DURHAM – The 19th-ranked Duke women’s tennis team had its three-match winning streak snapped on Saturday as the Blue Devils dropped a 4-1 decision to eighth-ranked North Carolina at Ambler Tennis Stadium.
The Blue Devils fell to 12-6, 5-4 in the ACC, while the Tar Heels improved to 15-3, 8-1 in ACC play.
How It Happened
- To begin the match, the Tar Heels started hot by taking the doubles point with victories on courts one and two to go ahead, 1-0.
- Shavit Kimchi and Katie Codd dropped their match on court one to the 17th-ranked duo of Fiona Crawley and Carson Tanguilig, 6-1.
- The point-clinching match came on court two in a back-and-forth battle between the duo of Emma Jackson and Karolina Berankova and the UNC team of Elizabeth Scotty and Anika Yarlagadda. Jackson and Berankova ultimately dropped the match, 6-3, clinching the doubles point for the Tar Heels.
- The Blue Devils’ tandem of Briana Shvets and Iuliia Bryzgalova were tied on court three, 5-5, when the doubles point was clinched.
- Bryzgalova, a graduate student from Moscow, Russia, evened the score, 1-1, by defeating 20th-ranked Yarlagadda on court three, 6-2, 6-2.It marked Bryzgalova’s second straight ranked win as she continued her stellar play.
- On court four, the Tar Heels were able to regain the lead as 37th-ranked Tanguilig defeated 94th-ranked Codd, 7-6, 6-3. Codd, a native of Carlsbad, Calif., opened the match leading 5-3, but Tanguilig responded by winning three out of the next four games to tie the score, 6-6.In the crucial tiebreaker, Codd led 3-2 and was tied, 6-6, before Tanguilig pulled ahead to win, 8-6.
- After a hard-fought first set, which included four deuce points, Kimchi dropped her match, 7-5, 7-5, to 22nd-ranked Crawley.Kimchi, who is from Israel, led 5-4 in the first set and 5-4 in the second set, but couldn’t hold on.
- North Carolina was able to clinch the victory on court six as Evans posted a 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 victory over Berankova.Berankova jumped out in the first set with a hot start leading 2-0 and held a 3-2 lead, before dropping a key deuce point to even the score, 3-3.With the set tied, 5-5, Evans won the next two games to clinch the first set win.
- When the match was clinched, Jackson and Shvets were in a third set against their opponents.
Notes
- Duke played its 10th straight match without junior Ellie Coleman, who is ranked No. 83 nationally in singles.
- Iuliia Bryzgalova added to her hot streak as she posted her sixth straight overall win to improve to 6-1 in ACC play.
Quotes
- “I thought that Carolina did a much better job than us in the big points, playing well when they needed to. I thought that we gave ourselves chances, we put ourselves in a good position, but when you look at the scoreline, we lost six out-of-seven sets that were 7-5 or 7-6. You’re not going to beat a lot of teams doing that. To me, that says mentally that they were tougher than we were in those moments. We were right there in those moments at the end of sets and gave ourselves chances and gave ourselves opportunities, but credit to them. They just played the bigger points better than we did.” – Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth
- “She’s (Iuliia Bryzgalova) been playing well for us the last couple of weeks and we need her to do that and keep playing well. She’s played a lot of college matches with playing at Penn and then coming here and playing and it’s good to see her, towards the backend of her career, playing the best that she’s played in her Duke career.”– Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth
- “I told them the one thing we have to learn is our emotional investment was great today, our physical investment was great, we just have to mentally be there every single point. No matter who’s on the other side of the net. I told them if they could take one thing from the match today to take with them for the next couple of weeks, with Virginia and Virginia Tech and then Notre Dame/Louisville right after that is we have to have that mental commitment every single point. Hopefully we can do that. We’ve gotten better as a team, our tennis has improved, our emotional level is high, if we can get that aspect going as well I told them we can compete with anybody.” – Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth
Next Match
- Duke continues play in Durham and will host two more home contests. The Blue Devils will first host Virginia Tech on Friday, April 5 at 5 p.m., before welcoming Virginia on Sunday, April 7 at noon. Both matches will either be played in Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center or outside at Ambler Tennis Stadium.
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#8 North Carolina 4, #19 Duke 1
March 30, 2024
Ambler Tennis Stadium * Durham, N.C.
Doubles
1. #17 Fiona Crawley/Carson Tanguilig (UNC) def. Shavit Kimchi/Katie Codd (DU) 6-1
2. #48 Elizabeth Scotty/Anika Yarlagadda (UNC) def. Emma Jackson/Karolina Berankova (DU) 6-3
3. Brianna Shvets/Iuliia Bryzgalova (DU) vs. Thea Rabman/Tatum Evans 5-5, unfinished
Singles
1.#22 Fiona Crawley (UNC) def. #90 Shavit Kimchi (DU) 7-5, 7-5
2. #97 Emma Jackson (DU) vs. #42 Elizabeth Scotty (UNC) 7-5, 5-7, 2-2, unfinished
3. Iuliia Bryzgalova (DU) def. #20 Anika Yarlagadda (UNC) 6-2, 6-2
4.#37 Carson Tanguilig (UNC) def. #94 Katie Codd (DU) 7-6, 6-3
5. Brianna Shvets (DU) vs. #70 Thea Rabman (UNC) 6-2, 6-7, 5-6, unfinished
6. Tatum Evans (UNC) def. Karolina Berankova (DU) 7-5, 4-6, 6-3
Order of Finish: Doubles: (1,2*) Singles: (3,4,1,6*)
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