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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.
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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.