URBANA, Ill. – The Illinois women's tennis team took down Rutgers on Saturday, 6-1. The Fighting Illini improve to 6-9 on the season, while Rutgers falls to 5-7.

Illinois took the doubles point, winning the No. 3 and No. 1 doubles matches. Alexis Casati and Daniela Pedraza Novak defeated Rutgers' Farris Cunningham and Jacqueline Cochrane, 6-0, and the pair of Louise Kwong and Ines Vias clinched the doubles point with a 6-2 win at the No. 1 spot over Ksenija Tihomirova and Chloe Lee.

In singles, Madie Baillon won first at No. 3 singles over Lee, 6-1, 6-0. Kwong took the match at the No. 1 position, 6-2, 6-1, defeating Mingxiu Du of Rutgers. Casati clinched the match for the Illini with a 6-3, 6-1 victory at the No. 2 spot over Tihomirova. Rutgers' Cochrane won the No. 5 singles match by retirement over Vias, 6-4, 4-5, and Jade Hilton defeated Cunningham at No. 6 singles, 7-6 (7-5), 6-3.

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The Illini will host two matches Sunday, March 26. Illinois will play No. 33 Maryland at 11 a.m. CT, and Southern Illinois at 4 p.m.

Illinois 6, Rutgers 1

DOUBLES

1. Louise Kwong/Ines Vias (ILL) def. Tihomirova, Ksenija/Lee, Chloe (RU) 6-2

2. Madie Baillon/Jaclyn Switkes (ILL) vs. Du, Mingxiu/Muzik, Katherine (RU) 4-3, unfinished

3. Alexis Casati/Daniela Pedraza Novak (ILL) def. Cunningham, Farris/Cochrane, Jacqueline (RU) 6-0

Order of finish: (3,1)

SINGLES

1. Louise Kwong (ILL) def. Du, Mingxiu (RU) 6-2, 6-1

2. Alexis Casati (ILL) def. Tihomirova, Ksenija (RU) 6-3, 6-1

3. Madie Baillon (ILL) def. Lee, Chloe (RU) 6-1, 6-0

4. Jaclyn Switkes (ILL) def. Muzik, Katherine (RU) 6-3, 6-2

5. Cochrane, Jacqueline (RU) def. Ines Vias (ILL) 6-4, 4-5, retired

6. Jade Hilton (ILL) def. Cunningham, Farris (RU) 7-6 (7-5), 6-3

Order of finish: (3, 1, 2, 4, 5, 6)