No. 49 SMU (10-6, 4-0 AAC) vs. No. 41 Texas Tech (9-7, 1-3 Big XII)
McLeod Tennis Center – Lubbock, Texas
March 23, 2022 – 4 p.m. CT
No. 49 SMU (6-5, 1-0 AAC) vs. No. 54 Denver (9-4, 4-0 Summit)
McLeod Tennis Center – Lubbock, Texas
March 24, 2022 – 1 p.m. CT
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The SMU women's tennis team heads to Lubbock to resume its dual season, facing Texas Tech on Wednesday in a spring rematch followed by a meeting against Summit League first-place No. 54 Denver on Thursday.

The Mustangs (10-6) open against Tech seeking their fourth consecutive win following a successful road campaign at No. 40 Tulsa and Tulane, and a home shutout of No. 56 VCU.

SMU fell in its most recent match against Tech 4-2, on March 6. In the affair, the Mustangs claimed doubles off a 6-3 win for Hadley Doyle/Jackie Nylander against Texas Tech's Avelina Sayfetdinova/Kailey Evans, and a 6-4 victory for graduate senior pair Lexi Keberle/Claudia Bartolome over Margarita Skriabina/Cristina Tiglea. On line four in singles, Bartolome took a straight-set win, 6-2, 6-3, over Tech's Kailey Evans.

Keberle, who matched up on court one against then-No. 16 Margarita Skriabina, split the opening two sets with Skriabina and led 3-0 in the third before Tech clinched the team win and the match went unfinished.

Texas Tech
The No. 49 Red Raiders (9-7, 1-3 Big XII) enter Wednesday's rematch the winners of two of its last three contests, including wins against No. 55 Nebraska and No. 56 Kansas State. Tech lost its most recent matchup, 4-2, at No. 34 Kansas on March 20.

Metka Komac leads Tech with a 10-5 dual singles record, including a 3-1 mark on line four.

Skriabina, with a 9-4 record in dual singles on court one, has won her last two completed contests, both straight-set wins at Nebraska and Kansas State.

Denver
No. 54 Denver opens its Thursday contest against SMU winners of eight-straight matches and 4-0 against Summit League opponents. Denver's last loss occurred on Feb. 11, falling to Baylor 5-2 at home. Denver is 51-22 in dual singles and 20-12 in doubles play this season.

Britt Pursell leads Denver in singles with a team-best 10-3 record, which includes a 4-1 mark on court two. Pursell has one loss in nine matches, including wins against both No. 25 Baylor and No. 71 Iowa.

Andrea Burguete Beltran and Camille Verden-Anderson both follow up with 8-3 records, both of which have won six-straight pairings and have not lost since Feb. 19 at Utah.

Toni Nelson and Taylor Melville lead Denver in doubles with a 4-0 record on court two. Nelson has won five consecutive doubles matches, her last loss a 7-6 decision on Feb. 25 with teammate Tatum Burger at No. 71 Iowa.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
Last Time Out
SMU won its third consecutive on Sunday, March 20, shutting out No. 56 VCU 4-0 at the Styslinger/Altec Tennis Complex.

Court two duo Keberle/Lana Mavor improved to 5-3 in dual doubles with a 6-3 win over VCU's 48th-ranked Paola Exposito Diaz-Delgado / Laura Garcia Astudillo, followed by a four-game rally by Hadley Doyle/Jackie Nylander to clinch the doubles point.

In singles, Doyle claimed a 6-2, 6-0 straight-set win over VCU's Yelizaveta Karlova. The junior has won two of her last three singles contests on court two for SMU.

Jackie Nylander won her third-consecutive singles contest, downing VCU's Nina Sorkin 6-2, 6-4. The junior led as far as 5-2 in her second set before Sorkin won back-to-back games to force a decisive 5-4 game. Nylander answered, defeating Sorkin 6-4.

Graduate senior Nicole Petchey took a 6-3, 6-2 win on court six to seal a 4-0 victory for SMU. The win marked Petchey's third consecutive, improving her dual singles record to 7-5.
 
Mustangs Shut Out No. 56 VCU For Third-Straight Win
Mustangs Fall to No. 34 Texas Tech