Sooner Women Tennis HOST 1st Round Regionals May 5th and 6th !

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The 13th seeded Oklahoma Women's Tennis Team will host the 1st Two Round of the NCAA Women's Tourney started on May 5th and May 6th. The play will be at the Outdoor portion of the Headington Family Tennis Center that is located just to the west of the Lloyd Noble Center.

The play on Friday, May 5th, starts at Noon with Arkansas (12-11) playing Washington (17-5). Oklahoma (20-9) will play Hawaii (14-7) at 3 PM.

The two winners of the Friday matches will play at 1 PM on Saturday.

Here is the staff writers article about the Regional action.

https://soonersports.com/news/2023/5/1/ ... tournament

The Singles and Doubles selections and brackets will be released May 2nd.

Congratulations to the Sooner Women on hosting their regional. Good luck to the team and individuals during the weekend.

Boomer Sooner!

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The Oklahoma Women's Tennis Team swept thru the Hawaii team on Friday afternoon 4-0. Once again, the Sooners won the Doubles point as they Sooners won 17 out of 20 games played. After a Hawaii withdrawal in the #1 Singles gave the Sooners a 2-0 lead, two quick wins ended the match at 4-0. OU was leading in every singles match when play was stopped.

Here is the staff writers article about the win.

https://soonersports.com/news/2023/5/5/ ... cond-round

Congrats to the Sooners on their first round win. Today the Sooners will face #21 Washington in the Regional Finals at 1 PM at the Headington Family Tennis Center.

Good luck today to the Sooners!

Boomer Sooner!

#13 OU 4, Hawaii 0

Doubles competition
1. #5 Carmen Corley/Ivana Corley (OU) def. Nikola Homolkova/Ana Vilcek (UH) 6-1
2. #63 Alexandra Pisareva/Layne Sleeth (OU) vs. Satsuki Takamura/Madison Kim (UH) 5-1, unfinished
3. Julia Garcia Ruiz/Dana Guzman (OU) def. Anna Kern/Alexis Merrill (UH) 6-1

Singles competition
1. #50 Layne Sleeth (OU) def. Ana Vilcek (UH) 5-1, retired
2. #78 Dana Guzman (OU) vs. Nikola Homolkova (UH) 6-1, 3-2, unfinished
3. #110 Carmen Corley (OU) vs. Satsuki Takamura (UH) 6-3, 3-1, unfinished
4. Alexandra Pisareva (OU) def. Rita Pinto (UH) 6-0, 6-1
5. Julia Garcia Ruiz (OU) def. Madison Kim (UH) 6-0, 6-0
6. Emma Staker (OU) vs. Anna Kern (UH) 6-4, 3-1, unfinished

Match Notes:
Order of finish: Doubles (3,1); Singles (1,5,4)

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The #13 ranked Oklahoma Sooners Women's Tennis team defeated the #21 Washington Huskies on Saturday 4-1 to advance to the Super Regionals. It is the second year in-a-row for the Sooner Women to advance to the Supers.

Once agains the Sooners won the Double Point behind their very strong doubles teams. The #2 and #3 teams won their matches to win the Doubles Point. In the Singles that followed, Oklahoma won 3 of the first four matches to win the Regional Finals.

Here is the staff writers article about the Regional Finals win.

https://soonersports.com/news/2023/5/6/ ... o-sweet-16

The Sooners advance to play the #4 ranked Georgia Bulldogs probably in Athens but I am not sure about that. The match in on Friday, the 12th at 4 PM according to the NCAA bracket.

Here are the match-by-match details of the Regional Finals:

#13 Oklahoma 4, #21 Washington 1

Doubles

1. #5 Carmen Corley/Ivana Corley (OU) vs. #72 Hikaru Sato/Erika Matsuda (WASH) 6-5, unfinished

2. #63 Layne Sleeth/Alexandra Pisareva (OU) def. Astrid Olsen/Jennifer Kerr (WASH) 6-1

3. Julia Garcia Ruiz/Dana Guzman (OU) def. Sarah-Maude Fortin/Zehra Suko (WASH) 6-4

Singles

1. #50 Layne Sleeth (OU) def. #109 Hikaru Sato (WASH) 6-4, 6-1

2. #78 Dana Guzman (OU) def. Sarah-Maude Fortin (WASH) 6-2, 6-2

3. #110 Carmen Corley (OU) vs. Astrid Olsen (WASH) 3-6, 6-3, 1-0, unfinished

4. Jennifer Kerr (WASH) def. Alexandra Pisareva (OU) 6-3, 6-3

5. Julia Garcia Ruiz (OU) def. Erika Matsuda (WASH) 6-1, 6-2

6. Emma Staker (OU) vs. Melissa Sakar (WASH) 7-5, 3-2, unfinished

Order of finish: Doubles (2,3); Singles (5,4,2,1)