2019 Ohio State Buckeyes Men's Tennis

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OSU is rolling in conference play this season, as they went on the road on Friday night at Northwestern and picked up a 6-1 victory. The Buckeyes cruised a sweep and 3 victories in doubles play. Then another near sweep in singles play, only losing at #6 singles.

Their final regular season away match will be Sunday when they face a loaded #14 Illinois squad.

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In their final road match of the regular season, it was a big one, as the Buckeyes picked up a conference win over #14 Illinois, 4-2 on Sunday. It was a battle of what many thought are the top two teams in the conference, and it definitely didn't disappoint. That was the first conference loss of the season for the Illini, breaking the tie atop the conference standings. The conference title has gone to either Ohio State or Illinois every year since 1997, so you could say this was a much anticipated matchup.

At #2 and #3 doubles, the Buckeyes received the assistance they needed, as they clinched both points. Then, the top of the lineup did what they do best in singles...win. #1 nationally ranked JJ Wolf provided the win at #1 singles, while John McNally scored another point for OSU at #2 singles. Illinois claimed victories at #3 and #6 singles, but it wasn't enough, as Kyle Seelig won his match at #4 singles for the Buckeyes.

Ohio State will wrap up its regular season next weekend at home, as they host Purdue on Friday and Indiana on Sunday.

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After a dominant road win over Northwestern, and a road win over #14 Illinois this weekend, the Buckeyes are back up to the #1 national ranking. They will close out the regular season this weekend as they host Purdue and a very good receiving votes Indiana team.

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OSU picked up a complete sweep for the first time in a few months, as they defeated Purdue at home 7-0. In fact, it wasn't even close, as the Buckeyes won every single individual match 2-0.

Next up is the final match of the regular season as Ohio State will host Indiana on senior day on Sunday.

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Playing on senior day against a very good Indiana team, the Buckeyes picked up a second consecutive 7-0 victory on Sunday. They cruised in nearly every individual match on the day. With that win OSU has claimed the regular season conference title for the 14th consecutive season, and it was their fourth consecutive season finishing undefeated in conference play.

For Ohio State, they received a first round bye in the Big Ten Tournament as the #1 seed, and they will play the winner of the #8 Minnesota vs. #9 Wisconsin match. They will play that match on Friday at 10am.

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Ohio State (#1 seed) will face Minnesota (#8) seed in the conference quarterfinals today at 10am, after the Gophers defeated Wisconsin yesterday 4-0 in the first round.

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On another note, numerous OSU players were named to the Big Ten teams.

John McNally, Kyle Seelig and JJ Wolf were all named 1st Team.
Alex Kobelt was named 2nd Team.
JJ Wolf was named the Player of the Year (unanimously).
Ty Tucker was named Coach of the Year.

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For the 4th consecutive year, the Buckeyes have won the Big Ten Tournament. In the quarterfinals, they defeated a solid receiving votes (#38) Minnesota team, 4-1. Then in the semifinals, the Buckeyes kept rolling, as it was closer than they would have liked, but ultimately defeated #22 Michigan by a final score of 4-2. Then in the championship match on Sunday, they defeated #15 Illinois by a final score of 4-1.

OSU will now wait to see their seed for the NCAA Tournament and regionals (announced this week). Where they will likely receive the #1 overall seed.

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As expected, Ohio State received the #1 overall seed in the upcoming NCAA Tournament! They will host a regional site that is made up of themselves, Cleveland State, #25 Notre Dame and #34 Vanderbilt. The Buckeyes first round match will be against Cleveland State. They are 2-0 against the Vikings so far this season, defeating them in their first two matches of the season back in January (5-0 and 4-0). Should the Buckeyes win that match they will advance to play the winner of Notre Dame vs. Vanderbilt. Their first round match will be this Friday, and the second round match would be on Saturday.

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Numerous Ohio State athletes qualified for the singles and doubles national tournament. OSU's top three 3 singles player: JJ Wolf, John McNally and Kyle Seelig; all qualified for the singles tournament. While the doubles team of Hunter Tobert & Martin Joyce qualified for the national doubles tournament.

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Starting their NCAA Tournament run, the Buckeyes cruised to a 4-0 first round victory over Cleveland State on Friday.

Their next match will be in the second round (again in Columbus) when they face Vanderbilt tomorrow.

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The Buckeyes earned a second consecutive dominant shutout in the NCAA Tournament on Saturday, as they defeated Vanderbilt 4-0 in the second round. The doubles point went the way of OSU, when #3 doubles was the first match finished, then the only singles matches to score to make it a shutout were at #1, #4 and #6.

Next up, Ohio State advances to the Super Regional, where they will host #16 Columbia next Saturday. The winner of that match will head to the national tournament in Orlando.

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The Buckeyes rolled to another victory on Saturday, this time in the NCAA Super Regional. They hosted #16 Columbia and cruised to a 4-1 victory. There only individual loss on the day came at #5 singles.

It will only get tougher from here on out, as next up is the NCAA Quarterfinals, where they will play #10 (9th seed) North Carolina on Thursday at 5pm in Orlando.

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It didn't end the way that many predicted, as the #1 overall seed Buckeyes fell in the NCAA Quarterfinals to #10 North Carolina on Thursday evening, by a final score of 4-2. OSU picked up a victory in #1 doubles, as well as #1 singles and #3 singles, but the rest was all Tar Heels.

This ends yet another successful season for Ohio State, but ending it without a championship ring! They'll still have some chances down in Florida as the Buckeyes have some singles and doubles matches to go at the national championships. As far as the team goes, that closes the book on their season.

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In the NCAA Singles tournament, the Buckeyes had 3 individuals enter the first round of play, and came out of the first round with 2 advancing to the second round. John McNally fell to Yuya Ito of Texas in the first round, 6-3 and 7-5.

Kyle Seelig advanced to the second round by defeating Alastair Gray of TCU, 6-4 and 6-2. He will play Benjamin Sigouin of North Carolina today at 11:30am in the second round.

JJ Wolfe (The #2 overall seed) advanced to the second round after defeating Adria Berrera of Miami by a score of 6-2 and 6-3. He will play Matej Vocel of Oklahoma State in the second round today at 6pm.

The first round of doubles play will also kick off today. OSU's double tandem of Martin Joyce and Hunter Tubert will face off against Nicolas Moreno De Alboran and Anders Holm of UC Santa Barbara at 2pm.

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Day 2 of the NCAA Singles Tournament saw one more Buckeye fall to the wayside. Kyle Seelig lost his second round match to Benjamin Sigouin of North Carolina, 6-3; 4-6; 6-4 in a thrilling back and forth match.

The bright spot for OSU singles on the day as JJ Wolf continued his winning ways. After losing the first set against Matej Vocel of Oklahoma State, 4-6, he strung together the next two sets of victory 6-2 and 7-5 to advance. He will be competing in the Round of 16 tomorrow at 4pm against Sam Riffice of Florida.

In doubles play, the doubles pair of Joyce and Tubert were stunned in the first round, falling to de Alboran and Holm of UC Santa Barbara 6-3; 5-7; 10-8 to end their season.

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JJ Wolf entered Wednesday as the only Buckeyes left (men's or women; singles or doubles) in the NCAA Tournament. The first set of the day against Sam Riffice, he came out strong winning 6-3. But it was all Riffice after that, as the put Wolf (#2 overall seed) on his heels and won the next two sets 6-3 and 6-2 to advance to the quarterfinals and eliminate JJ Wolf from the competition.