NORMAN \u2013 The No. 11 Oklahoma women’s tennis team (10-2) continues SEC play this week, hosting No. 13 Auburn (16-1) on Thursday at 11:30 a.m. CT at the Headington Family Tennis Center before traveling to Gainesville, Fla., to face Florida (5-2) on Saturday at 12 p.m. CT.<\/p>\n
MATCHDAY BASICS<\/p>\n
Thursday’s match against Auburn is Lunch Break on the Sooners, featuring a complimentary hamburger grill out. Fans are encouraged to take a break from work, enjoy lunch and cheer on the Sooners. Admission is free for all home matches at the Headington Family Tennis Center.<\/p>\n
The Sooners’ 2025 home matches at the Headington Family Tennis Center are open to the public and free of charge. Oklahoma follows a clear bag policy. Fans can follow the action through live stats<\/a> or by watching on PlaySight<\/a>.<\/p>\n LAST TIME OUT<\/p>\n Oklahoma is coming off a dominant Sunday doubleheader sweep at home, earning 4-0 victories over No. 62 Arkansas and Air Force.<\/p>\n The Sooners opened SEC play with a shutout of the Razorbacks, securing the doubles point before singles wins from No. 18 Julia Garcia Ruiz<\/a>, Salakthip Ounmuang<\/a> and Chlo\u00e9 No\u00ebl sealed the match.<\/p>\n OU carried that momentum into the evening session against Air Force, once again claiming the doubles point and cruising through singles play. Ounmuang and Gloriana Nahum<\/a> added straight-set wins before No\u00ebl clinched her second match of the day to complete the 4-0 sweep.<\/p>\n SOONERS IN THE RANKINGS<\/p>\n Oklahoma enters the week ranked No. 11 nationally as a team.<\/p>\n Individually, Julia Garcia Ruiz<\/a> leads the Sooners at No. 18 in the ITA singles rankings. In doubles, Oklahoma features five ranked pairs: No. 1 Roisin Gilheany<\/a> and Gloriana Nahum<\/a>, No. 32 Garcia Ruiz and Oyinlomo Quadre<\/a>, No. 44 freshmen Evialina Laskevich<\/a> and Edda Mamedova<\/a>, No. 63 Laura Brunkel<\/a> and Quadre, and No. 67 Chlo\u00e9 No\u00ebl and Nahum.<\/p>\n PLAYER TO WATCH<\/p>\n Junior Chlo\u00e9 No\u00ebl delivered a strong performance at the No. 4 and No. 3 singles positions to help Oklahoma secure a pair of 4-0 sweeps over Arkansas and Air Force on Feb. 22. The Neuville-sur-Sarthe, France, native opened the day with a straight-set 6-2, 6-4 victory over Arkansas’ Alexandra Panagiotidou, clinching the match for the Sooners.<\/p>\n She followed with another strong effort against Air Force’s Sofia Mavor, earning a 6-1, 6-4 win to once again seal the victory for OU. With the two wins, No\u00ebl improved to 7-3 on the year in singles and owns a 1-0 record in doubles play.<\/p>\n UP NEXT<\/p>\n Oklahoma continues its road swing next week, traveling to face Tennessee on March 6 at 4 p.m. CT before taking on Kentucky on March 8 at 12 p.m. CT.<\/p>\n For updates, follow\u00a0@OU_WTennis<\/a>\u00a0on X and Instagram or like\u00a0Oklahoma Women’s Tennis<\/a>\u00a0on Facebook.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORMAN \u2013 The No. 11 Oklahoma women’s tennis team (10-2) continues SEC play this week, hosting No. 13…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-499193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}