth appearance in the No. 5 slot. <\/p>\n

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\nLiberty (12-8) prepares for its final match of the season. The Lady Flames take on Richmond (5-9) on the road Thursday at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENTON, Texas.\u00a0\u2013 The Liberty women’s tennis team (12-8) faced a challenging weekend in Denton, Texas, falling to host…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-235471","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\/235471","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=235471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}