No. 23 Baylor WT Downs TCU on Senior Day, 4-0

[Pirtle, Colin]

BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – April 12, 2025

No. 23 Baylor WT Downs TCU on Senior Day, 4-0
Bears close regular season in win over Frogs
For more information contact: Colin Pirtle; 940-564-0351, colin_pirtle1 at baylor.edu<mailto:colin_pirtle1 at baylor.edu>


WACO, Texas – Baylor women’s tennis wrapped up the regular season in a 4-0 sweep of TCU on Sunday afternoon at the Hurd Tennis Center.



Baylor (19-4, 10-3 Big 12) earned the doubles point and rolled to three singles wins over TCU (12-10, 7-6 Big 12) to finish off the season before staying in Waco to host the Big 12 Championship next week.



THE RUNDOWN

In one of the most competitive doubles points of the season that spanned a full hour, Baylor was victorious in clinching the first point of the match with a win coming on Courts No. 2 and 3.



Finishing first, TCU’s No. 28 ranked do of Jade Otway and Isabel Pascual defeated 30th-ranked Liubov Kostenko and Cristina Tiglea, 6-4. Shortly after, Na Dong and Wenfei Yu picked up a win in their first match together, 6-2, on the third court over TCU’s Raquel Caballero and Tomi Main.



Coming down to a breaker on Court Two for the doubles point, Sierra Berry and Zuzanna Kubacha, another brand-new doubles pairing for the Bears, pulled out a 7-3 tiebreak win to clinch the point and send the Bears to singles up a point.



Baylor took four first sets to kick off singles play, but it was Court Six’s retirement that started the scoring efforts for the green and gold.



Kennedy Gibbs took a solid 6-4 first-set win over TCU’s Cayetana Gay before her retirement in the second set for the Bears’ first singles point of the afternoon.



Up next, Court Four went to the 107th-ranked Dong, as she defeated Main, 6-4, 6-2, on Court Four in her 12th consecutive singles victory. To clinch the match on her own Senior Day, Kostenko picked up a win on the first court, battling to a 6-3, 1-6, 6-2 victory.



HIGHLIGHTS

  *   Baylor ends the regular season with 19 wins, 10 at home, and is prepped to host the Big 12 Tennis Championships next week.
  *   The Bears swept TCU for the first time since 2022.



QUOTABLE

Head coach Joey Scrivano

On today’s match…

“I am really proud of the team. They competed so well, they were so prepared, they really wanted this win today and they were doing it for their seniors. This was a really special day and a special way to cap it off.”



Senior Liubov Kostenko

Reflecting on her time at Baylor…

“I think the whole journey that I’ve been through here and the people that have helped me [stands out the most]. Most of them have been with me since Day One and I am going to miss all of it, all of the moments, the good and the bad, but it was crazy good overall.”



WHAT’S NEXT

Baylor secured the No. 4 seed in the Big 12 Championships and awaits their tournament-opening opponent in a match that will be played Friday at 4 p.m. CT.



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Colin Pirtle | Associate Director of Athletics Communications (WBB, WTEN)
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
C: 940-564-0351

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