Texas has got to be sick of losing to Georgia by now, no?

Here’s the details:

The top-ranked and fourth-seeded Georgia women’s tennis team (18-4, 12-3 SEC) defeated No. 8 Texas (17-7, 11-4 SEC) 4-2 on Friday in the SEC Tournament quarterfinals at the Headington Family Tennis Center, snapping a three-match skid against the Longhorns.

Fast Facts

• The Bulldogs have now advanced to their seventh-consecutive SEC Tournament semifinal dating back to the 2019 season (2020 SEC Tournament cancelled due to COVID-19).
• Georgia now leads the all-time series 15-6 against Texas.
• Georgia opened the match in doubles play, where Texas edged out the point with wins on courts one and three to take an early 1-0 lead.
• The Bulldogs found success on court two, as the No. 3 duo of Deniz Dilek and Aysegul Mert earned a 6-3 victory over Carmen Herea and Mathilde Ngijol-Carre, marking their fifth straight doubles win.
• Texas clinched the doubles point with a tiebreak win on court three, 7-6(1) over Georgia’s Emma Dong and Hayden Mulberry.
• No. 86 Sofia Rojas put Georgia on the board first with a dominant 6-3, 6-1 victory over Mathilde Ngijol-Carré.
• Paukstyte followed with a 6-3, 6-2 win against Kate Mansfield, marking her third consecutive singles victory and giving Georgia a second point in the early stages of singles play.
• No. 20 Lopata battled back after dropping the second set to defeat No. 3 Herea, 6-2, 1-6, 6-1, clinching a key three-set victory at the top spot and extending her singles win streak to three matches.
• No. 8 Mert secured a straight-set win over No. 6 Abbagnato, 6-4, 7-6(6), winning a tightly contested tiebreak in the second set to push her singles win streak to four matches.

Go Dawgs!