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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b><u>BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – March 1, 2024</u></b></span></h1>
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</b>Shelby Hild; 254-405-7591, <a href="mailto:Shelby_hild@baylor.edu" id="OWAe45787d0-600b-e87b-7372-edbd509e906d" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>CINCINNATI, Ohio –</b> Baylor women’s tennis kicked off Big 12 action with a 5-2 at Cincinnati on Friday afternoon.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The win marked the second time in three seasons that the Bears have started league play with a victory.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Danielle Tuhten and Miska Kadleckova earned their sixth doubles win of the season, moving to 6-2 on the year and 5-1 at the No. 2 position, but the Bearcats took courts one and three for the early advantage.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Baylor bounced back and tallied its first point with a clean 6-0, 6-0 sweep by Kadleckova on No. 1. A straight-set win by Zuzanna Kubacha on court four pushed the Bears ahead before a 6-4, 6-1 decision from
Isabella Harvison on court three gave BU a 3-1 lead.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Cincinnati collected its second point of the match with a win on court two, but a 7-5. 6-0 win by Zuzanna Frankowska on court six clinched the conference-opening win for the Bears. Tuhten’s 6-3, 4-6, 6-1 win
at the No. 5 position gave Baylor the 5-2 victory to start league play undefeated.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Bears continue conference play on the road when they travel to face West Virginia at 10 a.m. CT on Sunday.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>RESULTS</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><i>Singles</i></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">No. 1 – Miska Kadleckova def. Vic deSsamucewicz: 6-0, 6-0</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">No. 2 – Rozalia Gruszczynska def. Liubov Kostenko: 1-6, 6-3, 6-1</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">No. 3 – Isabella Harvison def. Gabrielle Guenther: 6-4, 6-1</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">No. 4 – Zuzanna Kubacha def. Sakurako Watanabe: 6-3, 6-2</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">No. 5 – Danielle Tuhten def. Callie Flanagan: 6-3, 4-6, 1-0 (6)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">No. 6. – Zuzanna Frankowska def. Isabel Pacheco: 7-5, 6-0</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><i>Doubles</i></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">No. 1 – Rozalia Gruszczynska/Gabrielle Guenther def. Sierra Berry/Zuzanna Kubacha: 6-3</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">No. 2 – Danielle Tuhten/Miska Kadleckova def. Vic deSamucewicz/Callie Flanagan: 6-2</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">No. 3 – Sakurako Watanabe/Morgan Pyrz def. Daniella Dimitrov/Liubov Kostenko: 6-2</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(56, 86, 35);"><b>Shelby Hild</b> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">| Director of Communications
(WBB, WTEN)</span></p>
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