NORMAN, Okla. – For the second straight day, the #5 Pepperdine women's tennis program found itself in a match that came down to the wire, but for the second consecutive outing the Waves found themselves on the wrong side of the ledger as #2 Oklahoma defeated the Waves 4-2 on Sunday afternoon at the Headington Family Tennis Center.
Oklahoma (25-1) got on the board first in doubles, registering a ranked win, 6-1, on court one to begin the afternoon. Soon after, the Sooners claimed the doubles point with a 6-2 win on court three. Court two, where Pepperdine (17-6) was leading 4-2, was abandoned.
The Waves initially flipped the script in singles, taking five first sets from Oklahoma. #103 Janice Tjen (Jakarta, Indonesia) took down #76 Ivana Corley on court four, 7-5, 6-2 to even up the match at one apiece. Moments later, #84 Savannah Broadus (Carrollton, Texas) gave the Waves their first lead with a 7-5, 6-3 win on court five over Alexandra Pisareva. The Sooners earned their first singles win with a victory on court three to tie the match, making the contest a best-of-three with a trio of courts remaining.
Courts one, two and six were tight throughout. OU saved three match points on court six in the second set to win 7-6 (11), pushing that court to a third set and joining courts one and two in the third. The Sooners then reclaimed the lead with a hard-fought, three-set victory on court two between ranked opponents. With court six at 4-3 in the third set in favor of OU, Oklahoma won the top-15 matchup on court one in a third-set, seven-point tiebreak to take the overall victory.
RESULTS
DOUBLES
#6 Corley/Corley def. #24 Flores/Zaar 6-1
#54 Broadus/Fukuda vs. Pisareva/Sleeth 4-2, unfinished
Chanta/Guzman def. Pachkaleva/Tjen 6-2
Order of finish: 1, 3
SINGLES
#14 Sleeth def. #13 Fukuda 6-1, 3-6, 7-6 (8)
#47 C. Corley def. #46 Pachkaleva 3-6, 7-5, 6-4
Chanta def. #22 Zaar 1-6, 6-1, 6-1
#103 Tjen def. #76 I. Corley 7-5, 6-2
#84 Broadus def. Pisareva 7-5, 6-3
#58 Flores vs. #104 Guzman 6-2, 6-7 (11), 3-4 unfinished
Order of finish: 4, 5, 3, 2, 1*
NEXT UP: Pepperdine will return home for Senior Day on Saturday, April 23 at 10:00 a.m. against San Diego.
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