MADISON, Wisc. \u2014 No. 75 Michigan State women’s tennis fell to No. 28 Wisconsin in a nail-biting 4-2 defeat Friday evening at Wisconsin’s Nielsen Tennis Stadium.<\/p>\n
The Spartans slide to 8-9 overall and 1-6 in Big Ten Conference action after the Badger defeat.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Wisconsin moves to 12-4 overall and 5-2 in conference play.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Play began with an intense set of doubles matches with Spartan sophomore Amara Brahmbhatt<\/a> and redshirt-junior Hanna Tsitavets<\/a> immediately dominating their match at No. 3 doubles against Wisconsin’s Kaja Jacobson and Tianna Rangan in a 6-1 victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Badgers battled back at No. 2 doubles with Maria Sholokhova and Kaede Usui versus Spartans redshirt-junior Oriana Parkins-Godwin<\/a> and senior Issey Purser<\/a>, securing a 6-4 triumph over the MSU duo.\u00a0<\/p>\n Solidifying the doubles point for the Green & White were sophomore Ellie Blackford<\/a> and senior Matilde Morais<\/a>, who clinched yet another doubles point in the Spartans’ favor at 6-4 over the Badger pair of Ekaterina Ivanova and Ellison Reynoldson.\u00a0<\/p>\n While MSU looked to lock down a B1G win in singles, their efforts were ultimately unsuccessful.\u00a0<\/p>\n First to fall was Purser at No. 6 singles, falling 6-0, 6-0 to Usui.\u00a0<\/p>\n Following in suit was Blackford at No. 1 singles, who fell to No. 14-ranked Sholokova in a 6-3, 6-4 deficit.\u00a0<\/p>\n Earning the third point for the Badgers was Reynolds at No. 4 singles, who battled Tsitavets and prevailed 6-2, 7-5.\u00a0<\/p>\n Brahmbhatt battled back from dropping her first set, securing the second point for the Spartans. The sophomore went 3-6, 7-5, 6-3 at No. 2 doubles against No. 47-ranked Ivanova.\u00a0<\/p>\n Securing the match for Wisconsin was Jacobson at No. 5 singles versus Parkins-Godwin of MSU. Parkins-Godwin split her sets but ultimately fell 6-2, 2-6, 7-5.\u00a0<\/p>\n Up Next\u00a0 Fans can keep up to date with Michigan State women’s tennis by following them on Instagram, X and Facebook @msu_wtennis.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADISON, Wisc. \u2014 No. 75 Michigan State women’s tennis fell to No. 28 Wisconsin in a nail-biting 4-2…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-569371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Spartans remain on the road for yet another Big Ten match against Minnesota on Sunday, March 29, at 1 p.m. ET.\u00a0<\/p>\n