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@MizzouTennis Drops Morning Match Against Wichita State
2/12/2017 2:03:00 PM | Tennis
The Tigers won the doubles point, but fell for just the second time this season.
KANSAS CITY, KAN. – Mizzou Tennis (4-2) ended its three-game win streak with a 4-2 loss to Wichita State (3-1) on Sunday morning in Kansas City, Kan. Junior Amina Ismail (Maineville, Ohio) won both of her matches for Mizzou, bringing her overall win total to a team best 21 in the 2016-17 campaign.
The Tigers took the doubles point for the fourth time this season. Senior Cassidy Spearman (Laguna Niguel, Calif.) continues to be a dominant doubles player as she and her partner senior Bea Machado Santos (Lisbon, Portugal) won the No. 2 doubles match, 6-2. This was the second straight doubles victory for the pairing. They just beat Kansas State's No. 2 doubles team on Friday. With the win, Spearman holds a team best 4-1 record in doubles play this spring season, and sits just one win away from achieving 50 career doubles victories.
Mizzou clinched the doubles point off of a gritty win by Ismail and her partner, freshman Mackenzy Middlebrooks (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.). They took the No. 3 doubles match 7-6 (5) improving Middlebrooks' double record this spring to a perfect 2-0 and giving Ismail her team-best 11th doubles win of the season.
Singles play went Wichita State's way as Mizzou only got one win, coming at No. 5 singles by Ismail. This marks the first time this season that Mizzou has lost a match in which the Tigers won the doubles point. They are now 3-1 in that scenario and 1-1 when losing the doubles point.
Mizzou continues action Sunday at 6 p.m. C.T. against UMKC.
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Match-by-Match Results:
Doubles:
No. 1 Fatima Bizhukova/Gabriela Porubin (WSU) def. Brianna Lashway/Tate Schroeder (MIZ), 6-3
No. 2 Bea Santos/Cassidy Spearman (MIZ) def. Guilia Guidetti/Marta Bellucco (WSU), 6-2
No. 3 Mackenzy Middlebrooks/Amina Ismail (MIZ) def. Tanaporn Thongsing/Ting-Ya Hsu (WSU), 7-6(5)
Singles:
No. 1 Guilia Guidetti (WSU) def. Bea Machado Santos (MIZ), 6-4, 6-1
No. 2 Gabriela Porubin (WSU) def. Brianna Lashway (MIZ), 6-3, 6-4
No. 3 Cassidy Spearman (MIZ) vs. Tanaporn Thongsing (WSU) 2-6, 7-5, 4-3, unfinished.
No. 4 Fatima Bizhukova (WSU) def. Tate Schroeder (MIZ), 6-3, 3-6, 6-3
No. 5 Amina Ismial (MIZ) def. Marta Bellucco (WSU), 6-2, 6-1
No. 6 Ting-Ya Hsu (WSU) def. Mackenzy Middlebrooks (MIZ), 6-4, 6-4
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