NORMAN\u00a0\u2013 The No.\u00a06 Oklahoma\u00a0women’s tennis team\u00a0punched its ticket\u00a0to\u00a0the ITA National Indoor Championships with a\u00a04-1\u00a0victory\u00a0over\u00a0No. 9 Stanford\u00a0on\u00a0Sunday\u00a0at\u00a0Headington Family Tennis Center.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0berth\u00a0marks the Sooners’ fourth appearance\u00a0at\u00a0ITA National Indoors,\u00a0which will be hosted by Illinois and Northwestern from Feb. 6-9.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Sooners\u00a0took the early advantage, winning the first match on court three behind a 6-2\u00a0showing\u00a0by\u00a0Laura Brunkel<\/a> and Gloriana Nahum<\/a>\u00a0over\u00a0Stanford’s\u00a0Sein Myoung and Emma Sun.\u00a0The win improved the duo to 3-0 together to start the season.\u00a0Moments later, Roisin Gilheany<\/a> and\u00a0Evialina Laskevich<\/a>\u00a0clinched\u00a0the doubles point with a 6-2\u00a0victory over\u00a0Caroline Driscoll\u00a0and Monika Ekstrand at the No. 1 spot.\u00a0The doubles point marked OU’s sixth straight to open the spring.<\/p>\n When play stopped, Julia Garcia Ruiz<\/a> and\u00a0Salakthip Ounmuang<\/a>\u00a0held a commanding 5-2 lead over Alyssa Ahn and\u00a0Tianmei\u00a0Wang\u00a0on court two.<\/p>\n Taking\u00a0a 1-0\u00a0lead\u00a0into singles, Nahum extended OU’s lead with a 6-1, 6-1 straight set win over Sun at the No. 6 spot. The\u00a0Cotonou, Benin native\u00a0now holds a flawless 7-0 combined record through\u00a0six\u00a0dual\u00a0matches.<\/p>\n At No.\u00a03,\u00a0Chlo\u00e9 No\u00ebl\u00a0kept it going for\u00a0the Sooners\u00a0with a\u00a07-5,\u00a06-1\u00a0victory over\u00a0No. 77 Driscoll\u00a0to earn her first ranked victory of the spring.<\/p>\n Stanford’s lone win of the night came on court one, as\u00a0No. 67 Ekstrand\u00a0defeated\u00a0Laskevich, 6-3, 7-5.<\/p>\n Needing one more point to secure the berth, No. 24 Garcia Ruiz came through\u00a0on court two, defeating No. 18 Alyssa Ahn, 6-3, 6-4,\u00a0to clinch the match and send OU to\u00a0National Indoors.<\/p>\n The Sooners will travel to Illinois\u00a0for the tournament held on Feb. 6-9. The schedule will be released at a later date as regional action\u00a0wraps up\u00a0around the country.<\/p>\n UP NEXT\u00a0<\/p>\n OU\u00a0will\u00a0make\u00a0a quick trip to Tulsa to take on the Golden Hurricane on Jan. 31 before heading\u00a0to\u00a0the Indoor Championships. First serve is schedule for 12 p.m. CT.<\/p>\n RESULTS\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n #6 Oklahoma\u00a04,\u00a0#9 Stanford\u00a01\u00a0<\/p>\n Singles\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Order of finish:\u00a0Doubles (3,1); Singles (6,3,1,2)\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORMAN\u00a0\u2013 The No.\u00a06 Oklahoma\u00a0women’s tennis team\u00a0punched its ticket\u00a0to\u00a0the ITA National Indoor Championships with a\u00a04-1\u00a0victory\u00a0over\u00a0No. 9 Stanford\u00a0on\u00a0Sunday\u00a0at\u00a0Headington Family Tennis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-437758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1.\u00a0No. 67 Monika Ekstrand (STAN) def.\u00a0Evialina Laskevich<\/a>\u00a0(OU)\u00a06-3, 7-5\u00a0
\n2. No. 24 Julia Garcia Ruiz<\/a> (OU)\u00a0def.\u00a0No. 18\u00a0Alyssa\u00a0Ahn\u00a0(STAN)\u00a06-3, 6-4\u00a0
\n3. Chlo\u00e9 No\u00ebl (OU)\u00a0def.\u00a0No. 77 Caroline\u00a0Driscoll\u00a0(STAN)\u00a07-5, 6-1\u00a0
\n4. Edda Mamedova<\/a>\u00a0(OU)\u00a0vs.\u00a0Tianmei\u00a0Wang (STAN)\u00a06-2, 5-5,\u00a0unfinished
\n5.\u00a0Salakthip Ounmuang<\/a><\/a>\u00a0(OU)\u00a0vs. Sein Myoung (STAN)\u00a07-6 (2), 1-0, unfinished\u00a0
\n6. Gloriana Nahum<\/a> (OU) def.\u00a0Emma Sun (STAN)\u00a06-1, 6-1\u00a0
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\nDoubles\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n1. Roisin Gilheany<\/a>\/Evialina Laskevich<\/a>\u00a0(OU)\u00a0def.\u00a0Monika Ekstrand\/Carolina Driscoll\u00a0(STAN)\u00a06-2\u00a0
\n2. Julia Garcia Ruiz<\/a>\/Salakthip Ounmuang<\/a>\u00a0(OU)\u00a0vs.\u00a0Alyssa Ahn\/Tianmei\u00a0Wang\u00a0(STAN)\u00a05-2, unfinished\u00a0
\n3.\u00a0Gloriana Nahum<\/a>\/Laura Brunkel<\/a> (OU) def.\u00a0Emma Sun\/Sein Myoung\u00a0(STAN)\u00a06-2<\/p>\n