{"id":645639,"date":"2026-05-15T23:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T23:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/645639\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T23:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T23:47:11","slug":"ohio-state-womens-tennis-advances-to-ncaa-semifinals-for-second-time-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/645639\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio State Women\u2019s Tennis Advances to NCAA Semifinals For Second Time Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                   Ohio State women\u2019s tennis has matched its deepest NCAA Tournament run in program history.                <\/p>\n<p>\n\tFor only the second time ever, Ohio State women\u2019s tennis will play in the NCAA semifinals after defeating No. 13 Pepperdine, 4-0, in the NCAA quarterfinals on Friday.\n<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">\n\t\tSee you in the NCAA semis Saturday <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoBucks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#GoBucks<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NMCSnRj0wc\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/NMCSnRj0wc<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\u2014 Ohio State Womens Tennis (@OhioStateWTEN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OhioStateWTEN\/status\/2055387880785072129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 15, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">\n\t\tNao Nishino clinches the Buckeye win!<\/p>\n<p>She came back for a 1-6, 6-2, 6-4 victory on court 4!<\/p>\n<p>Ohio State 4, Pepperdine 0 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QkY4AxssK4\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/QkY4AxssK4<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\u2014 Ohio State Womens Tennis (@OhioStateWTEN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OhioStateWTEN\/status\/2055387318412804232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 15, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe third-seeded Buckeyes will face No. 2 seed Auburn in the NCAA semifinals on Saturday (time TBD).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIf Ohio State can upset Auburn on Saturday, the Buckeyes would play in the national championship match for the first time in program history. Ohio State lost to Stanford in the 2017 NCAA semifinals, its only previous Final Four berth.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOhio State was the only school to send both of its tennis teams to Athens, Georgia, for the final three rounds of this year\u2019s NCAA championships. The men\u2019s tennis team was also seeded third, but suffered a 4-3 quarterfinal loss to No. 6 TCU on Thursday.\n<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ohio State women\u2019s tennis has matched its deepest NCAA Tournament run in program history. For only the second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-645639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}