INDIAN WELLS, Calif. – The Wichita State women's tennis team roared back to knock off the North Texas Mean Green on Tuesday afternoon 4-2 at The Vintage Club in Indian Wells, California.
 
The Shockers (8-4) have won three straight matches while North Texas (8-8) has lost back-to-back matches in the last two days.
 
Head coach Colin Foster was glad to get the win and was proud of his team's fight in this close match.
 
"It was a nearly four-hour battle. A fantastic match," said Foster. "It was two very evenly matched teams, but we just fought and found a way to win."
 
North Texas became just the second team since February 2 to take the doubles point from the Shockers, doing so with wins at courts one and three. The Shocker duo of Natsumi Kurahashi and Xin Tong Wang improved to 8-2 in doubles this year with a win at court two.
 
In singles, North Texas would strike again, rolling over Kristina Kudryavtseva at court three, 6-4, 6-0 to take a 2-0 lead.
 
Wang would fight back and deliver the first blow for the Shockers with a 7-5, 6-4 win at court two, her seventh win in a row. 
 
Kurahashi would fight off a loss in set one, battling back to win a pair of close sets to take her match 4-6, 7-5, 6-3, and tie the match score at 2-2. 
 
Jessica Anzo would follow a similar path. After losing the first set, 6-2, the Shocker graduate student come back to win a close set two, 7-5, before crushing her opponent in the third set, winning 6-1 and giving the Shockers a 3-2 lead.
 
"I think the team welcomed the challenge of being in another competitive match," said Foster. "We had a few matches earlier in the season like this that didn't go our way and those experiences made us stronger and powered us to the win today."
 
At court four, Theodora Chantava would seal the deal for Wichita State with another three-set victory. The sophomore won the first set 6-4, before dropping the second in a close tiebreak, losing 7-6 (5) to set up a huge third set. It was all Chantava in set three, as she blew by her opponent 6-1 to finish off an important victory for the Shockers. The win was her fifth in a row and she is now 8-1 in dual matches this season.
 
"I'm really proud of our effort and performance today," said Foster. "It's going to be an exciting challenge to recover quickly and get ready for tomorrow's test."
 
The Shockers play #66 Liberty tomorrow at 3:00 PM Central in Palm Springs, California.