Oklahoma Men's Tennis @ South Carolina for Saturday Match @ 11AM

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The #18 Oklahoma Sooner Men's Tennis Team is at #25 South Carolina for an SEC Men's Tennis Match at 11 AM on Saturday. The Sooners are 3-3 in SEC play and coming off a loss to at #39 Auburn 3-4 on Thursday. South Carolina is 5-1 coming off a home victory against #29 Arkansas 4-0 on Thursday.

The match today is a key match for OU as they need a victory to split their matches this week. The Sooners need to stay above .500 to be in the top half of the SEC Standings.

Good luck to the Sooners today in Columbia SC.

Boomer Sooner!

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No. 18 Sooners Fall to Gamecocks in Top 25 Matchup

The No. 18 Oklahoma men's tennis team (10-6, 3-4 SEC) dropped a top 25 matchup to the No. 25 South Carolina Gamecocks (12-4, 6-1 SEC) at the Carolina Tennis Center on Saturday afternoon. The final score was 4-1 and 6-1 with extended play.

On Court #4 in the Singles, the only successful Sooner was Luis Alvarez (OU) who defeated Atakan Karahan (SC) in straight sets, 6-4, 6-4.

In the Doubles Play, the Sooners split the first two matches that finished as the Sooners dropped the match on Court #3, 5-7 before winning the match on Court #2 by the inverse score of 7-5. The final match in Doubles determined the point as 3rd match ended in a set tiebreaker at 10-8 going to South Carolina along with the Double Point. Kholo Montsi/Luis Alvarez (OU) defeated Lucas da Silva/Max Stenzer (SC), 7-5.

In the Singles, after dropping the two matches on Court #1 and Court #6 in straight sets, the Sooners pickd up their only point on Alvarez's win on Court #4. The final three singles matches went three sets with South Carolina prevailing in each match.

Here is the post-match article written by the Sooner staff writers.

https://soonersports.com/news/2025/3/15 ... 25-matchup

The score does not really indicate how close the match was for the Sooners, especially in the Double play.

The Sooners return to Norman after three road matches to host Georgia on Friday, March 21, at 6 p.m. CT in the second Friday Night Lights matchup of the season.

Boomer Sooner!

Here are the full results of the match.

#25 South Carolina 6, #18 Oklahoma 1

Doubles competition
1. Jelani Sarr/Atakan Karahan (SC) defeated #39 Oscar Lacides/Bruno Nhavene (OU), 7-6 (10-8 in Tie-Breker)
2. Kholo Montsi/Luis Alvarez (OU) defeated Lucas da Silva/Max Stenzer (SC), 7-5
3. Casey Hoole/Sean Daryabeigi (SC) defeated Alejandro Melero/Asahi Harazaki (OU), 7-5

Singles competition
1. Casey Hoole (SC) defeated #76 Oscar Lacides (OU), 6-4, 6-2
2. Lucas da Silva (SC) defeated Kholo Montsi (OU), 7-5, 2-6, 6-4
3. #79 Sean Daryabeigi (SC) defeated Orel Kimhi (OU), 6-3, 4-6, 6-3
4. Luis Alvarez (OU) defeated Atakan Karahan (SC), 6-4, 6-4
5. Gabe Avram (SC) defeated Jordan Hasson (OU), 3-6, 6-2, 6-2
6. #113 Jelani Sarr (SC) defeated Bruno Nhavene (OU), 6-4, 7-5

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

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Here are the results of the SECMen's Tennis matches from Saturday's play:

#18 Oklahoma 1 - #25 South Carolina 6 -> South Carolina is now 6-1 and Oklahoma drops to 3-4.

#29 Arkansas 1 - #27 Florida 4 -> Florida improves to 4-3 and Arkansas drops to 3-4.

#16 Mississippi State 3 - #30 Georgia 4 -> Georgia moves to 4-2 while MSU drops to 3-4.

#48 Vanderbilt 2 - #33 Kentucky 4 -> Kentucky improves to 4-3 and Vandy drops to 1-6.

LSU 2 - #21 Tennessee 4 -> Tennessee is now 4-3 while LSU drops to 0-7.

#41 Ole Miss 3 - #39 Auburn 4 -> Auburn improves to 4-3 and Ole Miss is now 2-5.

#31 Alabama is at #21 Texas on Sunday at Noon.

Notice that on Saturday, every home team won their match.

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Here is the result of the Sunday match in the SEC Men's Tennis play:

#3 Texas 4 - #31 Alabama 0 - Texas is now 6-0 as Alabama drops to 2-5.