DALLAS – The UTSA women’s tennis concluded an impressive season with a tough 4-1 loss to No. 1 seed and 45th-ranked SMU in the quarterfinals of the American Athletic Conference Championships at the Styslinger/Altec Tennis Complex on Friday morning in Dallas.
UTSA concludes its season with a 17-7 overall record, while SMU moves on to the semifinal round with an 11-11 overall record.
The Mustangs take the 1-0 advantage by winning the doubles point, but the Roadrunners put up a fight to get there. After SMU took the win at the third court, UTSA’s duo of Cassie McLay and Aleksandra Zlatarova won the top spot by 7-5 over Lana Mavor and Caroline McGinley. The Mustangs clinched the doubles point with a second court win.
SMU took a 2-0 lead by opening singles action with a win at the third court. UTSA got its first point of the match as Ekua Youri defeated McGinley by set scores of 6-1 and 6-4 at the fifth spot. The Mustangs took two more singles points at the fourth and sixth courts as UTSA fell to SMU by 4-1 in the quarterfinal matchup.
#45 SMU 4 – UTSA 1
Doubles Results (SMU 1 – UTSA 0)
Order of Finish: 3, 1, 2
1. Cassie McLay/Aleksandra Zlatarova (UTSA) def. Lana Mavor/Caroline McGinley (SMU) 7-5
2. Hadley Doyle/Drew Morris (SMU) def. Fatima Gutierrez/Ekua Youri (UTSA) 7-6 (7-5)
3. Maja Makoric/Millie Skelton (SMU) def. Vittoria Baccino/Magda Tuells (UTSA) 6-3
Singles Results (SMU 3 – UTSA 1)
Order of Finish: 3, 5, 4, 6
1. Taylor Johnson (SMU) vs. Fatima Gutierrez (UTSA) 6-3, 5-4, unfinished
2. Drew Morris (SMU) vs. Aleksandra Zlatarova (UTSA) 6-2, 6-6, unfinished
3. Hadley Doyle (SMU) def. Cassie McLay (UTSA) 6-1, 6-2
4. Lana Mavor (SMU) def. Vittoria Baccino (UTSA) 7-6 (7-1), 6-2
5. Ekua Youri (UTSA) def. Caroline McGinley (SMU) 6-1, 6-4
6. Millie Skelton (SMU) def. Magda Tuells (UTSA) 7-6 (7-4), 6-1
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