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<b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – Oct. 30, 2024</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"> </span><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Baylor </span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">WT
Continues Fall Schedule at TCU’s Jae Foundation Fall Open </span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">Bears travel to Fort Worth for the second</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"> consecutive
tournament</span></i></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">For more information contact: </span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">Colin
Pirtle; 940-564-0351, <a href="mailto:colin_pirtle1@baylor.edu" target="_blank" title="mailto:colin_pirtle1@baylor.edu"><span style="color:blue">colin_pirtle1@baylor.edu</span></a> </span><span style="color:#212121;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;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">FORT WORTH, Texas –</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"> Baylor
women’s tennis takes the road again to TCU for the Jae Foundation Fall Open at the Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center, held Thursday through Sunday. </span><span style="color:#212121;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;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">Na Dong, Sierra Berry, Wenfei Yu and Kennedy Gibbs will be headed to the tournament to compete against other
athletes from BYU, Notre Dame, Arizona, Illinois, Maryland, Rice, Texas A&M, Northwestern, Wisconsin, SMU, Oklahoma, Missouri, Texas Tech, Cincinnati, Kansas and LSU. </span><span style="color:#212121;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;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">The weekend begins at 4 p.m. on Thursday with two doubles matches against Illinois and will be followed by
singles against BYU or Arizona. </span><span style="color:#212121;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;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">After two weeks off for training, the Bears return to action following the ITA Texas Regional Championship
in Fort Worth that ran Oct. 10-15. Dong and Yu both won their first-round matchups of the main singles draw. Both were also able to take wins in the second round, with Yu constructing an upset over the third-seeded Jeanette Mireles from Texas A&M. Dong and
Yu would both fall in the round of 16. </span><span style="color:#212121;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;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">In doubles, the pairing of Berry and Yu lost their first match up in the main draw, however, they picked
up two wins in the consolation draw before dropping in the semifinals to Tarleton’s Xim Morales Araneda and Maria Castano. </span><span style="color:#212121;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;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">Gibbs and her partner Cristina Tiglea were able to gain two victories, including a dominant 8-1 win against
Houston’s Gabriela Cortes and Heta Nuutinen. Gibbs and Tiglea would fall in the quarterfinals to Texas Tech’s Andreea Lila and Yekaterina Dmitrichenko. </span><span style="color:#212121;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;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">Admission to the Friedman Tennis Center is free in Fort Worth. Results and updated draws will be posted at
the conclusion of each match on the tournament website. </span><span style="color:#212121;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;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">To stay up to date, follow the team on its official Facebook, X and Instagram accounts: @BaylorWTennis. </span><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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