No. 16 Buckeyes Travel for Matches at Iowa and Nebraska

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The No. 16-ranked Ohio State women's tennis team (13-6, 6-1 B1G) will travel west this weekend for its final two road matches of the regular season. The Buckeyes will take on Iowa (9-9, 4-3 B1G) at 6 p.m. ET Friday in Iowa City, Iowa, and will go up against Nebraska (10-8, 1-6 B1G) at noon ET Sunday in Lincoln, Neb.

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In the Rankings

The Buckeyes are 16th in the ITA team rankings this week. The squad has been in the Top 16 all spring, reaching a season-high No. 7 Feb. 20.
In the most recent singles rankings, Irina Cantos Siemers is No. 15, with Luciana Perry No. 47 and Sydni Ratliff No. 113.
In doubles, Ohio State has four duos in the rankings: No. 25 Perry/Ratliff, No. 31 Perry/Cantos Siemers, No. 66 Teah Chavez/Cantos Siemers and No. 80 Audrey Spencer/Perry.

Buckeyes vs. Hawkeyes

The Buckeyes are 28-23 all-time vs. Iowa, with wins in the last 10 matches.

Last season, Ohio State posted a 4-0 win over the Hawkeyes April 9, 2023 in Columbus.
The last match on the Hawkeyes' courts was a 6-1 Buckeye victory March 18, 2022.
Iowa, ranked 61st this week, is 9-9 on the year, with a 4-3 conference record. The team has B1G wins over Indiana, Nebraska, Illinois and Rutgers and losses to Northwestern, Wisconsin and Minnesota.

Buckeyes vs. Huskers

The Buckeyes have an all-time mark of 11-7 vs. Nebraska, with a 9-3 record since the Huskers joined the Big Ten.
In 2023, Ohio State downed Nebraska 4-0 April 7 in Columbus. The previous three matches were all in Lincoln, with the last a 4-3 Buckeye victory March 20, 2022.

Nebraska is 10-8 overall on the year and has a 1-6 B1G record. The Huskers will host Penn State Friday before the match vs. the Buckeyes Sunday. In league play, Nebraska defeated Minnesota, with losses to Maryland, Iowa, Northwestern, Illinois, Wisconsin and Purdue.

Buckeye This and That

Ohio State enters the weekend 13-6 on the year and is 6-1 in B1G play. The squad has won its last six matches, all league contests. The Buckeyes played one match last week, downing Penn State 7-0 April 3.
Four of the Buckeyes' last five wins have been shutouts and the squad has eight shutout wins on the year.
Irina Cantos Siemers and Shelly Bereznyak share the team lead with 11 singles wins in dual play, followed by Audrey Spencer with eight dual match victories. Luciana Perry and Sydni Ratliff have each posted seven wins this spring.
Bereznyak has won her last 11 completed matches, with all 11 wins in straight sets.

The Buckeyes are 11-5 on court one this spring, with an 11-3 record on court five. Ohio State has picked up nine wins on courts three and six, with seven victories from courts two and four.
In doubles, court one is 10-4, with court two 8-5 and court three 6-6. Ohio State has won the doubles point 12 times.
Cantos Siemers broke the Buckeyes' all-time singles wins record in the match vs. UCLA Feb. 4. She now has 119 total singles wins and moved into eighth place in career doubles victories with 91.
Cantos Siemers' 210 combined singles/doubles wins are second all-time behind Miho Kowase (2014-17), who had 213.
Melissa Schaub, in her 12th year as head coach of the Buckeyes, is 233-78 in her career. She broke the program record for all-time coaching wins with a victory over UCLA Feb. 4.

The Schedule Ahead

The regular season ends with home matches against Northwestern at 4 p.m. April 19 and Illinois at noon April 21 on Senior Day.
Admission and parking are free for all regular season matches in the Ty Tucker Tennis Center and Auer Tennis Complex.

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