No. 10 Buckeyes Close Regular Season at Home
4/21/2022 11:07:04 AM | Women's Tennis
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The No. 10 Ohio State women’s tennis team wraps up the regular season with two home matches this weekend. The Buckeyes will host Maryland at 4 p.m. Friday and Rutgers at noon Sunday. Live scoring and video will be available for both matches.
The matches are scheduled to be played outside at the Auer Tennis Complex, but will be moved inside the Ty Tucker Tennis Center in the event of inclement weather. Admission and parking are free on match day. Check the women’s tennis schedule page on OhioStateBuckeyes.com or the Buckeyes’ social media feeds on Facebook and Twitter on match day for location information.
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Ohio State enters the weekend 16-4 overall and 9-0 in Big Ten play. Maryland is 5-4 in B1G action and 16-5 this season, with Rutgers 5-15 and 0-9 in the B1G.
Senior Day Sunday
Graduate student Luna Dormet will be recognized before Sunday’s match on Senior Day. The native of Tours, France, earned her bachelor’s degree in political science in Spring 2021 and is now working toward a master’s degree in public policy and management. She is a four-time Ohio State Scholar-Athlete and will be a three-time Academic All-Big Ten selection.
The Buckeyes’ 2019 Big Ten Sportsmanship Award winner, Dormet is 64-18 in the Scarlet and Gray overall in singles, with a 43-11 dual match record, including a 22-5 mark in Big Ten matches. In doubles, she is 58-32, posting a 35-22 dual record, with an 18-4 B1G mark.
In the B1G
- Ohio State is the last remaining unbeaten team in the Big Ten with a 9-0 record.
- Michigan is 8-1, with Illinois and Northwestern 7-2. Michigan and Illinois face off Friday, with the Wolverines and Wildcats meeting Sunday. Northwestern starts the weekend at Michigan State Saturday before traveling to Ann Arbor.
- The Buckeyes need one win to clinch at least a share of the Big Ten regular season title and two victories would give Ohio State the outright league championship.
- Ohio State and Michigan shared the 2021 Big Ten regular season title with 15-1 records. The Buckeyes also tied for first in 2017 and won the crown in 2016, with 11-0 records in both campaigns. The squad shared the Big Ten regular season title in 2000 for its first championship.
Buckeyes vs. Terrapins
- Ohio State is 9-1 all-time against Maryland, including two wins last season.
- The teams met Feb. 19, 2021 in College Park, Md., with Ohio State winning 5-2, and the Buckeyes posted a 6-1 win in Columbus March 19, 2021.
- The Terrapins are No. 70 in the ITA rankings this week with a 16-5 overall record. The squad has posted Big Ten wins over Rutgers, Minnesota, Iowa, Indiana and Purdue.
Buckeyes vs. Scarlet Knights
- The Buckeyes have a 6-2 record against the Scarlet Knights all-time, with two wins in 2021.
- The teams met Feb. 21, 2021, in East Brunswick, N.J., a 7-0 Ohio State victory, along with a 7-0 Buckeye victory March 21, 2021 in Columbus.
- Rutgers will play at Penn State Friday before traveling to Columbus. The squad dropped home matches to Purdue and Indiana last weekend.
In the Rankings
- Ohio State moved to No. 10 in the ITA team rankings this week after one week at No. 11. The squad has been in the Top 10 all but one week since Feb. 2.
- In the Tennis Channel/USTA College Tennis Top 25 this week, Ohio State is No. 8.
- Eight of the teams the Buckeyes have faced so far this season were ranked in the ITA Top 15 this week – No. 1 North Carolina, No. 3 North Carolina State, No. 5 Duke, No. 9 Pepperdine, No. 11 Oklahoma State, No. 12 Auburn, No. 14 Georgia and No. 15 Florida.
- Three Buckeyes and a doubles team are in the ITA individual rankings released this week. Junior Irina Cantos Siemers is eighth in singles, while senior Isabelle Boulais is No. 33 and freshman Sydni Ratliff is No. 63. The duo of Cantos Siemers and Ratliff is No. 24.
Buckeye This and That
- Ohio State extended its winning streak to eight with two road wins last weekend. The Buckeyes posted a 4-0 win at Minnesota last Friday and won 5-2 at Wisconsin Sunday.
- The Buckeyes won the doubles point in both matches last week. Against Minnesota, Lucia Marzal, Sydni Ratliff and Irina Cantos Siemers all won in straight sets. In the match against the Badgers, Isabelle Boulais won in straight sets, along with three-set victories from Cantos Siemers, Marzal and Ratliff. Marzal and Cantos Siemers teamed up for doubles wins in both matches, while Ratliff and Kathleen Jones were victorious vs. the Gophers and Kolie Allen and Boulais notched a win vs. the Badgers.
- The Buckeyes are 7-0 at home this season.
- Cantos Siemers is 8-0 in Big Ten singles matches this spring, with Boulais 7-1. In doubles, Cantos Siemers is also 8-0, while Lucia Marzal is 8-1, Boulais is 6-1 and Jones is 5-1. As a team, Ohio State is 35-10 in Big Ten singles dual matches, with an 18-5 mark in B1G doubles action.
- Overall, Cantos Siemers has a team-high 15 dual match wins, followed by Boulais with 14 and Ratliff with 13.
- Cantos Siemers is first with 30 overall singles wins, tying for eighth in program history for single-season victories. Ratliff is second with 23, followed by Lucia Marzal with 20.
- In doubles dual matches, Cantos Siemers has a team-best 13 victories and Ratliff and Marzal have each recorded 11, with Boulais next with 10
- Ohio State has won the doubles point in nine of its last 11 matches.
- In singles, Ohio State has compiled a 15-4 record on court two and is 14-4 on court one, with court four 12-5. Courts three and six have each contributed 11 wins.
The Schedule Ahead
- Iowa will host the Big Ten Tournament April 27-May 1 in Iowa City, Iowa.
- The Nos. 11-14 seeds will start play April 27, with seeds 5-8 starting April 28 and the Top 4 seeds earning byes through to the quarterfinals, which will start April 29. The semifinals will be April 30, with the final match May 1.
