Vanderbilt women’s tennis suffered its first loss of the season Friday afternoon, dropping a tightly contested 4-2 match to No. 2 Texas A&M.
Texas A&M and Vanderbilt were going neck and neck from the jump. The two schools split the first two doubles matchups before setting up a match between Vanderbilt’s Mia Yamakita and Erin Pearce and Texas A&M’s Lexington Reed and Daria Smetannikov.
After a back and forth match, Reed and Smetannikov got the doubles point and took a 1-0 lead after winning the final doubles match 6-4.
In singles, Vanderbilt did respond. After going down 2-0, Erin Pearce put Vanderbilt on the board with a win over Tilde Stromquist in two sets (6-2, 6-2). Then, Vanderbilt tied the match up at tie after Bridget Stammel beat Lexington Reed in two sets as well (6-2, 6-4).
But in the end Vanderbilt could not get a lead and be in control of the match. Violeta Martinez beat Mia Yamakita in a close two-set match to give Texas A&M a 3-2 lead (5-7, 3-6) before Mia Kupres ran away from Celia-Belle Mohr in the third set to get the match point and clinch a win for the Aggies (7-5, 4-6, 1-6).
The loss was Vanderbilt’s first of the season after a 5-0 start. The Commodores will look to get back on track Saturday against either Texas or Oklahoma.
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Graham Baakko is a writer for Vanderbilt Commodores On SI, primarily covering football, basketball and baseball. Graham is a recent graduate from the University of Alabama, where he wrote for The Crimson White, WVUA-FM, WVUA 23 as he covered a variety of Crimson Tide sports. He also covered South Carolina athletics as a sportswriting intern for GamecockCentral.
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