Oklahoma Women's Tennis set to host ITA Kickoff Weekend Sat&Sun!

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The Oklahoma Sooner Women's Tennis team will host the ITA Kickoff weekend with four weekend matches. The #16 Oklahoma Sooners will face #23 Central Florida at 10 AM on Saturday, January 27th, at Headington Family Center. On Saturday, the #19 California Bears will face Illinois in the other half of the bracket. The corresponding winners/losers will face each other on Sunday, January 28th. The two teams that are not successful on Saturday will play a consolation contest Sunday at 10 a.m. CT. The two winner from Saturday will play at 2 PM at Headington. The winner of the 2 PM Sunday match punches their ticket to the ITA National Indoor Championships set for Feb. 9-12 in Seattle, Wash.

The Sooners' 2024 matches at the Headington Family Tennis Center will be open to the public and free of charge. Due to the elimination of concessions, fans are encouraged to bring their own food and drinks. Free Rudy's breakfast tacos will be provided to the first 251 fans that attend Saturday's match. Both matches will feature a crimson poms giveaway. Oklahoma also follows a clear bag policy.

Fans can keep up with live stats or watch via Playsight. Cracked Racquets will also be covering the matches on ESPN+.

Here is the Sooner staff wrtiers article about the Sooners matches on Saturday and Sunday.

https://soonersports.com/news/2024/1/26 ... nd-matches

Good luck to the Sooner Women over the weekend.

Boomer Sooner!

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Today's Match begins with doubles as usual. Here are the Sooners doubles sent sent out to face UCF.

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The Sooner Doubles Teams playing #1 and #2 win their matches by the score of 6-4.

Congrats to Shcherbinina-Guzman (#1 team) and to Noel-Garcia Ruiz (#2 team) on winning the Double Point for the Sooners. The match score for the #3 team (Cisovska-Gilheany) was 4-5 in favor of UCF when the doubles point was one. It looks like the #3 match was on-serve at that point.

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The Sooners mix up their singles positions.

Shcherbinina stays at #1, Guzman moves up to #2, Urrutia moves to #3, Garcia Ruiz moves up to #4, Noel moves to #5 and Catanzarite remains as the #6 player.

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The Sooners won the first three singles matches to win 4-0. I believe it was Catanzarite, Noel and Guzman that won their singles matches to end the match.

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Yesterday, I was at the Men's BB Game while the Women's Tennis Match f,aginst UCF finished. I did post that the Sooners won the Double Point with the #1 Team Shcherbinina and Guzman and the #2 Team with Garcia-Ruiz and Noel winning their matches with 6-4 set wins. The #3 Doubles team of Cisovska and Gilheany were probably on serve in their set but trailed 4-5.

In the Singles Matches that concluded while I was at LNC saw the Sooners win the first three singles matches that finished to give the Sooners a sweep of their match with Central Florida. Noel, playing in the #5 spot, picked up the first singles win for the Sooners with a 6-2, 6-1 win (her first match win in singles as a Sooner, I think). Guzman, playing in the #2 spot, won her match next with a 6-1, 6-1 win. Then Catanzarite, in the #6 spot, won her match 7-5, 6-1 to give the Sooners 3 singles wins for the Sooners 4th point to win the match for #16 Oklahoma over #23 Central Florida. The Sooners juggled their order in the singles successfully yesterday with Guzman and Noel both winning playing in new positions for the Sooners.

In the other three singles matches, Shcherbinina won the first set in a tie-breaker with a 1-2 second set score when play ended. Urrutia won her first set also, 6-4, and wa tied at 2-2 in the second set. Garcia-Ruiz dropped her first set 4-6 with the second set tied at 3-3.

The win moved the #16 Sooners into the finals against #19 California today at 2 PM CST. The match will be at the Headington Family Tennis Center on the west side of the LNC parking lot.

Here are the full results of the match yesterday.

#16 Oklahoma 4, #23 UCF 0

Doubles
1. Dana Guzman/Alina Shcherbinina (OU) def. Noel Saidenova/Anique Kattenberg (UCF) 6-4
2. Chloe Noel/Julia Garcia Ruiz (OU) def. Olivia Lincer/Jantje Tilbuerger (UCF) 6-4
3. Romana Cisovska/Roisin Gilheany (OU) vs. Sophia Biolay/Jaleesa Leslie (UCF) 4-5, unfinished

Singles
1. Alina Shcherbinina (OU) vs. Olivia Lincer (UCF) 7-6 (7-5), 1-2, unfinished
2. Dana Guzman (OU) def. Sophia Biolay (UCF) 6-1, 6-1
3. Florencia Urrutia (OU) vs. Jantje Tilbuerger (UCF) 6-4, 2-2, unfinished
4. Julia Garcia Ruiz (OU) vs. Noel Saidenova (UCF) 4-6, 3-3, unfinished
5. Chloe Noel (OU) def. Jaleesa Leslie (UCF) 6-2, 6-1
6. Ava Catanzarite (OU) def. Anique Kattenberg (UCF) 7-5, 6-1

Match Notes: UCF 1-0; National ranking #23 Oklahoma 2-2; National ranking #16

Order of finish: Doubles (2,1); Singles (5,2,6)

Good luck today at 2 PM to the Women's team in the finals.

Boomer Sooner!

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The #16 Oklahoma Sooners attempted to pick up two wins over ranked teams this weekend in the ITA Kickoff Weekend a they defeated #23 UCF on Saturday 4-0. On Sunday they faced #19 California in a 2 PM match at Headington Family Tennis Center.

The match against California went right down to the last few games and points as California won the match 4-3 over the Sooners. Here is the Sooner staff writers article about the Sooners very close tough match on Sunday. California did benefit from a Sooner injury for a default win in one singles match that more-or-less decided the match.

https://soonersports.com/news/2024/1/27 ... ampionship

The Sooners will have a month off before returning to the court on Friday, Feb. 23 to face San Diego at 1 p.m. CT at the Headington Family Tennis Center.

Boomer Sooner!