Mavericks Win Battle Over Central Oklahoma

Sunday, January 31

Arlington, TX

1:30 PM

University of Texas Arlington

Central Oklahoma

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Photo by: Ellman Photography

1/31/2021 6:16:00 PM | Women's Tennis

Box Score

By: Ian Applegate (@Ian_Applegate)

ARLINGTON, Texas – The UT Arlington women's tennis team overcame a doubles point loss to defeat Central Oklahoma 5-2 in a hard-fought match that came down to the final two matches.

The Bronchos took the doubles points after taking the No. 1 and No. 2 positions. Polina Akimova and Lucia Natal fell on court one 6-0, while Momoka Horiguchi and Liz Chileno fell 6-3 on court two. Carla Pons and Almudena Boza were leading 5-3 when their match was called.

UCO continued their winning ways by taking No. 2 singles 6-2, 6-1 over Liz Chileno. With their backs against the wall, the Mavericks quickly tied up the match with wins at No. 6 from Boza (6-3, 6-2) and No. 5 from Pons (6-3, 6-2). Polina Akimova put the Mavs on top with a 6-3, 6-1 win on court three before Lucia Natal clinched the match by wining No. 4 singles 7-5, 6-3.

With the final match still to finish, Horiguchi fought to give the Mavs one more point. After winning set one 6-4, she fell 3-6 in set two. Leading 4-1, it appeared Horiguchi had the match in the bag, but Adel-ByanuAbidullina battled back to force a tiebreaker set. Horiguchi rolled in the tiebreaker, winning 6-3 to win the match 7-6.

The Mavericks will be back in action next Saturday with a double header against Tarleton (10 a.m.) and Cameron (2 p.m.) at the UTA Tennis Center.