Austin \u2013 No. 9 Texas Women’s Tennis advanced to the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 with a 4-2 win over No. 28 Texas Tech on Sunday at the Texas Tennis Center. It marks the sixth-straight year and the seventh time in the last eight the Longhorns have reached the round of 16. They will travel to face 8 seed No. 8 NC State in the Raleigh Super Regional on Friday, May 8, at 5 p.m. ET\/4 p.m. CT.<\/p>\n
Texas Tech had taken a 1-0 lead in the match by securing the doubles point with wins at Nos. 1 and 2 that surrounded a win for Texas at No. 3. However, the Longhorns followed with three singles victories by sophomores No. 57 Eszter Meri<\/a> at No. 3 and No. 3 Carmen Herea<\/a> at No. 1, along with freshman No. 104 Elizabeth Ionescu<\/a> at No. 4 to establish a 3-1 lead. The Red Raiders put one more point up at No. 2, but freshman Kate Mansfield<\/a> clinched the overall match with a win at No. 5.<\/p>\n After doubles, Meri was first off the singles court, producing an efficient 6-0, 6-1 win over Elena Daskalova at No. 3. Herea added another decisive result with a 6-1, 6-4 victory over Hailey Murphy at No. 1, and then Ionescu matched Meri’s score with her own efficient 6-0, 6-1 win over Ella Brownback at No. 4.<\/p>\n The remaining three matches all extended into third sets with Texas Tech picking up its other point as freshman No. 6 Anastasia Abbagnato<\/a> was downed by Kate Dmitrichenko, 6-7 (3), 6-3, 6-1, at No. 2.<\/p>\n In the other two matches, it was the Longhorns who rallied from a set down in both with Manfield getting home first. She completed her comeback for a 5-7, 6-3, 7-5 victory over Havana Kadi at No. 5 that clinched the overall match and sent her teammates streaming onto her court.<\/p>\n The lone unfinished contest was at No. 6 where sophomore Salma Drugdova<\/a> had just taken a break lead at the start of her third set, 6-7 (5), 6-4, 1-0, against Mariia Hlahola.<\/p>\n Earlier in doubles, the No. 71 pair of Abbagnato and Ionescu fell to Murphy and Dmitrichenko, 6-4, at No. 1. Texas responded with a win from Drugdova and Meri by the same score over Brownback and Andreea Lila at No. 2 to even the doubles contests.\u00a0<\/p>\n That left it to No. 2 where Herea and Mansfield came up just short to Hlahola and Daskalova, 7-5. In that match, the Red Raiders had broken late for a 6-5 lead and were up 40-0 in the next game. Although the Longhorns fought back to reach deuce, Texas Tech managed to hold on the next point to clinch the point.<\/p>\n #9 Texas 4, #28 Texas Tech 2<\/p>\n Singles \u2013 Order of Finish (3,1,4,2,5) Doubles \u2013 Order of Finish (1,3,2) Individual Match Key Moments Doubles No. 1: Murphy\/Dmitrichenko (TTU) def. Abbagnato\/Ionescu (TEX) 6-4 Doubles No. 3: Drugdova\/Meri (TEX) def. Lila\/Brownback (TTU) 6-4 Doubles No. 2: Hlahola\/Daskalova (TTU) def. Herea\/Mansfield (TEX) 7-5 Singles No. 3: Meri (TEX) def. Daskalova (TTU) 6-0, 6-1 Singles No. 1: Herea (TEX) def. Murphy (TTU) 6-1, 6-4 Singles No. 4: Ionescu (TEX) def. Brownback (TTU) 6-0, 6-1 Singles No. 2: Dmitrichenko (TTU) def. Abbagnato (TEX) 6-7 (3), 6-3, 6-1 Singles No. 5: Mansfield (TEX) def. Kadi (TTU) 5-7, 6-3, 7-5 Singles No. 6: Drugdova (TEX) vs. Hlahola (TTU) 6-7 (5), 6-4, 1-0, unf.
\n1. #3 Carmen Herea<\/a> (TEX) def. Hailey Murphy (TTU) 6-1, 6-4
\n2. Kate Dmitrichenko (TTU) def. #6 Anastasia Abbagnato<\/a> (TEX) 6-7 (3), 6-3, 6-1
\n3. #57 Eszter Meri<\/a> (TEX) def. Elena Daskalova (TTU) 6-0, 6-1
\n4. #104 Elizabeth Ionescu<\/a> (TEX) def. Ella Brownback (TTU) 6-0, 6-1
\n5. Kate Mansfield<\/a> (TEX) def. Havana Kadi (TTU) 5-7, 6-3, 7-5
\n6. Salma Drugdova<\/a> (TEX) vs. Mariia Hlahola (TTU) 6-7 (5), 6-4, 1-0, unf.<\/p>\n
\n1. Hailey Murphy\/Kate Dmitrichenko (TTU) def. #71 Anastasia Abbagnato<\/a>\/Elizabeth Ionescu<\/a> (TEX) 6-4
\n2. Mariia Hlahola\/Elena Daskalova (TTU) def. Carmen Herea<\/a>\/Kate Mansfield<\/a> (TEX) 7-5
\n3. Salma Drugdova<\/a>\/Eszter Meri<\/a> (TEX) def. Andreea Lila\/Ella Brownback (TTU) 6-4<\/p>\n
\n(by order of finish)<\/p>\n
\nMatch:\u00a0After the teams exchanged breaks starting with Texas Tech, the Red Raiders picked up the only other break of the match for a 4-3 lead. They held at deuce for 5-3 and the last two games were also held.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nMatch:\u00a0Texas broke first on a deuce point for a 3-1 lead, and although Texas Tech broke back, the Longhorns secured the only other break for 6-4 and the match.<\/p>\n
\nMatch:\u00a0Texas broke in the second game as part of a 3-0 start, however Texas Tech got the break back on a deuce point for 3-2 and held for 3-3. The Red Raiders later broke again for a 6-5 lead and were up 40-0 in the next game. The Longhorns fought back to get to deuce, but Texas Tech held on the next point to win.<\/p>\n
\nSet One:\u00a0Meri swept the first set with only the second game reaching deuce.
\nSet Two:\u00a0Meri only surrendered one deuce-point break to lead 2-1 after an overall 8-0 run to start.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nSet One:\u00a0Herea only allowed a hold for 1-1 and won deuce points for 3-1, 5-1 and 6-1.
\nSet Two:\u00a0The first four games were on serve despite the last three of those reaching deuce. Herea broke first for a 3-2 lead, and although Murphy broke back at deuce, Herea broke again for 4-3 and the last three games were held.<\/p>\n
\nSet One:\u00a0Ionescu swept the first set with only the second game reaching deuce.
\nSet Two:\u00a0Ionescu only surrendered a deuce-point hold for 1-1 and closed on a 5-0 run.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nSet One:\u00a0Abbagnato broke first for a 4-2 lead and held at deuce for 5-2. She had a set point in the following game at deuce, but Dmitrichenko held to start a 3-0 run for 5-5, later leading to a tiebreaker.
\nSet One Tiebreaker:\u00a0Abbagnato took leads of 2-0 and 4-1, and after Dmitrichenko cut it to 4-3, Abbagnato secured the last three points for the set.
\nSet Two:\u00a0Abbagnato broke first on a deuce point for 2-1, which she consolidated for 3-1, but Dmitrichenko closed 5-0.
\nSet Three:\u00a0Dmitrichenko started on a 4-0 run with two deuce-point breaks. Abbagnato held for 4-1 and the next game went to deuce, but Dmitrichenko held and then broke for the match.<\/p>\n
\nSet One:\u00a0Kadi broke first for a 3-2 lead, but Mansfield got the break back for 4-4. Kadi later got the final break for a 6-5 lead before serving out.\u00a0
\nSet Two:\u00a0Kadi broke in the opening game, but Mansfield broke back to start a 3-0 run. After Kadi got the break back and held for 3-3, Mansfield finished on a 3-0 run capped by a deuce-point hold.
\nSet Three:\u00a0Despite four deuce points, including in the first two games, along with holds for Kadi for leads of 3-2 and 4-3, the set stayed on serve all the way to Mansfield earning the only break for a 6-5 lead before she served out the match.<\/p>\n
\nSet One:\u00a0Hlahola broke at deuce and held for 2-0, but Drugdova held at deuce and broke back for 2-2. That would be the first of nine-straight breaks leading to a tiebreaker.
\nSet One Tiebreaker:\u00a0Drugdova won the first two points but Hlahola responded with the next three. Drugdova retook a 4-3 lead that she extended to 5-4, but Hlahola finshed with the last three points.
\nSet Two:\u00a0Drugdova won consecutive deuce points to start a 3-0 run with two breaks. Hlahola broke back and held at deuce for 3-2, and although Drugdova also held at deuce for 4-2, Hlahola got the\u00a0other break back for 4-4. However, Drugdova broke again and was able to serve out the set.
\nSet Three:\u00a0Drugdova broke in the only completed game and led 40-15 in an attempt to consolidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Austin \u2013 No. 9 Texas Women’s Tennis advanced to the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 with a 4-2 win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-623673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}