Sooner Women's Tennis Host DH: Friday Jan 12th @ 11 AM and 3 PM

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The Oklahoma Sooners Women's Tennis Team opens the spring slate of matches on Friday, January 12th, with a doubleheader against Wichita State at 11 AM and then against Wyoming at 3 PM. The matches will be indoors at the Headington Tennis Center on the west side of the LNC parking area.

The Sooners were very successful in the 2023 spring schedule and then again in the fall schedule. They usually had 7 players on the courts competing for the Sooners in the fall. Those players are:

Senior Dana Guzman and junior Emma Staker who both played singles and doubles along with sophomores Julia Garcia Ruiz and Romana Cisovska who also usually played singles and doubles. New Sooners via the transfer portal were Florencia Urrutia (Kentucky) playing singles and doubles, Ava Catanzarite (UCLA) and Alina Shcherbinina (Baylor) who both played doubles and sometimes singles.

Newcomers Roisin Gilheany, from Australia, and Chloé Noël, who arrives from France, also join the Sooners this spring. as new players.

It will be interesting to see who takes the courts and in what order for the first two matches this spring.

If you go out to Headington, tomorrow, dress warm and park close to the the facility.

Here is the Sooner staff wrtiers article about the opening DH for the Sooner Women.

https://soonersports.com/news/2024/1/11 ... pen-season

Good luck to the ladies tomorrow.

Boomer Sooner!

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MAtch against Wichita State Updates:

OU won the Doubles Point with two wins and were leading in the 3rd match when time ran out.

In singles, the Sooners won five of six 1st sets. Garcia Ruiz has won her match 6-1, 6-1. The other five are in their second set.

Guzman just won her match, 6-1, 6-2. OU leads 3-0 the the Double Point and the first two singles matches.

Shcherbinina and Noel is ahead and Urrutia and Catanzarite are splitting their first two sets at present.

Shcherbinina won her match 6-2, 6-3

OU leads 4-0.

It looks like the Final was 6-1 for the Sooners.

Noel: Won 6-4, 6-4. ( I think this is the correct score. It might have been 5-4 in the 2nd with time running out.)
Urrutia: 6-1, 2-6 (10-8) - Split two sets and won the TB.
Catanzarite: 6-7 (8-10), 6-2 (8-10) - Split two sets and lost the TB

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Sooners win the Double point against Wyoming.

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Here is the Single lineup against Wyoming.

Nice to see Cisovska, Gilheany and Straker play in the second match of the day.

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The Sooners secures their second match win of the day.

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The Oklahoma Sooner Women's Team won both of their matches yesterday against Wichita State and Wyoming by the team score of 6-1. The Sooners sent 9 different players to the court in the two very successful matches. Here is the Sooner staff writers articel about the DH win for the Sooner Women.

https://soonersports.com/news/2024/1/12 ... 024-season

The Sooners have a very deep team in 2023 and have several choices to send to the courts each match. Guzman won 4 matches yesterday for the Sooners. 5 other Sooners won 3 matches (Shcherbinina, Urrutia, Noël, Garcia Ruiz and Gilheany). Cisovska won 2 matches for the Sooners while Straker won one match and Catanzarite lost her only match.

Here are the Wichita State results:

#13 Oklahoma 6, Wichita State 1
Singles
1. Alina Shcherbinina (OU) def. Xin Tong Wang (WS) 6-2, 6-3
2. Florencia Urrutia (OU) def. Natsumi Kurahasi (WS) 6-1, 2-6, 10-8
3. Chloe Noël (OU) def. Kristina Kudryavtsev (WS) 6-4, 6-4
4. Dana Guzman (OU) def. Jessica Anzo (WS) 6-1, 6-2
5. Theodora Chantava (WS) def. Ava Catanzarite (OU) 7-6, 2-6, 10-8
6. Julia Garcia Ruiz (OU) def. Anne Knuettel (WS) 6-1, 6-1

Doubles
1. Alina Shcherbinina/Dana Guzman (OU) def. Xin Tong Wang/Natsumi Kurahasi (WS) 6-0
2. Chloe Noël/Julia Garcia Ruiz (OU) def. Kristina Kudryavtsev/Jessica Anzo (WS) 6-3
3. Roisin Gilheany/Florencia Urrutia (OU) def. Giorgia Roselli/Theodora Chantava (WS) 5-3

#13 Oklahoma 6, #69 Wyoming 1
Singles
1. Florencia Urrutia (OU) def. Sohpie Zehender (WYO) 6-2, 6-2
2. Violetta Borodina (WYO) def. Chloé Noël (OU) 4-6, 6-1, 10-7
3. Dana Guzman (OU) def. Noesjka Brink (WYO) 6-1, 6-2
4. Romana Cisovska (OU) def. Nikol Dobrilova (WYO) 6-1, 6-2
5. Roisin Gilheany (OU) def. Jeselle Ante (WYO) 6-7, 5-7, 10-1
6. Emma Staker (OU) def. Lucia Malinak (WYO) 6-1, 6-1

Doubles
1. Alina Shcherbinina/Dana Guzman (OU) def. Sohpie Zehender/Violetta Borodina (WYO) 5-3
2. Chloé Noël/Julia Garcia Ruiz (OU) def. Noesjka Brink/Nikol Dobrilova (WYO) 6-2
3. Romana Cisovska/Roisin Gilheany (OU) def. Lucia Malinak/Serina Abriola (WYO) 6-0

Boomer Sooner!