Men's Tennis Prepped for Vanderbilt, Tennessee Matches

NORMAN – The Oklahoma men's tennis team continues conference play with a home match against Vanderbilt on Friday, Feb. 27, at 4 p.m. CT. The Sooners then head to Knoxville, Tenn., to take on Tennessee on Sunday, March 1, at 10 a.m. CT.

The Sooners check in at No. 33 in the most recent ITA team rankings with Vanderbilt at the No. 37 spot and Tennessee at No. 66.

MATCH DAY BASICS

Live stream and live stats information for both matches can be found here.

The Sooners' 2026 home matches at the Headington Family Tennis Center are open to the public and admission is free of charge. Due to the elimination of concessions, fans are encouraged to bring their own food and drinks. Oklahoma maintains a clear bag policy for all home events on the Norman campus. Fans can enter through the main doors of the Headington Family Tennis Center for all matches.

Friday's competition against the Commodores is the Military Appreciation match with free challenge coins available for those with a valid military ID. Doors open at 3 p.m.

LAST TIME OUT

The Sooners began conference play with matches against South Carolina and Ole Miss at the Headington Family Tennis Center. After falling short to the Gamecocks 4-3 in its conference opener on Saturday, Oklahoma bounced back and claimed a 4-3 win over the Rebels on Monday afternoon.

Oklahoma enters the weekend slate with a 9-2 overall record and a 1-1 SEC mark.

PLAYER TO WATCH

Senior Luis Alvarez has tallied five straight singles wins and will look to extend the streak over the weekend. Despite Oklahoma's narrow loss to South Carolina, Alvarez claimed a ranked singles win over No. 51 Sean Daryabeigi to put the Sooners in reach of the win with the third point. Alvarez came back from a first-set tiebreak loss to dominate sets two in three, winning the match 6-7(6), 6-1, 6-0.

Against Ole Miss, Alvarez notched wins on the singles and doubles side, contributing two [points to the Sooners' 4-3 win over the Rebels. His singles victory came in dominant fashion, winning 6-1, 6-2 over Mattieu Chambonniere and his doubles win with teammate Bruno Nhavene was the pair's first ranked win.

Alvarez has over 100 total career wins and has only lost one singles match in Oklahoma's 11 duals this season. He has two wins over nationally ranked opponents this season and is No. 49 in this week's ITA Singles Rankings.

IN THE RANKINGS

The Sooners are No. 33 in the Feb. 24 ITA team rankings with three players listed in the singles rankings and two doubles teams in the national rankings. In singles rankings, senior Luis Alvarez leads the pack at No. 49, followed by sophomore Oscar Lacides at No. 79 and junior Asahi Harazaki at No. 89. In doubles, Lacides and Bruno Nhavene sit at No. 54, while sophomore Orel Kimhi and freshman Johan Rodriguez are ranked No. 71.

SCOUTING THE OPPONENTS

Vanderbilt holds a 9-3 overall record with a 1-1 SEC record. The Commodores began the season with four straight wins and most recently topped Tennessee, 4-2, in a home match. Vanderbilt's three losses came from then-No. 1 Wake Forest, then-No. 2 Virginia and then-No. 10 Mississippi State.

The Commodores do not have any singles players or doubles teams listed in the Feb. 19 ITA individual rankings.

Tennessee is 6-6 on the season with an 0-2 conference record. The Volunteers kicked off the spring season with two home wins but have taken two straight losses in their most recent matchups against Kentucky (5-2) and Vanderbilt (4-2).

The lone ITA individual ranking for Tennessee is Alejandro Moreno, who checks in at No. 58 in the singles rankings.

UP NEXT

Following this weekend's matches, the Sooners are back in Norman on Friday, March 6, at 5 p.m. CT to face Kentucky for the annual Bark in the Park match.

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