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The No. 30 SMU women’s tennis team improved to 9-1 on the season, after sweeping rival Tulane and Oklahoma State in Dallas over the weekend. Both matches were moved to an alternate location after the city received 12 inches of snow on Friday.
 

The Mustangs made short work of the Green Wave on Friday, Feb. 12 at the Brookhaven Country Club, 6-0. The Mustangs won all six singles matches and five of them were won in straight sets. Freshman Shahzoda Hatamova, playing in the No. 2 position, was the first to claim victory, rolling over Tulane’s Elizabeth Hamlin while dropping only three games (6-1, 6-2).
 

No. 47 Marta Lesniak faced a tough opponent in Mariam Kurdadze, who was a 2009 C-USA All-Freshman team member. Zurdadze pushed Lesniak hard in the first set, and the Mustangs needed a tie-breaker to win. However, the second set was much easier and Lesniak claimed her seventh victory of the season (7-6 (5), 6-3).
 

The Mustangs faced a much tougher challenge on Sunday, Feb. 14 when they played host to No. 73 Oklahoma State at the Bent Tree Country Club. However, SMU managed to prevail in a tight match, 4-3.
 

The match started with singles play and at first, the match seemed well in hand. Both Lesniak and fellow sophomore Aleksandra Malyarchikova improved their singles records to 8-0 on the season. However, OSU, down 3-1 after four matches, stormed back to win the next two, to tie the score at 3-3. The match then went to doubles to determine the winner.
 

Although the doubles tandem of Lesniak and Malyarchikova was defeated, 8-5, the other two doubles teams picked up the slack. Freshman Edyta Cieplucha and senior Pavi Francis scored a victory off their opponents (8-3), while Hatamova and senior Casey Kennedy clinched the victory for SMU in their match (8-5).

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