Cowgirls Host No. 34 Wichita State

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The Basics
The No. 10 Oklahoma State women's tennis team will play host to the Wichita State Shockers at 1 p.m. on Saturday inside the Greenwood Tennis Center. The Cowgirls (5-0) will face their fourth-straight ranked opponent, as the Shockers enter the match ranked No. 34.

Keep Up with the Match
Fans can follow all the action this weekend through updates on Twitter by following @CowgirlTennis and through live stats on okstate.com. Simply go to the Cowgirl Tennis homepage and the link will be prominently displayed.

Home Court Advantage
The Cowgirls have taken advantage of tremendous crowds inside the Michael and Anne Greenwood Tennis Center during the early part of the season.

All five Cowgirl wins have come at home and the Pokes have outscored opponents, 25-1, through the first five matches of the spring season.

OSU has not surrendered a match point since the first match of the season against Abilene Christian.

In the ITA Rankings
The Cowgirls enter the weekend ranked No. 10 in the Oracle/ITA rankings. The Cowgirls return look to build upon 2015, where they earned a spot in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament after taking down Arizona State in Stillwater.

Every Cowgirl that competed in fall action is ranked by the ITA in both singles or doubles. Four Cowgirls are ranked in singles and three Cowgirl pairings earned doubles rankings.

Kelsey Laurente and Maria Alvarez are ranked as the No. 9 doubles tandem in the country due to their ITA Central Region title, after being unranked in the fall. Viktoriya Lushkova and Carla Tur Mari are tabbed as the No. 23 pairing in the nation and Vladica Babic and Katarina Adamovic hold the No. 38 ranking.

Adamovic is the highest ranked Cowgirl in singles, earning the No. 27 spot after winning the singles championship at the ITA Central Regional in Stillwater. Babic is ranked No. 38 after a championship run at the Dick Vitale Clay Court Classic.

All-American Lushkova checks in at the No. 46 spot in the ITA rankings of the spring. Laurente earned the No. 89 slot in the rankings, after earning Big 12 Newcomer of the Year last season.

Back 2 Back
The Cowgirls picked up two wins last weekend as they played host to the ITA Kick-Off Weekend inside the Michael and Anne Greenwood Tennis Center. The Pokes took down No. 32 Notre Dame, 4-0, on Saturday to advance to the championship match against Northwestern.

The Cowgirls dismantled the No. 26 Wildcats, 4-0, to win the event. The win guaranteed OSU a spot in the National Team Indoors, which will be held Feb. 5-8 in Madison, Wisconsin.

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Players Mentioned

Katarina Adamovic

Maria Alvarez

Kelsey Laurente

Carla Tur Mari

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