Sooner Men's Tennis: Opens Big 12 play w 2 Road Matches Thu-Sat

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The Oklahoma Men's Tennis Team (ranked #17) opens their Big 12 play on Thursday in Lubbock in a match with Texas Tech. They then travel to Utah to play BYU in a conference matchup on Saturday. Texas Tech or BYU are not ranked that I can find in the Top 75 teams. Oklahoma is 12-2 this spring. Texas Tech is 7-7 while BYU is 11-3.

The match against Texas Tech on Thursday starts at 5 PM CST. The match against BYU on Saturday starts at 12 PM CST.

Here is the Sooner staff writers article about the Sooner road trip to open Big 12 play.

https://soonersports.com/news/2024/3/20 ... ad-matches

Good luck to the Men's Tennis this season in Big 12 play.

Boomer Sooner!

For a point of reference here are the current records of the 8 Big 12 Men's Tennis Teams with their rankings.
TCU - 14-1 ranked #2
UCF - 14-1 ranked #34
Oklahoma - 12-2 ranked #17
Texas - 12-3 ranked #8
BYU - 11-3 non-ranked
Oklahoma State - 13-4 ranked #25
Baylor - 15-5 ranked #27
Texas Tech - 7-7 non-ranked

Each of the Big 12 teams play two matches this 'weekend'.
TCU plays at Baylor, then Texas on Fri-Sun
UCF plays at Texas, then Baylor on Fri-Sun
Oklahoma plays at Texas Tech, then at BYU on Thu-Sat
Texas hosts UCF, then TCU on Fri-Sun
BYU hosts OSU, then OU on Thu-Sat.
OSU plays at BYU, then Texas Tech on Thu-Sat
Baylor hosts TCU, then UCF on Fri-Sun
Texas Tech hosts OU, then OSU on Thu-Sat

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The Oklahoma Sooner Men's Team opened Big 12 play on Thursday night in Lubbock with a 7-0 win over the Red Raiders. The Sooners won the Doubles point with the #2 and #3 teams winning their single set matches. Then the Sooners pounded the nail into the Texas Tech coffin with six wins in the singles matches with 4 two-straight sets wins and 2 three-set wins. It is a great start to conference play for the Men's Tennis Team. The Sooners now travels to Provo, UT for a match with BYU on Saturday.

Here are the results.

Oklahoma vs. Texas Tech
Official Tennis Dual Match Results (Final)
#17 OU (13-2, 1-0 Big 12) vs Texas Tech (8-9, 0-1 Big 12)
3/21/2024 at Lubbock, Texas -- McLeod Tennis Center

Match Score: OU 7, Texas Tech 0

# DOUBLES DRAWS
1 #41 Sebastian Abboud and Piotr Pawlak (TTU) vs. Baptiste Anselmo and Alex Martinez (OU) - match was unfinished 5-5
2 Jordan Hasson and Mark Mandlik (OU) def. Reed Collier and Takeyasu Sekiguchi (TTU) - 6-2
3 Asahi Harazaki and Hank Trondson (OU) def. Lorenzo Esquici and Olle Wallin (TTU) - 6-3

# SINGLES DRAWS
1 #20 Alex Martinez (OU) def. #56 Olle Wallin (TTU) 6-3 7-6 (7-4)
2 #107 Kholo Montsi (OU) def. Reed Collier (TTU) 7-6 (7-4) 6-3
3 Jordan Hasson (OU) def. Lorenzo Esquici (TTU) 6-3 4-6 7-6 (7-4)
4 Luis Alvarez (OU) def. Niksa Arsic (TTU) 6-1 6-3
5 Justin Schlageter (OU) def. Piotr Pawlak (TTU) 6-4 6-7 (2-7) 1-0 (10-7)
6 Mark Mandlik (OU) def. Takeyasu Sekiguchi (TTU) 6-2 7-5

MATCH NOTES
Order of finish:
Singles -- 4 1 6 2 5 3 ; Doubles -- 2 3
Start Time:5 PM
Attendance:227

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The #17 Oklahoma Men's Tennis Team completed their road sweep of two Big 12 Teams this weekend with a 4-2 win over BYU in Provo, UT. Once again, the Sooners won the Doubles point to open the match. The Sooners #3 team of Hank Trondson & Asahi Harazaki won their match at 6-3 to move OU within one win of the Doubles Point. Then the #1 team of Alex Martinez & Baptiste Anselmo (OK) won their match 6-4 giving Oklahoma the Doubles Point and the 1-0 lead in the match.

In singles, the Sooners won the required 3 singles matches to reach 4 points for the win. At #2 Oklahoma's Kholo Montsi (OK) won in two sets 6-4, 6-4. The Sooner #4 player Luis Alvarez won his match in two sets 6-2, 6-3. At that point the Sooners lead 3-1 over BYU. Oklahoma's #1 Alex Martinez won his match in three sets, 6-3, 2-6, 6-4 to pickup the 4th point for the Sooners and the win over BYU.

Here is the Sooner staff writers article about the Sooner win.

https://soonersports.com/news/2024/3/23 ... n-over-byu

The Sooners are now 2-0 to open conference play as they defeated Texas Tech 4-0 on Thursday in Lubbock. The Sooners are also 14-2 this spring.

The Sooners return to Norman to take on No. 2 TCU at the Headington Family Tennis Center on Thursday, March 28 at 5 p.m. The team is back on the road for a match on Saturday, March 30 against UCF at 5 p.m.

Here are the full results from the match against BYU.

#17 Oklahoma 4, Brigham Young University 2

Doubles competition
1. Alex Martinez/Baptiste Anselmo (OK) def. Zach Fuchs/Wally Thayne (BYU) 6-4
2. Jack Barnett/Redd Owen (BYU) vs. Mark Mandlik/Jordan Hasson (OK) 5-6, unfinished
3. Hank Trondson/Asahi Harazaki (OK) def. Tygen Goldammer/TJ Wells (BYU) 6-3

Singles competition
1. Alex Martinez (OK) def. Jack Barnett (BYU) 6-3, 2-6, 6-4
2. Kholo Montsi (OK) def. Wally Thayne (BYU) 6-4, 6-4
3. Zach Fuchs (BYU) def. Jordan Hasson (OK) 7-5, 6-1
4. Luis Alvarez (OK) def. Redd Owen (BYU) 6-2, 6-3
5. Tygen Goldammer (BYU) def. Justin Schlageter (OK) 1-6, 6-0, 7-5
6. David Duong (BYU) vs. Mark Mandlik (OK) 7-5, 6-7 (6-8), 2-1, unfinished

Match Notes:
Oklahoma 13-2; National ranking #17
Brigham Young University 11-4
Order of finish: Doubles (3,1); Singles (3,2,4,5,1)