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<h1 align="right" style="text-align:right"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – April 22, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
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<h1 align="left" style="text-align:left"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none">No. 8 Baylor WT Readies for Big 12 Championship<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
<h2 align="left" style="text-align:left"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-style:normal">Bears face TCU Friday in quarterfinals</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-style:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For more information contact:
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Kyle Robarts, 254-405-9492,
</span><a href="mailto:Kyle_Robarts@baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Kyle_Robarts@baylor.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Body"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">WACO, Texas. –
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The No. 8-ranked Baylor tennis team will compete as the No. 2 seed and face No. 7 seed TCU Friday at noon at the Hurd Tennis Center to kick off its portion of the Big 12 Championship.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Body"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Bears are playing host to both the men’s and women’s championships with the women’s tournament underway Thursday with a No. 8 vs. No. 9 seed play-in match. Kansas edged K-State,
4-3, Thursday to advance to face No. 1 seed Texas Friday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Body"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Inclement weather is expected, which could affect plans for simultaneous quarterfinals matches beginning at Noon and the final two quarterfinals matches at 3 p.m. If the matches were
to move indoors, there would be a rolling schedule beginning at 11 a.m.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Body"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">As it stands, while Baylor competes with the Horned Frogs on the Grandstand Courts at Hurd, No. 3 seed Texas Tech and No. 6 seed Iowa State will play on the Riverside Courts at Noon.
No. 1 Texas and No. 9 Kansas will play at 3 p.m. on the Grandstand Courts along with No. 4 Oklahoma vs. No. 4 Oklahoma State on the Riverside Courts at 3 p.m. as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Body"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">If the rolling schedule begins at the Hawkins Indoor, the Texas Tech vs. ISU match will set to begin at 11 a.m. with a rolling schedule from there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Body"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Baylor is 2-0 vs. TCU this season and 22-17 overall. The Bears (21-3) beat the Horned Frogs (9-12), 4-3, March 4 in Waco in a non-conference matchup, and 5-2, April 14, in Waco in
a league match.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Body"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Bears are eight-time winners of the Big 12 Championship with their last crown in 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Body"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For outdoor matches at the Hurd Tennis Center, fans can purchase day passes for $5. However, any matches moved to the Hawkins Indoor Tennis Facility will not admit spectators of any
kind.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">www.BaylorBears.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">___________________________________</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#006132">Kyle Robarts</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#006132"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">| Associate Director, Athletics Communications (WBB, WTEN)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Department of Athletics | Baylor University</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">O: 254-710-3042 | C: 254-405-9492</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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