Blue Devils Fall to No. 5 UNC in ACC Championship Quarterfinals

Friday, April 19

Cary, N.C.

3:30 p.m.

Duke University

North Carolina

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Blue Devils Fall to No. 5 UNC in ACC Championship Quarterfinals

4/19/2024 8:30:00 PM | Women's Tennis

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CARY, N.C. – The 24th-ranked Duke women's tennis team dropped a 4-0 decision to fifth-ranked North Carolina in the quarterfinals of the ACC Championship on Friday afternoon at the Cary Tennis Park in Cary, N.C.

Duke drops to 15-9 overall on the season and will next await the NCAA selection show, which will take place on Monday, April 29 at 6:30 p.m. North Carolina rose to 20-3 on the year.

How It Happened

North Carolina was impressive to start the contest in doubles as the Tar Heels collected strong wins on courts one and two to take a 1-0 lead over the Blue Devils.
On court one, the Duke tandem of Katie Codd and Karolina Berankova jumped out to a 1-0 lead on the Tar Heels' 11th-ranked duo of Fiona Crawley and Carson Tanguilig. Crawley and Tanguilig went on to win six-straight to take the match, 6-1.
North Carolina's 43rd-ranked team of Elizabeth Scotty and Anika Yarlagadda clinched the doubles point for the Tar Heels as they won two key deuce points in a 6-3 victory over Duke's Shavit Kimchi and Emma Jackson giving the Tar Heels a 1-0 lead.
The graduate student duo of Iuliia Bryzgalova and Brianna Shvets were down, 4-3, when the doubles point was clinched.
North Carolina won four out of six first sets in singles, before a rain delay forced both teams inside to finish singles action.
On court two, 36th-ranked Scotty of North Carolina collected a 7-5, 6-2 victory over Duke's 65th-ranked Kimchi. Scotty won two key deuce points in the first set, which helped her take the match, moving the score on the day to 2-0.
The Tar Heels were able to add another point by Tatum Evans with a 6-3, 6-3 victory over Berankova of Duke to increase the lead to 3-0. In the first set, Berankova found herself down 2-5. She would then win a deuce point to take the score to 3-5, but the gap proved insurmountable as Evans took the first set, guiding her to a win on the day.
North Carolina clinched the match on court four as 27th-ranked Yarlagadda totaled a 6-3, 6-2 victory over 100th-ranked Codd. The first set was a back-and-forth battle between the two. Codd, a Carlsbad, California native, found herself up, 2-1, early in the first set. Yarlagadda would tie the match 2-2, but Codd struck back to take the lead again, 3-2. Yarlagadda then won three-straight deuce points to take control of the match and eventually helping her win the first set.Codd then dropped the second set to conclude the match.

Notes

Emma Jackson and Shavit Kimchi dropped their first doubles match of the season, after playing the last two weeks together for the first time.
Katie Codd and Karolina Berankova lost their second doubles match as a duo on the season. They moved to 2-2 overall as a tandem since partnering up on April 12.
Doubles and the first set of singles were played outdoors, before weather forced both squads to transition inside to finish the match.
Kimchi fell to 17-11 overall in her rookie campaign in singles. She has won four out of her last six singles matches.
It marked the second straight year Duke has advanced to the quarterfinals of the ACC Championship.

Quotes

"Tennis players are obviously used to that kind of stuff, starting and restarting and starting late, but I mean coming in here is definitely an advantage for North Carolina. They've been one of the best indoor teams over the last six years and they've won National Indoors six out of the last seven years.We were in a position where we had to fight back in some matches and it's definitely not why we lost, moving indoors, but definitely gave them a little bit of an advantage, getting to play some quicker points and faster points and that kind of stuff. Again though, we can hang with anybody for an hour and a half, we just have to keep pushing through in those kinds of matches."-- Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth on the rain delay and moving indoors
"I thought we gave ourselves opportunities and I think again we've got to be able to stay disciplined as matches wear on. We can compete with anybody, we can play with anybody, but when it gets to those crucial moments, what we do with our decision-making.I'm happy with where we are and we're playing better than we were two weeks ago and we have another shot two weeks from today to play again.So we'll see what happens."-- Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth
"You've have to get through finals first, but they just have to stay the course with what we've been doing and what we've been working on. Two weeks is a long break and we haven't had a two week break since the middle of February so we have to make sure to take advantage of that time and use each other to compete and use each other to be competitive in practice. That's the biggest thing, because we don't want to lose our competitive edge in that two week time period."-- Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth

Next Match

Duke awaits the NCAA Tournament selection show, which will take place Monday, April 29 at 6:30 p.m. The opening rounds of the NCAA Tournament will take place Friday, May 3 through Sunday, May 5.

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#5 North Carolina 4, #24 Duke 0
April 19, 2024
Cary Tennis Park * Cary, N.C.

Doubles

#11 Fiona Crawley/Carson Tanguilig (UNC) def. Karolina Berankova/Katie Codd (DU) 6-1
#43 Elizabeth Scotty/Anika Yarlagadda (UNC) def. Emma Jackson/Shavit Kimchi (DU) 6-3
#27 Abbey Forbes/Reilly Tran vs. Iuliia Bryzgalova/Brianna Shvets (DU) 4-3, unfinished

Singles