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DALLAS (SMU) – The No. 43 SMU women's tennis team fell in a 4-3 decision on Friday night against No. 19 UCF at the Styslinger/Altec Tennis Complex.
The Mustangs claimed their fifth-straight doubles win off 6-3 and 6-4 respective victories for
Jackie Nylander/
Hadley Doyle and
Lexi Keberle/
Lana Mavor. The doubles win snapped a five-match win streak for UCF which included a doubles victory over No. 9 Oklahoma State.
71
st-ranked duo Nylander/Doyle defeated 29
th-ranked Evgeniya Levashova/Marie Mattel, ending a four-match win streak for the UCF pair while improving 7-1 in dual play. The win extended Nylander/Doyle's doubles win streak to four-straight.
Keberle/Mavor improved to 7-3 in dual doubles with their win over UCF's Sophia Biolay/Nandini Sharma, claiming their third consecutive win as a pair.
On line three,
Nicole Petchey/
Claudia Bartolome fell to a 4-0 deficit against UCF's Jaleesa Leslie/Noel Saidenova, before climbing back to even the set at 4-all. Leslie/Saidenova led 6-5 before SMU clinched the doubles point.
In singles, Nylander defeated Leslie 6-3, 7-5. Prior to the loss, Leslie had won two-straight victories against No. 66 FAU and Yale. Nylander has won five of her last six matchups on court three for the Mustangs.
After falling 6-4 in the opening set on court two, Doyle took her second set against Saidenova 6-3, before the final set fell to a tiebreaker. Doyle and Saidenova traded wins throughout, before Doyle pushed to a 5-3 lead that she would not give up, ultimately defeating Saidenova 7-4 and clinching the match.
After dropping her first set 6-2 against Biolay on court five, Mavor evened the match with a 7-5 win in the second set. After falling back as far as 4-1 in the third, Mavor fought back, forcing the tiebreak at 6-all to decide the team result. Biolay ultimately came out on top, 8-6, clinching the win for UCF.
The Mustangs (11-8) resume dual play on Sunday, hosting TCU at 1 p.m. on Senior Day, with the ceremony beginning thirty minutes prior to the start of the match.
