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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 – Nov. 5, 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">WT Weekend Wrap-Up<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Krista Pirtle, 254-447-8610,
</span><a href="mailto:Krista_Pirtle@baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Krista_Pirtle@baylor.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
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<p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align:left"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">WACO, Texas –
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Baylor women’s tennis continued its play in San Diego, Calif., at the ITA Fall Nationals as well as at the Big 12 Individuals in Stillwater, Okla., on Friday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">In San Diego, Alicia Herrero Linana and Mel Krywoj ended the day with a 6-4, 5-7, 1-0 (10-6) win over USC’s Snow Han and Salma Ewing. The win moves the Bears on to the
quarterfinals where they will play the winner between No. 1 seed Wake Forest’s Anna Brylin and Brooke Killingsworth and Colorado State’s Radka Buzkova and Matea Mihaljevic.<span style="color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:white">Earlier in the day, Herrero Linana battled in her consolation singles match but fell in three sets to South Carolina’s Ayana Akli, 6-0, 4-6,
6-1. The Baylor senior was down 4-3 in the second set and fought back to force a third set.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:white">In Stillwater, Alina Shcherbinina and Anita Sahdiieva advanced to the quarterfinals with an 8-3 win over Texas Tech’s Olivia Peet and Metka
Komac. They will face Sonia Smagina and Tiffany Lagarde of Kansas in the semifinals at 10 a.m. on Saturday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:white">Baylor’s second doubles team, Olivia Malm and Brooke Thompson, dropped an 8-4 decision to Anna Turco and Manami Ukita of Kansas State.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:white">In singles, Shcherbinina advanced to the semifinals in Flight A with a pair of wins on Friday. She topped Oklahoma’s Emma Staker, 6-4, 6-1,
before defeating Kansas’ Sofia Smagina, 7-6(5), 6-2. Shcherbinina will face Oklahoma State’s Oona Orpana at 10:05 a.m.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:white">Sahdiieva advanced to the second round after her opponent retired due to injury. She dropped a hard-fought match to Texas Tech’s Olivia Peet,
6-3, 4-6, 1-0 (10-7). Sahdiieva will play Kansas State’s Manami Ukita at 10:25 a.m. in the Flight B Extra bracket.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:white">Malm fell to Kansas State’s Florentine Dekkers, 6-4, 7-6(3), and Thompson dropped her singles match, 4-6, 6-0, 1-0 (10-4), to Kansas’ Mariana
Manyoma Velasquez. The two Bears will play in the Flight C Consolation bracket at 10:30 a.m. Malm will face West Virginia’s Pei Ju Hsieh, while Thompson will play Texas Tech’s Camryn Stepp.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="background:white">For the latest news on the Baylor women's tennis team all season long, follow their official Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts: @BaylorWTennis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Department of Athletics | Baylor University</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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