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Women's tennis drops first home match of season

PostPosted: Sun Mar 27, 2016 11:58 pm
by PonyPride
From SMUMustangs.com:

Mustangs Drop First Home Match Of The Season To No. 70 Louisiana Tech
Women’s Tennis Prepares For San Jose State Monday, Doubleheader Saturday

March 26, 2016

DALLAS (SMU) – The SMU women’s tennis team dropped its first match at the SMU Tennis Complex this season as Louisiana Tech won 4-0 Saturday afternoon.

The Bulldogs won the doubles matches on courts one and two as Zoe Chen and Alexandra Starkova defeated the 52th ranked doubles pair of Vaszilisza Bulgakova and Hristina Dishkova (No. 1) 6-1. Jazmin Britos and Marta Sramkova topped Dasha Sharapova and Mary Wright(No. 2) 6-3.

Louisiana Tech won the first three singles matches to clinch the 4-0 victory as Starkova won over Dishkova (No. 1) and Britos defeated Sharapova (No. 2), each by the score of 6-3, 7-5. Manoela Chiacchio earned a comeback win against Macie Elliott (No. 6) 1-6, 6-4, 6-3 to clinch the win for the Bulldogs.

The Mustangs will have a quick turnaround as they will host the San Jose State Spartans on Monday at 5:00 p.m. CT followed by a double head on Saturday April 2 as they host Memphis at 1:00 p.m. followed by a match against UT-Permian Basin at 5:00 p.m. at the SMU Tennis Complex.