Cowgirls Close out Big 12 Play at TCU, Texas Tech

TCU + TTU Notes

STILLWATER– The 11th-ranked Oklahoma State women's tennis team (16-6, 6-1 Big 12) is set to wrap up conference play on the road this weekend at TCU on Friday and in Lubbock on Sunday.

Friday evening's matches are scheduled to begin in Fort Worth at 5:30 p.m. The Cowgirls face off with Texas Tech for the second time this season on Sunday afternoon at 1:00. With two matches remaining in regular-season play, the Cowgirls are one match out of first place in the Big 12 behind undefeated Texas. The Longhorns have three matches remaining.

OSU comes off a weekend in which it defeated No. 24 UCF, 5-2, behind efficient singles play. The Pokes followed that win with a 7-0 shutout against the 31st-ranked Oklahoma Sooners.

Dual Details
TCU (12-7; 4-3 Big 12)
Date/Time: April 12, 2019/5:30 p.m.
Location: Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center & Bartzen Varsity Courts
Live Scoring: https://sidearmstats.com/tcu/wten/xlive.htm
Live Stream: https://web.playsight.com/facility/tcu/home

No. 29 Texas Tech (15-6, 5-2 Big 12)
Date/Time: April 14, 2019/1 p.m.
Location: McLeod Tennis Center
Live Scoring: https://sidearmstats.com/texastech/wten/xlive.htm

The Series: TCU
The Cowgirls lead the series with TCU, 12-9, but trail the Horned Frogs in Fort Worth, 4-5.
OSU defeated TCU in Stillwater in 2018, 4-3, marking the most recent meeting between the two programs.
Oklahoma State has not lost to TCU since 2013 before the Greenwood Tennis Center was in use.

The Series: Texas Tech
OSU leads a back-and-forth series with the Red Raiders, 16-14, but trails Tech in Lubbock, 4-7.
The teams first met in 1979, in a match the Cowgirls took, 6-3.
The most recent encounter came at the Blue Gray Championships in February of 2019, where the Cowgirls swept TTU, 4-0, in the semifinals of the event.

Last Time Out
The Oklahoma State women's tennis team shut out No. 31 Oklahoma on senior day Sunday afternoon at the Greenwood Tennis Center, 7-0. In front of nearly 300 Cowgirl fans, senior Sofia Blanco clinched the match in a, 6-2, 6-2, defeat of Oklahoma's Kianah Motosono. Shortly after, Marina Guinart sealed the sweep in a bout with Martina Capurro that went to three sets, 5-7, 6-0, 6-4. Blanco's win marked her 15th this spring, and Guinart moved to 13-3 in singles play this season.

No. 12 OSU 7, No. 31 Oklahoma 0
April 7, 2019 | Greenwood Tennis Center | Stillwater, Okla.
Doubles| Order of finish 1, 2, 3
1. No. 21 Blanco/Gulihur (OSU) def. Asghar/Corley (OU) 6-3
2. Capurro/Romero (OU) def. Guinart/Stresnakova (OSU) 6-2
3. Arnold/Rioux (OSU) def. Motosono/Korashvili (OU) 6-2

Singles | Order of finish 6, 3, 5, 2, 1, 4
1. No. 38 Katarina Stresnakova (OSU) def. No. 23 Oleksandra Korashvili (OU) 7-6(2), 6-1
2. Lisa Marie Rioux (OSU) def. Martina Capurro (OU) 6-3, 6-3
3. No. 119 Bunyawi Thamchaiwat (OSU) def. Jasmine Asghar (OU) 6-3, 6-1
4. No. 102 Marina Guinart (OSU) def. Camila Romero (OU) 5-7, 6-0, 6-4
5. Sofia Blanco (OSU) def. Kianah Motosono (OU) 6-2, 6-2
6. Catherine Gulihur (OSU) def. Ivana Corley (OU) 6-2, 6-2

Follow the Matches
Fans can keep up with matches in Fort Worth with live stats at sidearmstats.com/tcu/wten/xlive.htmor watch at web.playsight.com/facility/tcu/home. The stats link for matches in Lubbock is: https://sidearmstats.com/texastech/wten/xlive.htm.For in-match updates, follow along with @CowgirlTennis on Twitter or @cowgirl_tennis on Instagram.

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Players Mentioned

Sofia Blanco

Marina Guinart

Catherine Gulihur

Lisa Marie Rioux

Katarina Stresnakova

Bunyawi Thamchaiwat

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