SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Duke women's tennis senior
Chloe Beck registered her 100th career singles victory on Friday to help lead the 10th-ranked Blue Devils (17-2, 6-1 ACC) to a 6-1 victory on the road at 29th-ranked Syracuse (11-4, 4-4) inside the Drumlins Country Club in Syracuse, N.Y.
Beck, ranked No. 2 nationally, became the 29th Blue Devil to reach the 100-win mark. A product of Watkinsville, Ga., Beck is now 100-24 over her Duke career in singles. She also collected her 100th career doubles win as she teamed with
Cameron Morra on Friday on court one.
How It Happened
• The Blue Devils registered wins on courts one and three to secure the doubles point and take a 1-0 lead.
• On court one, Duke's 32nd-ranked
Chloe Beck and
Cameron Morra won their sixth straight match as they defeated Zeynep Erman and Ines Fonte, 6-2.
• The Blue Devil tandem of
Iuliia Bryzgalova and
Georgia Drummy also posted a 6-1 victory over Miyuka Kimoto and Polina Kozyreva on court three.
• On court two, Syracuse's Viktoriya Kanapatskaya and Shiori Ito notched a 6-2 win over
Karolina Berankova and
Ellie Coleman.
• The Blue Devils went ahead, 2-0, as graduate student Briana Shvets was leading 3-0 when Fonte retired in their match on court six.
• Beck put the third point on the board as she totaled a 6-2, 6-0 win on court one versus 95th-ranked Erman. It marked her 26th career win against a ranked opponent.
• For the fourth time this season, 31st-ranked
Emma Jackson clinched the Duke win as she notched a 6-3, 6-1 win over Kimoto on court three.
• To close the match the Blue Devils received wins from Morra and Coleman on the second and fifth courts, respectively. No. 70 Morra registered a 6-4, 7-5 win over Kanapatskaya and Coleman posted a 6-3, 4-6, 10-5 win against Ito.
• Bryzgalova fell, 5-7, 7-5, 2-10 to Kozyreva on court four.
Notes
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Chloe Beck is 16-0 on the season in dual match singles play and is now 100-23 over her career.
• Beck now owns a 20-match singles winning streak in 2022-23, which leads the nation.
• Beck and
Cameron Morra registered their 26th doubles win on the year.
• The Blue Devils have won 42 straight matches when winning the doubles point.
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Brianna Shvets won her 15th consecutive singles contest and is now 13-0 in dual matches.
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Emma Jackson clinched the team win for Duke for the 10th time in her short Duke career and moved to 19-9 in singles on the season.
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Ellie Coleman posted her fifth straight win to improve to 19-7 on the season.
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Iuliia Bryzgalova and
Georgia Drummy registered their eighth straight win on the year to improve to 8-0 overall and 7-0 in the ACC.
Quotes
"It was a pretty clean match. It's not an easy place to play and teams come up here and struggle just because of the conditions, the courts, and the speed of the courts. I told them after the match some of our best teams that we've had come up here in the past and had to scrape out wins. They had a good top-15 win against Miami here two weeks ago. We made sure that we were as focused as we could be and as prepared as we could be. We got the chance to practice a couple times on the court. I was worried a little bit with the speed of the courts with how disciplined we could be with some things in our change of direction, which is harder to do on fast courts. But overall, I thought we did a great job. It was a pretty clean match and clean win for us. And like you said Chloe, getting her 100th win and the speed that she got her 100th win in the number of matches has been great for us. She had no idea and so that made it even better for our team, more special because everybody else knew." -- Duke head coach
Jamie Ashworth
"To reach 100 wins today feels amazing. It actually feels a bit unreal because my time playing for Duke has flown by because of all of the joy that I've had playing matches with the team. It's not too hard to show up and give my all on the court for a team that is as special as DWT. But being able to get my 100th win here in New York, my mom's home state, and having her and my grandparents here today to support me means the world. They took a 10-hour drive to come support the team and I, and I feel so thankful for their unconditional love and support for me and my DWT family." -- Duke senior
Chloe Beck
Next Match
Duke closes the weekend with a 2 p.m., match at Boston College on Sunday, March 26.
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#10 Duke 6, Syracuse 1
March 24, 2023
Drumlins Country Club * Syracuse, N.Y.
Doubles
1. #32
Chloe Beck/
Cameron Morra (DU) def. Zeynep Erman/Ines Fonte (SU) 6-2
2. Viktoriya Kanapatskaya/Shiori Ito (SU) def.
Karolina Berankova/
Ellie Coleman (DU) 6-2
3.
Iuliia Bryzgalova/
Georgia Drummy (DU) def. Miyuka Kimoto/Polina Kozyreva (SU) 6-1
Singles
1. #2
Chloe Beck (DU) def. #95 Zeynep Erman (SU) 6-2, 6-0
2. #70
Cameron Morra (DU) def. Viktoriya Kanapatskaya (SU) 6-4, 7-5
3. #31
Emma Jackson (DU) def. Miyuka Kimoto (SU) 6-3, 6-1
4. Polina Kozyreva (SU) def.
Iuliia Bryzgalova (DU) 7-5, 5-7, 10-2
5.
Ellie Coleman (DU) def. Shiori Ito (SU) 6-3, 4-6, 10-5
6. Briana Shvets (DU) def. Ines Fonte (SU) 3-0, retired
Order of Finish: Doubles (3,1*,2), Singles (6,1,3*,4,2,5)