Sooner Men's Tennis Team Hosts 3 Ranked Teams this Week Tu,Fr,Sa

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The #22-ranked Oklahoma Men's Tennis team is prepped to host three ranked matchups this week. The Sooners host No. 10 Texas A&M (SEC) on Tuesday, April 2 at 6 p.m., followed by No. 27 Baylor (Big 12) on Friday, April 5 at 6 p.m. and No. 4 Texas (Big 12) on Sunday, April 7 at 1 p.m. It is a big week for the Sooners. The Sooners have won 9 matches in a row and have not lost since Feb 11th when they lost to #22 ranked Florida State at that time in Tallahassee.

There are live stats and live video links in the article below written by the Sooner staff writers about the tough week ahead for the Sooner men.

https://soonersports.com/news/2024/4/1/ ... d-matchups

The Sooners are currently tied with Texas for 1st Place in the Big 12 Conference. After playing against Baylor and Texas this week, the Sooners will host Oklahoma State the following week. Oklahoma has already defeated TCU, UCF, BYU and Texas Tech.

Team ------------BIG 12 - OVERALL RECORD
Oklahoma ----- 4-0 - 16-2 - Ranked #22
Texas ----------- 4-0 - 16-3 - Ranked #4
TCU -------------- 2-2 - 16-3 - Ranked #3
UCF -------------- 2-2 - 16-3 - Ranked #29
Oklahoma State -- 2-2 - 15-6 - Ranked #26
Baylor --------- 2-2 - 17-7 - Ranked #27
BYU -------------- 0-4 - 11-7
Texas Tech ---- 0-4 - 7-11

Good luck to the Sooners this week in three tough matches at home. Hopefully good crowds show up for each match.

Boomer Sooner!

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This is a day late, but the Sooner Men's Tennis Team won their match on Tuesday over Texas A&M at Headington Family Tennis Center. The Sooners won their match with the Aggies 5-2. After I posted the original article on Tuesday morning, I guess this week's ITA Tennis Rating were released. In those rankings, the Sooners had moved up to #11 and A&M had moved up to #8. The Sooner win over A&M was a good win by the Sooners.

OU won the Doubles points with wins at #2 and #3. Match #1 was unfinished. Then in the singles play, The Sooners and A&M split the first four matches to be completed to make the score 3-2 in favor of Oklahoma. OU won matches #1 and #2 while A&M won matches #6 and #3. The Sooners won the last two remaining matches at #4 and #5 to created the final 5-2 score with Oklahoma on top.

Here is the article by Sooner staff writers about the win over A&M.

https://soonersports.com/news/2024/4/2/ ... 8-texas-am

Congrats to the Sooners on their excellent win.

The Sooners are back in action on Friday and Sunday at Headington Family Tennis Series as the Sooners play #31 Baylor on Friday, April 5 at 6 p.m. in the final Friday Night Lights match of the season. OU then faces #5 Texas at home the following Sunday, April 7 at 1 p.m.

Oklahoma currently is in a 1st place Tie with Texas with 4-0 records. On Friday Texas plays at #31 OSU. Baylor and OSU are both 2-2 in big 12 play this season. Sunday's match could be a very important match for the Sooners as they play for 1st place.

Boomer Sooner!

Here are the full results from the match.

#11 Oklahoma 5, #8 Texas A&M 2

Doubles competition
1. #18 Giulio Perego/Togan Tokac (TAMU) vs. #68 Baptiste Anselmo/Alex Martinez (OU) 4-4, unfinished
2. Kholo Montsi/Luis Alvarez (OU) def. Lathan Skrobareck/JC Roddick (TAMU) 6-2
3. Asahi Harazaki/Hank Trondson (OU) def. Raphael Perot/Tiago Pires (TAMU) 5-2

Singles competition
1. #16 Alex Martinez (OU) def. #26 Raphael Perot (TAMU) 6-2, 7-5
2. Kholo Montsi (OU) def. #30 JC Roddick (TAMU) 7-5, 6-2
3. Togan Tokac (TAMU) def. Jordan Hasson (OU) 7-6 (9-7), 6-4
4. Luis Alvarez (OU) def. Giulio Perego (TAMU) 6-4, 4-6, 6-2
5. Justin Schlageter (OU) def. Tiago Pires (TAMU) 0-6, 7-6 (10-8), 7-6 (7-4)
6. Luke Casper (TAMU) def. Mark Mandlik (OU) 6-1, 6-2

Match Notes:
Texas A&M 18-5; National ranking #8
Oklahoma 16-2; National ranking #11
Order of finish: Doubles (2,3); Singles (6,1,2,3,4,5)

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The No. 11 Oklahoma men's tennis picked up another win at home over the No. 31 Baylor Bears to improve to 5-0 in conference play.

The Sooners won the Doubles Point with wins at the #2 and #3 spots in the lineup. In the Singles the Sooners won the #2, #4 and #3 matches in 2 sets to win the match for Oklahoma.

Here is the Sooner staff writers article about the Sooners 5th win in Conference play against 0 defeats.

https://soonersports.com/news/2024/4/5/ ... eep-baylor

The No. 11 Sooners face No. 5 Texas on Sunday, April 7 at 1 p.m. at the Headington Family Tennis Center.

Here are the full results from the win over Baylor.

#11 Oklahoma 4, #31 Baylor 0

Doubles competition
1. #29 Tadeas Paroulek/Zsombor Velcz (BU) vs. #68 Baptiste Anselmo/Alex Martinez (OU) no result
2. Kholo Montsi/Luis Alvarez (OU) def. Luc Koenig/Devin Badenhorst (BU) 6-4
3. Asahi Harazaki/Hank Trondson (OU) def. Christopher Frantzen/Oskar Brostrom (BU) 6-3

Singles competition
1. #20 Alex Martinez (OU) vs. #68 Tadeas Paroulek (BU) 4-6, 5-4, unfinished
2. Kholo Montsi (OU) def. #88 Zsombor Velcz (BU) 6-2, 6-4
3. Jordan Hasson (OU) def. #99 Devin Badenhorst (BU) 7-6 (7-4), 6-4
4. Luis Alvarez (OU) def. Luc Koenig (BU) 6-4, 6-1
5. Justin Schlageter (OU) vs. Louis Bowden (BU) 6-4, 5-5, unfinished
6. Mark Mandlik (OU) vs. Oskar Brostrom (BU) 3-6, 6-4, 0-3, unfinished

Match Notes:
Baylor 18-7; National ranking #31
Oklahoma 17-2; National ranking #11
Order of finish: Doubles (3,2); Singles (2,4,3)
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The #11 ranked Oklahoma Sooners Men's Tennis Team played a big match on Sunday at Headington Family Tennis Center against #5 ranked Texas for the top spot in the Big 12 Tennis Standings. Both teams were 5-0 in conference play.

Texas opened the match by winning the Doubles Point with wins in the #3 match and the #1 match. The #2 match was unfinished.

Texas then won the first two Singles matches at the #3 and #5 spots to take a 3-0 lead in the match. OU's Mark Mandlik then won his match at the #6 spot in two sets 6-3, 6-3. Texas followed with a win at the #2 spot to win the overall match 4-1 with two matches unfinished.

Here is the Sooner staff wrtiers article about the match.

https://soonersports.com/news/2024/4/7/ ... no-5-texas

The Sooners (5-1) will play their final Big 12 match on Saturday at 1 PM against Oklahoma State (3-3) at Headington Family Tennis Center. Texas (6-0) will play Baylor (2-4) at 4 PM in Waco on Saturday as well. TCU and UCF also play on Saturday with both teams holding a 4-2 conference record.

Here is the full results from the Texas Match.

#5 Texas 4, #11 Oklahoma 1

Doubles competition
1. #62 Eliot Spizzirri/Siem Woldeab (UT) def. #68 Alex Martinez/Baptiste Anselmo (OU) 6-4
2. Kholo Montsi/Luis Alvarez (OU) vs. Pierre-Yves Bailly/Eshan Talluri (UT) 4-5, unfinished
3. Micah Braswell/Cleeve Harper (UT) def. Asahi Harazaki/Hank Trondson (OU) 6-0

Singles competition
1. #16 Alex Martinez (OU) vs. #1 Eliot Spizzirri (UT) 6-7 (3-7), 0-3, unfinished
2. #3 Micah Braswell (UT) def. Kholo Montsi (OU) 6-3, 6-4
3. #40 Gilles-Arnaud Bailly (UT) def. Jordan Hasson (OU) 6-2, 6-1
4. Luis Alvarez (OU) vs. #79 Pierre-Yves Bailly (UT) 6-7 (1-7), 2-1, unfinished
5. Cleeve Harper (UT) def. Justin Schlageter (OU) 6-3, 6-4
6. Mark Mandlik (OU) def. Lucas Brown (UT) 6-3, 6-3

Match Notes:
Texas 17-3; National ranking #5
Oklahoma 18-2; National ranking #11
Order of finish: Doubles (3); Singles (3,5,6,2)