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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><b><u>BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – Feb. 12, 2026</u></b></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; color: black;"><b>Baylor WT Travels to Boston for Weekend Ivy League Tests</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;"><b><i>Bears playing Brown on Friday, Harvard on Sunday at the Murr Tennis Center</i></b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>For more information contact:
</b>Colin Pirtle; 940-564-0351, </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: purple;"><u><a href="mailto:colin_pirtle1@baylor.edu" data-outlook-id="16a3fd64-c983-4c96-a617-2d2e94e5bdc4" style="color: purple; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">colin_pirtle1@baylor.edu</a></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 15.693334px;"><b>BOSTON –</b> The Baylor women’s tennis team is set for a two‑match road trip this weekend at Harvard’s Murr Tennis Center in Massachusetts, opening
with Brown on Friday at 2 p.m. CT before facing Harvard on Sunday at 10:30 a.m. CT.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 15.693334px;">Baylor (2-3) enters the weekend undefeated in the all‑time series against both opponents, holding a 2-0 record against Brown (5-2) and a 5-0 mark
against Harvard (4-4).</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 15.693334px;">The Bears and Brown last met in February 2024, when Baylor extended its dominance in the series with a 6-1 win in Waco. The Bears will see a Brown
team coming off a 1-2 performance at last weekend’s ECAC Championships.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 15.693334px;">Brown does not feature any nationally ranked singles players, but its doubles team of Daniella Benabraham and Abigail Lee is ranked No. 85 with a
6-5 overall record, all compiled during fall tournament play.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 15.693334px;">Harvard, Baylor’s second opponent of the weekend, hosts the Bears after topping Dartmouth, 4-3, last week. The Crimson had dropped their previous
two matches at the ECAC Championships, falling 4-1 to Princeton and 4-3 to Brown.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 15.693334px;">Harvard fields one ranked doubles pairing in No. 42 Kavya Karra and Stephanie Yakoff, who hold an 11-3 record this season. Yakoff is also ranked
No. 66 in singles with a 14-2 mark.<br>
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Baylor has five ranked entries following the release of the first spring rankings. The Bears appear in back-to-back doubles listings with Kennedy Gibbs and Na Dong at No. 70, followed by Dong and Zuzanna Kubacha at No. 71. In singles, Dong is ranked No. 62,
Kubacha sits at No. 89, and freshman Mu-Jie Tzeng comes in at No. 98.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 15.693334px;">In its most recent match, Baylor fell to Washington after dropping the doubles point despite a strong 6-1 win from Kubacha and Dong on Court 1. In
singles play, the Bears dropped three straight matches as the Huskies clinched the 4-0 result.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Live
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the Murr Tennis Center will be available online.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">To stay up to date, follow the team on its official Facebook, X and Instagram accounts: @BaylorWTennis</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: rgb(7, 61, 30);"><b>Colin Pirtle</b> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">| Associate Director of Athletics Communications (WBB, Soccer, W. Tennis) </span></p>
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