DENTON – After suffering a heartbreaking loss to Kansas State on Friday, the Mean Green tennis team responded with a dominating 4-0 win against Arizona on Sunday afternoon.
North Texas secured the doubles point to take a 1-0 lead after Alexandra Heczey/Ivana Babic teamed up to beat Arizona 6-2. No. 69 nationally ranked doubles team Tamuna Kutibidze and Maria Kononova also defeated the Wildcats 6-1.
“The growth of Ivana and Alexandra really showed today,” head coach Sujay Lama told UNT Sports Information. “They showed so much calmness and poise to carry our team today.”
Heczey continued her impressive outing by defeating her opponent 6-0, 6-2 to give the Mean Green a 2-0 lead with her teammates leading other matches throughout the Warranch Tennis Complex.
“We had a great energy during doubles and we knew we could bring it to singles too," Heczey told UNT Sports Information. “I felt the ball really good today and it helped me to finish my singles first. I'm really proud the way we competed today as a team and I'm really happy for the team win."
Babic won her singles match 6-4, 6-2 to improve to 6-1 in singles on the year.
Maria Kononova finished off the Wildcats with a 6-3, 1-6, 6-3 victory to secure the Mean Green win. The win marked No. 75 for Kononova, who leads the program in singles wins.
UP NEXT: UNT faces off against Northwestern State at 2 p.m. on Friday to conclude a six-match homestand.
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