Welcome to the Illini Tennis Roundup, where intrepid writer Alex Orr summarizes how the Illini tennis teams do each weekend and gives his not-so-expert analysis. Well, if they do well enough to where he feels like writing about them. Or if they don’t do something insane like beating the No. 1 team in the nation or beating the No. 7 team in the nation without Kova. We’ll see how many times this happens. The current count is at 4.
Rivalry week in Big Ten tennis was supposed to cap off the regular season. It did for the women’s team, who celebrated Senior Day against Northwestern on Sunday afternoon.