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ROCK HILL, S.C. – Big South champion Winthrop heads to Chapel Hill, N.C. to begin play in the 2019 NCAA Tournament Saturday, facing Oklahoma at 10 a.m. at University of North Carolina's Cone Kenfield Tennis Center. The Eagles are making their 17^th NCAA Tournament appearance in program history.
                   

Winthrop vs. Oklahoma – NCAA Tournament First Round
Date	Saturday, May 4, 10 a.m.
Location	Chapel Hill, N.C. – Cone Kenfield Tennis Center
Live Scoring	Statbroadcast.com
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Admission	$9 for an All-Session Pass  $5 for single-session  $3 for college students/kids 6-17
Twitter	@WinthropWTennis
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EAGLE HIGHLIGHTS
-Lauren Proctor earning her fourth-consecutive Player of the Year award highlighted a bevy of Big South Conference awards for the Eagles in 2019. Cid Carvalho was named Coach of the Year, four Eagles (Proctor, Alisa Soloveva, Rafaela Santos and Ellie Burns) earned All-Conference in singles, and all three Winthrop doubles duos earned All-Conference honors (Proctor and Megan Kauffman, Soloveva/Santos, Burns/Tayla Van Eck).
 
-With an undefeated 9-0 record, Winthrop won its 20^th regular season Big South title in 2019 and went unbeaten in league play for a second-consecutive season. The Eagles went on to win their 21^st overall Big South Conference Championship title to earn the league's automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament.
 
-Four Eagles ended the regular season undefeated in Big South singles play: Burns (8-0), Proctor (9-0), Santos (9-0) and Soloveva (9-0).
 
-Proctor owns a 20-2 record, reaching the 20 win mark every year of her Winthrop career.
 
-Soloveva was nothing but dominant in 2019, putting up a 17-match winning streak in her 18-1 overall record.
 
QUOTABLE

"I think it's very exciting. Every time we win the conference and participate in the NCAA Tournament it's always the highlight of our season. It's always prestigious and an honor to go play and represent Winthrop and the Big South in the tournament. Our girls really believe we can do well. I think winning the first round last year gave us an extra belief that we can do it again. We go in there with high expectations to do the best that we can but we know that we are facing a team that has beaten us 4-0 in the beginning of the season so we are going to have to step up and play really tough tennis to beat them."

-Head Coach Cid Carvalho

  
NATIONAL RANKINGS
In the latest ITA/Oracle Division I National Rankings released May 1, Megan Kauffman and Lauren Proctor are at No. 44 in the nation in the doubles rankings, while Proctor is No. 55 in the singles list. 
 
THE MATCH-UP
-Oklahoma is currently ranked No. 32 in the ITA/Oracle Division I Team rankings with a 16-8 overall record, 5-4 in the Big 12 Conference. The squad earned an at-large bid into the NCAA Tournament, with 2019 marking the program's 11^th all-time NCAA appearance.  
 
-OU boasts one ranked singles player in Oleksandra Korashvili at No. 26 as well as one ranked doubles duo in Ivana Corley and Jasmine Asghar at No. 67. Korashvili was named Big 12 Newcomer of the Year as well as to the All-Big 12 Singles First Team.
 
-The Sooners defeated Winthrop 4-0 at the beginning of the season at the ITA Kick-off Weekend in Nashville, Tenn. OU won the doubles point with wins on two courts, then won three singles courts for the victory, however the Eagles were taking the remaining three singles courts to third sets as the match went unfinished.   
 
THE REST OF THE REGIONAL
-Host North Carolina is the No. 2 overall seed and currently ranked No. 1 in the nation. The Tar Heels will play MEAC champion South Carolina State at 1 p.m. in the second match of the day Saturday with the winners of each match advancing to Sunday's second round. Start time for Sunday's second round is set for 1 p.m. in Chapel Hill.

NCAA TOURNAMENT HISTORY
-Winthrop made program history in 2018 with its first-ever win in the NCAA Tournament, defeating No. 20 Auburn 4-3 in Atlanta, Ga. to advance to the second round.