Lady Raiders Drop Match at Oklahoma

Friday, March 5

Norman, OK

10 AM

Texas Tech Athletics

Oklahoma

March 05, 2021 | Women's Tennis

Box Score

By: Harry Endicott

NORMAN, Okla. – The Texas Tech women's tennis team dropped its first match in nearly a month on Friday morning, falling at Oklahoma, 5-2, at the Headington Tennis Center.

The match began with doubles, where the Lady Raiders and Sooners traded blows in a thriller of a doubles point. After Oklahoma picked up a win on court three, attention turned to the front two courts which were both knotted up at five games apiece.

On court two, Nell Miller and Margarita Skriabina came back from down 4-2 to force a tiebreaker that they would win to knock off Martina Capurro and Camila Romero, 7-6(5). On court one, Kaitlin Staines and Lisa Mays were in a battle with one of the top doubles teams in the Big 12 in Carmen and Ivana Corley, trailing 6-5 and trying to force a tiebreaker. Mays and Staines came up just short, however, as Oklahoma took the doubles point and carried a 1-0 lead into singles.

In singles play, Lisa Mays took her first singles loss of the dual season on court one, falling to Carmen Corley, 6-2, 6-2, to give the Sooners a 2-0 lead.

Oklahoma stretched its lead to 3-0 on court two after Kaitlin Staines fell, 6-2, 6-3, to Dana Guzman, before clinching the win on six with a 7-5, 6-1 win from Kianah Motosono over Texas Tech's Metka Komac on court six. It was Komac's first loss in dual singles action this season.

With the match clinched in favor of the Sooners, Tech picked up a couple of points from Skriabina and Miller. Skriabina took her match in a third-set super tiebreaker, 10-6, over Ivana Corley before Miller used a dominant third set to close out Martina Capurro, 6-1, 1-6, 6-1.

The Sooners scored one last point with Marcelina Podlinska winning a third-set tiebreaker, 10-7, over Olivia Peet.

The Lady Raiders will be back in action this Sunday when they travel to Waco, Texas, for a tough nonconference test at No. 15 Baylor.