Austin \u2013 No. 9 Texas Women’s Tennis advanced to the NCAA Tournament second round for the 10th-straight year with a 5-1 win over Tarleton State on Saturday at the Texas Tennis Center. The Longhorns (18-7) will next face No. 28 Texas Tech at 12 p.m. CT on Sunday at the Texas Tennis Center.<\/p>\n
After Texas took the first doubles match at No. 1, Tarleton State responded with wins at Nos. 2 and 3 to take the doubles point. However, following that, it was all Longhorns as they posted decisive straight-sets singles victories by sophomore No. 3 Carmen Herea<\/a> at No. 1, freshman No. 6 Anastasia Abbagnato<\/a> at No. 2, freshman Kate Mansfield<\/a> at No. 5, sophomore No. 57 Elizabeth Meri at No. 3 for the clinch, and freshman No. 104 Elizabeth Ionescu<\/a> at No. 4.\u00a0<\/p>\n Ionescu’s match point had already begun when Meri clinched, giving the Longhorns their fifth point. Sophomore Salma Drugdova<\/a> also had multiple match points in her contest at No. 6 that was the lone unfinished singles match. In all, Texas only lost a combined 16 games during singles, a number that includes on three total games in the first sets.<\/p>\n After doubles, all of the singles matches finished within close proximity to each other, but Herea was first off the court with a 6-0, 6-3 win over Maria Castano at No. 1 to even the overall score. Abbagnato then followed with a 6-0, 6-2 victory over Aya Ishii at No. 2 to give Texas its first lead.<\/p>\n Mansfield would be next with a 6-1, 6-1 win over Marissa Minetti at No. 5. Just moments later Meri finished her match point just before Ionescu with a 6-0, 6-2 victory over Emma Persson at No. 3, and seconds later, Ionescu closed the scoring with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Ximena Morales at No. 5. Drugdova’s match ended with her leading, 6-0, 5-3, against Adeliya Mukhutdinova at No. 6. She had a 5-0 lead in the second set with deuce-points for the match in both the next game and two games later, but Mukhutdinova managed to hold to keep the contest going.<\/p>\n During doubles, the No. 71 duo of Abbagnato and Ionescu had been first off the court with an efficient 6-1 win over Ishii and Minetti. However, due to injuries the Longhorns’ lineup had shuffled and the pair of Herea and Mansfield fell to Morales and Persson, 6-4, at No. 2, and then Drugdova and Meri were downed by Castano and Duru Kuscu, 6-3, at No. 3.<\/p>\n #9 Texas 5, Tarleton State 1<\/p>\n Singles \u2013 Order of Finish (1,2,5,3,4) Doubles \u2013 Order of Finish (1,2,3) Individual Match Key Moments Doubles No. 1: Abbagnato\/Ionescu (TEX) def. Ishii\/Minetti (TSU) 6-1 Doubles No. 2: Morales\/Persson (TSU) def. Mansfield\/Herea (TEX) 6-4 Doubles No. 3: Castano\/Kuscu (TSU) def. Drugdova\/Meri (TEX) 6-3 Singles No. 1: Herea (TEX) def. Castano (TSU) 6-0, 6-3\u00a0 Singles No. 2: Abbagnato (TEX) def. Ishii (TSU) 6-0, 6-2 Singles No. 5: Mansfield (TEX) def. Minetti (TSU) 6-1, 6-1 Singles No. 3: Meri (TEX) def. Persson (TSU) 6-0, 6-2 Singles No. 4: Ionescu (TEX) def. Morales (TSU) 6-2, 6-2 Singles No. 6: Drugdova (TEX) vs. Mukhutdinova (TSU) 6-0, 5-3, unf.
\n1. #3 Carmen Herea<\/a> (TEX) def. Maria Castano (TSU) 6-0, 6-3
\n2. #6 Anastasia Abbagnato<\/a> (TEX) def. Aya Ishii (TSU) 6-0, 6-2
\n3. #57 Eszter Meri<\/a> (TEX) def. Emma Persson (TSU) 6-0, 6-2
\n4. #104 Elizabeth Ionescu<\/a> (TEX) def. Ximena Morales (TSU) 6-2, 6-2
\n5. Kate Mansfield<\/a> (TEX) def. Marissa Minetti (TSU) 6-1, 6-1
\n6. Salma Drugdova<\/a> (TEX) vs. Adeliya Mukhutdinova (TSU) 6-0, 5-3, unf.<\/p>\n
\n1. #71 Anastasia Abbagnato<\/a>\/Elizabeth Ionescu<\/a> (TEX) def. Aya Ishii\/Marissa Minetti (TSU) 6-1
\n2. Ximena Morales\/Emma Persson (TSU) def. Kate Mansfield<\/a>\/Carmen Herea<\/a> (TEX) 6-4
\n3. Maria Castano\/Duru Kuscu (TSU) def. Salma Drugdova<\/a>\/Eszter Meri<\/a> (TEX) 6-3<\/p>\n
\n(by order of finish)<\/p>\n
\nMatch:\u00a0After each team held starting with Texas, the Longhorns closed on a 5-0 run including deuce point wins for 3-1, 4-1, and 5-1.<\/p>\n
\nMatch:\u00a0Tarleton held at deuce to start, and although Texas broke first for a 2-1 lead, the Texans won consecutive deuce points to start a 3-0 run for a 4-2 lead. The Longhorns broke back and held at deuce for 4-4, but Tarleton held and broke for the win.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nMatch:\u00a0Texas opened on a 3-0 run with a break in the second game, but Tarleton came back on a 6-0 run, including deuce-point breaks to trail, 3-2, and then to win the match, 6-3.<\/p>\n
\nSet One:\u00a0Herea swept the first set with only the third game reaching deuce.
\nSet Two:\u00a0Herea broke first for 2-0 to complete an\u00a0overall 8-0 run, and although Castano broke back, Herea broke again for 4-2 and the rest of the set was held for 6-3.<\/p>\n
\nSet One:\u00a0Abbagnato swept the first set with deuce wins in the first three games and then for the set.
\nSet Two:\u00a0Abbagnato broke in the first game and then held to complete an overall 8-0 run. She later broke again for 4-1, and although Ishii broke back at deuce, Abbagnato broke again and then held at deuce for the match.<\/p>\n
\nSet One:\u00a0Mansfield won the first three games and only allowed a hold for 3-1 on the way to 6-1.
\nSet Two:\u00a0Mansfield won the first five games of the set, including deuce points for 1-0, 3-0 and 4-0, to complete an overall 8-0 run. Both players then broke for the 6-1 final.<\/p>\n
\nSet One:\u00a0Meri swept the first set capped by consecutive deuce points for a break and a hold.
\nSet Two:\u00a0After Persson held, Meri went on a 4-0 run to give her a total of 10 of the first 11 games. Persson got one break back to get within 4-2 before Meri broke back and held for the win.<\/p>\n
\nSet One:\u00a0The first five games were all breaks, capped by Ionescu breaking at deuce for a 3-2 lead. That started a 4-0 run for her for the set.
\nSet Two:\u00a0The first three games went to deuce with Ionescu breaking and then Morales breaking back and holding. Ionescu took it from there with a 5-0 run for the match.<\/p>\n
\nSet One:\u00a0Drugdova swept the first set with deuce points for a break for 4-0 and a hold for 5-0.
\nSet Two:\u00a0Drugdova completed an overall 11-0 run to start the match by starting 5-0 in the set, including a deuce-point hold for 3-0. Mukhutdinova won the last three games before play stopped, including two deuce-point holds to deflect match points for Drugdova.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Austin \u2013 No. 9 Texas Women’s Tennis advanced to the NCAA Tournament second round for the 10th-straight year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-276547","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\/276547","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=276547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}