The Jayhawk Tennis Center at Lawrence Sports Pavilion on the west side of town will be the host site for this week’s men’s and women’s Big 12 tennis championships.
The event got under way on Thursday morning, with seventh-seeded Baylor sweeping Kansas State and No. 8 seed TCU sweeping West Virginia.
Those two schools advanced to Friday’s quarterfinals, where they will face top-seeded Texas and No. 2 seed Oklahoma.
The sixth-seeded KU women will open play in the 10-team event at Noon on Friday with a match against No. 3 seed Iowa State.
KU does not have a men’s team, and the men’s bracket, which features just six programs, will not get under way until Friday morning.
Kansas and Iowa State met once earlier this season, with the Cyclones winning six of seven matches.
The Jayhawks, who entered the week ranked No. 22, lost to No. 16 Oklahoma, 4-2, on senior day last week. The loss dropped Kansas to 14-6 overall and 4-5 in Big 12 play.
KU seniors Roxana Manu and Malkia Ngounoue were honored during their last regular season home matches, and the two will look to prolong their KU home-court careers deep into the weekend.
In other Big 12 competitions this weekend, the Kansas women’s golf team, fresh off of its runner-up finish at the Big 12 match play tournament, will compete at the Big 12 Conference Championship at the Dallas Athletic Club.
The nine-team field, 54-hole tournament will consist of three 18-hole rounds.
KU will be paired with Kansas State and Oklahoma for Round 1 on Friday, and the three teams will tee off at 10 a.m. Tee times for the second and third rounds will begin at 8 a.m. and pairings will be determined by how the teams rank from the previous rounds.
KU will send six golfers to Dallas this weekend, with graduate transfer Esme Hamilton joining super-senior Abby Glynn, sophomores Jordan Rothman, Johanna Ebner and Lauren Clark and freshman Anna Wallin.
