#2 Ohio State Faces Off with Penn State on the Road
4/7/2022 11:14:17 AM | Men's Tennis
#2 Ohio State vs. Penn State
Dates: April 9, 2022
Time: 12 p.m.
Venue: Penn State Indoor Tennis Center – State College, Pa.
Live Scoring: Live Scoring
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Rosters: Ohio State | Penn State
Rankings: ITA Rankings
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The No. 2 ranked Ohio State men’s tennis team is 4-0 in Big Ten play and enters this third consecutive Big Ten road match at 19-2 on the season. The Buckeyes are coming off two 4-0 road sweeps vs. Indiana and Purdue.
- Ohio State is 4-0 in Big Ten play this season.
- Ohio State and Penn State will meet for the 39th
- The Buckeyes are 32-6 vs. the Nittany Lions all time with their first matchup dating back to the 1985 season.
- The Buckeyes have not lost to the Nittany Lions since 1999 and have won 24 straight matches.
- Head coach Ty Tucker is undefeated vs. Penn State.
- Penn State is 10-9 on the season and 7-2 at home.
- Penn State is on a three-match win streak with their two most recent wins also being against Indiana and Purdue.
- Jake Van Emburgh earned a spot in the singles top 125 (No. 106) for the first time this season after two-straight undefeated weekends.
- Six Buckeyes are ranked in the ITA singles rankings – No. 9 Matej Vocel (prev. No. 7), No. 12 Cannon Kingsley (prev. No. 10), No. 20 JJ Tracy (prev. No. 20), No. 42 James Trotter (prev. No. 42), No. 106 Jake Van Emburgh (prev. NR), and No. 115 Robert Cash (prev. No. 63).
- Ohio State is the only team in the country with three players in the singles Top 25.
- In doubles, Ohio State holds the top ranked position with No. 1 Vocel and Cash as well as the tenth ranked position with No. 10 Trotter and Justin Boulais.
- Vocel and Cash have held the No. 1 doubles ranking since the start of the year.
- Ohio State is the only team in the country with two duos ranked in the Top 10.
- Vocel leads the team in combined wins with a total of 50 – he is 24-4 in singles and 26-3 in doubles.
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