{"id":277535,"date":"2026-05-03T22:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T22:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/277535\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T22:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T22:08:14","slug":"wt-dominates-doubles-but-falls-short-at-no-3-texas-am-4-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/277535\/","title":{"rendered":"WT Dominates Doubles but Falls Short at No. 3 Texas A&M, 4-1"},"content":{"rendered":"

BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION, Texas \u2013 No. 37 Baylor (14-10) fell to No. 3 Texas A&M (24-5) with a final score of 4-1 on Sunday at the Mitchell Tennis Center. The Bears secured the doubles point with victories at the No. 2 and No. 3 positions, marking their 14th clinched doubles point of the year. However, the Aggies swept the singles matches, clinching the win with straight-set victories on courts 1, 2, 3, and 6.
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\nTHE RUNDOWN
\nBaylor secured the doubles point with decisive victories at No. 2 and No. 3 doubles. Gabrielle Villegas<\/a> and Alian Zack<\/a> overcame the No. 35-ranked pair of Violeta Martinez and Ilinca Amariei from Texas A&M, posting a 6-2 win at No. 2 doubles. At No. 3 doubles, Na Dong<\/a> and Kennedy Gibbs<\/a> delivered a commanding 6-0 victory against Lexington Reed and Daria Smetannikov.
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\nThe match at No. 1 doubles, featuring Zuzanna Kubacha<\/a> and Neda Rahimkhani<\/a> against the No. 11-ranked Mia Kupres and Lucciana Perez, was left unfinished with Baylor leading 4-3.
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\nIn singles play, Texas A&M quickly turned the tide. No. 98 Daria Smetannikov defeated Luna Ivkovic<\/a> 6-4, 6-0 at No. 6 singles to even the score.
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\nTexas A&M continued its momentum at No. 2 singles, where Mia Kupres, ranked No. 50, secured a 6-1, 6-4 win over Baylor’s No. 75-ranked Dong. Lucciana Perez, ranked No. 1 in the nation, extended Texas A&M’s lead with a 6-4, 6-3 victory over No. 83-ranked Kubacha at No. 1 singles.
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\nThe Aggies clinched their win at No. 3 singles, with Ilinca Amariei, ranked No. 71, defeating Gibbs 6-4, 6-2.
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\nMu-Jie Tzeng<\/a> claimed the Bears’ lone singles set of the afternoon and was up in the third, 3-6, 6-1, 2-0, when the match went complete.
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\u00a0– BaylorBears.com –<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION, Texas \u2013 No. 37 Baylor (14-10) fell to No. 3 Texas A&M (24-5) with a final…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-277535","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\/277535","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=277535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}