No. 7 Buckeyes Host Wildcats, Travel to Face Boilermakers
4/7/2022 3:20:17 PM | Women's Tennis
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The No. 7 Ohio State women’s tennis team will host Northwestern at 3 p.m. Friday before hitting the road to play at Purdue at noon Sunday in West Lafayette, Ind. The Buckeyes enter the match Friday 12-4 overall and 5-0 in Big Ten play, while Northwestern is 11-5 on the year and 6-0 in league action. Purdue is 10-7 overall and has a 2-3 B1G ledger.
Live scoring and video will be available for the match in Columbus and for the match in Purdue if it is played indoors.
The match Friday in Columbus will be played INSIDE the Ty Tucker Tennis Center. Admission and parking are free on match day.
Ohio State vs. Northwestern: Live Scoring | Indoor Video
Ohio State at Purdue: Scoring | Video | Cracked Racquets Big Ten CrossCourt Cast (Video and stats only available at Purdue if indoors)
Ohio State vs. Northwestern
- Ohio State and Northwestern each have five wins in the last 10 matches between the teams, with the Buckeyes 3-1 in Columbus in the stretch.
- The Buckeyes and Wildcats only met in a nonconference match last season, with Northwestern winning 4-3 in consolation play of ITA National Team Indoors in Stillwater, Okla., Feb. 7, 2021. The Wildcats won the doubles point and Buckeye Luna Dormet tied the match with a straight-set victory on court six. The remaining five matches went to a third set, with four first set wins by the Buckeyes. Ohio State went ahead 3-1, as Irina Cantos Siemers won on court one and Isabelle Boulais was victorious on court two. Northwestern won the final three matches, overcoming first-set losses on courts three, four and five. The team point came down to a third-set tiebreaker on court five.
- In the last Big Ten match between the teams, Ohio State and Northwestern met in Columbus March 7, 2020, with the Buckeyes winning, 5-2. Coming from behind after losing the doubles point, the Buckeyes took over in singles to claim the victory with five singles wins, including from current Buckeyes Kolie Allen, Dormet and Cantos Siemers.
- Northwestern is No. 37 in this week’s ITA rankings. Clarissa Hand is No. 118 in singles and is No. 78 in doubles, paired with Maria Shusharina.
- The Wildcats are 11-5 on the year and 6-0 in the Big Ten, with wins over Wisconsin, Minnesota, Rutgers, Maryland, Nebraska and Iowa.
Ohio State vs. Purdue
- Ohio State is 33-23 all-time vs. Purdue, with wins in the last 10 matches.
- The teams opened Big Ten play last year, with Ohio State winning 6-1 in Columbus. Ohio State captured the doubles point and five singles victories for the B1G win. Of the current Buckeyes, Lucia Marzal won in singles and doubles for Ohio State, while Irina Cantos Siemers and Kolie Allen all won in singles and Madeline Atway and Isabelle Boulais paired up for a doubles win.
- Purdue is 10-7 this year, with a 2-3 record in Big Ten play. The team has B1G wins over Michigan State and Iowa and losses to Michigan, Nebraska and Indiana.
- The Boilermakers will play at Illinois Friday before hosting the Buckeyes Sunday.
In the Rankings
- Ohio State moved to No. 7 in the ITA team rankings this week after five weeks at No. 4 and then one week in the No. 8 spot.
- In the Tennis Channel/USTA College Tennis Top 25 this week, Ohio State is No. 9.
- Eight of the teams the Buckeyes have faced so far this season were ranked in the ITA Top 15 this week (three in the Top 10) – No. 1 North Carolina, No. 3 North Carolina State, No. 6 Pepperdine, No. 13 Auburn, No. 11 Georgia, No. 12 Oklahoma State, No. 10 Duke and No. 15 Florida.
- Three Buckeyes and a doubles team are in the ITA individual rankings released this week. Junior Irina Cantos Siemers is seventh, while senior Isabelle Boulais is No. 32 and freshman Sydni Ratliff is No. 56. The duo of Cantos Siemers and Ratliff is No. 22.
Buckeye This and That
- Ohio State was 2-0 against the teams from Michigan last weekend in Columbus, defeating the Wolverines 4-3 and the Spartans 4-0 Friday and Sunday, respectively.
- In the match against the Wolverines, the Buckeyes led 2-0 after earning the doubles point and a straight-set victory from Irina Cantos Siemers. Michigan won three straight singles matches to go ahead 3-2, with the remaining two matches in a third set. Lucia Marzal and Sydni Ratliff both prevailed in the final set, 6-4, to clinch the win for Ohio State. A singles win from Cantos Siemers, along with the doubles point from victories by the duos of Isabelle Boulais and Kathleen Jones and Marzal and Cantos Siemers, contributed to the team win.
- Against Michigan State, Ratliff and Cantos Siemers both posted singles and doubles wins, while Boulais also won in singles and Jones and Marzal were part of doubles victories.
- The Buckeyes are 5-0 in Big Ten play, with road wins over Penn State, Nebraska and Iowa and the home victories over Michigan and Michigan State.
- The Buckeyes are 5-0 at home this year.
- Ratliff was named Big Ten Athlete of the Week for the third time this season after clinching both victories last weekend and chipping in a doubles win.
- Cantos Siemers leads the Buckeyes with 12 singles wins in dual play, with Isabelle Boulais second with 11 and Sydni Ratliff right behind with 10.
- Overall this season, Cantos Siemers is first with 27 singles victories. Ratliff is second with 20, followed by Lucia Marzal with 17 and Boulais with 14.
- In doubles dual matches, Ratliff and Cantos Siemers each have a team-high nine wins and Boulais is third with eight.
- In singles, Ohio State has compiled a 12-4 record on court two and is 11-4 on courts one and four. Eight wins have come from courts three and six, with six from court five. In doubles, court three is 10-6, with court two 8-6 and court one 6-7.
- Ohio State has won the doubles point in six of its last seven matches.
The Schedule Ahead
- Ohio State will play at Minnesota April 15 and at Wisconsin April 17.
- The regular season ends with matches at home against Maryland at 6 p.m. April 22 and Rutgers at noon April 24.
- Admission is free to all regular season home matches and live video and scoring will be available.
- FULL SCHEDULE
No videos available.
