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Duke Opens ACC Championship Versus NCSU On Thursday At 12:00 PM
4/20/2005 1:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
April 20, 2005
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DURHAM, N.C. - The 2005 Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Women's Tennis Championship will open on Thursday with the 15th-ranked Blue Devils going up against N.C. State at 12:00 p.m. at the Cary Tennis Center in Cary, N.C. Duke is seeded seventh, while the Wolfpack is seeded 10th.
The winner of the Duke/NCSU match will advance to face second-seeded and 12th-ranked Miami on Friday at 3:00 p.m. Georgia Tech is the top seed, followed by Miami, Clemson, North Carolina, Maryland, Wake Forest, Duke, Florida State, Virginia, N.C. State and Virginia Tech. Duke is coming off a weekend where it defeated eighth-ranked Georgia Tech, 4-3, but lost, 5-2, at 14th-ranked Clemson.
The Blue Devils enter the championship with a 14-9 overall and 5-5 ledger in the ACC. Duke has been riddled with injuries this season which started prior to the fall with the loss of rising junior Julia Smith for her career. Then, sophomore Jennifer Zika was lost in the spring and senior Katie Blaszak has now been lost also.
Duke leads the overall series with N.C. State, 44-0, and owns an 8-0 record against the Wolfpack in the ACC Championship. Earlier this season, the Blue Devils defeated NCSU, 5-2, in Raleigh, N.C. If Duke advances to face second-seeded Miami, it will mark the third time this season the Blue Devils will face the Hurricanes. In the National Team Indoors on Feb. 4, Duke defeated Miami, 4-3, as it won the doubles point and then picked up wins at No. 2, 4, 6 singles. Then on April 2 in Durham, N.C., the Hurricanes knocked off the Blue Devils, 4-3. Duke won the doubles point again, but only notched wins at numbers two and five to suffer its first ACC loss of the season. In the overall series, Duke leads Miami, 7-4.
In the latest Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) rankings, Duke's Blaszak is 52nd and Jackie Carleton is 121st in the singles rankings. The ACC boasts five teams ranked in the top-15 in the nation-- Georgia Tech (6), Clemson (11), Miami (12), North Carolina (13) and Duke (15). In the singles rankings, Megan Bradley of Miami and Julie Coin of Clemson are ranked number one and two in the nation, respectively.
Duke has advanced to the ACC Championship title match each of the last 17 years. The Blue Devils have won 15 overall titles including 15 out of the last 17 years. In the 19 years the ACC Championship has been played, Duke owns a 53-4 record with losses to only Clemson and North Carolina. The Blue Devils lost in the finals last year to Clemson, 4-2, but won titles in 2003 and every year from 2001 through 1988.
The seventh place league finish for Duke in 2004-05 is the worst in the 23 years the ACC has kept regular season conference standings as the Blue Devils had finished no lower than fourth (1985). Duke had not lost more than three ACC matches in a season prior to this year.
Senior Saras Arasu is one win away from becoming only the 16th player in Duke women's tennis history to reach the 100-win mark for her career. A Tampa, Fla., product, Arasu owns a 99-38 career record and so far this season has collected a 27-10 mark. Her 23 career ACC victories ranks ninth on the Blue Devil charts.
Duke owns four players who have registered 20 or more singles wins this season-- Arasu (26-10), sophomore Kristin Cargill (21-11), freshman Clelia Deltour (29-10) and sophomore Tory Zawacki (21-13). The Blue Devils have struggled with their doubles play this season winning only nine of 23 points.
Schedule for the Tennis Championship
#8 Florida State vs. #9 Virginia 9:00 AM
#7 Duke vs. #10 NC State 12:00 PM
#6 Wake Forest vs. #11 Virginia Tech 3:00 PM
Friday, April 22
#1 Georgia Tech vs. 8/9 Winner 9:00 AM
#4 North Carolina vs. #5 Maryland 12:00 PM
#2 Miami vs. 7/10 Winner 3:00 PM
#3 Clemson vs. 6/11 Winner 6:00 PM
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