EAST LANSING, Mich. \u2013 No. 75 Michigan State women’s tennis travels to Illinois for the weekend to face a set of Big Ten Conference opponents in the Land of Lincoln State. The Spartans face No. 59 Northwestern on Saturday, April 4 at 1 p.m. ET, at NU’s Combe Tennis Center in Evanston, Ill., before No. 54 Illinois on Sunday, April 5\u00a0 at 12 p.m. ET at UI’s Atkins Tennis Center in Urbana-Champaign, Ill.<\/p>\n
The pair of matches serve as the Green & White’s final conference matches on the road, with the three remaining matches taking place in East Lansing, Mich.\u00a0<\/p>\n
MSU has earned a 9-9 overall record and a 2-6 B1G record throughout a difficult season schedule.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sophomore Ellie Blackford<\/a> and senior Matilde Morais<\/a> moved up in ITA doubles rankings, slotted at No. 43 as of this week’s rankings, announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n Scouting Northwestern\u00a0 Most recently, the Wildcats upset No. 53 Oregon in a narrow 4-3 victory at Oregon’s home courts.\u00a0<\/p>\n NU fell to Iowa early in their conference season, dropping a slim 3-4 defeat.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Wildcats are currently ranked at No. 59, with just Margot Panthala ranked at No. 89 in singles.\u00a0<\/p>\n Series History vs. Northwestern\u00a0 During the previous dual match season, the Green & White upset Northwestern in East Lansing 4-2, downing the No. 44-ranked Wildcats.\u00a0<\/p>\n MSU hosted NU during the fall tournament season, with the Wildcats partaking in the Spartan Invite presented by Auto-Owners’ Insurance.\u00a0<\/p>\n Scouting Illinois Moving to B1G action, Illinois has been able to fight to a 5-2 conference record, falling only to No. 35 Wisconsin and No. 45 Iowa.\u00a0<\/p>\n Illinois will face Michigan on Saturday, April 4, at home before facing the Spartans.\u00a0<\/p>\n Series History vs. Illinois\u00a0 The last time MSU beat the Fighting Illini was in 2021, where the Spartans fought to a 4-3 victory in East Lansing.\u00a0<\/p>\n Overall, Illinois holds a 21-4 record over MSU, and MSU looks to battle for a victory this weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n Up Next\u00a0 Locations for these matches will be announced at a later date, depending on the weather.\u00a0<\/p>\n These matches also serve as the Spartan Senior Celebrations for the MSU women’s tennis graduating class- Sarah Fazlagic<\/a>, Matilde Morais<\/a>, Oriana Parkins-Godwin<\/a>, Issey Purser<\/a> and Hanna Tsitavets<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n 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":"EAST LANSING, Mich. \u2013 No. 75 Michigan State women’s tennis travels to Illinois for the weekend to face…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-580604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNorthwestern has had a strong season so far, slating a 11-4 overall record and a 4-3 B1G record.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nNorthwestern has held a strong record against the Spartans over the past twenty-six seasons, with MSU holding a 2-21 record against the Wildcats since the 2002 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nThe Fighting Illini are similar to the Spartans in that they’ve both had a hard-fought, difficult schedule, facing multiple tough opponents. Ultimately, Illinois has been able to earn a 9-8 overall record.<\/p>\n
\nMichigan State faced Illinois at home during the 2025 season and fell, 4-0.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nMichigan State returns home to commence its final home weekend of the regular-season, with matches against Rutgers on Saturday, April 11, at 12 p.m. and Maryland on Sunday, April 12, at 12 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n