The ninth-seeded Longhorns women topped Texas Tech 4-2 Sunday at the Texas Tennis Center to qualify for the round of 16 for the sixth consecutive year. They will travel to face No. 8 North Carolina State in the Raleigh (N.C.) Super Regional on Friday.<\/p>\n
Texas Tech had taken a 1-0 lead in the match by securing the doubles point with wins on the No. 1 and No. 2 lines. But the Longhorns responded with singles victories by sophomores Eszter Meri at No. 3 and Carmen Herea at No. 1, along with freshman Elizabeth Ionescu at No. 4 to establish a 3-1 lead. Freshman Kate Mansfield then clinched the overall match with a dramatic 5-7, 6-3, 7-5 win on the No. 5 line over Havana Kadi that sent her teammates streaming onto her court in celebration.<\/p>\n
No. 1 Texas men sweep SMU to reach the Sweet 16<\/p>\n
The top-seeded Texas men\u2019s squad advanced to the Sweet 16 with Saturday’s resounding 4-0 win over No. 32 SMU at the Texas Tennis Center, the 12th straight year the Longhorns have reached at least the round of 16.<\/p>\n
Texas will play No. 15 San Diego 6 p.m. Friday\u00a0 at the Texas Tennis Center on the UT campus.<\/p>\n
Texas secured the doubles point with wins on the Nos. 1 and 2 lines by the teams of Kalin Ivanovski with Abel Forger and Lucas Marionneau with Sebastian Gorzny, respectively.<\/p>\n
In singles, Marionneau was first off the court with an efficient 6-4, 6-1 win over Noah McDonald at No. 2 for a 2-0 overall lead. Moments later, Forger extended the lead with an equally efficient 6-2, 6-2 victory over Krish Arora at No. 4. Two matches were then getting close to a finish for the Longhorns, but it was Ivanovski who got home first for the clinching 6-3, 6-2 win over Georgi Georgiev on the No. 2 line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ninth-seeded Longhorns women topped Texas Tech 4-2 Sunday at the Texas Tennis Center to qualify for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[68729,102829,27,29,537,100647,28],"class_list":["post-278551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-college-tennis","tag-ncaa-tennis-tournament","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-longhorns-tennis","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278551","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=278551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}