Big Weekend Up North Ahead for No. 3 Buckeyes

#3 Ohio State at Michigan State / #4 Michigan
Dates:              April 7 & 9, 2023
Time:               4 p.m. & Midday
Venue:             MSU Tennis Heart – East Lansing, Mich. / Varsity Tennis Heart – Ann Arbor, Mich.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – No. 3 Ohio State heads north this weekend for 2 key matches within the state of Michigan. The Buckeyes will tackle Michigan State at 4 p.m. on Friday afternoon after which face No. 4 Michigan on Sunday at midday. The winner of Sunday’s match can have the within monitor for a Huge Ten common season title because the groups are the one undefeated groups in convention play to this point.

• Ohio State and Michigan State will meet for the 94^th time on Friday afternoon.
• The Buckeyes are 56-34-3 in opposition to the Spartans with their first matchup occurring within the 1933 season.
• Ohio State has gained 29 consecutive matches vs. the Spartans and has swept MSU every of the final 12 matchups.
• Final season, the groups met twice in lower than two weeks, with the Buckeyes successful 7-0 in Columbus on April 17 and successful 4-0 on April 29 within the quarterfinals of the Huge Ten Match in Wisconsin.
• Michigan State enters the weekend at 7-10 total and has dropped all three convention matches.
• This would be the 120^th all-time assembly between Ohio State and Michigan on the tennis courtroom. The Wolverines lead the sequence 70-44-3 however Ohio State is 32-5 since Ty Tucker took over in 2000.
• The primary match between the groups this season was a non-conference match in Columbus on March 19. The Buckeyes rolled to the doubles level win after which bought wins from JJ Tracy, Robert Money and Jack Anthrop on the 4-5-6 spots to safe the 4-2 victory.
• Michigan is 17-2 on the yr with its lone two losses coming to No. 7 Texas within the semifinals of the ITA Indoor Group Nationwide Championship and to the Buckeyes final month.
• Ohio State is 21-2 on the season and is off to a 4-0 begin in Huge Ten play.
• The Buckeyes are a outstanding 9-2 in opposition to Prime 25 ranked groups this season.
• Ohio State is coming off wins over Nebraska and Wisconsin final weekend in Columbus. The Buckeyes beat Nebraska 7-0 on Friday night time and had been 6-1 victors over Wisconsin on Sunday.
• All 5 ranked Buckeyes are within the Prime 60 of the newest Oracle ITA Rankings. Reigning Huge Ten Males’s Tennis Athlete of the Week Cannon Kingsley leads the way in which at No. 17. JJ Tracy is at No. 21 and James Trotter checks in a at No. 28. Justin Boulais is at a season-high No. 48 and Alexander Bernard is at No. 57.
• In doubles, Andrew Lutschaunig stays ranked within the Prime 10 with two totally different groups. He and Tracy are ranked No. 5 whereas he and Trotter are No. 8. Boulais and Robert Money, recent off a win on the No. 1 spot final Sunday, are ranked No. 37 this week.
• Cannon Kingsley was a mixed 4-0 final week within the two Buckeye wins and he was named the Huge Ten Males’s Tennis Athlete of the Week. He’s the fourth totally different Buckeye to earn the award this yr and a Buckeye has been the Athlete of the Week 5 instances.
• James Trotter stays an ideal 19-0 in singles on the season, and claimed his second win on the No. 2 spot, and first since Jan. 19, final Friday vs. Nebraska.

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