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COLUMBUS, Ohio – After winning two NCAA matches in Columbus, the Ohio State women’s tennis team (23-3) now heads to the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Fla., site of the NCAA Championships. The No. 15 seed Buckeyes will face No. 2 Texas at 1 p.m. Sunday. The winner of that match will take on the winner of a match between No. 7 Florida State and No. 10 Texas A&M in the quarterfinals Wednesday. The semifinals will be Friday May 21, with the championship Saturday May 22. Live scoring will be available for all matches, with matches either streamed through the TennisOne app or televised by Tennis Channel. Tournament Central
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – The No. 15 seed Ohio State women’s tennis team advanced to the second round of the NCAA Championship, as it downed UIC, 4-0, Friday at the Auer Tennis Complex in Columbus. The Buckeyes, now 22-3 on the year, will face Vanderbilt, which defeated Ball State 4-0 in the first round Friday, at noon Saturday for a spot in the Round of 16. Tournament Central
The Buckeyes won the doubles point and three straight-set singles matches vs. the Flames (19-6). Lucia Marzal and Irina Cantos Siemers won in both singles and doubles, with freshman Madeline Atway’s singles victory clinching the team win. Lisa Hofbauer and Luna Dormet also won in doubles.
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The No. 9-ranked Ohio State women’s tennis team is slated to host nine Big Ten matches, and travel for seven B1G contests, during the 2021 regular season, the conference announced.
The Buckeyes are 2-0 this season after winning twice during ITA Kickoff Weekend to earn a spot at the eight-team ITA National Team Indoor Championship, which will be held Friday through Monday in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
After National Indoors, Ohio State is slated for 16 consecutive Big Ten contests. Conference play starts with home matches against Purdue Feb. 13 and Indiana Feb. 14, followed by a road trip for matchups with Maryland and Rutgers Feb. 20-21.
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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.