The ninth-ranked Texas A&M women’s tennis team defeated TCU 4-0 to cap ITA Kickoff Weekend action on Sunday at the Mitchell Tennis Center, earning a spot in the ITA National Indoor Championship in Seattle on Feb 9-12.
“I am very pleased with our performance today,” A&M coach Mark Weaver said. “We get better with every match and TCU is a good team and we handled them decisively. We are excited to go back to Seattle and our ultimate goal is to win a national championship here and that’s another opportunity for us.”
A&M, which qualified for indoor nationals for a seventh straight time, will play Miami at 11 a.m. Friday in Coral Gables, Fla., at the Neil Schiff Tennis Center.
A&M’s Mary Stoiana and Mia Kupres had victories in both singles and doubles to help A&M (4-2) win its 45th straight home match.
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Stoiana and Kupres, who are ranked third in the country in doubles, grabbed a 6-1 victory over Yu-Chin Tsai and Chiho Mushika. Top-ranked Stoiana, Kupres and Daria Smetannikov had wins in singles to give A&M the match.
#1 Mary Stoiana, A&M, def. Isabel Pacual 6-0, 6-0; #31 Nicole Khirin, A&M, vs. Jade Otway 5-7, 6-1; 2-1, DNF; #26 Mia Kupres, A&M, def. No. 58 Destinee Martins 6-3, 6-3; Lucciana Perez, A&M, def. Yu-Chin Tsai 6-3, 6-3; Daria Smetannikov, A&M, vs. Raquel Caballero 6-7 (5), 2-3, DNF; Jeanette Mireles, A&M, vs. Chiho Mushika 6-3, 4-4, DNF
#3 Kupres/Stoiana, A&M, def. Tsai/Mushika 6-1; Perez/Khirin, A&M, vs. Otway/Caballero, 3-5, DNF; Sydney Fitch/Daria Smetannikov, A&M, def. Martins/Isabel Pacaul 6-1
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