URBANA, Ill. \u2013 The\u00a0No. 6\u00a0Oklahoma women’s tennis team (8-0) advanced to the quarterfinals of the 2026 ITA National Team Indoor Championships with a 4-3 win over No. 18 Texas (2-2) on Friday afternoon at Illinois’ Atkins Tennis Center. It marked the fourth time the Sooners have reached the quarterfinals of the National Team Indoors since their first appearance in 2022.<\/p>\n
OU claimed the doubles point to open the match. Texas struck first on court one, as the No. 34 pairing of Anastasia Abbagnato and Ariana Anazagasty-Pursoo defeated Roisin Gilheany<\/a> and Evialina Laskevich<\/a>, 6-2. The Sooners responded on court three, where Laura Brunkel<\/a> and Oyinlomo Quadre<\/a> earned a 6-2 win over Carmen Herea and Elizabeth Ionescu. Julia Garcia Ruiz<\/a> and Salakthip Ounmuang<\/a> clinched the doubles point on court two with a 6-2 victory against Christasha McNeil and Salma Drugova, improving to 6-0 together this spring.<\/p>\n Carrying a 1-0 advantage into singles, freshman Edda Mamedova<\/a> kept the momentum rolling with a dominant 6-0, 6-0 win over Eszter Meri on court four.<\/p>\n Texas answered with three consecutive singles victories on the top three courts to take a 3-2 lead. On court one, No. 2 Herea edged Laskevich, 0-6, 6-4, 6-3. No. 63 Abbagnato followed with a win over No. 12 Garcia Ruiz at the No. 2 spot, while McNeil topped Chlo\u00e9 No\u00ebl on court three, 2-6, 6-1, 6-4.<\/p>\n Facing elimination, the Sooners responded on the final two courts. Ounmuang outlasted Anazagasty-Pursoo in a three-set battle on court five, 7-6 (5), 3-6, 6-0. Moments later, Brunkel delivered the clincher on court six, rallying past Ionescu, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, to secure the 4-3 victory. UP NEXT<\/p>\n Oklahoma will face No. 2 Texas A&M on Saturday, Feb. 7, in the quarterfinals at 12 p.m. CT. RESULTS<\/p>\n #6 Oklahoma 4, #18 Texas 3 Doubles Order of finish: Doubles (1,3,2); Singles (4,2,3,1,5,6)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"URBANA, Ill. \u2013 The\u00a0No. 6\u00a0Oklahoma women’s tennis team (8-0) advanced to the quarterfinals of the 2026 ITA National…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-463177","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\/463177","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=463177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nSingles
\n1. #2 Carmen Herea (TEX) def. Evialina Laskevich<\/a> (OU) 0-6, 6-4, 6-3
\n2. #63 Anastasia Abbagnato (TEX) def. #12 Julia Garcia Ruiz<\/a> (OU) 6-4, 6-2
\n3. Christasha McNeil (TEX) def. #123 Chlo\u00e9 No\u00ebl (OU) 2-6, 6-1, 6-4
\n4. Edda Mamedova<\/a> (OU) def. Eszther Meri (TEX) 6-0, 6-0
\n5. Salakthip Ounmuang<\/a> (OU) def. Ariana Anazagasty-Pursoo (TEX) 7-6 (5), 3-6, 6-0
\n6. Laura Brunkel<\/a> (OU) def. Elizabeth Ionescu (TEX) 3-6, 6-3, 6-4<\/p>\n
\n1. #34 Anastasia Abbagnato\/Ariana Anazagasty-Pursoo (TEX) def. vs. Roisin Gilheany<\/a>\/Evialina Laskevich<\/a> (TEX) 6-2
\n2. Julia Garcia Ruiz<\/a>\/Salakthip Ounmuang<\/a> (OU) def. Christasha McNeil\/Salma Drugdova (TEX) 6-2
\n3. Laura Brunkel<\/a>\/Oyinlomo Quadre<\/a> (OU) def. Carmen Herea\/Elizabeth Ionescu (TEX) 6-2<\/p>\n