No. 5 Duke Falls at ITA National Team Indoors

Friday, February 10

Seattle, Wash.

3:45 p.m.

Duke University

Oklahoma

Photo by: Duke Athletics

No. 5 Duke Falls at ITA National Team Indoors

2/10/2023 7:05:00 PM | Women's Tennis

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SEATTLE, Wash. – Fifth-ranked Duke women's tennis suffered its first setback of the 2023 campaign on Friday afternoon to open action at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) National Team Indoor Championship as the Blue Devils dropped a 4-2 decision to 15th-ranked Oklahoma at the Nordstrom Tennis Center in Seattle, Wash.

How It Happened
•   Oklahoma came out in doubles on fire winning the first game on all three courts.
•   The Sooners were very impressive on courts two and three dropping only one game and clinching the doubles point.
•   On court three, the team of Dana Guzman and Julia Garcia Ruiz knocked off Duke's Emma Jackson and Iuliia Bryzgalova, 6-0.
•   Oklahoma clinched the doubles point with a 6-1 win by Layne Sleeth and Alexandra Pisareva over the Blue Devils' 25th-ranked duo of Karolina Berankova and Ellie Coleman.
•   Chloe Beck and Cameron Morra dropped the first game to Carmen Corley and Ivana Corley, but won four out of the next five to take a 4-2 lead when the doubles point was clinched.
•   The Sooners continued their hot start into singles winning the first set on four of the six courts.
•   Jackson, who is ranked No. 21 nationally, evened the match for the Blue Devils with a 6-3, 6-4 win on court four over Garcia Ruiz. Jackson trailed 3-4 in the second set, before winning three straight games to get the victory.
•   Oklahoma then went back ahead, 3-1, in a matter of a couple of minutes with wins on court six and three.
•   On court six, Pisareva defeated Duke's Bryzgalova, 6-4, 6-2, and on court three 83rd-ranked Guzman totaled a 6-4, 6-4 win over Georgia Drummy.
•   Duke's fifth-ranked Beck was able to cut into Oklahoma's lead with a 6-4, 6-2 win on court one. Beck dropped the first game in both sets and trailed, 0-2, in the second, before battling back against Sleeth.
•   Coleman and Emma Staker battled back-and-forth on court five. In the first set, Coleman led 4-2, but Staker came back to win three straight games to go ahead, 5-4. Trailing, 6-5, Coleman won to send the first set into a tiebreaker. Coleman led 4-1 early, but Staker would eventually win, 9-7. In the second set, Coleman could never get the lead and dropped a 6-4 decision.
•   Morra fell in the first set, 6-2, to No. 96 Carmen Corley on court two, but came back to win the second, 6-4. In the third set, Morra was trailing, 5-1, when the match was clinched.

Notes
•   Duke had to come from behind from the beginning as the Blue Devils dropped the doubles point for the first time this season.
•   The Blue Devils dropped their third straight match to Oklahoma dating back to last season. Over the last 36 matches play, Duke has only lost five matches and three of those have come against the Sooners.
•   The loss for Emma Jackson and Iuliia Bryzgalova was the first of the season dropping them to 6-1 in dual match action in doubles.
•   Jackson has won six straight dual matches this spring and is now 12-5 on the season in singles.
•   Chloe Beck registered her 10th straight singles win to improve to 90-23 over her career.
•   The loss for Drummy snapped a streak of 11 straight dual match wins.
•   Duke is making its 31st appearance at the National Team Indoors.

Next Match
Duke will next face fifth-seeded Stanford on Saturday, Feb. 11 at 3 p.m. (ET) in the Nordstrom Tennis Center in the consolation side of the bracket.

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#15 Oklahoma 4, #4 Duke 2
February 10, 2023
Seattle, Wash. (Nordstrom Tennis Center)

Doubles
1. #14 Chloe Beck/Cameron Morra (DU) vs. #28 Ivana Corley/Carmen Corley (OU) 4-2, unfinished
2. Alexandra Pisareva/Layne Sleeth (OU) def. #25 Ellie Coleman/Karolina Berankova (DU) 6-1
3. Dana Guzman/Julia Garcia Ruiz (OU) def. Emma Jackson/Iuliia Bryzgalova (DU) 6-0

Singles
1. #5 Chloe Beck (DU) def. Layne Sleeth (OU) 6-4, 6-2
2. #28 Cameron Morra (DU) vs. #96 Carmen Corley (OU) 2-6, 6-4, 1-5, unfinished
3. #83 Dana Guzman (OU) def. Georgia Drummy (DU) 6-4, 6-4
4. #21 Emma Jackson (DU) def. Julia Garcia Ruiz (OU) 6-3, 6-4
5. Emma Staker (OU) def. Ellie Coleman (DU) 7-6 (9-7), 6-4
6. Alexandra Pisareva (OU) def. Iuliia Bryzgalova (DU) 6-4, 6-2
Order of Finish: Doubles (3,1), Singles (4,6,3,1,5)