Women's Tennis | January 16

DeKALB, Ill. – The Northern Illinois University women's tennis team lost to Wisconsin, 7-0, at home on Friday evening. The match against the Badgers is the 2026 dual season opener and first of three this weekend for the Huskies.

Wisconsin (1-0) earned the doubles point by winning on courts one and three by scores of 6-1 and 6-2. The match on court two involving Isabella Righi / Lucia Yecora was unfinished. The duo recorded three wins last weekend at the Northwestern Invitational.

NIU (0-1) kept the matches competitive moving into singles action. Yecora pushed Wisconsin's Kaede Usui to three sets before falling 6-1, 3-6, 6-4. Senior Nataly Ninova's match against Karolina Jacobson was one of the closest of the day as Jacobson held off Ninova 7-6, 6-4.

Freshman Rebeca Garcia Miralles had the final match of the evening, falling to Maya Bordereau 6-4, 6-3. 

The Huskies host Missouri (0-1) and Chicago State (0-1) on Saturday, beginning with Missouri at 9 a.m. and Chicago State at 6 p.m. Admission to the Nelson Tennis Center at Chick Evans Field House is free.

Missouri will take on Chicago State at 1 p.m.

Doubles
Maria Sholokhova / Karolina Jacobson (Wisconsin) def. Jenna Horne / Nataly Ninova, 6-1
Tianna Rangan / Kaede Usui (Wisconsin) vs. Isabella Righi / Lucia Yecora, 4-3 (unfinished)
Parker Christensen / Ellison Reynoldson (Wisconsin) def. Irmak Budak / Theodora Kousiou 6-2

Singles
No. 47 Maria Sholokhova (Wisconsin) def. Irmak Budak 6-0, 6-1
Ekaterina Ivanova (Wisconsin) def. Theodora Kousiou 6-2, 7-5
Kaede Usui (Wisconsin) def. Lucia Yecora 6-1, 3-6, 6-4
Karolina Jacobson (Wisconsin) def. Nataly Ninova 7-6 (7-2), 6-4
Ellison Reynoldson (Wisconsin) def. Jenna Horne 6-1, 6-4
Maya Bordereau (Wisconsin) def. Rebeca Garcia Miralles 6-4, 6-3