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Oklahoma tennis: No. 2-seeded Sooner women host NCAA Regional

By Chip Rouse

Ohio State Buckeyes, from left, Luna Dormet, Kolie Allen and Isabelle Boulais play their singles matches against the Rutgers Scarlet Knights in Columbus on April 24, 2022.Ncaa Tennis Rutgers Scarlet Knights At Ohio State Buckeyes
Ohio State Buckeyes, from left, Luna Dormet, Kolie Allen and Isabelle Boulais play their singles matches against the Rutgers Scarlet Knights in Columbus on April 24, 2022.Ncaa Tennis Rutgers Scarlet Knights At Ohio State Buckeyes /
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An historic season for women’s Oklahoma tennis continues this weekend with the Sooners hosting one of the regional sites in the 2022 NCAA Women’s Tennis Championship.

The Sooners are a No. 2 national seed and will serve as a host site for the first two rounds of the championship this Friday and Saturday at the Headington Family Tennis Center, where Oklahoma is a perfect 14-0 this season.

Oklahoma will begin regional play with a match against Bryant at 3 p.m. on Friday. That match on Friday in the opening round of the Norman Regional will be preceded by a matchup between Arizona and San Diego State. The winners of the two opening-round matches will compete in a Saturday match for the regional championship.

The winner of the regional championship on Saturday will advance to the NCAA Super Regionals on May 13-14. The eight teams that advance out of the super regionals will move on to the NCAA Women’s Championship, set for May 19-22 in Champaign, Illinois, hosted by the University of Illinois.

This will be the Sooners 12th NCAA Tournament appearance. Their No, 2 national seed is the highest in program history.

Oklahoma finished the 2022 regular season with a 27-2 overall record and a perfect 9-0 record in Big 12 play, earning the Sooners their first outright Big 12 regular-season title. OU finished as runner-up to Texas in the Big 12 Championship, although the Sooners defeated the Longhorns twice during the regular season.

The Sooners defeated then-No. 1 and reigning national champion Texas 4-1 on March 12, their first victory over the Longhorns in women’s tennis since 2003. OU’s other 2022 regular-season loss was to North Carolina on Feb. 14. The Tar Heels were ranked No. 2 at the time and are a No. 1 seed in this year’s NCAA Women’s Championship.

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