{"id":611525,"date":"2026-04-16T21:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/611525\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T21:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:18:08","slug":"tennis-primed-for-ovc-tournament-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/611525\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis Primed for OVC Tournament Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     Match #23<br \/>\nSouthern Indiana (1-15, 0-5\u00a0OVC) vs Southeast Missouri (9-13, 3-2 OVC)<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nDate:\u00a0Friday, Apr. 17<br \/>\nTime:\u00a0Noon C.T.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Southeast Missouri tennis team opens the OVC Tennis Championships as the No. 2 seed and will battle with Southern Indiana in the first match of the tournament.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nOVC Seeding<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Redhawks finished in a tie for second with Western Illinois and Lindenwood but through multiple different tiebreakers the Redhawks come out of the pack with the No. 2 seed.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe winner of the match will face either No. 3 seed Bryant or No. 6 seed Tennessee State.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nOVC History<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Redhawks have won the OVC Championships twice in 2022 and 2023. In coach Steve Brooks first OVC Tournament appearance the Redhawks made it to the championship match before falling to SIUE.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSeries History<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSEMO will look to continue its unbeaten streak against the Screaming Eagles as it enters the match with a 4-0 all time record. In the first match this season the Redhawks won 6-1. USI has never earned more than one match point against SEMO.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLooking Ahead<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIf the Redhawks win the OVC Championships, they will advance to the NCAA Tournament in which the dates and opponents will be determined later.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; Match #23 Southern Indiana (1-15, 0-5\u00a0OVC) vs Southeast Missouri (9-13, 3-2 OVC) \u00a0 Date:\u00a0Friday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-611525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611525","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=611525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}