Oklahoma Men's Tennis at Big 12 Tourney on Friday vs Tech @ Noon

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The No. 9 Oklahoma men's tennis team is set to compete in the 2024 Big 12 Men's Tennis Championship at the Michael and Anne Greenwood Tennis Center at the Oklahoma State campus beginning this Friday, April 19. The No. 2 seeded Sooners face the No. 7 seed Texas Tech in the opening round at 12 p.m.

Friday's matchup between the Sooners and the Red Raiders will be their second meeting of the season. OU swept (7-0) Texas Tech in Lubbock on Thursday, March 21, marking their first conference win of the season.

Here is the Sooner staff writers article about the first round match between OU and TTU.

https://soonersports.com/news/2024/4/16 ... ampionship

Good luck to the Men's Team in Stillwater this weekend.

Boomer Sooner!

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The #9 ranked and #2 seed Oklahoma Men's Tennis Team won their opening match of the Big 12 Tourney over Texas Tech, 4-0 on Friday. The Sooners will now play TCU in the Semi-Finals at 3 PM at the Greenwood Family Tennis Center. The Sooners defeated TCU earlier in the season, 4-3, in Norman.

In the match on Friday, the Sooners won the Doubles Point as the #3 Sooner duo of Harazaki/Trondson won their match 6-1. In the #2 doubles match the Sooner duo of Montsi/Alvarez won their match 7-5. In the top match, the Sooner duo of Anselmo/Martinez were tied at 5-5 when play in doubles was stopped due to the Sooner win.

In the Singles matches, the Sooners won the first set of all six matches. Alvarez, Mandlik and Monsti won their matches in two sets in that order. Luis Alvarez (#4 match) won his match 6-0, 6-1 for the 2nd Sooner point. Mark Mandlik (#6 match) won his match 6-2, 6-2 for the 3rd point. Then Kholo Montsi won his match 7-6(3), 6-0 to win the match for the Sooners 4th point.

The other three matches were suspended at that point with OU still leading in all three matches.

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

https://soonersports.com/news/2024/4/19 ... -semifinal

The Sooners will face TCU today at 3 PM in the Semi's. Good luck to the Sooner Men.

Boomer Sooner!

Here is the full results of the match.

#9 Oklahoma 4, Texas Tech 0

Doubles competition
1. #53 Baptiste Anselmo/Alex Martinez (OU) vs. #39 Sebastian Abboud/Piotr Pawlak 5-5, unfinished
2. Kholo Montsi/Luis Alvarez (OU) def. Reed Collier/Takeyasu Sekiguchi 7-5
3. Asahi Harazaki/Hank Trondson (OU) def. Olle Wallin/Niska Arsic 6-1

Singles competition
1. #7 Alex Martinez (OU) vs. #48 Olle Wallin (TTU) 7-6(6), 2-3, unfinished
2. #64 Kholo Montsi (OU) def. #86 Reed Collier (TTU) 7-6(3), 6-0
3. Jordan Hasson (OU) vs. #83 Lorenzo Esquici (TTU) 6-3, 0-6, 3-0, unfinished
4. Luis Alvarez (OU) def. Niska Arsic (TTU) 6-0, 6-1
5. Justin Schlageter (OU) vs. Piotr Pawlak (TTU) 6-3, 4-4, unfinished
6. Mark Mandlik (OU) def. Sebastian Abboud (TTU) 6-2, 6-2

Match Notes:
Texas Tech 9-15; Oklahoma 19-3, National ranking #9
Order of finish: Doubles (3,2); Singles (4,6,2)

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The #9 ranked Oklahoma Sooners and #2 seed in the Big 12 Tourney faced the #3 ranked TCU Horned Frogs and the #3 seed in the Tourney on Saturday in the Semi-Finals. Oklahoma had defeated TCU in Norman earlier this season 4-3 as TCU won the Doubles Point but OU won 4 singles matches to win the match.

On Saturday, once again TCU won the Doubles Point as the #1 and #3 teams for TCU won their sets as Montsi/Alvarez for Oklahoma won their match 6-3. Needed those same 4 points jin Singles fell a bit short as only Justin Schlageter won 7-6 (6), 6-2 in the #5 spot just as he did in the earlier match. But TCU won the #3, #2 and #6 matches to win the match 4-1. Oklahoma's Alex Martinez #1 and Luis Alvarez #4 were both on serve in the 3rd set when play was suspended due to the TCU win.

Here is the Sooner staff writers article about the tough high-level match with TCU.

https://soonersports.com/news/2024/4/20 ... semifinals

The Sooners will now await the NCAA selection for the tourney as they should definitely be in the tourney and may even get a regional host assignment.

Boomer Sooner!

Here is the full scoring of the match:

#3 TCU 4, #9 Oklahoma 1

Doubles competition
1. Jake Fearnley/Pedro Vives (TCU) def. #53 Baptiste Anselmo/Alex Martinez (OU) 6-2
2. Kholo Montsi/Luis Alvarez (OU) def. #87 Duncan Chan/Lui Maxted 6-3
3. Jack Pinnington/Kai Quirijns (TCU) def. Asahi Harazaki/Hank Trondson (OU) 6-4

Singles competition
1. #7 Alex Martinez (OU) vs. #10 Jack Pinnington (TCU) 6-3, 2-6, 4-3, unfinished
2. #8 Jake Fearnley (TCU) def. #64 Kholo Montsi (OU) 6-3, 6-3
3. #55 Pedro Vives (TCU) def. Jordan Hasson (OU) 6-2, 6-3
4. Luis Alvarez (OU) vs. #72 Lui Maxted (TCU) 4-6, 6-3, 4-3
5. Justin Schlageter (OU) def. Duncan Chan (TCU) 7-6(6), 6-2
6. Tomas Jirousek (TCU) def. Mark Mandlik (OU) 6-1, 2-6, 6-4

Match Notes:
TCU 22-3, National ranking #3; Oklahoma 20-3, National ranking #9
Order of finish: Doubles (1,2,3); Singles (3,2,5,6)