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Friday, February 16
Madison, Wisc.
TBA
Duke University
6
vs
1
Pepperdine
Third-Ranked Blue Devils Down Pepperdine 6-1; Face Second-Ranked Georgia in Semifinals Saturday
2/17/2001 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
MADISON, WISC. - The third-ranked Duke women's tennis team downed Pepperdine
6-1 on Friday to advance to the semifinals of the USTA/ITA National Women's
Team Indoor Championships hosted by the University of Wisconsin in Madison,
Wisc. The Blue Devils will take on second-ranked Georgia on Saturday at 3:30
PM for a spot in the finals. Georgia defeated Notre Dame 5-1 to advance
Friday.
Duke's doubles teams once again kicked off the action by taking two of three matches for a 1-0 lead early on. Duke's 35th-ranked duo of Ansley Cargill/Kathy Sell knocked off Dorothee Kurz/Maren Mueller 9-7, while Hillary Adams/Katie Granson defeated Anh Nguyen/Charlotte Vernaz 8-5. Pepperdine's first-ranked duo of Ipek Senoglu/Paola Palencia downed Duke's third-ranked Megan Miller/Amanda Johnson 8-1, but the team that wins two of three doubles matches earns the point for doubles.
The Blue Devils went on to take the top five singles positions to earn the 6-1 victory over Pepperdine. In the first three spots, first-ranked Cargill cruised past 14th-ranked Senoglu (6-2, 6-2) and 15th-ranked Johnson downed 44th-ranked Palencia (6-4, 6-4), while it took Miller three sets to take down 68th-ranked Cintia Tortorella 6-0, 1-6, 1-0 (9).
Sell, a senior ranked seventh nationally, won in three sets over Vance 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 at the No. 4 position and Granson won easily 6-1, 6-2 over Mueller. Pepperdine's lone singles victory was by Nguyen over Adams 1-6, 6-2, 7-6 (2).
Duke improves to 5-0 overall, while Pepperdine falls to 3-2. The other semifinal match on Saturday will be first-ranked Stanford against the winner of the Northwestern/Vanderbilt match. All matches are being played in the A.C. Nielsen Tennis Stadium.
Duke Notes
- Duke has finished as the runner-up in the championships two of the past three years.
- Senior All-America Megan Miller has won her past five matches in a row
- Georgia leads the all-time series against Duke 12-10, but the Blue Devils won the last meeting 5-1 in 1999.
- Freshman Ansley Cargill improved to 21-2 with her victory Friday.
- In five doubles matches this season, Duke has not the doubles point.
- Duke boasts three ranked singles players in the top 16.
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