Cowgirls Face First True Road Test

The Basics

The No. 15 Oklahoma State women's tennis hits the road for a match against the Arkansas Razorbacks on Friday. The Cowgirls are coming off a weekend at the ITA National Team Indoor Championship, where they took on three top-25 opponents, including a win against No. 13 Alabama.

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 arkansasrazorbacks.com.

In the ITA Rankings

The Cowgirls enter the weekend ranked No. 15 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 and doubles. Four Cowgirls are ranked in singles and three Cowgirl pairings earned doubles rankings.

Kelsey Laurente and Maria Alvarez are ranked as the No. 17 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. 30 pairing in the nation and Vladica Babic and Katarina Adamovic hold the No. 29 ranking.

Adamovic is the highest ranked Cowgirl in singles, earning the No. 28 spot after winning the singles championship at the ITA Central Regional in Stillwater. Babic is ranked No. 33 after a championship run at the Dick Vitale Clay Court Classic.

All-American Lushkova checks in at the No. 45 spot in the first ITA rankings of the spring.

Lushkova wins player of the week

Viktoriya Lushkova earned Big 12 Player of the Week after an undefeated weekend at the ITA National Team Indoor Championship. The Ukraine native finished without a blemish in singles and doubles.

Lushkova helped the Cowgirls win the doubles point in every match this past weekend.

The honor marks the third time Lushkova has been named Big 12 Player of the Week in her Cowgirl Career.

Early Season Dominance

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

Six of seven Cowgirl wins have come at home and the Pokes have outscored opponents, 41-11, through the first nine matches of the spring season.

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Players Mentioned

Katarina Adamovic

Maria Alvarez

Kelsey Laurente

Carla Tur Mari

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