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McNeese State (NCAA Championships First Round)
No. 6 Women's Tennis shuts out McNeese State in NCAA Championships opener
05.11.2018 | Women's Tennis
Longhorns take on Texas A&M in the second round on Saturday.
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AUSTIN, Texas – No. 6 national seed Texas (23-4) won the doubles point and put away three singles wins in a 4-0 victory over McNeese State Friday in the first round of the NCAA Championships. The Longhorns secure their 18th consecutive win and set up a second-round contest against Texas A&M on Saturday. The Aggies advanced by way of a tightly-contested 4-3 victory over Rice in the first round.
Texas picked up doubles wins at the third and second positions to lock up the doubles point and a 1-0 match lead. Twin sophomores Anna and Bianca Turati improved to 6-0 at third doubles and notched a 6-2 victory over Charoline Erlandsson and Phonexay Chitdara. UT clinched the doubles point when senior Dani Wagland and sophomore Marta Perez-Mur dealt Giovanna Fioretti and Marija Mastilovic a 6-3 defeat at the second position. The remaining match was suspended.
All-Big 12 sophomore Petra Granic posted her 16th consecutive singles win and defeated McNeese's Hannah Brett by a 6-0, 6-1 count at third singles for a 2-0 Texas lead. Freshman Marta Perez-Mur extended the lead to 3-0 with her 6-4, 6-0 victory over Erlandsson at fifth singles.
All-Big 12 sophomore Anna Turati closed out the Longhorns' victory with her 13th consecutive win at second singles. Turati put away Sarah Jurakova, 7-6 (2), 6-1. The remaining matches were suspended.
NCAA Championships First Round
No. 6 Texas 4, McNeese State 0
Doubles – Order of Finish: 3, 2
1 No. 55 Petra Granic/Bojana Markovic (UT) vs. Sarah Jurakova/Hannah Brett (MSU), 4-3
2 Marta Perez-Mur/Dani Wagland (UT) def. Giovanna Fioretti/Marija Mastilovic (MSU), 6-3
3 Anna Turati/Bianca Turati (UT) def. Charoline Erlandsson/Phonexay Chitdara (MSU), 6-2
Singles – Order of Finish: 3, 5, 2
1 No. 1 Bianca Turati (UT) vs. Giovanna Fioretti (MSU), 6-4, 4-3, susp.
2 No. 30 Anna Turati (UT) def. Sarah Jurakova (MSU), 7-6 (2), 6-1
3 No. 64 Petra Granic (UT) def. Hannah brett (MSU), 6-0, 6-1
4 Bojana Markovic (UT) vs. Marija Mastilovic (MSU), 6-3, 5-6, susp.
5 Marta Perez-Mur (UT) def. Charoline Erlandsson (MSU), 6-4, 6-0
6 Dani Wagland (UT) vs. Phonexay Chitdara (MSU), 6-3, 3-6, 1-0, susp.
POST-MATCH COMMENTS
Texas head coach Howard Joffe
We don't have enough tape in terms of what we need to improve on. But certainly, I would rate that as a very ordinary performance by us. I would definitely give the coach and the team that we played, in McNeese State, a lot of credit in fighting hard. But, it was definitely a below par performance by Texas today.
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