{"id":463651,"date":"2026-02-07T04:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T04:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/463651\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T04:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T04:06:08","slug":"cowgirl-tennis-falls-to-no-9-nc-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/463651\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowgirl Tennis Falls to No. 9 NC State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/okstate.com\/documents\/2026\/2\/7\/M5_-_OSU_vs._NCSU.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Box Score (PDF)<\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nEvanston, Ill.\u00a0\u2013 Oklahoma State&#8217;s eighth-ranked women&#8217;s tennis team fell to No. 9 NC State, 4-3, in the Round of 16 of the ITA Indoor National Championships, on Friday in Evanston, Illinois.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe loss drops the Cowgirls to 2-2 on the season and gives them back-to-back losses for the first time since February of 2025. OSU will move into the consolation bracket and take on Northwestern at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday in Evanston.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe match began with doubles, where the Cowgirls claimed the point. The Cowgirls struck first on court one, where <a href=\"https:\/\/okstate.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/anastasiya-komar\/13839\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13839\" target=\"_blank\">Anastasiya Komar<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/okstate.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/rose-marie-nijkamp\/13841\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13841\" target=\"_blank\">Rose Marie Nijkamp<\/a> defeated No. 2 Gabriella Broadfoot and Victoria Osuigwe, 6-2.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/okstate.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/olivia-lincer\/14005\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14005\" target=\"_blank\">Olivia Lincer<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/okstate.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/marcela-lopez\/13840\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13840\" target=\"_blank\">Marcela Lopez<\/a> collected another doubles win by defeating No. 16 Anna Zyranova and Jasmine Conway, 6-3, to secure the point for OSU. Court three went unfinished, with <a href=\"https:\/\/okstate.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/lucia-peyre\/13842\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13842\" target=\"_blank\">Lucia Peyre<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/okstate.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/luca-udvardy\/14004\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14004\" target=\"_blank\">Luca Udvardy<\/a> led Mia Slama and Lavinia Tanasie, 5-4.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn singles, OSU claimed the first point when Lincer defeated No. 43 Broadfoot, 6-1, 6-2. The Wolfpack scored its first point when Conway defeated Lopez, 6-3, 6-4. No. 68 Peyre gave the Cowgirls a 3-1 lead with a win over No. 18 Tanasie, 6-2, 6-2.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nNC State responded on court three as No. 110 Zyranova beat No. 19 Nijkamp, 7-6, 6-3, before No. 36 Slama bested Komar, 6-1, 6-7, 6-4.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWith the match tied at 3-3, Osuigwe outlasted Udvardy in a second-set tiebreaker, 7-6, 7-6 (7-1), to clinch the match.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFor season-long coverage of Oklahoma State women&#8217;s tennis, follow @CowgirlTennis on social media and visit okstate.com.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Box Score (PDF) \u00a0 Evanston, Ill.\u00a0\u2013 Oklahoma State&#8217;s eighth-ranked women&#8217;s tennis team fell to No. 9 NC State,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-463651","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\/463651","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=463651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}