No. 12 Oklahoma State Prepares For First Conference Match Against No. 42 Texas Tech

Logistics
No. 12 Oklahoma State (9-1, 0-0 Big 12)
vs.
No. 42 Texas Tech (5-5, 0-0 Big 12)
Date/Time: March 6, 2020/6:00 p.m.
Location: Greenwood Tennis Center
Live Feed: okstate.com/watchtennis
Live Stats: okstate.broadcast.com

The Basics
- The No. 12 Oklahoma State Cowgirls are hosting the No. 42 Texas Tech Red Raiders this weekend for their first Big 12 match of the season. OSU had last weekend off but will now return to play after its most recent win over No. 30 South Carolina.
- OSU is currently riding an impressive four-match winning streak, with two of those wins coming over ranked opponents in No. 11 Pepperdine and No. 30 South Carolina.
- The Cowgirls are 9-1 following their win over No. 30 South Carolina in Columbia. The only loss of the season for OSU came at the hands of No. 25 Ohio State, who is now ranked No. 2 in the country behind only North Carolina.
- Oklahoma State will have a quick turnaround after Friday's match, as it will prepare to face TCU on Sunday afternoon in its second Big 12 match of the season.
- The Cowgirls jumped two spots in the latest ITA Rankings to come in at No. 12.
- In the fall, the Cowgirls swept the ITA Central Regional Championships in the fall as Lisa Rioux and Ayumi Miyamoto defeated teammates Dariya Detkovskaya and Bunyawi Thamchaiwat to claim the doubles title. Rioux was crowned the singles champion over Detkovskaya in the tournament as well.

Last Time Out
- The Cowgirls defeated No. 30 South Carolina on Feb. 23 in its first true road match of the season, 4-2.
- The Cowgirls won the doubles point over the Gamecocks with wins on courts one and three. No. 6 Lisa Marie Rioux and Ayumi Miyamoto picked up the first win of the day over No. 56 Megan Davies and Mia Horvit, 6-3. The freshmen Cowgirls, Dariya Detkovskaya and Alana Wolfberg, took down Gabriela Martinez and Elise Mills on court three, 7-5.
- Going into singles in a 0-1 hole, South Carolina picked up two straight singles wins. No. 125 Emma Shelton defeated No. 56 Ayumi Miyamoto first, 6-4, 7-5, which would tie up the match at one point a piece. OSU would go down 1-2 when Martinez defeated No. 123 Lenka Stara on court six, 7-5, 6-4.
- Oklahoma State's first singles win came on court one as No. 62 Lisa Marie Rioux defeated No. 42 Mia Horvit, 6-1, 3-6, 6-4. Dariya Detkovskaya would give the Cowgirls a 3-2 lead over South Carolina as she defeated Elise Mills, 3-6, 6-0, 7-6. Alana Wolfberg won the final point of the day for the Cowgirls with a 6-7, 6-4, 6-0 win over Kennedy Wicker to give OSU the 4-2 victory.

A Look at No. 42 Texas Tech
- Texas Tech is currently ranked No. 42 in the country and is currently holding onto a 5-5 record this season.
- Tech lost its opening match to LSU in the ITA Kickoff but would follow that up with a win over Iowa, 4-1.
- The Red Raiders have suffered their other losses from Ole Miss, South Carolina, NC State and Denver.
- The most impressive win of the year for Tech came last week when it defeated No. 26 Arizona State on the road.
- Texas Tech has one individual in the ITA Rankings in Margarita Skriabina, who comes in at No. 114.
- The Red Raiders also have one doubles team ranked in Lisa Mays and Nell Miller at No. 75 in the country.

Cowgirl Quick Hits
- With the latest ITA rankings, OSU has now spent 97 consecutive weeks in the top 25 of the ITA rankings. The last time OSU missed the cut was March 18, 2014. The Cowgirls started the spring season ranked No. 10 in the country and have not fallen lower than No. 16 since then.
- By winning 90 percent of their matches this season, the Cowgirls have the third-highest winning percentage in the top-25 behind No. 1 North Carolina, who is 16-0 this year, and No. 3 UCLA, who holds a 10-1 record this season.
- The Cowgirls have won at least 20 matches in each of the last five seasons. In that span, the Cowgirls have won 118 matches, including 29 wins in the 2015-16 season.
- Head coach Chris Young welcomes five new faces to the team this year in Dariya Detkovskaya, Ayumi Miyamoto, Alana Wolfberg, Ryan Thompson and Lenka Stara, who was added to the team at the beginning of the spring.

Cowgirls in the Rankings
- OSU is slated No. 12 in the 2020 ITA Division I women's rankings.
- Lisa Marie Rioux and Ayumi Miyamoto have jumped to No. 5 in the rankings in doubles. Miyamoto and Rioux have started the season with a perfect 9-0 record together, with all nine wins coming on court one.
- Bunyawi Thamchaiwat and Dariya Detkovskaya also appear in the rankings together at No. 42, but that pairing has not yet played together in the spring.
- Bunyawi Thamchaiwat comes in at No. 23 to lead the individual rankings for OSU. She has started the season 7-0, with five of those wins coming on court two and the other two on court one.
- Lisa Marie Rioux comes in at No. 49 in singles with an impressive 7-2 record; her only two losses have come on court one to two different top-15 players in the country.
- Freshman Ayumi Miyamoto is the final ranked Cowgirl coming in at No. 63. Miyamoto is 5-3 on the year with most of her matches being played on court three.

Match Updates
- For updates during matches, follow @CowgirlTennis on Twitter and check okstate.com for post-match results and a recap from the days' action.

No. 12 Oklahoma State Prepares For First Conference Match Against No. 42 Texas Tech

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Players Mentioned

Dariya Detkovskaya

Ayumi Miyamoto

Lenka Stara

Bunyawi Thamchaiwat

Ryan Thompson

Alana Wolfberg

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