No. 10 Ohio State Downs No. 7 Duke, 4-2, Moves on to Quarterfinals at ITA Indoors

Friday, February 6

Champaign, Ill.

7:30 p.m. ET

Ohio State

Duke

No. 10 Ohio State Downs No. 7 Duke, 4-2, Moves on to Quarterfinals at ITA Indoors

2/6/2026 11:10:00 PM | Women's Tennis

Box Score

Spencer and Cisse-Ignatiev clinch doubles, Spencer clinches team win

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The No. 5 seed and No. 10-ranked Ohio State women's tennis team defeated No. 4 seed and No. 7-ranked Duke, 4-2, Friday evening in the first round of the ITA National Team Indoor Championship in Champaign, Ill. The Buckeyes (3-0) will take on top seed North Carolina at 4:30 p.m. ET Saturday for a spot in the semifinals.

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Audrey Spencer led the way against the Blue Devils (5-1). She and Sophia Cisse-Ignatiev clinched the doubles point with a 7-5 win and she then sealed the team victory with a three-set win in singles. Luciana Perry posted the Buckeyes' first singles point and paired with Flora Johnson for a doubles victory and Teah Chavez was also victorious in singles. The match, the final of four Round of 16 matches in Champaign Friday, took over three hours.

How it Happened

Ohio State used wins on courts two and three to claim the doubles point.
The Buckeye duo of Flora Johnson and Luciana Perry, ranked 55th, rolled to a 6-0 victory over No. 29-ranked Eleana Yu and Claire An on court two.
Duke's No. 19-ranked duo of Liv Hovde and Shavit Kimchi won in a tiebreaker on court one over the Buckeyes' No. 13-ranked team of Teah Chavez and Hephzibah Oluwadare.
The doubles point came down to a court three match between Buckeyes Audrey Spencer and Sophia Cisse-Ignatiev and Aspen Schuman and Irina Balus of Duke. The Buckeyes broke to get back on serve at five-all, held for a 6-5 lead and then broke again to take the match, 7-5.
A straight set win by An over Johnson on court six for Duke tied the team score at one.
The Buckeyes answered with three-set victories on courts one and two from their Top 15 ranked players.
On court one, No. 3 Luciana Perry took the first set against No. 28 Balus, 6-4, but dropped the second, 6-1. In the third set, Perry jumped out to a 4-0 lead. The players traded holds before Balus pulled to 5-3 with two straight games. The Buckeye served it out to take the set, 6-3, and the match.
No. 13-ranked Chavez won against No. 120 Hovde on court two for a 3-1 Ohio State lead. The Buckeye posted a shut out in the first set before falling in the second, 6-2. In the third, Chavez broke early and held the lead the rest of the way, stretching the advantage to 5-2 and winning 6-4.
On court three, a three-set win from Duke's Schuman over No. 52 Nao Nishino, 6-2, 2-6, 6-4, cut the Buckeye team lead to 3-2.
Spencer clinched the Buckeye victory with a court four defeat of Yu. The players split the first two sets, with Spencer taking the first, 6-3, and Yu the second, 6-4. Spencer took control in the third, rolling to a 6-0 win to clinch her match and the team victory.
The match on court five between Oluwadare and Kimchi was abandoned at three-all in the third set. After dropping the first set 6-4, the Buckeye freshman rallied to force a third set with a win in a second-set tiebreaker.
Ohio State has won three matches in a row vs. Duke. The teams are slated to meet in Columbus March 22.

The Results
[4] No. 7 Duke (5-1) vs. [5] No. 10 Ohio State (3-0)
Atkins Tennis Center // Urbana, Ill.
Ohio State 4, Duke 2

Doubles:
1. No. 19 Liv Hovde/Shavit Kimchi (Duke) def. No. 13 Hephzibah Oluwadare/Teah Chavez (OSU) - 7-6(2)
2. No. 55 Flora Johnson/Luciana Perry (OSU) def. No. 29 Eleana Yu/Claire An (Duke) - 6-0
3. Sophia Cisse-Ignatiev/Audrey Spencer (OSU) def. Aspen Schuman/Irina Balus (Duke) - 7-5

Order of finish: 2, 1, 3

Singles:
1. No. 3 Luciana Perry (OSU) def. No 28 Irina Balus (Duke) - 6-4, 1-6, 6-3
2. No. 13 Teah Chavez (OSU) def. No. 120 Liv Hovde (Duke) - 6-0, 2-6, 6-4
3. Aspen Schuman (Duke) def. No. 52 Nao Nishino (OSU) - 6-2, 2-6, 6-4
4. Audrey Spencer (OSU) def. Eleana Yu (Duke) - 6-3, 4-6, 6-0
5. Shavit Kimchi (Duke) vs. Hephzibah Oluwadare (OSU) - 6-4, 6-7(5), 3-3, unfinished
6. Claire An (Duke) def. Flora Johnson (OSU) - 6-3, 6-2

Order of finish: 6, 1, 2, 3, 4

Duration: 3:09
Attendance: 74