ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 Behind a dominant outing in doubles and singles play, the No. 31-ranked and 10-seeded Texas Tech Lady Raiders defeated the No. 41-ranked and 7-seeded Houston Cougars, 4-1, in the First Round of the Big 12 Tournament on Wednesday afternoon at the USTA National Campus. With this win, the Lady Raiders became just the second highest-seeded team to advance out of the First Round of the Big 12 Tournament 14-seeded Colorado advanced in 2025 with a win over Iowa State.<\/p>\n
Texas Tech (17-9) picked up the doubles point over Houston (17-6) to start the match with a 1-0 lead. At the top court, No. 83 Yekaterina Dmitrichenko<\/a> and Hailey Murphy<\/a> recorded their 11th-straight doubles win after beating Sophie Schouten and Chems Doha Zeghlouli. The Lady Raider pair won their match, 6-1, and have only dropped three total games in their last four doubles matches. Clinching the doubles point was the team of Elena Daskalova<\/a> and Mariia Hlahola<\/a> over Elizaveta Morozova and Petja Drame at court two. After tying at 3-3, the Tech tandem won the next three games for the 6-3 victory.<\/p>\n Houston tied things up at 1-1 when Schouten defeated Brownback at court six, 6-2, 6-2. Dmitrichenko retook the lead for the Lady Raiders with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Zeghlouli at court two. Tech got simultaneous finishes from Murphy and Havana Kadi<\/a> at courts one and five, respectively, to clinch the match. Kadi was able to take down Drame by a 6-3, 6-0 score, before Murphy won her match over Morozova, 6-3, 6-4, to clinch. When the match finished, Daskalova was ahead of Valeriia Krokhotina at court three, 7-5, 4-2 (40-30), while Hlahola was about to force a third set over Iva Sepa at court four with a 3-6, 5-3 score.<\/p>\n Up next, the Lady Raiders play in the quarterfinals against No. 11 Arizona State on Thursday at 1 p.m. CT.<\/p>\n RESULTS Doubles Order of finish: Doubles (1, 2); Singles (6, 2, 5, 1)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 Behind a dominant outing in doubles and singles play, the No. 31-ranked and 10-seeded Texas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-251417","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\/251417","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=251417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n#31 Texas Tech 4, #41 Houston 1
\nSingles
\n1. Hailey Murphy<\/a> (TTU) def. Elizaveta Morozova (HOU) 6-3, 6-4
\n2. Yekaterina Dmitrichenko<\/a> (TTU) def. Chems Doha Zeghlouli (HOU) 6-4, 6-2
\n3. Valeriia Krokhotina (HOU) vs. Elena Daskalova<\/a> (TTU) 5-7, 2-4, unfinished
\n4. Iva Sepa (HOU) vs. Mariia Hlahola<\/a> (TTU) 6-3, 3-5, unfinished
\n5. Havana Kadi<\/a> (TTU) def. Petja Drame (HOU) 6-3, 6-0
\n6. Sophie Schouten (HOU) def. Ella Brownback<\/a> (TTU) 6-2, 6-2<\/p>\n
\n1. #83 Hailey Murphy<\/a>\/Yekaterina Dmitrichenko<\/a> (TTU) def. Chems Doha Zeghlouli\/Sophie Schouten (HOU) 6-1
\n2. Elena Daskalova<\/a>\/Mariia Hlahola<\/a> (TTU) def. Elizaveta Morozova\/Petja Drame (HOU) 6-3
\n3. Iva Sepa\/Valeriia Krokhotina (HOU) vs. Ella Brownback<\/a>\/Polina Sleptsova<\/a> (TTU) 5-3, unfinished<\/p>\n