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<b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – Oct. 15, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="layout-grid-mode:char"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Baylor WT Closes ITA Texas Regional Championships with Singles Consolation Victory<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="layout-grid-mode:char"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">Kostenko, Tiglea, Gibbs make quarterfinals run in main draw<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="layout-grid-mode:char"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">For more information contact:
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Colin Pirtle; 940-564-0351,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="mailto:colin_pirtle1@baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:blue">colin_pirtle1@baylor.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">FORT WORTH</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">, Texas –</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Baylor women’s tennis wrapped up its time at the 2024 ITA DI Texas Regional Championship at Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center. </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"> </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Liubov
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Kostenko and Nanaka Sato had strong showings in the main and consolation singles draws, respectively. Kostenko went on to the main singles draw quarterfinals after three
victories, while Sato lost her first match before a five-match run to win the consolation draw off a walkover against TCU’s Yu-Chin Tsai.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Cristina
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Tiglea and Kennedy Gibbs qualified to the quarterfinals after capturing two victories in the main doubles draw.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">THE RUNDOWN</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"> </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Na Dong,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Wenfei Yu, Zuzanna Kubacha, Tiglea and Kostenko all won their first-round matchups of the main draw for singles. The Bears continued with Dong, Kostenko and Tiglea taking
wins in the second round, and Yu constructed an upset over the third-seeded Jeanette Mireles from Texas A&M.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Kostenko</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"> was the only Bear to
continue moving on with a defeat of SMU’s Arianna Stavropoulos 6-1, 6-0 in the round of 16 before
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">her run at the regional championship came to an end to the No. 5 seed Ashton Bowers of Texas in two sets.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">In doubles, the pair of
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Tiglea and Gibbs finished the tournament 2-1, earning a victory over Houston’s Gabriela Cortes and Heta Nuutinen, 8-1. The pairings of Kostenko/Dong, Sato/Lauren Littell
and Brooke Thompson/Kubacha all earned a win in the first round, with Thompson/Kubacha and Kostenko/Dong, making it to the round of 16 before elimination. </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"> </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">WHAT’S NEXT</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"> </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Baylor will return to Fort Worth to compete in the TCU Invitational beginning Oct. 31.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"> </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"> </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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