{"id":458616,"date":"2026-02-09T18:24:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/458616\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T18:24:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:24:52","slug":"womens-tennis-takes-down-sooners-4-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/458616\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Tennis Takes Down Sooners, 4-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHAMPAIGN, Ill.\u00a0\u00a0\u2013\u00a0One-seeded University of North Carolina women&#8217;s tennis took down second-seeded Oklahoma in a consolation match at ITA Team National Indoor Championship Sunday in Champaign, Ill. The Tar Heel victory is their fourth top-15 win of the season.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nCarolina dropped the doubles point after Oklahoma took two of the three doubles matches. <a href=\"https:\/\/goheels.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/tatum-evans\/27476\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"27476\" target=\"_blank\">Tatum Evans<\/a> and partner <a href=\"https:\/\/goheels.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/anna-frey\/28028\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"28028\" target=\"_blank\">Anna Frey<\/a> recorded the lone doubles win for the Tar Heels in a close matchup with Sooners Salakthip Ounmang\/Julia Garcia Ruiz, 7-5.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nUNC stormed back to take four-straight singles wins to seal the 4-1 team victory. No. 21 <a href=\"https:\/\/goheels.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/tatum-evans\/27476\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"27476\" target=\"_blank\">Tatum Evans<\/a> got the Tar Heels back into the match with a dominant performance over her opponent from Oklahoma.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nNo. 7 <a href=\"https:\/\/goheels.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/oby-kajuru\/27482\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"27482\" target=\"_blank\">Oby Kajuru<\/a> kept the momentum rolling with a straight-set win over no. 12 Julia Garcia Ruiz to give Carolina a 2-1 edge.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nNo. 1 <a href=\"https:\/\/goheels.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/reese-brantmeier\/27475\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"27475\" target=\"_blank\">Reese Brantmeier<\/a> topped Evialina Laskevich to put the Tar Heels ahead 3-1 with three singles matches left to clinch.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn a three-set battle, no. 51 <a href=\"https:\/\/goheels.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/anna-frey\/28028\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"28028\" target=\"_blank\">Anna Frey<\/a> downed no. 123 Chloe Noel to clinch the match for Carolina. Frey narrowly escaped the first set with a 7-5 win before falling in the second. The freshman grinded out the third set, 6-4, to secure the victory.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nResults<br \/>\nDoubles<br \/>\nMamedova\/Laskevich (OU) def. no. 5 Kajuru\/Maltby (UNC) 7-6 (3)<br \/>\nEvans\/Frey (UNC) def. Ounmang\/Garcia Ruiz (OU) 7-5<br \/>\nNo. 56 Neal\/Nahum (OU) def. Brantmeier\/Rabman (UNC) 6-4<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSingles<br \/>\nNo. 1 <a href=\"https:\/\/goheels.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/reese-brantmeier\/27475\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"27475\" target=\"_blank\">Reese Brantmeier<\/a> (UNC) def. Evialina Laskevich (OU) 6-4, 6-2<br \/>\nNo. 7 <a href=\"https:\/\/goheels.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/oby-kajuru\/27482\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"27482\" target=\"_blank\">Oby Kajuru<\/a> (UNC) def. no. 12 Julia Garcia Ruiz (OU) 6-2, 6-2<br \/>\nNo. 21 <a href=\"https:\/\/goheels.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/tatum-evans\/27476\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"27476\" target=\"_blank\">Tatum Evans<\/a> (UNC) def. Edda Mamedova (OU) 6-2, 6-3<br \/>\nNo. 51 <a href=\"https:\/\/goheels.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/anna-frey\/28028\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"28028\" target=\"_blank\">Anna Frey<\/a> (UNC) def. no. 123 Chloe Noel (OU) 7-5, 2-6, 6-4<br \/>\nNo. 90 <a href=\"https:\/\/goheels.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/theadora-rabman\/27480\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"27480\" target=\"_blank\">Theadora Rabman<\/a> (UNC) vs. Salakthip Ounmang (OU) 6-3, 5-7, 1-2 (unf.)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/goheels.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/claire-hill\/27478\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"27478\" target=\"_blank\">Claire Hill<\/a> (UNC) vs. Gloriana Nahum (OU) 7-6 (5), 2-6, 0-1 (unf.)<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHAMPAIGN, Ill.\u00a0\u00a0\u2013\u00a0One-seeded University of North Carolina women&#8217;s tennis took down second-seeded Oklahoma in a consolation match at ITA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-458616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}