Complete Results

THE RUNDOWN
WACO, Texas -- The 15th-ranked Baylor women's tennis team suffered a 4-3 setback to No. 46 Washington Sunday at the Hawkins Indoor Tennis Center.

For the second time in 2016, Baylor (4-3) dropped the doubles point. Each of the BU duos struggled to hold serve early and fell behind quickly.

On court one, Blair Shankle and Theresa Van Zyl were down 4-2 and were unable to rebound, losing a 6-3 decision to Miki Kobayashi and Nour Abbes.

Minutes later, Rhiann Newborn and Karina Traxler suffered a 6-4 setback to Tami Grende and Stacey Fung at the No. 2 spot to give the Huskies the doubles point.

Baylor tied the action up at one point apiece as Blair Shankle cruised to a 6-3, 6-1 victory on court four over Elianne Douglas-Miron.

However, moments later the Huskies retook the lead, 2-1, as Kiah Generette fell, 6-3, 6-4 to Abbes at the No. 1 spot.

At that point all four remaining matches were trending toward a third set.

Newborn was the next player to wrap her match with a 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 victory over Grende at the No. 3 position. In a back and forth battle, Newborn won the final three games of the deciding set, including two breaks to take the match.

With the scored now tied, 2-2, Baylor was down on third sets on court two (4-0), court five (3-0) and up 4-2 on court six.

Van Zyl ended up losing her battle at the No. 2 spot, 4-6, 6-1, 6-0 to the 65th-ranked Fung to put Washington back into the lead, 3-2.

The match was ultimately decided at the No. 5 singles position. Gabriela Ferreira had lost the opening set 7-5 and then fallen down 3-2 in the second set, before running off four straight games to capture a 6-3 set victory. In the third and deciding set, Ferreira fell into a 5-0 hole and couldn't rebound dropping a 6-2 set to allow Washington to clinch the match 4-2.

With the match decided, freshman Karina Traxler secured a 1-6, 6-4, 6-4 triumph at the No. 6 position to make the final score, 4-3.

NOTABLES
- The Huskies now lead the all-time series 2-1.
- Traxler improved to 3-1 in singles play.

TOP QUOTE #1
"Credit to Washington - they were the more focused, more energetic and better prepared team. The bottom lline is we just have to play with greater effort and greater energy. The players know that. They know where they came up short, but it all starts with effort and energy and we have to improve with those." - head coach Joey Scrivano on the match

WHAT'S NEXT Baylor will head out on the road for a two-match road swing through the state of Florida, starting with a match at No. 3 Florida Saturday at 11 a.m. CT.

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