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 3.
Spring has sprung, and Big Ten tennis is finally heading outside. The changing weather has brought some stiff winds with it, which wreaked havoc in the first Illini tennis match of the weekend, the women hosting Michigan State.