DALLAS – UAB and North Texas both won on the first day of competition at the 2024 American Athletic Conference Women’s Tennis Championship Thursday at the Syslinger/Altec Tennis Complex.

North Texas defeated East Carolina, 4-1, before UAB took down Temple, 4-2, in first-round action. Both teams move on to the second round, which will see the No. 5 through No. 10 seeds play their tournament openers.

Complete coverage of The American Tennis Championships, including live scoring of each match, can be found on the conference’s Championship Central site. Live coverage of the final will be available on ESPN+.
 

North Texas 4, East Carolina 1
Records: North Texas (9-12), East Carolina (11-8)

Lily Schultz won a three-set battle at No. 6 singles to give No. 12 seed North Texas a 4-1 victory over No. 13 East Carolina Wednesday morning in its first American Athletic Conference Championship match.

North Texas captured the doubles point, capped by a 7-5 win at No. 3 by Lou Chalard and Marina Adafi, who defeated East Carolina’s Kim Auerswald and Anne Lou Champion.

Stadfany Nformi and Carolina Laydner pushed the Mean Green lead to 3-0 with straight-set victories over Auerswald (6-4, 6-3) and Kexuan Zhou (6-3, 6-4), respectively.

ECU’s Ines Bachir defeated Olivia Malm, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 at No. 1 singles before Schulz finished the match with a 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 win over Joan Madi at No. 6.

North Texas advances to face No. 5 seed South Florida on Thursday, April 18 at 1 p.m. ET/noon CT.

UAB 4, Temple 2
Records: UAB (13-10), Temple (9-8)

Adela Wasserbauerova came from behind to win a three-set match at No. 1 singles to clinch UAB’s first victory at the American Athletic Conference Championship with a 4-2 win over Temple.

UAB won a hotly-contested doubles point as the final two matches went to simultaneous tiebreakers. Klara Kajabova and Maggie White clinched the point for the Blazers, claiming the tiebreaker, 7-4, over Temple’s Thamara Frasser Kawaratani and Marianthi Christoforidou.

Kajabova was the first to finish singles, earning a 6-4, 6-0 win over Temple’s Sena Takebe at No. 2 singles. The Owls came back and won at No. 3 and No. 4 singles within a minute of each other, with Maiko Uchijima defeating Mackenzie White, 6-2, 7-6 (3) and Jessie Zheng being victorious over Sydney Clark, 6-3, 7-5.

UAB’s Annalisa Smith won a three-set match over Temple’s Mari Christoforidou, 6-2, 2-6, 6-2, to set up Wasserbauerova’s win over Frasser Kawaratani, 3-6, 6-2, 6-4, to clinch the match for UAB.

UAB advances to play No. 6 seed Florida Atlantic on Thursday, April 18 at 7 p.m. ET/6 p.m. CT.