AUSTIN, Texas \u2013 Despite winning the doubles point and earning a singles win over the No. 6-ranked player in the country, the No. 9 Texas Longhorns claimed the match, 4-1, over the No. 28 Texas Tech Lady Raiders in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on Sunday afternoon at the Texas Tennis Center. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Texas Tech (19-11) opened the match by winning the doubles point against Texas (19-7). At court one, Yekaterina Dmitrichenko<\/a> and Hailey Murphy<\/a> earned a ranked win over No. 71 Anastasia Abbagnato and Elizabeth Ionescu. After both teams got early breaks, they would each follow by trading games until Tech got a break to lead at 4-3. The Lady Raiders won two more games out of the next three to earn a 6-4 victory over Texas.<\/p>\n Over at court three, Ella Brownback<\/a> and Andreea Lila<\/a> fought hard against Eszter Meri and Salma Drugdova, but the Longhorn pair would win by a 6-4 score. Tech would need Elena Daskalova<\/a> and Mariia Hlahola<\/a> to win at court two over Kate Mansfield and Carmen Herea in order to claim the doubles point. The Lady Raider duo went down 0-3 to start out, but battled back to tie the match at 3-3. Both teams held serve until Tech broke Texas’ serve to lead 6-5. They would hold the next game to clinch the doubles point with a 7-5 win.<\/p>\n Texas jumped out to a 3-1 lead after claiming three singles matches in a row. First at court three, No. 57 Meri defeated Daskalova, 6-0, 6-1. Then at court one, No. 3 Herea beat Murphy by a 6-1, 6-4 score. Over at court four, No. 104 Ionescu took down Brownback, 6-0, 6-1, to extend the Longhorn advantage.<\/p>\n Texas Tech earned a point at court two after Dmitrichenko earned a comeback win over No. 6-ranked Abbagnato. In the first set, both players went back and forth until a tiebreaker, where the Longhorn won 7-6 (3). Dmitrichenko would force a third after winning set two by a 6-3 score. Dmitirchenko dominated in the final set, only dropping one game en route to a 6-1 score and the best singles win of her career.<\/p>\n The Longhorns clinched the match at court five after Mansfield beat Havana Kadi<\/a> in a tough, three-set match, 5-7, 6-3, 7-5. Hlahola was also in a third set with Drugdova at court six, 7-6 (5), 4-6, 0-1, when her match went unfinished. The Lady Raiders finish the season with 19 wins and a berth into the NCAA Second Round for the fifth time in six years.<\/p>\n RESULTS Doubles Order of finish: Doubles (1, 3, 2); Singles (3, 1, 4, 2, 5)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2013 Despite winning the doubles point and earning a singles win over the No. 6-ranked player…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-277973","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\/277973","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=277973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n#28 Texas Tech 2, #9 Texas 4
\nSingles
\n1. #3 Carmen Herea (TEX) def. Hailey Murphy<\/a> (TTU) 6-1, 6-4
\n2. Yekaterina Dmitrichenko<\/a> (TTU) def. #6 Anastasia Abbagnato (TEX) 6-7 (3-7), 6-3, 6-1
\n3. #57 Eszter Meri (TEX) def. Elena Daskalova<\/a> (TTU) 6-0, 6-1
\n4. #104 Elizabeth Ionescu (TEX) def. Ella Brownback<\/a> (TTU) 6-0, 6-1
\n5. Kate Mansfield (TEX) def. Havana Kadi<\/a> (TTU) 5-7, 6-3, 7-5
\n6. Salma Drugdova (TEX) vs. Mariia Hlahola<\/a> (TTU) 6-7 (5-7), 6-4, 1-0, unfinished<\/p>\n
\n1. Hailey Murphy<\/a>\/Yekaterina Dmitrichenko<\/a> (TTU) def. #71 Anastasia Abbagnato\/Elizabeth Ionescu (TEX) 6-4
\n2. Mariia Hlahola<\/a>\/Elena Daskalova<\/a> (TTU) def. Carmen Herea\/Kate Mansfield (TEX) 7-5
\n3. Salma Drugdova\/Eszter Meri (TEX) def. Andreea Lila<\/a>\/Ella Brownback<\/a> (TTU) 6-4<\/p>\n