The #18 Oklahoma Sooners defeated the #36 Baylor Bears 4-0 in the second round of action in the Big 12 Women's Tennis Tournament on Thursday. It was the second straight 4-0 win for the Sooners in the tournament.
As they usually do, the Sooners won the Doubles point as the Sooners won on Court 2 and Court 3 and were leading on Court 1 when the Doubles were halted. On the 2nd court, Garcia Ruiz and Safarova for Oklahoma won 6-1. On the 3rd court, Noel and Shcherbinina won 6-2 to give the Sooners the Doubles point. On the 1st court, Guzman and Gilheany was leading 5-3 when OU won the point.
In singles, the Sooners needed 3 wins and got them quickly. Alina Shcherbinina won her singles match at #3 in two sets, 6-1, 6-1. Emma Straker, at #6, won 6-2, 6-0 to bring the Sooners to within on point of the win. Guzman provided that point with her 6-1, 6-3 win in the #2 match. That was the match with Oklahoma winning 4-0.
When the match was won by OU, the three remaining singles matches all had leads in their matches. Garcia Ruiz was leading 6-4, 3-1 in the #1 match. Urrutia, playing #4 singles, was leading 6-4, 2-4. Noel was in the 3rd set in the #5 match, 6-1, 3-6 and 2-1.
In other action at the Big 12, Texas defeated Kansas State 4-0. Oklahoma will play Texas in the semifinals today (Friday) at 6 PM. On the other side of the bracket, Oklahoma State won 4-1 over UCF while Texas Tech won 4-0 over BYU. Oklahoma State and Texas Tech will play today in their half of the semifinals (Friday) at 6 PM also. The two winners will play for the Big 12 Championship on Saturday at 6 PM.
Here is the Sooner staff writers article about the Sooners win.
https://soonersports.com/news/2024/4/18 ... semifinals
In action earlier this year, Texas defeated OU 4-3 in a very close match. Good luck to day to the Women and as they try to turn the match on Texas.
Here are the full results from the win over Baylor.
#18 Oklahoma 4, #36 Baylor 0
Doubles
1.
#20 Dana Guzman and Roisin Gilheany (OU) vs. Miska Kadleckova and Danielle Tuhten (BAYL) 5-3, unfinished
2.
#48 Julia Garcia and Zdena Safarova (OU) def. Zuzanna Frankowska and Liubov Kostenko (BAYL) 6-1
3.
Alina Shcherbinina and Chloe Noel (OU) def. Sierra Berry and Isabella Harvison (BAYL) 6-2
Singles
1.
#31 Julia Garcia Ruiz (OU) vs. #117 Miska Kadleckova (BAYL) 6-4, 3-1, unfinished
2.
#43 Dana Guzman (OU) def. Isabella Harvison (BAYL) 6-1, 6-3
3.
#115 Alina Shcherbinina (OU) def. Liubov Kostenko (BAYL) 6-1, 6-1
4.
#60 Florencia Urrutia (OU) vs. Zuzanna Kubacha (BAYL) 6-4, 2-4, unfinished
5.
Chloe Noel (OU) vs. Sierra Berry (BAYL) 6-1 3-6 2-1, unfinished
6.
Emma Staker (OU) def. Danielle Tuhten (BAYL) 6-2, 6-0
Order of finish: Doubles (2,3); Singles (3,6,2)
Boomer Sooner!