No. 15 Buckeyes Close Regular Season at Home

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The No. 15-ranked Ohio State women's tennis team (15-6, 8-1 B1G) wraps up the regular season with two home matches this weekend. The Buckeyes will face Northwestern (17-5, 8-1 B1G) at 4 p.m. Friday and Illinois (15-7, 7-2 B1G) at noon Sunday. Both matches are scheduled to be played outside at the Auer Tennis Complex. Admission and parking are free to all regular season matches.

Prior to Sunday's match, the Buckeyes' senior trio of Madeline Atway, Akanksha Bhan and Irina Cantos Siemers will be recognized.

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In the Rankings

The Buckeyes are 15th in the ITA team rankings this week. The squad has been in the Top 16 all spring, reaching a season high of No. 7 Feb. 20.
In the most recent singles rankings, Irina Cantos Siemers is No. 17, with Luciana Perry No. 51 and Sydni Ratliff No. 119.
In doubles, Ohio State has four duos in the rankings: No. 23 Perry/Ratliff, No. 34 Perry/Cantos Siemers, No. 68 Teah Chavez/Cantos Siemers and No. 71 Audrey Spencer/Perry.

Buckeyes vs. Wildcats

Ohio State is 5-5 vs. Northwestern in the last 10 matches between the teams, with a 3-1 mark in the last four matchups.
Last year, the Buckeyes were 4-0 winners over the Wildcats on the road March 26, 2023.
The last match in Columbus was a 5-2 Buckeye victory April 8, 2022.

Northwestern is 34th in the ITA team rankings this week. Justine Leong is No. 104 in singles and pairs with Christina Hand to form the 55th-ranked doubles team.
The Wildcats are 17-5 on the year. The squad is 8-1 in B1G action, with wins over Rutgers, Maryland, Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Purdue and Indiana and a loss to Illinois.

\Buckeyes vs. Illini

The Buckeyes and Illinois have not met in the regular season since 2019. Ohio State is 7-1 in the last eight matches vs. the Illini.
The squads met in the Big Ten Tournament semifinals last year, with Ohio State posting a 4-0 victory.
The last regular season match was in Columbus April 21, 2019, when Illinois posted a 4-2 victory.
The Illini are ranked 35th this week, with two ranked doubles teams – No. 72 Katherine Duong and Megan Heuser and No. 73 Heuser and Alice Xu.
Illinois is 15-7 overall this year and 7-2 in Big Ten play. In conference action, the Illini have topped Maryland, Rutgers, Nebraska, Northwestern, Minnesota, Indiana and Purdue, with losses to Iowa and Wisconsin. The squad will play at Penn State Friday before traveling to Columbus.

Buckeye This and That

Ten Buckeyes were recognized as Ohio State Scholar-Athletes earlier this week – Madeline Atway, Megan Basil, Shelly Bereznyak, Akanksha Bhan, Irina Cantos Siemers, Alessia Cau, Luciana Perry, Sydni Ratliff, Dani Schoenly and Audrey Spencer.
Cantos was also named a finalist for the prestigious Big Ten Medal of Honor, awarded to the top male and female senior student-athlete on each Big Ten campus.
Ohio State enters the weekend 15-6 on the year and is 8-1 in B1G play. The squad has won its last eight matches, all league contests. The Buckeyes posted 4-1 wins at Iowa and Nebraska last weekend.
Cantos Siemers and Bereznyak share the team lead with 12 singles wins in dual play, followed by Spencer with 10 dual match victories, Ratliff with nine and Perry with eight.
Bereznyak has won her last 12 completed matches, with all 12 wins in straight sets. Ratliff and Spencer have both won their last five completed dual matches and Perry has won her last four.

The Buckeyes are 12-5 on court one this spring, with a 12-3 record on court five. Ohio State has picked up 10 wins on courts three and six, with nine victories from court two and eight on court four.
In doubles, courts one and two are 10-5, with court three 7-7. Ohio State has won the doubles point 13 times.
Cantos Siemers broke the Buckeyes' all-time singles wins record in the match vs. UCLA Feb. 4. She now has 120 total singles wins and is tied for sixth place in career doubles victories with 92.
Cantos Siemers' 212 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 235-78 in her career. She broke the program record for all-time coaching wins with a victory over UCLA Feb. 4.

The Schedule Ahead

Michigan will host the Big Ten Tournament in Ann Arbor, Mich., next week.
Ohio State has secured a Top 5 finish and will receive a double bye, beginning play in the quarterfinals April 26. The semifinals are April 27, with the championship match April 28.

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