MATCH INFORMATION
 
WICHITA STATE (10-9) AT #59 TULSA (12-12)
Sunday, April 6 | 12:00 PM CT
Tulsa, Okla. | Michael D. Case Tennis Center
 
Live Stats: Track Tennis
 
WICHITA STATE (10-9) AT ORAL ROBERTS (5-15)
Sunday, April 6 | 6:00 PM CT
Tulsa, Okla. | Bernis Duke Tennis Center

Openers

• Wichita State men's tennis is in its third season under head coach Darragh Glavin
• The Shockers are 10-9 and have won back-to-back matches
• WSU is 4-5 on the road this season
• The Shockers surpassed last season's win total of five with a win on March 16 over Charlotte

By the Numbers

• Ilias Worthington leads the team in singles wins with 13 and the freshman is 7-3 in his last ten matches
• The pair of Alejandro Jacome and Kristof Minarik lead the team in his wins as a doubles pairing with six
• Minarik leads the team in total doubles wins with 12
• The Shockers are 59-43 in singles as a team and 26-25 in doubles

Fall Success

• The Shocker pair of Minarik and Jacome had a very successful fall, collecting wins over multiple power four opponents and collecting doubles wins in high-level events throughout the fall
• The duo collected two wins in pre-qualifiers of ITA All-Americans and added two wins at ITA Central Regionals, reaching the doubles semifinals
• The Regionals performance punched the Shocker ticket to ITA Sectionals in Fort Worth, Texas, where the Shockers battled tough against high-level, ranked doubles competition
• Transfer addition Arenui Luethi matched Minarik and Jacome's five fall doubles wins to tie for the team lead in the fall

New Faces

• The Shocker roster has undergone a shakeup from last season with four new players and two new coaches joining the team for the 2025 spring season
• The new players consist of three true freshmen in Zaid Al Mashni, Amir Milushev, and Worthington, and one transfer in Luethi
• Two new coaches will join Coach Glavin on the sideline as Sonam Phuntsok came to Wichita State after serving as an assistant at New Mexico and Joan Grosset moved to Wichita after one year coaching at the University of Omaha

Scouting Tulsa

• Tulsa is led by 34^th-year head coach Vince Westbrook
• The Golden Hurricane are 12-12 on the year and 10-4 at home
• Tulsa enters the weekend having won three in a row
• Tulsa is 5-5 in their last ten matches
• The Golden Hurricane are 3-1 against AAC teams this season with the lone loss coming at No. 25 South Florida

Series History vs. Tulsa

• The all-time series between the teams is tied 22-22
• The Shockers are 0-3 against Tulsa in the Glavin era
• Tulsa beat the Shockers twice last season, including beating the Shockers 4-1 on April 18 in the AAC Championship
• The Golden Hurricane have won six in a row in the series, eight of the last ten, and 18 of the last 20 meetings in the series

Oral Roberts Notes

• Oral Roberts is led by head coach Mark Milner
• ORU is 5-15 on the year and has lost six matches in a row
• The Golden Eagles are 3-3 at home this year but haven't won at home since March 5

Series History vs. Oral Roberts

• WSU is an undefeated 29-0 all-time against Oral Roberts
• This meeting will only be the second meeting in the series being played at Oral Roberts
• The Shockers are 1-0 against ORU in the Glavin era

Next Up
The Shockers travel to Oklahoma State to take on the Cowboys at 5:30 PM at Greenwood Tennis Center in Stillwater, Okla.