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No. 8 Women's Tennis shuts out Oklahoma, 4-0
03.23.2018 | Women's Tennis
Horns claim the doubles point and seal it with three singles victories.
AUSTIN, Texas – No. 8 Texas (12-4, 3-0 Big 12) rallied in doubles play and used strong performances in singles action to earn a 4-0 sweep over No. 49 Oklahoma (10-6, 2-1) Friday night at Texas Tennis Center.
OU claimed the first doubles match, but Texas rallied with a 6-2 win from Anna Turati/Katie Poluta at third doubles and a 6-4 victory from the 44th-ranked pairing of Petra Granic/Bojana Markovic to earn the doubles point.
The 77th-ranked Petra Granic overpowered her Sooners opponent for a 6-0, 6-0 sweep over Christiana Brigante at fourth singles to get the Longhorns started in singles action. After winning the first set 6-0, Bojana Markovic rallied in the second to down Simran Kaur Sethi for a 6-0, 6-4 victory on court four as Texas led 3-0.
The 33rd- ranked Anna Turati clinched Texas' seventh straight victory with a straight-set win over Jasmine Asghar, 6-4, 6-3. The remaining matches were suspended.
The Longhorns will be back at Texas Tennis Center to face No. 12 Oklahoma State on Sunday afternoon with first serve scheduled for 12 p.m.
POST-MATCH COMMENTS
Texas head coach Howard Joffe
On the win: Obviously, it's always a good day to win a conference match and always a good day if we're able to beat Oklahoma, with the rivalry and all of that. But if I look at the match substantively, we definitely didn't perform very well in the doubles. Then the singles, I only got to see three of the matches. I thought that the singles play was an upgrade from the doubles, but we definitely need to take a good, hard look. More than anything, you can't always control how well you play but the attitude and sticking to the task leaves a little to be desired. So in that respect, probably a little bit of a disappointing day for us. But with respect to things that people worry about, like the scoreboard, probably a good day for us. We beat Oklahoma.
On a matchup on Sunday at the Texas Tennis Center with No. 12 Oklahoma State: At this moment, we'll obviously get a little bit of practice tomorrow and hopefully get everyone, for lack of a better way to say it, everyone's mind right and ready to go.
No. 8 Texas 4, Oklahoma 0
Doubles - Order of Finish: 2,3,1
1 #44 Petra Granic/Bojana Markovic (UT) def. Christiana Brigante/Jasmine Asghar (OU)
2 Lily Miyazaki/Malene Stripp (OU) def. Marta Perez-Mur/Bianca Turati (UT), 6-2
3 Katie Poluta/Anna Turati (UT) def. Simran Kaur Sethi/Camila Romero (OU), 6-2
Singles – Order of Finish: 3,4,2
1 #1 Bianca Turati (UT) vs. #28 Lily Miyazaki (OU), 6-4, 4-4, susp.
2 #33 Anna Turati (UT) def. Jasmine Asghar (OU), 6-4, 6-3
3 #77 Petra Granic (UT) def. Christiana Brigante (OU), 6-0, 6-0
4 Bojana Markovic (UT) def. Simran Kaur Sethi (OU), 6-0, 6-4
5 Marta Perez-Mur (UT) vs. Camila Romero (OU), 6-3, 0-6, 4-0, susp.
6 Katie Poluta (UT) vs. Malene Stripp (OU), 6-3, 3-3, susp.
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