{"id":241283,"date":"2026-04-09T01:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T01:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/241283\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T01:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T01:42:08","slug":"no-2-texas-am-opens-road-swing-at-no-7-oklahoma-texas-am-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/241283\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 2 Texas A&#038;M Opens Road Swing at No. 7 Oklahoma &#8211; Texas A&#038;M Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLLEGE STATION \u2013\u00a0The No. 2 Texas A&amp;M women&#8217;s tennis team hits the road for a two-match weekend, opening at No. 7 Oklahoma Thursday with first serve set for 5 p.m. at the Headington Family Tennis Center, before traveling to face Arkansas Saturday at noon at the Billingsley Tennis Center.<\/p>\n<p>The Aggies enter the weekend with a chance to secure at least a share of their fifth consecutive SEC regular-season title, needing one win across two matches.<\/p>\n<p>Texas A&amp;M features a stacked lineup with five ranked singles players, led by No. 1 <a href=\"https:\/\/12thman.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/lucciana-perez\/15022\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15022\" target=\"_blank\">Lucciana Perez<\/a>, who is undefeated on the season with 20 wins and a 31-match winning streak in regular season matches. The Maroon &amp; White also boast No. 35 <a href=\"https:\/\/12thman.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/mia-kupres\/15021\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15021\" target=\"_blank\">Mia Kupres<\/a>, No. 56 <a href=\"https:\/\/12thman.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/ilinca-amariei\/15434\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15434\" target=\"_blank\">Ilinca Amariei<\/a>, No. 85 <a href=\"https:\/\/12thman.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/daria-smetannikov\/15024\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15024\" target=\"_blank\">Daria Smetannikov<\/a> and No. 103 <a href=\"https:\/\/12thman.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/lexington-reed\/15023\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15023\" target=\"_blank\">Lexington Reed<\/a>. In doubles the Aggies are led by the No. 14 duo of Perez\/Kupres, alongside No. 47 Amariei\/<a href=\"https:\/\/12thman.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/violeta-martinez\/15296\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15296\" target=\"_blank\">Violeta Martinez<\/a> and No. 60 Perez\/Amariei.<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma brings a 21-4 record into Thursday&#8217;s matchup and an 11-2 mark in conference action, riding an 11-match win streak following a 4-0 sweep of Missouri. The Sooners feature three ranked singles players, highlighted by No. 10 Evialina Laskevich, along with No. 54 Edda Mamedova and No. 64 Julia Garcia Ruiz.<\/p>\n<p>In doubles, Oklahoma is anchored by the nation&#8217;s top-ranked pair of Roisin Gilheany\/Gloriana Nahum, in addition to the No. 15 duo of Laskevich\/Mamedova. Texas A&amp;M leads the all-time series 27-6, including a 4-2 win earlier this season at the ITA National Team Indoor Championships in Champaign.<\/p>\n<p>Arkansas awaits the Aggies on Saturday, led by No. 34 Carolina Gomez Alonso in singles play and the No. 23 doubles pair of Anet Koskel\/Gomez Alonso. Texas A&amp;M holds a 19-8 advantage in the all-time series, including a 7-0 victory in the most recent meeting in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>STATS &amp; STREAMING<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFans may find live video and stats links on x.com\/AggieWTEN prior to the start of each match.<\/p>\n<p>FOLLOW THE AGGIES<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nVisit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/12thman.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/12thman.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">12thman.com<\/a>\u00a0for more information on Texas A&amp;M women&#8217;s tennis. Fans can keep up to date with the A&amp;M women&#8217;s tennis team on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aggieWTEN\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aggieWTEN\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/aggiewten\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/aggiewten\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u00a0Instagram<\/a>, and on X by following\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AggieWTEN\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AggieWTEN\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@AggieWTEN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLLEGE STATION \u2013\u00a0The No. 2 Texas A&amp;M women&#8217;s tennis team hits the road for a two-match weekend, opening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-241283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}