Shvets Nets 100th Win as No. 20 Duke Defeats Virginia Tech, 6-1

Friday, April 5

Durham, N.C.

5 p.m.

Duke University

Virginia Tech

Photo by: Bri Shaw, Duke Athletics

Shvets Nets 100th Win as No. 20 Duke Defeats Virginia Tech, 6-1

4/5/2024 9:57:00 PM | Women's Tennis

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DURHAM – Duke women's tennis graduate student Brianna Shvets collected her 100th career win on Friday evening as the 20th-ranked Blue Devils posted a 6-1 victory over Virginia Tech at Ambler Tennis Stadium.

Shvets, a product of Pennington, N.J., became the 29th Blue Devil to reach the 100-win ledger and joins fellow graduate student Iuliia Bryzgalova, who also netted 100 victories over the last couple of weeks.

Duke improved to 13-6 overall, 6-4 in the ACC, while Virginia Tech fell to 8-10, 3-7 in the ACC.

How It Happened

Duke came out in doubles and won the first seven games over the three courts.
The Blue Devil duo of Shavit Kimchi and Katie Codd were impressive as they registered a 6-0 victory over 75th-ranked Semra Aksu and Erika Cheng.The match took only 23 minutes.
Duke's tandem of Brianna Shvets and Iuliia Bryzgalova jumped ahead 2-0 and then eventually won, 6-2, against Katie Andreini and Sabina Richtrova to clinch the doubles point.
Emma Jackson and Karolina Berankova were leading, 4-3, against the Hokies' Charlotte Cartledge and Ozlem Uslu when the point was clinched.
In singles, the Blue Devils won five of the six first sets to open action.
Kimchi, who is ranked No. 69 nationally, put the second point on the board for Duke with a 6-3, 6-0 win over Andreini on court two.
The Blue Devils took a 3-0 lead as 101st-ranked Codd netted a 6-1, 6-1 victory over Tamara Barad Itzhaki on court four.
Virginia Tech was able to put a point on the scoreboard as the Hokies netted a victory on court one.Uslu came back from dropping the first set to Duke's 82nd-ranked Jackson, 7-5, to win 10 straight games en route to winning back-to-back sets, 6-0, 6-1 to win.
Duke clinched the victory on court three as 88th-ranked Bryzgalova posted a tight, 7-6 (7-3), 7-6 (7-2) win over Aksu.In both sets, Bryzgalova opened with a 4-3 lead, but Aksu battled back to go ahead 5-4 in the first and 6-5 in the second.Bryzgalova came through in the clutch to send the sets to a tiebreaker and was impressive in both.
In a matter of a few seconds, Berankova and Shvets collected wins on courts six and five, respectively to close the match.
Berankova trailed 0-2 and 3-5 in the first set, but battled back to win the set, 7-5, against Laima Frosch.Frosch came back to win the second, 6-4.Berankova jumped out to a 3-1 lead in the third, but Frosch came back to take a 5-4 lead.With wins in the final three games, Berankova took home the victory, 7-5.
Shvets went up against Cheng on court five and the two went back-and-forth over three sets.Cheng led, 5-3, in the first set, but Shvets came back to win, 7-5.In the second set, Shvets took a 4-2 lead, but Cheng came back to win, 6-4.Shvets opened the third set with a 3-1 lead, but Cheng won three straight games to go ahead 4-3 and then 5-4.With wins in the final three games, Shvets collected the win and her 100th career victory, 7-5.

Notes

Duke's Shavit Kimchi and Katie Codd registered their first ranked win as a doubles tandem.
The Blue Devils had dropped three straight doubles points and four out of their last five, prior to Friday evening.
Kimchi moved to 5-4 in the ACC and won her fifth match out of the last six contests.
Codd collected her fifth ACC win and moved to 10-1 on court four in singles play.She has won six out of her last seven matches.
Iuliia Bryzgalova collected her seventh straight win to move to 7-0 at the No. 3 singles slot.
Brianna Shvets moved to 100-38 over her career and won her fourth straight singles match. She is now 7-2 in ACC play this season.
Karolina Berankova totaled her third ACC victory of the season and eighth of her career.
Duke is now 9-3 at home this season.
Bryzgalova and Shvets moved to 12-5 overall and 5-2 in doubles action.

Quotes

"I mean, anytime we can win the doubles in this conference, it's big.We've definitely been struggling with our doubles. I think from a confidence factor going into singles, we just needed to do that.We got a good win at one there quick so that kind of set the tone for the others.We work on it and work on it and work on it.It's good to see some of the things that we work on and talk about be executed in match play there so it was good.A good win for us to start the weekend off." -- Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth
"It's great for her and Iuliia [Bryzgalova] last week.They've played a lot of matches.That's a tremendous honor. Tremendous mark for anyone in our program to have 100 singles wins. So, congratulations to her.She deserves it.She works so hard in all of her matches. So, I'm happy for her." -- Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth
"It feels incredible. I'm really grateful that I even had the opportunity to play so many matches. And really big shout out to Jamie [Ashworth], Danny [Leitner] and G [Gerhard Gruindelingh] for coaching me and letting me come to Duke, which was a wonderful opportunity.Also, thank you to my Princeton folks as well. I really, really have enjoyed college tennis and I feel like it's brought the best out of me. So, just thankful for that opportunity." Duke graduate student Brianna Shvets

Next Match

Duke will close its home portion of 2024 slate on Sunday, April 7 at 12 p.m., as the Blue Devils host fourth-ranked Virginia.It will mark senior day for Karolina Berankova, Iuliia Bryzgalova and Brianna Shvets.All three will be honored prior to the match starting.

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#20 Duke 6, Virginia Tech 1
April 5, 2024
Ambler Tennis Stadium * Durham, N.C.

Doubles
1. Shavit Kimchi/Katie Codd (DU) def. #75 Semra Aksu/Erika Cheng (VT) 6-0
2. Emma Jackson/Karolina Berankova (DU) vs. Charlotte Cartledge/Ozlem Uslu (VT) 4-3, unfinished
3. Brianna Shvets/Iuliia Bryzgalova (DU) def. Katie Andreini/Sabina Richtrova (VT) 6-2

Singles
1. Ozlem Uslu (VT) def. #82 Emma Jackson (DU) 5-7, 6-0, 6-1
2. #69 Shavit Kimchi (DU) def. Katie Andreini (VT) 6-3, 6-0
3. #88 Iuliia Bryzgalova (DU) def. Semra Aksu (VT) 7-6 (7-3), 7-6 (7-2)
4. #101 Katie Codd (DU) def. Tamara Barad Itzhaki (VT) 6-1, 6-1
5. Brianna Shvets (DU) def. Erika Cheng (VT) 4-6, 6-1, 6-4
6. Karolina Berankova (DU) def. Laima Frosch (VT) 7-5, 4-6, 7-5
Order of Finish: Doubles (1,3*), Singles (2,4,1,3*,6,5)