No. 12 Buckeyes Head to ITA National Indoors

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The No. 12-ranked Ohio State women's tennis team heads to Seattle this week for the ITA National Team Indoor Championship. The Buckeyes (5-1) will take on No. 7 seed Georgia (2-2) in the opening round at 3 p.m. ET Friday and then go up against No. 2 seed Stanford (5-0) or Florida (4-1) Saturday. Main draw semifinals and more consolation matches will be held Sunday. The final is set for Monday. Each team is guaranteed three matches.

Video and live scoring for all matches will be available. Schedule and links to follow along are here. Matches will be in the Seattle Tennis Club and the Nordstrom Tennis Center.

Record Breaker Cantos Siemers Earns Second B1G Athlete of the Week Accolades

For the second week in a row, captain and graduate student Irina Cantos Siemers was named the Big Ten Athlete of the Week. She was 4-0 last weekend and set the program record for career singles wins.
It was the fifth career weekly conference honor for Cantos Siemers.
On court one, Cantos Siemers was a straight set winner against both Duke and UCLA in singles. She and Audrey Spencer paired up for doubles wins on court two vs. both the Blue Devils and Bruins.
She now has 113 total singles wins, moving ahead of Miho Kowase who had 112 from 2014-17.
Her 199 combined singles/doubles wins rank third all-time, with Kowase first (213) and Sandy Niehaus (2014-17) second (204).
In singles, Cantos Siemers leads the Buckeyes with a 5-0 dual match record this spring and is first on the squad with a 17-7 overall mark.

In the Rankings

Singles and doubles rankings were released by the ITA for the first time in 2024 Wednesday.
In singles, Irina Cantos Siemers maintained her spot in the Top 15, moving up one to 14th. Luciana Perry is No. 73 and Sydni Ratliff is No. 123.
In doubles, Ohio State has four ranked pairs: No. 17 Perry/Cantos Siemers, No. 22 Cantos/Ratliff, No. 24 Perry/Ratliff and No. 50 Audrey Spencer/Perry.
Updated team rankings were not released this week. Ohio State was No. 12 in the Jan. 31 edition of the poll.

Buckeyes vs. Bulldogs

Ohio State is 1-3 vs. Georgia, including a 4-0 win over the Bulldogs in Columbus last season.
In 2023, Irina Cantos Siemers and Sydni Ratliff paired up for a doubles win vs. Georgia and each also won in singles. Current junior Shelly Bereznyak also captured a doubles victory.
The Buckeyes fell 7-0 on the road at Georgia in 2022. The Bulldogs eliminated the Buckeyes from the 2000 NCAA Tournament in the second round with a 5-0 win in Athens, Ga., and in March 1983 Georgia posted a 9-0 win over Ohio State in a neutral site match in Altamonte Springs, Fla.
Georgia, the No. 7 seed at National Indoors, is 2-2 this spring, with wins over South Florida and South Carolina and losses to North Carolina and Texas. The squad was ranked fourth last week.

Buckeye This and That

Melissa Schaub, in her 12th year as head coach of the Buckeyes, is 225-74 in her career. She broke the program record for all-time coaching wins Sunday. The record of 224 was set by Chuck Merzbacher from 1997-2012.
Ohio State is 5-1 on the year and just wrapped up a four-match homestand when it posted 4-0 wins in all four matches. The squad defeated Notre Dame, Arizona State, Duke and UCLA in the stretch.
The season started with a road win over Oklahoma before a loss at Oklahoma State.
Cantos Siemers leads the Buckeyes with a 5-0 singles mark this spring, while Sydni Ratliff (3-1) and Shelly Bereznyak (3-2) both have three wins. Freshmen Audrey Spencer and Luciana Perry each have 2-1 marks and their classmate Teah Chavez is 1-1.
In doubles, Perry and Ratliff are a team-best 5-0 in dual matches, with Cantos Siemers and Spencer 4-1.
Ohio State has captured the doubles point in each of its last five matches.

The Schedule Ahead

A road match at No. 24 Arizona State is set for Feb. 25 and the Buckeyes will then return home for three matches in the Ty Tucker Tennis Center. After facing nonconference foes No. 21 Washington March 3 and No. 6 Pepperdine March 8, Big Ten play opens with a match vs. No. 5 Michigan March 15.
Admission and parking are free for all regular season matches in the Ty Tucker Tennis Center.

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