ROCHESTER, Mich. - The Oakland women's tennis team concludes the non-conference portion of the season with a dual match at Bowling Green on Friday, March 13 at 1 p.m. at the Perrysburg Tennis Center.
 
Notes:
- Oakland is 6-4 overall while Bowling Green is 6-3 with a perfect 3-0 mark at home. The Falcons won the only meeting between the two schools with a 9-0 decision during the 1988-89 season.
 
- Bowling Green is the fifth school from the Mid-American Conference (MAC) Oakland has played this season so far. The Golden Grizzlies are 3-2 against MAC opponents after dropping a hard fought 4-3 decision to Western Michigan (1/18) followed by a 5-2 road win over Akron (1/26) and 6-1 home victory against Toledo (2/9). Oakland dropped a 7-0 decision at Ball State (2/16) and secured a 4-3 win at Eastern Michigan last week (3/6).
 
- Ava Thielman leads the team with an 8-2 mark at No. 1 singles followed by Aarja Chakraborty at 5-3. Thielman and Victoria Kurz lead the way at No. 1 doubles with a 5-3 record while Nirva Patel and Chakraborty are also 5-3 overall.
 
- In Oakland's 4-3 win at EMU, Samantha Galloway and Alexandra Whall had no trouble shutting out Morgan Ingram and Emma-Lou Pommiers (6-0) at the No. 3 spot. After EMU won at the No. 2 position, it came down to Thielman and Victoria Kurz who outlasted Marie Mayerova and Julia Piatek (6-4) at No. 1 position to secure the doubles point and move ahead 1-0.
 
In singles play, Thielman downed Mayerova (6-2, 6-2) at the No. 1 spot while Darya Maltseva took out Isabelle Popma (6-4, 6-2) at No. 3 followed by Chakraborty who rolled past Ingram (6-1, 6-0) to secure the match.
 
- Thielman was named the Nike® Horizon League Singles Player of the Week the conference announced on Tuesday. Thielman went 3-1 at the No. 1 singles position helping Oakland to a 2-2 road swing mark with 7-0 wins over Bethune-Cookman and Florida A&M. Her three wins all came in straight sets beginning with Bethune-Cookman's Afrika Smith (6-0, 6-2) followed by defeating Stetson's Danel Ashirova (6-4, 6-3) in the Golden Grizzlies hard fought 4-3 setback to the Hatters. Thielman's third win came over Florida A&M's Haleigh Porter (6-0, 6-2).
 
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