AUSTIN, Texas \u2013 The No. 28-ranked and 2-seeded Texas Tech Lady Raiders advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament for the fifth time in the last six seasons after overtaking the No. 36-ranked and 3-seeded Yale Bulldogs, 4-1, on Saturday afternoon at the Texas Tennis Center.<\/p>\n
Texas Tech (19-10) began the match by winning the doubles point against Yale (19-4). At court two, Mariia Hlahola<\/a> and Elena Daskalova<\/a> recorded a dominant win over Julia Werdiger and Angela Huang, 6-1, for the early advantage. Then, the duo of Andreea Lila<\/a> and Ella Brownback<\/a> earned a come-from-behind victory over Erin Ha and Shyla Aggarwal to clinch the point. The Lady Raider pair went down 0-3 before rattling off six-straight games for a 6-3 victory to give Tech the 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n Texas Tech jumped out to a 2-0 advantage when Yekaterina Dmitrichenko<\/a> defeated Leena Friedman at court two. Dmitrichenko went up 2-0 in the first set until the Bulldog tied it up at 2-all. They would go back and forth until Dmitrichenko won the first set, 6-4. In the following set, Dmitrichenko led 4-1, then only gave up one more game for a 6-2 win.<\/p>\n Over at court five, Havana Kadi<\/a> battled her way to a win over Ha. In set one, the Bulldog led by a 3-0 score before Kadi won four of the next five games to make it 4-4. Ha held serve for a 5-4 lead, but the Lady Raider won three-consecutive games for a 7-5 first set win. In the next set, both players traded games until Kadi took the set by a 6-4 score to make it 3-0 in Tech’s favor.<\/p>\n Clinching the match was Hailey Murphy<\/a> at court one over Orly Ogilvy. Murphy went down 2-5 in the first set, but fought her way back after claiming the next five games for a 7-5 victory. In the second set, Ogilvy led 2-5 before the Lady Raider once again tied it at 5-all. She would force a tiebreaker, where she dominated by a 7-6 (1) score.<\/p>\n Right when Murphy clinched the match for Tech, Werdiger defeated Brownback at court four, 6-4, 6-4, to give Yale one point in the contest. Over at court three, Daskalova forced a third set over Aggarwal in gritty fashion. After dropping the first set, 3-6, Daskalova went down 2-5 in the following set until she won five-straight games for a 7-5 second set victory. She went down 0-1 in the third set to the Bulldog when her match went unfinished.<\/p>\n Up next, the Lady Raiders face the 1-seeded and No. 9-ranked Texas Longhorns in the second round tomorrow at 12 p.m.<\/p>\n RESULTS Doubles Order of finish: Doubles (2, 3); Singles (2, 5, 1, 4)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2013 The No. 28-ranked and 2-seeded Texas Tech Lady Raiders advanced to the second round of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-276364","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\/276364","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=276364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n#28 Texas Tech 4, #36 Yale 1
\nSingles
\n1. Hailey Murphy<\/a> (TTU) def. Orly Ogilvy (YALE) 7-5, 7-6 (7-1)
\n2. Yekaterina Dmitrichenko<\/a> (TTU) def. Leena Friedman (YALE) 6-4, 6-2
\n3. Elena Daskalova<\/a> (TTU) vs. Shyla Aggarwal (YALE) 3-6, 7-5, 0-1, unfinished
\n4. Julia Werdiger (YALE) def. Ella Brownback<\/a> (TTU) 6-4, 6-4
\n5. Havana Kadi<\/a> (TTU) def. Erin Ha (YALE) 7-5, 6-4
\n6. Mariia Hlahola<\/a> (TTU) vs. Angela Huang (YALE) 4-6, 6-3, 1-3, unfinished<\/p>\n
\n1. Hailey Murphy<\/a>\/Yekaterina Dmitrichenko<\/a> (TTU) vs. Orly Ogilvy\/Leena Friedman (YALE) 3-4, unfinished
\n2. Mariia Hlahola<\/a>\/Elena Daskalova<\/a> (TTU) def. Julia Werdiger\/Angela Huang (YALE) 6-1
\n3. Andreea Lila<\/a>\/Ella Brownback<\/a> (TTU) def. Erin Ha\/Shyla Aggarwal (YALE) 6-3<\/p>\n