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Box Score 2 DURANT, OKLAHOMA - #19 UT Tyler men's tennis bounced back from dropping the doubles point on Friday afternoon to run away with a 4-1 win, and UT Tyler women's tennis started strong and ran away with a 4-0 win as both teams took down Southeastern Oklahoma State.
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The Patriots men have grown accustomed to comeback wins, and they did so yet again on Friday afternoon. In the doubles matches, the pairs of
Egor Shestakov /
Jordi Garcia Portell and
Carel Wessel /
Jonas Dixon would both fall by scores of 6-4 to allow the Savage Storm to claim the opening point of the match.
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In singles however, the Patriots would respond with four straight wins to take the victory. Wessel led the charge, running away with a 6-3, 6-4 straight sets win to tie up the match.
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Gonzalo Fernandez Gil shortly followed, and he dominated in a 6-4, 6-0 win as he never trailed after a 4-3 deficit in the first set.
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The third win of the match for UT Tyler came in the #3 slot, as Shestakov rebounded from his doubles loss to the tune of a 6-3, 6-3 win as he trailed for just one game combined in both sets.
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That left the match in the hands of
Joaquin Bianchi in the #1 slot. He fell in set number one by a score of 6-1, but rebounded in a huge way with a 6-4 win in set number two. That forced the match into a third and final set, and Bianchi would keep it rolling with another 6-4 win to claim victory for UT Tyler.
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In the women's sweep of the Savage Storm, they got to work in a huge way in the doubles portion of the match as
Brooklyn Ross and
Violetta Khisamova combined for a dominant 6-1 win.
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Tanvikhaa Saravanan and
Kanika Sivaraman quickly followed with a 6-4 win of their own, and the Patriots went into singles up 1-0.
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That lead would double to 2-0 thanks to
Akshaya Suresh winning the #5 singles slot in a walkover.
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That set up a quick 2-0 lead, and Ross would go to work to make it a 3-0 lead after a big 6-4 win in set number one. In that set, she faced a 4-1 deficit before rolling to five straight game wins. In set number two, she never trailed while on her way to a 6-2 win and the third point for UT Tyler.
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That meant that the match came into the hands of
Tanvikhaa Saravanan in the #2 slot, and she responded with a quick 3-0 lead to start the match. That lead would be cut down into a 5-5 tie by her opponent, but Saravanan closed out the first set with two straight game wins.
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In the second set, the Savage Storm would go up by a 3-1 score, but Saravanan caught fire with five straight game wins to claim the set and the match for the Patriots.
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Both UT Tyler tennis programs will now take on Newman tomorrow at 12 p.m. in a neutral site matchup that will take place in Durant, Oklahoma.
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