Kansas Tennis Takes Down Wichita State and Omaha to Move to 5-0

Friday, January 31

Jayhawk Tennis Center

11 a.m. CT

University of Kansas

Wichita State

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Kansas Tennis Takes Down Wichita State and Omaha to Move to 5-0

1/31/2025 7:38:00 PM | Women's Tennis

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LAWRENCE, Kan. – The Kansas women's tennis team defeated Wichita State (5-2) and Omaha (7-0) Friday to move to 5-0 on the season. The 5-0 start is the program's best start since the 2015-16 season.

"It was a great battle this morning with Wichita State. They gave us everything that we could handle and we were fortunate to come out on the positive side of things," head coach Todd Chapman said. "Credit to Omaha, I thought they competed really hard tonight. They gave us nothing for free and we had to earn the second match as well. At the end of the day, it just comes down to competing and fighting and the tennis will get better. But those were things that we hope are staples of our program, so it was good to see that. We're excited about where we are at this point, and we're gonna rest up the next couple days and get ready for two tough matches next weekend."

Kansas opened up the day by winning the doubles point against Wichita State. The pair of Gracie Mulville and Heike Janse Van Vuuren, ranked No. 53, won their fourth match of the season by defeating Xin Tong Wang and Giorgia Roselli, 6-3. Yerkezhan Arystanbekova and Maria Titova paired up for the first time this season and moved to 1-0 by defeating Sati Aubakirova and Anne Knuettel, 6-3. The Jasmine Adams and Kyoka Kubo match against Kristina Kudryavtseva and Theodora Chantava went unfinished as the match was tied at 5-5.

The Jayhawks had several hard fought wins in singles action, winning four out of the six matches. In No. 1 singles, Mulville defeated Roselli 6-2, 6-3. No. 6 singles finished second, with Arystanbekova defeating Tatyana Nikolenko 7-5, 6-2. In No. 3 singles, Kubo defeated Kudryavtseva 7-6 (7), 3-6, 6-1 to secure the victory for the Jayhawks. Play continued with Titova falling to No. 62 Wang 7-5, 2-6, 4-6. In No. 5 singles, Adams faced off against Knuettel and won in three sets, 4-6, 7-5, 6-2. The last match to finish was in No. 4 singles, as Meriem Ben Ezzedine fell to Chantava 2-6, 7-6 (7), 3-6.

Action resumed in the afternoon, as Kansas took on the Omaha Mavericks. The Jayhawks dominated doubles matches, winning all three. In No. 2 doubles, Kubo and Adams paired up to defeat Khayli Buckels and Summer Shannon 6-2. In No. 3 doubles, the pair of Arystanbekova and Anna Putilina defeated Katelynn Kock and Keegan VanPelt 6-2, securing the doubles point for the Jayhawks, which Kansas has won in all five matches this season. Mulville and Van Vuuren move to 5-0 on the season, as they defeated Zoe Adkins and Paula Arcarons 6-3 in No. 1 doubles. The last doubles pair to start 5-0 or better was Nina Khmelnitckaia and Janet Koch in 2019.

Singles action followed, with Kansas taking all six matches. In No. 1 singles, Mulville moved to 4-0 on the season by defeating Adkins 6-1, 6-2. In No. 2 singles, Kubo also moved to 4-0 in her sophomore season by defeating Arcarons 6-3, 6-1. Kansas won the match with Putilina's win over VanPelt 6-4, 6-3 in No. 6 singles. Play continued with Van Vuuren defeating Buckels 6-3, 7-6 (7) in No. 3 singles. In No. 4 singles, Ben Ezzedine defeated Nina Weise 6-4, 7-5. In No. 5 singles, Arystanbekova moved to 2-0 on the season by defeating Kock 7-6 (7), 6-4 to wrap up singles matches.

Up Next
The Jayhawks will return to the Jayhawk Tennis Center for two matches this weekend against Wisconsin on Feb. 7 and Arkansas on Feb. 9.