Tulsa Takes Down Kansas to Improve to 4-0

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Tulsa Takes Down Kansas to Improve to 4-0

1/21/2022 3:59:00 PM | Women's Tennis

TULSA, Okla. ― The Tulsa women's tennis team continued its impressive start to the season, defeating Kansas 5-2 Friday afternoon at the Michael D. Case Tennis Center to improve to 4-0 on the season.

"I think it's a pretty solid start to the season being 4-0," head coach Dean Orford said. "This early on, nobody blinked, and we fought all the way through, so pretty good start to the season".

Tulsa took the doubles point to start off the match, behind 6-3 wins from Laia Conde Monfort/Shura Poppe and Lily Hutchings/Ana Naranjo Martinez.

The duo of Hutchings/Martinez started Tulsa off on the right track, being the first doubles team to win. After Kansas won on the first court to tie the doubles at one apiece, Monfort/Poppe clinched the point after a KU return into the net.

With the match tied 1-1, Tulsa rattled off three straight points to clinch the match, courtesy of wins from Leonor Oliveira, Valeryia Rozenkova, and Hutchings.

Monfort, Rozenkova, Hutchings, and Oliveira all won in straight set to give Tulsa its 4^th win of the season.

Monfort, who's ranked No. 91 in singles, tallied her first ranked win of the season, defeating No. 109 Malkia Ngounoue 6-3, 7-5 for the fifth Tulsa point.

"Across the board, whether it be singles or doubles, everyone contributed, which you love to see," Orford said. "Everybody had a hand in this win today for sure."

Tulsa returns to action a week from today, where the Golden Hurricane will take on Oregon at the ITA Kickoff in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Tulsa 5, Kansas 2
Singles:
1. No. 91 Laia Conde Monfort (Tulsa) def. No. 105 Malkia Ngounoue (Kansas) 6-3, 7-5
2. No. 42 Maria Titova (Kansas) def. Maria Berlanga (Tulsa) 6-1, 6-2
3. Sonia Smagina (Kansas) def. Shura Poppe (Tulsa) 6-0, 6-2
4. Valeryia Rozenkova (Tulsa) def. Raphaelle Lacasse (Kansas) 6-3, 6-1
5. Lily Hutchings (Tulsa) def. Tiffany Lagarde (Kansas) 6-4, 6-1
6. Leonor Oliveira (Tulsa) def. Mariana Manyoma-Velasquez (Kansas) 6-1, 6-4 Order of finish: 2,6,4,5,3,1

Doubles:
1. No. 51 Ngounoue/Titova def. Rozenkova/Berlanga 6-4
2. Monfort/Poppe def. Smagina/Lagarde 6-3
3. Hutchings/Martinez def. Lacasse/Velasquez 6-3

Order of finish: 3,1,2