No. 9 Duke Captures 5-2 Win at Clemson to Kick off the Weekend

Friday, March 10

Clemson, SC

3 p.m.

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No. 9 Duke Captures 5-2 Win at Clemson to Kick off the Weekend

3/10/2023 8:00:00 PM | Women's Tennis

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CLEMSON, S.C. – The ninth-ranked Duke women's tennis team kicked off the weekend with a 5-2 win on the road at Clemson, which was being played outside at the Duckworth Family Tennis Facility in Clemson, S.C.

Duke moved to 14-2 overall and 4-1 in the ACC, while Clemson dropped to 11-5, 1-4.

How It Happened
•   Duke jumped out to a 1-0 lead as the Blue Devils captured the doubles point.
•   Georgia Drummy and Iuliia Bryzgalova remained undefeated on the season as they collected a 6-2 win on court three over Daniella Medvedeva and Sophia Hatton.
•   The Blue Devil duo of Cameron Morra and Chloe Beck, who are ranked No. 25 nationally, clinched the doubles point with a 6-4 win over Cristina Mayorova and Eleni Louka on court one.
•   When the doubles point was clinched, Duke's Ellie Coleman and Karolina Berankova were trailing Lana Sipek and Leigh Van Zyl, 5-4, on court two.
•   Duke came out in singles and won the first set on four of the six courts.
•   The Blue Devils went ahead, 2-0, as graduate student Brianna Shvets stayed hot with her 13th straight singles win. She registered a 6-4, 6-2 win over Sipek on court six.
•   Clemson got a point on the board from court three as No. 125 Medvedeva snapped Jackson's five-match winning streak with a 6-4, 6-1 victory.
•   After dropping the first set, 6-4, No. 3 Beck came back against Louka to win the second and third sets, 6-3, 6-2, on court one to give Duke a 3-1 lead.
•   Morra, who is ranked No. 62, clinched the match for Duke with a 6-1, 4-6, 6-2 victory on court two over Mayorova. It marked the first time this season and sixth of her collegiate career that she has clinched a match.
•   Bryzgalova won the first set, 7-5, on court four against Hatton, but the Clemson junior responded by winning the next two sets, 7-5, 6-1, to put a second point on the board for the Tigers.
•   The last point came down to Coleman and Van Zyl on court five. Coleman won the first set, 7-5, and then Van Zyl took the second with the same score, 7-5. In the third, Van Zyl jumped out to a 3-1 lead, but Coleman battled back to even the ledger, 3-3. After Coleman took a 4-3 lead, Van Zyl evened the score once again. Coleman held serve to take a 5-4 lead and broke Van Zyl to capture the win, 6-4.

Notes
•   Brianna Shvets improved to 18-4 overall, 5-0 in ACC action and 77-31 over her career.
•   Chloe Beck won her 20th straight ACC regular season match on the afternoon to improve to 23-3 overall on the season and 29-2 in her career against ACC foes. She is now three wins away from reaching 100 over her Blue Devil career.
•   Beck is 13-0 on the season in dual match singles play.
•   Beck and Cameron Morra registered their 23rd doubles win on the season and is 4-1 in ACC play this year.
•   Georgia Drummy and Iuliia Bryzgalova continued their impressive play in doubles moving to 6-0 on the season and 5-0 in ACC action.
•   Ellie Coleman won her second straight ACC singles match.
•   Duke won its 11th straight match against Clemson.

Quotes
"The doubles point was a good for us. It was fairly clean, which is what we're looking for. In singles, I was a little disappointed. I told them afterwards that we just have to do a better job of not giving away free points. I thought that Clemson competed really well and we competed well. I thought we just didn't execute very well. We did a good job of getting the four matches that we needed to clinch. We have to keep getting better and keep working as the ACC matches get tougher and tougher." -- Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth on the win

"Yeah, that's not an easy thing when the match has been decided to get out there, keep battling and keep grinding. But she did a great job with being focused and she played it like there was a lot on the line, which is what you have to do in those situations. She did a really good job with that." -- Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth on Ellie Coleman's win to close the match

Next Match
Duke will close the weekend with a 12 p.m., match at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Ga.

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#9 Duke 5, #38 Clemson 2
March 10, 2023
Clemson, S.C. (Duckworth Family Tennis Facility)

Doubles
1. #25 Chloe Beck/Cameron Morra (DU) def. Eleni Louka/Cristina Mayorova (CU) 6-4
2. Karolina Berankova/Ellie Coleman (DU) vs. Leigh Van Zyl/Lana Sipek (CU) 4-5, unfinished
3. Iuliia Bryzgalova/Georgia Drummy (DU) def. Daniella Medvedeva/Sophia Hatton (CU) 6-2

Singles
1. #3 Chloe Beck (DU) def. Eleni Louka (CU) 4-6, 6-3, 6-2
2. #62 Cameron Morra (DU) def. Cristina Mayorova (CU) 6-1, 4-6, 6-2
3. #125 Daniella Medvedeva (CU) def. #24 Emma Jackson (DU) 6-4, 6-1
4. Sophia Hatton (CU) def. Iuliia Bryzgalova (DU) 5-7, 7-5, 6-1
5. Ellie Coleman (DU) def. Leigh Van Zyl (CU) 7-5, 5-7, 6-4
6. Brianna Shvets (DU) def. Lana Sipek (CU) 6-4, 6-2
Order of Finish: Doubles (3,1), Singles (6,3,1,2,4,5)