Box Score MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The West Virginia University tennis team (11-7, 1-4 Big 12) fell to No. 23 Oklahoma, 6-1, on Friday at the Headington Family Tennis Center in Stillwater.
West Virginia started Friday evening's match in Norman with doubles play. In the No. 1 slot, sophomore
Michaela Kucharova and junior
Momoko Nagato fell to Oklahoma's Carmen Corley and Ivana Corley, 1-6, giving the Sooner's the advantage.
The Mountaineers dropped the doubles point when redshirt freshman
Maja Dodik and sophomore
Tatiana Lipatova fell, 3-6, to Julia Garcia Ruiz and Dana Guzman, leaving sophomore senior pair
Camilla Bossi and
Ting-Pei Chang unfinished, 4-3.
Moving on to singles play, in the No. 1 slot, Bossi fell to Sleeth, 6-1, 6-2. Next up, Chang fell to Carmen Corley, 6-1, 6-3, before Kucharova fell, 1-6, 2-6, to Guzman to secure the match for the Sooners.
At No. 6 singles, Lipatova fell to Garcia Ruiz, 0-6, 5-7.
With two matches left, Dodik fell in two straight sets, 4-6, 1-6, to Sasha Pisareva, before Nagato went three sets against Emma Staker in the No. 5 slot. Staker claimed the first set, 6-4, before Nagato battled back, 6-3, to force the tie-break. In the final set, Nagato clinched West Virginia's only victory of the evening, 11-9.
Doubles Results
Singles Results
- Layne Sleeth (OU) def. Camilla Bossi (WVU), 6-0, 6-2
- Dana Guzman (OU) def. Michaela Kucharova (WVU), 6-1, 6-2
- Carmen Corley (OU) def. Ting-Pei Chang (WVU), 6-1, 6-3
- Sasha Pisareva (OU) def. Maja Dodik (WVU), 6-4, 6-1
- Momoko Nagato (WVU) def. Emma Staker (OU), 4-6, 6-3 (11-9)
- Julia Garcia Ruiz (OU) def. Tatiana Lipatova (WVU), 6-0, 7-5
Looking ahead
West Virginia continues its road swing in Oklahoma on Sunday, April 2, against No. 17 Oklahoma State. Competition from the Greenwood Tennis Center in Stillwater is set to begin at 1 p.m. ET.
