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COLUMBUS, Ohio – The No. 8-ranked Ohio State women’s tennis team (15-3, 12-1 B1G) hosts two Big Ten Conference matches this weekend. The Buckeyes will take on Minnesota (3-10, 3-10 B1G) at noon Friday and Wisconsin (8-7, 7-6 B1G) at noon Sunday. Both matches are scheduled to be played outdoors at the Auer Tennis Complex. In the event of inclement weather, they will be moved inside the Ty Tucker Tennis Center. There is no general public ticket availability for the Buckeyes’ home matches.
In the Rankings
This week, the ITA released Top 50 rankings both computer based and via a coaches poll. Ohio State is eighth in both rankings.
Buckeye This and That
Ohio State is 5-2 on the year and opened Big Ten play with wins over Purdue (6-1) and Indiana (7-0) last weekend.
In the two matches last weekend, Lucia Marzal and Lisa Hofbauer each posted 2-0 records in both singles and doubles for the Buckeyes. Kolie Allen, Luna Dormet and Irina Cantos Siemers were all 2-0 in singles and Isabelle Boulais was 2-0 in doubles.
The Buckeyes moved to No. 8 in the ITA Tennis rankings this week (from No. 10). The squad started the year at No. 13.
Against Purdue last Friday, freshman Madeline Atway paired with Isabelle Boulais for a doubles win, marking Atway’s first collegiate doubles dual match victory. Her classmate, Tanisha Kashyap, posted a victory in singles against the Boilermakers for her first collegiate singles dual match win.
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The No. 10-ranked Ohio State women’s tennis team opens its Big Ten season with two home matches this weekend. The Buckeyes (3-2) host Purdue (0-0) at 10 a.m. Friday and Indiana (0-0) at noon Sunday in the Ty Tucker Tennis Center. Live streaming and live scoring will be available at the links above. There is no general public admission for the matches.
Buckeye This and That
Ohio State is 3-2 on the year, with home wins over Syracuse and then-No. 10 Virginia on ITA Kickoff Weekend and a victory against No. 6 Georgia Tech at the ITA Indoor Team National Championship last weekend, along with losses to No. 1 North Carolina and No. 10 Northwestern at ITA Indoors.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Irina Cantos Siemers, a sophomore on the No. 9 Ohio State women’s tennis team, has been named the UTR ITA Player of the Week, the Intercollegiate Tennis Association announced Thursday. Cantos Siemers, from Barcelona, Spain, posted three wins to help the Buckeyes advance to the ITA National Team Indoor Championship.
Playing court two for the Buckeyes, Cantos Siemers, ranked 78th, posted a three-set win over No. 11-ranked Natasha Subhash of Virginia, tying the team score at two en route to a 4-2 Buckeye victory Sunday. In singles Saturday, Cantos Siemers led No. 121 Viktoriya Kanapatskaya of Syracuse, 6-2, 4-4, when the Buckeyes clinched the 4-0 team victory and her match was suspended.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – The No. 13-ranked Ohio State women’s tennis team begins dual match play at the new Ty Tucker Tennis Center in Columbus this weekend, hosting four ITA Kickoff Weekend matches.
The Buckeyes (0-0) will take on Syracuse (0-0) at 9 a.m. Saturday, followed by a match between No. 10 Virginia (0-0) and Tennessee (3-0) at noon. The winners will meet in the championship match at 1 p.m. Sunday, preceded by the consolation match at 10 a.m.
There will be no general public access to the event in Columbus; live scoring and video will be available for all six courts. In addition, Cracked Racquets will be providing play-by-play commentary on its YouTube stream and switching from site to site to create the “RedZone of college tennis” throughout the weekend.