Tulsa Women’s Tennis Opens Spring at Home with Hurricane Invite

Saturday, January 11

Tulsa, Okla.

9:00 a.m.

Tulsa

Wyoming

Tulsa Women’s Tennis Opens Spring at Home with Hurricane Invite

1/10/2025 1:29:00 PM | Women's Tennis

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TULSA, Okla. —The University of Tulsa women's tennis team will kick off the spring season this weekend with three matches Saturday through Sunday at the Michael D. Case Tennis Center.

The Hurricane Invite

Arkansas State, Wyoming and Louisiana Tech will in Tulsa this weekend, and all four schools will have a chance to face each other on the indoor courts of the tennis center.
The latter two teams were part of last year's season-opening Hurricane Invite, where TU went 3-0.
Tulsa is 26-0 in season-opening home events dating to the 2016-17 season.
Play starts at 9 a.m. Central both days with Tulsa and Wyoming squaring off on Saturday, followed by the singles portion of the Tulsa-Arkansas State match. Sunday's slate features the doubles portion of the Hurricane's dual match with the Red Wolves with the full Louisiana Tech match to follow.
Tulsa swept Wyoming 4-0 in the first round of the NIT Championship last May.

Looking at the 2025 Schedule

This weekend's action is the start to a 23-match spring schedule for the Golden Hurricane women, which features 13 total home contests, eight road tilts and two neutral-site matchups.
The first nine dual matches for TU this spring will all be played on campus at the Case Tennis Center.
Tulsa gets the opportunity to play three postseason teams from last year, including Oklahoma (NCAA), SMU (NCAA) and Wyoming (NIT Championship).
After the Hurricane Invite, Tulsa will host Oral Roberts (Jan. 17), Central Arkansas (Jan. 19), Stephen F. Austin (Jan. 26), Ole Miss (Feb. 1), Kansas City (Feb. 2) and Oklahoma (Feb. 4). Following TU's nine-match home stretch to start the year, the Hurricane will head to West Lafayette, Ind., to take on DePaul and Purdue Feb. 15-16.
Then, Tulsa will enjoy a three-match home tilt against Rice (Feb. 21), Arkansas (Feb. 24) and Wichita State (March 4). The next five matches after will be played in Texas against Abilene Christian (March 7), SMU (March 9), UT Arlington (March 16), TCU (March 18) and North Texas (March 19). The Hurricane will wrap up the March slate with their final home match of the season for Senior Day on the 29^th against UTSA.
April consists of more conference tournament prep for the Hurricane as TU will face Florida Atlantic and Tulane in New Orleans on April 5-6 and take on Memphis in the regular season finale on the 13^th The AAC Tournament will be hosted by Memphis from April 17-20, and the NCAA Tournament—featuring only team play for the first time—will span May 15-18 on the campus of Baylor University.

On the Roster

Among the nine-member roster, Tulsa features six returning letterwinners and welcomed three newcomers for the 2024-25 season.
Returning from last year's championship squad are seniors Maria Berlanga Bandera, Lily Hutchings and Ana Naranjo Martinez, who have 351 combined victories for the Golden Hurricane and are set for their final season at TU.
Sophomores Erin McKenzie, Saniya Singh and Tayla Wilmot are back to build on their successful freshman campaigns a year ago.
The three newcomers are freshman Isabella Basson (Pretoria, South Africa), Eda Numanoglu (Istanbul, Turkey) and Mariana Manyoma Velasquez, a senior transfer from Kansas and UT Arlington. She hails from Pereira, Colombia.

Fall 2024 Recap

Fans can expect strong doubles play from the Hurricane after Berlanga and Hutchings won the ITA Central Regional Doubles Championship and earned a bid to the NCAA Doubles Championship in November. The pair went 6-1 together and earned one ranked win. They enter the spring season as the No. 26 pairing in the country according to the latest ITA Doubles Rankings.
Manyoma and Naranjo are coming off a 7-3 fall campaign that included a three-match run in the AAC Individual Championship to earn the women's doubles title. They are projected to be Tulsa's No. 2 duo behind Berlanga and Hutchings.
In singles action, six players recorded seven or more victories with sophomore Erin McKenzie leading the way with eight wins to just three losses. No TU student-athlete finished with a losing singles record.

Spring 2024 Finale Recap

The Hurricane posted an overall record of 14-12 last spring, capped off by a perfect 3-0 run in the UTR Sports NIT Championship in Bradenton, Fla., for Tulsa's first postseason title to go with its eight conference titles.
Tulsa beat Wyoming (4-0), West Virginia (4-3) and Colorado (4-2).