No. 10 Duke Opens ACC Play with Road Win at Boston College

Friday, February 21

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No. 10 Duke Opens ACC Play with Road Win at Boston College

2/21/2025 7:41:00 PM | Women's Tennis

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WEYMOUTH, Mass. – The 10th-ranked Duke women's tennis team opened ACC action Friday afternoon at Boston College with a 4-0 victory at the Weymouth Club in Weymouth.

In the win, Duke freshman Ava Krug and sophomore Eleana Yu totaled their first career ACC singles victory. Freshman Liv Hovde also made her Duke debut in the contest. The Blue Devils moved to 7-2 on the season and 1-0 in ACC play, while the Eagles dropped to 3-6, 0-1.

HOW IT HAPPENED

The Blue Devils came out and took the doubles point by winning on courts No. 1 and No. 3 to go ahead, 1-0.
On court three, Duke's duo of Emma Jackson and Eleana Yu totaled a 6-2 victory over Olivia Benton and Muskan Mahajan.
After Duke's Shavit Kimchi and Ava Krug dropped a 6-4 decision to Tola Glowacka and Alex Torre on court two, it came down to court one to decide the doubles point.
The Blue Devil 11th-ranked tandem of Ellie Coleman and Irina Balus posted a 6-3 win over Seren Agar and Nadia Dimovska of Boston College to clinch the point for Duke.
Duke added a couple more points to the scoreboard from courts No. 4 and No. 6 in singles to go ahead, 3-0.
Jackson, who is ranked No. 27 nationally, never trailed en route to a 6-2, 6-0 win against Mahajan on court four.
Seeing action in her first career ACC match, Krug registered a 6-4, 6-2 win versus Nadia Barteck on court five.
Duke's 31st-ranked Yu then clinched the victory for the Blue Devils with a 6-4, 6-4 victory against Agar at the No. 2 slot.Yu, who is from Mason, Ohio, battled back from being down in both sets to come back and register the win.

NOTES

Duke's No. 11 duo of Ellie Coleman and Irina Balus moved to 14-5 on the season together in doubles.
Shavit Kimchi and Ava Krug dropped their first match of the season together, after going 2-0 this past weekend against Ohio State and Michigan.
Freshman Liv Hovde made her Duke debut at No. 3 singles and was leading 7-6 (7-5), 3-2 when the match was clinched.
Krug is now 4-0 in dual match play in her short Duke career, while improving to 9-2 on the season.
Emma Jackson totaled her 19th career ACC singles win and now owns 79 career singles victories.
Both Krug and Eleana Yu won their debut ACC matches in singles play.
Duke moved to 21-0 all-time against Boston College in the series.

QUOTES

"It was a good win. It's never easy to play at Boston College.The courts are faster than ours and is a tough facility. But I thought we handled ourselves pretty well. Got off to good start, winning the doubles point. And then those girls at two, four and six did a great job."-- Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth
"Yeah, we've spent the time on it. We lost a match at two doubles today, which is the first time they've lost, but they just got off to a poor start. But I do think we're doing things the right way, which is encouraging and listening to what we're talking about in practice." -- Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth on winning the doubles point for the third-straight match
"It's exciting for us to have Liv be able to play.We just have to get her some matches now.She hasn't played a competitive match in almost three months. I think that we have the flexibility to move people around and a match like that was great to give her an opportunity to play.I think she just adds to some of the depth we have.It is a great opportunity for her and a great opportunity for us to be able to do that, move people around, change our lineup, keep everybody fresh and ready to play as well."-- Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth on the addition of Liv Hovde to the roster

NEXT MATCH

Duke will close its weekend trip up north with an ACC contest at Syracuse on Sunday, Feb. 23 at 11 a.m.It will be aired live on ACC Network Extra.

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#10 Duke 4, Boston College 0
February 21, 2025
Weymouth Club * Weymouth, Mass.

Doubles
1. #11 Ellie Coleman/Irina Balus (DU) def. Seren Agar/Nadia Dimovska (BC) 6-3
2. Tola Glowacka/Alex Torre (BC) def. Shavit Kimchi/Ava Krug (DU) 6-4
3. Emma Jackson/Eleana Yu (DU) def. Olivia Benton/Muskan Mahajan (BC) 6-2

Singles
1. #8 Irina Balus (DU) vs. Olivia Benton (BC) 1-6, 6-6 unfinished
2. #31 Eleana Yu (DU) def. Seren Agar (BC) 6-4, 6-4
3. Liv Hovde (DU) vs. Tola Glowacka (BC) 7-6 (7-5), 3-2 unfinished
4. #27 Emma Jackson (DU) def. Muskan Mahajan (BC) 6-2, 6-0
5. Katie Codd (DU) vs. Alex Torre (BC) 2-6, 6-1, unfinished
6. Ava Krug (DU) def. Nadia Barteck (BC) 6-4, 6-2
Order of Finish: Doubles (3,2,1*), Singles (4,6,2*)