Blue Devils Move Home Win Streak to 21; Defeat Louisville, 7-0

Sunday, March 5

Durham, N.C.

11 a.m.

Duke University

Louisville

Photo by: Duke Athletics

Blue Devils Move Home Win Streak to 21; Defeat Louisville, 7-0

3/5/2023 3:19:00 PM | Women's Tennis

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DURHAM – The 11th-ranked Duke women's tennis team collected its 21st straight home victory on Sunday as the Blue Devils registered a 7-0 victory over Louisville at Ambler Tennis Stadium in Durham, N.C.

Senior Chloe Beck of the Blue Devils collected her 19th consecutive ACC regular season singles victory on the day and improved to 12-0 in dual match play this year and 28-2 over her career in ACC play. Duke moved to 13-2 overall and 3-1 in the ACC, while Louisville fell to 7-6, 0-4 on the year.

How It Happened
•   After dropping the first game on court three, Duke's Iuliia Bryzgalova and Georgia Drummy won six straight games to win, 6-1, over Tyra Richardson and Jamilah Snells in doubles.
•   On court one, Duke's 18th-ranked Chloe Beck and Cameron Morra only dropped one game en route to clinching the doubles point for the Blue Devils with a 6-1 victory over Andrea Di Palma and Rhea Verma.
•   Duke was leading, 5-3, on court two when the Blue Devils clinched the point as Karolina Berankova and Ellie Coleman were battling Sasha Gorchanyuk and Maria Campos.
•   The Blue Devil were able to get quick points on courts five and six to go ahead, 3-0.
•   Bryzgalova never trailed on court five as she defeated Campos, 6-1, 6-2, while only dropping three games.
•   Graduate student Brianna Shvets never trailed as well on court six as she registered a 6-2, 6-0 win over Gorchanyuk.
•   For the third time this season and the ninth time in her career, Emma Jackson clinched the match for Duke. On court three, she collected a 6-2, 6-2 win over Verma. In the second set, Jackson jumped out to a 5-0 lead and then broke Verma's serve to clinch the victory, 6-2.
•   Beck put Duke's fifth point on the scoreboard. She dropped the first two games to Di Palma, but came back to win two huge deuce points to even the match, 2-2. After going ahead, 4-2, Di Palma battled back to even the match once again, 4-4. Beck led 5-4 and 6-5, before breaking Di Palma's serve to win the first set, 7-5, which was also a deuce point. In the second set, Beck never trailed winning, 6-1.
•   On court two, Morra totaled a 6-2, 4-6, 10-1 win over Snells. After never trailing in the first set, Morra could not get a lead in the second. In the third set tiebreaker, Morra won nine straight points to win the match, 10-1.
•   Coleman closed the match by grinding out a 7-5, 6-3 win over Richardson.

Notes
•   Chloe Beck won her 19th straight ACC regular season match on the afternoon to improve to 22-3 overall on the season and 28-2 in her career against ACC foes. She is now four wins away from reaching 100 over her Blue Devil career.
•   Beck is 12-0 on the season in dual match singles play.
•   Brianna Shvets won her 12th straight singles match, while improving to 17-4 overall, 4-0 in ACC action and 76-31 over her career.
•   Beck and Cameron Morra registered their 22nd doubles win on the season and is 3-1 in ACC play this year.
•   Georgia Drummy and Iuliia Bryzgalova continued their impressive play in doubles moving to 5-0 on the season and 4-0 in doubles action.
•   Emma Jackson collected her fifth straight singles win as she moved to 17-6 overall, 4-0 in the ACC and 40-20 in her career.
•   Duke moved to 10-0 all-time in the series with Louisville.

Quotes
"We are still trying to find our way with [doubles] and still possibly playing with combinations. But one of the things that we talked about is it shouldn't matter who you're playing with, and fundamentally, if we do doubles the right way, we serve the right way and if we hit our returns in spots, it shouldn't matter who your partner is. Because they should know what to expect out of you. It's definitely a boost to get the doubles point heading into singles. But our doubles have to keep getting better. We've won three of the last four, but we're never satisfied with that. We want to keep pressing and keep getting better." -- Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth

"Well, what we told them afterwards was. We need to worry about ourselves and not what our opponent is doing. We have talented enough players, who have big enough games, that if we go out there and play our game and not really worry about oh, my opponent is doing this, my opponent's doing this. Make our opponents adjust to us, not us slowly adjusting to them. I think that's something we have to focus on for sure moving forward." -- Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth

"I feel like I'm playing well. I feel like the girls are playing well and I feel like we have really good energy right now. We're using that momentum into each match and just like taking it day by day. So, yeah hopefully continue it into the other ones." -- Duke senior Chloe Beck

Next Match
Duke will hit the road this week as the Blue Devils travel to Clemson (March 10) and Georgia Tech (March 12) at 3 p.m., and 12 p.m., respectively.

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#11 Duke 7, Louisville 0
March 5, 2023
Durham, N.C. (Ambler Tennis Stadium)

Doubles
1. #18 Chloe Beck/Cameron Morra (DU) def. Andrea Di Palma/Rhea Verma (UL) 6-1
2. Karolina Berankova/Ellie Coleman (DU) vs. Sasha Gorchanyuk/Maria Campos (UL) 5-3, unfinished
3. Iuliia Bryzgalova/Georgia Drummy (DU) def. Tyra Richardson/Jamilah Snells (UL) 6-1

Singles
1. #2 Chloe Beck (DU) def. Andrea Di Palma (UL) 7-5, 6-1
2. #47 Cameron Morra (DU) def. Jamilah Snells (UL) 6-2, 4-6, 10-1
3. #26 Emma Jackson (DU) def. Rhea Verma (UL) 6-2, 6-2
4. Ellie Coleman (DU) def. Tyra Richardson (UL) 7-5, 6-3
5. Iuliia Bryzgalova (DU) def. Maria Campos (UL) 6-1, 6-2
6. Brianna Shvets (DU) def. Sasha Gorchanyuk (UL) 6-2, 6-0
Order of Finish: Doubles (3,1), Singles (5,6,3,1,2,4)