2017-18 Shocker Women's Tennis

[1972Shocker]

NCAA Section Show watch party for the Shocker women's tennis team is tomorrow at 4:00 pm at the Champions Club. Open to the public. Snacks and refreshments will be available.

Shocks must be confident they will be invited. Currently ranked #37 in the country.

http://goshockers.com/news/2018/4/30/womens-tennis-shockers-to-host-selection-show-watch-party.aspx

[1972Shocker]

Wichita State will travel to Oxford, Miss. next weekend to compete in First and Second Round action in the 2018 NCAA Women's Tennis Team Championship.

The Shockers (18-7) are making their 10^th consecutive appearance in the field of 64 and their 12^th overall. They'll will meet Syracuse on Friday, May 11 with the winner advancing to Saturday's Second Round to face either top-seed Mississippi or Missouri State. Match times will be announced later.

Syracuse (17-7, 8-6 ACC) is ranked No. 27 in the latest Oracle/ITA Division I Rankings.

"Syracuse is strong," WSU Coach Colin Foster said. "They upset Georgia Tech, which is a top-5 team. The ACC is probably a top-2 conference, along with the SEC, so they'll be battle tested."

http://goshockers.com/news/2018/5/1/womens-tennis-wsu-headed-to-for-ncaa-tourney.aspx

[1972Shocker]

Shocker sophomore Fatima Bizhukova has been selected to compete at the 2018 NCAA Individual Championship, May 23-28 at the Wake Forest Tennis Complex in Winstom-Salem, N.C.

http://goshockers.com/news/2018/5/3/womens-tennis-bizhukova-earns-ncaa-individual-bid.aspx

[1972Shocker]

Shocker sophomire Fatima Bizhukova and Junior Sandra Honigova were selected to the 2018 AAC Women's Tennis All-Conference Team as voted on by the AAC head coaches.

http://goshockers.com/news/2018/5/3/womens-tennis-bizhukova-honigova-tabbed-all-conference.aspx

Fatima was a unanimous selection.

Congratulations ladies. :encouragement:

[RoyalShock]

Ladies, please pummel the annoying orange.

[1972Shocker]

Starts at noon today.

Links to LIve Stats and Live Video: http://www.olemisssports.com/sports/...ournament.html

[1972Shocker]

Nice piece by Sully on Shoicker seniro Gabriela Porubin and also talks a little about the different feel going into the NCAA's as an at-large after playing a much tougher schedule down the stretch than they did when locked in to MVC conference matches. We'll see if that makes a difference today.

http://goshockers.com/news/2018/5/11/the-roundhouse-rh-porubin-made-the-most-of-class-time.aspx

[1972Shocker]

Very nice facilities at Ole Miss.

Gabriela and Sarvi win the 3rd flight doubles 6-1. The other 2 flights are tied at 4-4.

Fatima and Marto pick off two games to close out the 1st flight with a 6-4 win and give the Shocks the doubles point.

Ting and Giulia were leading the 2nd flight 6-5 when the Shocks clinched.

Good start of the Shocks. The doubles point can be critcal in a high level match between similarly ranked opponets. (Sysracuse is #27 and the Shocks are ranked #35).





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[RoyalShock]

Our #72-ranked doubles team "embarrassed" their #8-ranked doubles team. Hopefully our singles will do just enough to capitalize on the double point.

[Cdizzle]

Our #72-ranked doubles team "embarrassed" their #8-ranked doubles team. Hopefully our singles will do just enough to capitalize on the double point.

If that doesn't work out, I would be ok with the singles going ahead and embarrassing them, too.

[1972Shocker]

Singles are undeway. Shocks need to win of these 6 best of 3 set matches:

The matchups are:

#1 Singles: #72 Fatima Bizhukova vs #5 Gabriela Knutston (6-1, 6-3)
#2 Singles: Giulia Guidetti vs Miranda Ramirez (6-2, 6-2) :smile-new:
#3 Singles: #124 Sandra Honigova vs Sofia Golubovskaya (6-2, 6-0) :smile-new:

#4 Singles: Gabriela Porubin vs Anna Shkudun (3-6, 5-1) Unfinished
#5 Singles: Marta Bellucco vs Dina Hegab (1-6, 1-6) :frown-new:

#6 Singles: Sarvinoz Saidhujaeva (6-4, 2-3) Unfinished

SHOCKERS 4 - SYRACUSE 1

[RoyalShock]

WSU's Bizhukova (#72) takes the first set against SU's Knutson (#5), 6-1. Knutson is the one who made the "embarrassed" comment.

[RoyalShock]

Guidetti and Honigova are in good shape, up 4-0 and 4-1, respectively, in their 2nd sets.

Edit: Make that 5-1 and 5-0.

[RoyalShock]

Honigova wins 6-2, 6-0 to give WSU a 2-0 lead!

Guidetti wins 6-2, 6-2. Shocks up 3-0! One more!

[Cdizzle]

Bizhukova looks to be outmatched in the 2nd set, yet leads 4-3. Her opponent is sending a lot of should-be winners into the net.

[1972Shocker]

When you are ranked #5 in the nation you probably aren't used to trailing in a match.

[RoyalShock]

From what I've seen, it seems Bizhukova is keeping Knutson in the points longer than she likes, gets frustrated and over-hits.

Knutson is her own worst enemy in this match.

[1972Shocker]

My guess is that was a game plan based on a scouting report. But you still have to be good enough to execute the game plan and looks like Fatima did that to perfection.

[Cdizzle]

Guidetti gives WSU the 3-0 lead with a 6-2, 6-2 win in #2.

[1972Shocker]

One more ladies.