MATCH INFORMATION
 
WICHITA STATE (11-10) AT OKLAHOMA STATE (8-13)
Wednesday, April 9 | 5:30 PM CT
Stillwater, Okla. | Greenwood Tennis Center
 
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Live Video: Playsight

Openers

• Wichita State men's tennis is in its third season under head coach Darragh Glavin
• The Shockers are 11-10 and enter after beating Oral Roberts, 4-0, on April 6
• Wichita State has won six of their last eight matches dating back to March 16
• WSU is 5-6 on the road this season
• The Shockers surpassed last season's win total of five with a win on March 16 over Charlotte and doubled their win total from last year with a 4-3 victory over UT Arlington on March 26

By the Numbers

• Ilias Worthington leads the team in singles wins with 13 and the freshman is 6-3 in his last ten decisions
• 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 13
• The Shockers are 62-46 in singles as a team and 28-28 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 Oklahoma State

• Oklahoma State is led by third-year head coach Dustin Taylor
• The Cowboys are 8-13 overall this year and 5-2 at home 
• OSU enters after losing 4-1 to Baylor on April 6
• Oklahoma State has lost five of their last six matches
• The Cowboys are 2-1 against AAC teams this year, beating Tulsa and Rice, and losing to Memphis

Series History vs. Oklahoma State

• Oklahoma State leads the all-time series with Wichita State 26-13
• The Shockers are 0-2 against Oklahoma State in the Glavin era
• Oklahoma State has won the last 14 meetings in the series
• Wichita State's last win came on April 3, 1996, 4-3 in Wichita
• WSU is 2-17 all-time playing OSU in Stillwater

Next Up
The Shockers travel to Murfreesboro, Tenn., to face No. 44 Middle Tennessee State on April 13 at MTSU Tennis Complex.