National Team Indoor Championship
#15 Oklahoma (5-3) vs. #4 Duke (8-0)
Friday, Feb. 10 at 3 p.m. (ET)
Nordstrom Tennis Center * Seattle, Wash.
SEATTLE, Wash. – As the 2023 edition of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) National Team Indoor Championship gets set to open action Friday, the fourth-seeded Duke women's tennis team (8-0) is preparing to face 15th-ranked Oklahoma (5-3) at 3 p.m. (ET) at the Nordstrom Tennis Center in Seattle, Wash.
The Blue Devils will make their 31st appearance all-time in the event and are two-time champions – 2003 and 2014. Duke holds a 57-39 record at the National Team Indoors and have won at least two matches in the event 23 times.
Live scoring and live video will be available.
Noting the ITA Indoors
In the last appearance at the National Team Indoors, Duke defeated Pepperdine and Georgia, before falling to North Carolina in 2020.
Chloe Beck is the only current Blue Devil that was a part of the 2020 squad.
Cameron Morra will make her fifth appearance in the National Team Indoors. She helped North Carolina win the title in 2022, 2021 and 2020. Morra owns a record of 8-5 in singles and 3-3 in doubles, while helping her squad to a 14-1 ledger over her career in the event.
Georgia Drummy will make her second appearance in the National Team Indoors as she traveled to Seattle in 2019 with Vanderbilt. Her squad defeated Washington, before falling to eventual champion, Georgia. She went 1-1 in singles and 1-0 in doubles over the two matches.
The ACC has won the National Team Indoors a total of seven times over the last 10 years.
The Series with Oklahoma
Duke and Oklahoma will face off for the third time over the last two seasons. The Blue Devils hosted the Sooners during the 2022 ITA Kickoff Weekend and were upset, 4-2, in Durham to keep Duke out of the National Team Indoors. The two teams met once again in the 2022 NCAA Tournament as Oklahoma defeated Duke, 4-3, in the NCAA semifinals to conclude the Blue Devils' run.
The two meetings a season ago were the first two contests between the two programs in school history.
Duke Versus the Big 12
The Blue Devils are 25-6 all-time versus the Big 12 Conference. Duke is currently on a two-match losing streak versus Big 12 opponents with both losses coming to Oklahoma.
Scouting Oklahoma
Oklahoma enters the ITA Indoors with a 5-3 ledger with losses coming against NC State (6-1), Ohio State (5-2) and Michigan (5-2). Oklahoma returns graduate seniors Ivana Corley and Alexandra Pisareva; seniors Carmen Corley and Layne Sleeth; junior Dana Guzman; and sophomore Emma Staker.
The team added newcomers Romana Cisovska and Julia Garcia Ruiz. The pair made their OU debuts during the fall slate. Garcia Ruiz advanced to the ITA Central Region finals, which earned her a ticket to ITA Fall Nationals, becoming the first Sooner to qualify since Martina Capurro in 2019.
Oklahoma features Guzman (83) and Carmen Corley (96) ranked in the ITA singles ledger, while Pisareva/Sleeth (16) and Cameron Corley/Ivana Corley are (28) are ranked in doubles.
What is Next?
If the Blue Devils advance past Oklahoma, Duke will play on Saturday, Feb. 11 at 12 p.m. (ET) against the winner of the Stanford/Georgia contest. The losing teams of both matches will play at 3 p.m. (ET) Saturday. Stanford/Georgia will play on Friday at 12 p.m. (ET).
Approaching a Milestone
Duke graduate student
Cameron Morra currently owns a 99-39 career singles record and is one win away from reaching the 100-win mark. When she reaches the 100-win mark, Morra will become the 28th Blue Devil accomplish that feat. Senior
Chloe Beck is only 11 wins away from reaching 100 wins as well, while featuring an 89-24 ledger. Beck also owns a 54-8 dual match record.
In the Rankings
Duke is currently ranked No. 4 in the ITA coaches' poll, which is sponsored by Tennis-Point. With the top-10 ranking, the Blue Devils have been listed in the top 10 in seven straight years under the direction of head coach
Jamie Ashworth. In his 27th season at the helm, Ashworth has guided Duke to a total of 20 top-10 preseason rankings since 2001.
In the latest ITA singles rankings,
Chloe Beck is No. 5,
Emma Jackson is No. 21 and
Cameron Morra is No. 28. With a 19-3 ledger on the season, Beck/Morra are No. 14 nationally in doubles, while
Karolina Berankova and
Ellie Coleman are No. 25 with an 11-2 record.
Morra Earns Honors
After helping lead fifth-ranked Duke to a pair of victories over VCU and Wisconsin during the ITA Kickoff,
Cameron Morra was tabbed the ACC Women's Tennis Player of the Week.
A native of Rockville, Md., Morra went 2-0 in doubles helping lead Duke to collecting the doubles point in both matches. Teaming with
Chloe Beck, Duke's 13th-ranked duo improved to 17-3 on the season and 4-0 in dual match action. Morra earned the first singles win against Wisconsin, 6-4, 6-1, over 59th-ranked Maria Sholokhova and was leading, 6-0, 5-2, against Yelizaveta Karlova of VCU when the match was clinched.
She earned the ACC Player of the Week honor for the second time in her career as she received the distinction on April 5 of last year. Morra has notched weekly honors from the ACC a total of six times over her career as she was tabbed ACC Freshman of the Week four times in 2019.
Noting the Blue Devils
• After playing the first eight matches at home, Duke will be on the road for the ITA Indoors and then the ACC opener at Virginia Tech (Feb. 24) and Virginia (Feb. 26). The Blue Devils won't return home until March 3 against Notre Dame.
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Georgia Drummy has won 11 straight dual matches dating back to April of 2022. Over her career, she owns a 61-19 record in dual match action. Drummy clinched the victory against Wisconsin to send Duke into the National Team Indoors.
• Head coach
Jamie Ashworth owns 581 victories, which ranks fifth-nationally among active coaches in wins.
• The Blue Devils have won 34 straight matches when winning the doubles point. Duke has not dropped a match at home when winning the doubles point since May 14, 2016 against Texas in the NCAA Tournament second round.
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Chloe Beck owns a nine-match winning streak in singles, while
Brianna Shvets and
Ellie Coleman have won eight in a row.
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Chloe Beck and
Cameron Morra have collected a 19-3 record together in doubles.
• Duke has been in the top-5 of the ITA national rankings in 19 out of the last 23 years under the direction of head coach
Jamie Ashworth.
• Of the eight victories this season,
Chloe Beck owns three match-clinching points to lead the Blue Devils, while
Ellie Coleman has two.
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