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Blue Devils to Host NC Central & Charlotte Thursday in Sheffield
1/17/2024 3:57:00 PM | Women's Tennis
DURHAM – Coming off opening the season with a victory against SMU last weekend, the 15th-ranked Duke women's tennis team (1-0) will host a pair of opponents on Thursday, Jan. 18 inside Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center. The Blue Devils will face NC Central (0-0) at 9 a.m., while also hosting Charlotte (2-0) at 5 p.m.
The Blue Devils feature six straight matches to open the season at home in Durham, before hitting the road for the month of February.
Match Information
All home Duke tennis matches are free admission.
General public parking will be available in the blue zone, with the easiest entrance being at the south end of the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center. ADA parking is available in the Card Lot with an accessible entrance available on the north end of the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center. Guests with disabilities will be able to use the elevator indoors to go up to the seating level. The newly renovated addition to the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center will be accessible via a mulched path on the northwest side of the building. Guests will then be able to use the elevator to go to the seating level.
The Series with NCCU
Duke and North Carolina Central will square off for the second time in school history. In their sole matchup in 2023, the Blue Devils took the contest, 7-0, in Durham.
Scouting NCCU
The Eagles are led by head coach Sofia Rachi. Last season, Rachi guided the Eagles to their most wins in a decade. NCCU took first place in the 22nd Annual HBCU National Tennis Championship in September. The win represented the first national championship in program history. NCCU is coming of an 11-11 season, finishing 4-2 in the MEAC.
Duke Versus the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC)
Duke's match versus North Carolina Central will be the second time in school history that the Blue Devils face a MEAC opponent. The Blue Devils are 1-0 all-time versus the MEAC.
The Series with Charlotte
Duke and the Charlotte 49ers will face off for the third time in series history. The Blue Devils have swept the previous two contests, which were both held in Durham. In its last matchup, Duke took the contest, 4-0, with the Blue Devils winning the doubles point, while Emma Jackson, Ellie Coleman and Chloe Beck won their singles matches.
Scouting Charlotte
The 2022-23 season for Charlotte women's tennis marked the Niners' first trip to the NCAA Tournament. The 49ers achieved an in-season ranking of No. 30 to set a program record and ended the year with a program-best ranking of No. 40. The 49ers are coming off a 22-7 season, finishing conference play 2-1 under head coach Anthony Davison, who enters his sixth season.
Duke Versus the American Athletic Conference
The Blue Devils possess a 20-8 record versus American Athletic Conference (AAC) opponents — East Carolina (5-0), Memphis (2-0), Charlotte (2-0), Rice (0-2), South Florida (4-3), SMU (4-3), Temple (1-0), Tulsa (1-0), Wichita State (1-0).
What is Next?
Duke hosts Illinois on Saturday, Jan. 20 at 6 p.m., in Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center.
Playing at Home
Inside the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center, the Blue Devils feature a 15-match winning streak dating back to the 2021-22 campaign. Since the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center opened in the 2008-09 season, Duke has registered an impressive 98-3 ledger.
ACC Doubles Team of the Week
The Duke's doubles duo of Brianna Shvets and Iuliia Bryzgalova were tabbed the ACC Women's Tennis Doubles Team of the Week on Tuesday as announced by the league office.
The Blue Devil tandem helped lead 15th-ranked Duke to a 5-2 victory over SMU inside the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center on Saturday in the season opener. It marked the 17th straight season-opening win in Durham and improved to 24-1 all-time in home season openers. Duke also collected its 15th-consecutive victory in Sheffield.
In doubles action on court three, Shvets and Bryzgalova were in a nailbiter against SMU's Hadley Doyle and Drew Morris. After the Mustangs won the first game, Shvets and Bryzgalova came back to win three straight to take a 3-1 advantage. Doyle and Morris responded by winning four consecutive games to go ahead 5-3. Shvets and Bryzgalova fought off match points, while winning a key deuce point to cut the SMU lead to 5-4. The Blue Devils evened the score, 5-5, but once again fell behind, 6-5. Shvets and Bryzgalova continued battling and set the match into a tiebreaker, before winning 7-3.
The victory for Duke on court three clinched the much-needed doubles point for the Blue Devils and helped propel them to a season-opening win. Shvets and Bryzgalova, who are graduate students at the Fuqua School of Business, competed for the first time as a doubles team in a dual match.
In the Rankings
Duke was preseason ranked No. 15 nationally in the preseason Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) rankings. The Blue Devils have been listed in the top-16 of the preseason ITA poll each of the last 24 seasons.
In the latest ITA singles rankings, Katie Codd is No. 52, Shavit Kimchi is No. 65, Ellie Coleman is No. 74 and Brianna Shvets is No. 78.
A Look at the Blue Devils
Duke returns six letterwinners, including five starters from a season ago, as head coach Jamie Ashworth enters his 29th season with the Blue Devils.
Graduate students Brianna Shvets and Iuliia Bryzgalova, along with senior Karolina Berankova, junior Emma Jackson and junior Ellie Coleman all started matches in 2023. Sophomore Katie Codd and freshman Shavit Kimchi turned in solid fall seasons and are expected to provide a lift for the Blue Devils this spring.
The Blue Devils have to replace some key personnel from a season ago, after losing three of their top performers from 2023 – Chloe Beck, Cameron Morra and Georgia Drummy. The trio combined to produce a 66-27 ledger last year.
Kimchi Has Impressive Start
In the fall, freshman Shavit Kimchi had an impressive start logging three singles wins in limited action. She became the first Blue Devil to open her collegiate career with a pair of top-30 ranked wins since Beatrice Capra accomplished it in 2010-11. Over the last 17 years, only Kimchi and Capra registered this feat.
Kimchi, who hails from Sdey Hemed, Israel, tallied wins over 27th-ranked Sydni Ratliff of Ohio State and 17th-ranked Elza Tomase of Tennessee at the Debbie Southern Furman Fall Classic to open her Duke career. All three wins by Kimchi in the fall were against players ranked in the top-29 nationally.
Match-Clinching Points
Duke returns four student-athletes that have clinched wins for the Blue Devils over their career – Emma Jackson (11), Ellie Coleman (9), Brianna Shvets (2) and Iuliia Bryzgalova (1). Shvets owns eight match-clinching wins over her career with Duke and Princeton, while Bryzgalova owns six with both Penn and Duke.
Noting the Blue Devils
• Head coach Jamie Ashworth owns 597 victories, which ranks fourth-nationally among active coaches. If he were to reach the milestone in the next two weeks, Ashworth would be the quickest NCAA Division I coach to reach 600 wins.
• After seeing limited action as a freshman, Katie Codd had an impressive fall totaling a 7-4 record, including winners of five out of her final six matches. She tallied a 6-3, 7-5 victory over Vanderbilt's Celia Belle Mohr for the highest ranked victory of her career. Codd is now 3-0 in dual match action with her win against SMU in the opener.
• Graduate student Iuliia Bryzgalova needs eight singles wins to reach 100 for her collegiate career, while fellow graduate student Brianna Shvets needs 12 wins for 100.
• Shvets needs one dual match victory to reach 50 for her collegiate career (49-13).
• The Blue Devils have won 48 out of the last 49 matches when winning the doubles point. Duke had won 47 in a row, before a defeat in the NCAA Tournament second round last season to UCLA.
To stay up to date with Blue Devils women's tennis, follow the team on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook by searching "DukeWTEN".
#GoDuke
The Blue Devils feature six straight matches to open the season at home in Durham, before hitting the road for the month of February.
Match Information
All home Duke tennis matches are free admission.
General public parking will be available in the blue zone, with the easiest entrance being at the south end of the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center. ADA parking is available in the Card Lot with an accessible entrance available on the north end of the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center. Guests with disabilities will be able to use the elevator indoors to go up to the seating level. The newly renovated addition to the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center will be accessible via a mulched path on the northwest side of the building. Guests will then be able to use the elevator to go to the seating level.
The Series with NCCU
Duke and North Carolina Central will square off for the second time in school history. In their sole matchup in 2023, the Blue Devils took the contest, 7-0, in Durham.
Scouting NCCU
The Eagles are led by head coach Sofia Rachi. Last season, Rachi guided the Eagles to their most wins in a decade. NCCU took first place in the 22nd Annual HBCU National Tennis Championship in September. The win represented the first national championship in program history. NCCU is coming of an 11-11 season, finishing 4-2 in the MEAC.
Duke Versus the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC)
Duke's match versus North Carolina Central will be the second time in school history that the Blue Devils face a MEAC opponent. The Blue Devils are 1-0 all-time versus the MEAC.
The Series with Charlotte
Duke and the Charlotte 49ers will face off for the third time in series history. The Blue Devils have swept the previous two contests, which were both held in Durham. In its last matchup, Duke took the contest, 4-0, with the Blue Devils winning the doubles point, while Emma Jackson, Ellie Coleman and Chloe Beck won their singles matches.
Scouting Charlotte
The 2022-23 season for Charlotte women's tennis marked the Niners' first trip to the NCAA Tournament. The 49ers achieved an in-season ranking of No. 30 to set a program record and ended the year with a program-best ranking of No. 40. The 49ers are coming off a 22-7 season, finishing conference play 2-1 under head coach Anthony Davison, who enters his sixth season.
Duke Versus the American Athletic Conference
The Blue Devils possess a 20-8 record versus American Athletic Conference (AAC) opponents — East Carolina (5-0), Memphis (2-0), Charlotte (2-0), Rice (0-2), South Florida (4-3), SMU (4-3), Temple (1-0), Tulsa (1-0), Wichita State (1-0).
What is Next?
Duke hosts Illinois on Saturday, Jan. 20 at 6 p.m., in Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center.
Playing at Home
Inside the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center, the Blue Devils feature a 15-match winning streak dating back to the 2021-22 campaign. Since the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center opened in the 2008-09 season, Duke has registered an impressive 98-3 ledger.
ACC Doubles Team of the Week
The Duke's doubles duo of Brianna Shvets and Iuliia Bryzgalova were tabbed the ACC Women's Tennis Doubles Team of the Week on Tuesday as announced by the league office.
The Blue Devil tandem helped lead 15th-ranked Duke to a 5-2 victory over SMU inside the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center on Saturday in the season opener. It marked the 17th straight season-opening win in Durham and improved to 24-1 all-time in home season openers. Duke also collected its 15th-consecutive victory in Sheffield.
In doubles action on court three, Shvets and Bryzgalova were in a nailbiter against SMU's Hadley Doyle and Drew Morris. After the Mustangs won the first game, Shvets and Bryzgalova came back to win three straight to take a 3-1 advantage. Doyle and Morris responded by winning four consecutive games to go ahead 5-3. Shvets and Bryzgalova fought off match points, while winning a key deuce point to cut the SMU lead to 5-4. The Blue Devils evened the score, 5-5, but once again fell behind, 6-5. Shvets and Bryzgalova continued battling and set the match into a tiebreaker, before winning 7-3.
The victory for Duke on court three clinched the much-needed doubles point for the Blue Devils and helped propel them to a season-opening win. Shvets and Bryzgalova, who are graduate students at the Fuqua School of Business, competed for the first time as a doubles team in a dual match.
In the Rankings
Duke was preseason ranked No. 15 nationally in the preseason Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) rankings. The Blue Devils have been listed in the top-16 of the preseason ITA poll each of the last 24 seasons.
In the latest ITA singles rankings, Katie Codd is No. 52, Shavit Kimchi is No. 65, Ellie Coleman is No. 74 and Brianna Shvets is No. 78.
A Look at the Blue Devils
Duke returns six letterwinners, including five starters from a season ago, as head coach Jamie Ashworth enters his 29th season with the Blue Devils.
Graduate students Brianna Shvets and Iuliia Bryzgalova, along with senior Karolina Berankova, junior Emma Jackson and junior Ellie Coleman all started matches in 2023. Sophomore Katie Codd and freshman Shavit Kimchi turned in solid fall seasons and are expected to provide a lift for the Blue Devils this spring.
The Blue Devils have to replace some key personnel from a season ago, after losing three of their top performers from 2023 – Chloe Beck, Cameron Morra and Georgia Drummy. The trio combined to produce a 66-27 ledger last year.
Kimchi Has Impressive Start
In the fall, freshman Shavit Kimchi had an impressive start logging three singles wins in limited action. She became the first Blue Devil to open her collegiate career with a pair of top-30 ranked wins since Beatrice Capra accomplished it in 2010-11. Over the last 17 years, only Kimchi and Capra registered this feat.
Kimchi, who hails from Sdey Hemed, Israel, tallied wins over 27th-ranked Sydni Ratliff of Ohio State and 17th-ranked Elza Tomase of Tennessee at the Debbie Southern Furman Fall Classic to open her Duke career. All three wins by Kimchi in the fall were against players ranked in the top-29 nationally.
Match-Clinching Points
Duke returns four student-athletes that have clinched wins for the Blue Devils over their career – Emma Jackson (11), Ellie Coleman (9), Brianna Shvets (2) and Iuliia Bryzgalova (1). Shvets owns eight match-clinching wins over her career with Duke and Princeton, while Bryzgalova owns six with both Penn and Duke.
Noting the Blue Devils
• Head coach Jamie Ashworth owns 597 victories, which ranks fourth-nationally among active coaches. If he were to reach the milestone in the next two weeks, Ashworth would be the quickest NCAA Division I coach to reach 600 wins.
• After seeing limited action as a freshman, Katie Codd had an impressive fall totaling a 7-4 record, including winners of five out of her final six matches. She tallied a 6-3, 7-5 victory over Vanderbilt's Celia Belle Mohr for the highest ranked victory of her career. Codd is now 3-0 in dual match action with her win against SMU in the opener.
• Graduate student Iuliia Bryzgalova needs eight singles wins to reach 100 for her collegiate career, while fellow graduate student Brianna Shvets needs 12 wins for 100.
• Shvets needs one dual match victory to reach 50 for her collegiate career (49-13).
• The Blue Devils have won 48 out of the last 49 matches when winning the doubles point. Duke had won 47 in a row, before a defeat in the NCAA Tournament second round last season to UCLA.
To stay up to date with Blue Devils women's tennis, follow the team on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook by searching "DukeWTEN".
#GoDuke
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