Michigan to Welcome No. 3 Ohio State in Non-Conference Action

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The No. 17-ranked University of Michigan women's tennis team (10-5) will return home to the Varsity Tennis Center to host No. 3-ranked Ohio State (17-3) on Wednesday afternoon (April 1) at 4 p.m. The match will be played indoors and admission is free.

Notes

• Michigan returns home for a rare midweek match, hosting No. 3-ranked Ohio State in non-conference action as part of a home-and-home series.

• The teams met earlier this year in Columbus (March 6), with Ohio State taking a 4-1 win. U-M won the doubles point and forced third sets at five singles spots, but OSU pulled out the victory. The teams met three times last year, with U-M going 2-1.

• U-M stayed in the top 25 of the ITA team rankings for the second straight week, coming in at No. 17.

• The Wolverines have won seven straight matches after getting a pair of 4-0 shutouts at Minnesota (March 27) and Wisconsin (March 29).

• Michigan won both doubles points last weekend, moving to 8-1 when securing the first point of the match. U-M is 2-4 without it.

• Lily Jones became the first Wolverine to reach the 20-win mark in singles this year after recording a 6-0, 6-0 win at No. 2 in Michigan's win over Penn (Jan. 24). She is 26-8 on the season, reaching 20 wins for the fourth straight season. She picked up the 100th win of her career during the NCAA Singles Championship and is now ninth all-time at Michigan with 111 singles wins.

• Michigan has a trio of ranked singles players in Piper Charney (No. 6) and Jones (No. 22) and Reese Miller (No. 112). Charney and Jones each earned ITA All-America honors in singles this past fall by reaching the round of 16 in the NCAA Singles Championship.

• Michigan has three players who have reached the 20-win mark on the singles court in Jones (26), Miller (22) and Emily Sartz-Lunde (22).

• Head coach Ronni Bernstein is in her 19th season as the head coach, holding a 561-202 overall coaching record. She is 391-108 as the Michigan head coach, leading Michigan to 12 Big Ten championships and six Big Ten tournament titles.

• Michigan hits the road again this weekend, heading to the Land of Lincoln to face Illinois on Saturday (April 4) at 11 a.m. CT and Northwestern on Sunday (April 5) at 2 p.m. CT.