The OU Women's Tennis Team off to Arkansas Sat in 1st SEC Match!

[OUBeliever56A]

The #12 Oklahoma Sooner Women's travels to Fayetteville, AR for a Saturday match agains the Razorbacks set to start at 4 PM CST. OU Women's Tennis fans can keep up with the action through live stats or by watching on PlaySight. Here is the preview article about the 1st SEC Match for the Sooner Women.

https://soonersports.com/news/2025/2/21 ... t-arkansas

Good luck to the Sooners in their first SEC Match of 2025.

Boomer Sooner!

[OUBeliever56A]

The Oklahoma Sooners #12 Women's Tennis Team was successful in their first SEC Match on Saturday as they defeated Arkansas 4-3 in Fayetteville. The Women's Tennis Team became OU's second program to win its SEC conference opener after officially joining the league on July 1, 2024. OU Wpmen's Gymnastics was the first program to win their SC Opener earlier this spring.

The Sooners dropped the Doubles Point to Arkansas as the Razorbacks won the matches on Court #1 and Court #2 with the Sooners "new" team of Julie Garcia Ruiz and Ava Catanzarite winning on Court 3, 6-2. the Sooners shuffled thir doubles team on Court 1 and 3 for the first SEC Match. Chloe Noel played with Alina Shcherbininia on Court #1 in another "new" team. Salakthip Ounmuang and Gloria Nahum continued playing as a duo on Court 2. Cara Mester had been playing all Spring in doubles for the Sooners but was replaced with Ava Catanzarite playing. I wonder if Mester was not available for the match.

With Arkansas winning the Double Point, OU needed to win 4 of the 6 Singles matches to win the Match against Arkansas. Emma Straker continued her strong play this spring playing on Court 4 and won her match 6-1, 6-0. Alina Shcherbininia added a second point for the Sooners on Court #2 as she won 6-1, 6-3. Arkansas won the next match on Court #1 to tie the match at 2-2. Gloria Nahum, on Court #6, posted the 3rd Sooner point as she won 6-3, 6-0. Salakthip Ounmuang nailed down the 4th Sooner point and the win with her 6-1, 6-3 win. With the play continuing on Court #5, Arkansas won the match to produce the final score of 4-3 in favor of the Oklahoma Sooners.

Here is the post-match article written by the OU Athletics Communications group.

https://soonersports.com/news/2025/2/22 ... sec-opener

The Sooners wil travel to Austin to play next Friday against the Longhorns at 2 PM.

Congratulations to the Sooners on their success against Arkansas on Saturday.

Boomer Sooner!

- - - - -

Here is the complete scoring of the match:

#12 Oklahoma 4, #62 Arkansas 3
Doubles
1. Carolina Gomez/Olga Bienzobas (ARK) def. Chloe Noel/Alina Shcherbinina (OU) -> 7-5
2. #78 Grace O'Donnell/Anet Koskel (ARK) def. #53 Salakthip Ounmuang/Gloriana Nahum (OU) -> 6-2
3. Julia Garcia Ruiz/Ava Catanzarite (OU) def. Katarina Pavlechova/Jimena Gomez Alonso (ARK) -> 6-2

Singles
1. #93 Carolina Gomez (ARK) def. #12 Julia Garcia Ruiz (OU) -> 6-1, 6-3
2. #33 Alina Shcherbinina (OU) def. Olga Bienzobas (ARK) -> 6-0, 6-3
3. Salakthip Ounmuang (OU) def. Anet Koskel (ARK) -> 6-1, 6-3
4. #64 Emma Staker (OU) def. Grace O'Donnell (ARK) -> 6-1, 6-0
5. Katarina Pavlechova (ARK) def. #105 Ava Catanzarite (OU) -> 6-2, 6-3
6. Gloriana Nahum (OU) def. Jimena Gomez Alonso (ARK) -> 6-3, 6-0

Order of finish: Doubles (3,2,1); Singles (4,2,1,6,3,5)

[OUBeliever56A]