Duke Wins 15th-Straight Home Contest; Defeats JMU, 4-0

Sunday, February 1

Durham, N.C.

3:00 p.m.

Duke University

James Madison

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Duke Wins 15th-Straight Home Contest; Defeats JMU, 4-0

2/1/2026 6:00:00 PM | Women's Tennis

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DURHAM, N.C. — With a 4-0 victory over James Madison Sunday afternoon inside the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center, the seventh-ranked Duke women's tennis team won their 15th-straight home contest and moved to 5-0 on the season. James Madison dropped to 1-4 with the loss.

How It Happened

On court two in doubles action, Duke's Irina Balus and Eleana Yu cruised to a 6-0 victory over Reka Matko and Mia Saveljic to get things started.
James Madison came back on court one and registered a 6-3 win as Brooklyn Hoffman and Sophie Williams knocked off Duke's Liv Hovde and Claire An.Hoffman and Williams jumped out to a 5-0 lead, but Hovde and An came back to win three games in a row to cut into the score.JMU won a key deuce point to take the set, 6-3.
The doubles point came down to court three with Duke's Shavit Kimchi and Katie Codd going up against JMU's Daria Munteanu and Ariel Avidan.Munteanu and Avidan jumped out to leads of 1-0, 2-1 and 3-1, but the Blue Devils made a run of their own.Kimchi and Codd collected three games in a row to go ahead, 4-3.James Madison evened the score, 4-4, but Duke came back to take a 5-4 advantage.JMU once again evened the score, 5-5, but the Blue Devils didn't allow a point over the final two games to clinch the doubles point by a 7-5 ledger.
In singles action, Duke came out and won the first set on four of the six courts.
An, a freshman from Boca Raton, Florida, dropped her first two games against JMU's Corinna Rietmann on court six to start her match.An then responded by winning 12 games in a row to win the match, 6-2, 6-0.
With the Blue Devils leading 2-0, 22nd-ranked Balus went up against Munteanu on court one.Munteanu jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first set, but Balus came back to win three games in a row and led 3-2.With the match tied, 4-4, Balus won the next two games to take the first set, 6-4.She went on to win the second, 6-1, and Duke led 3-0.
Duke's 93rd-ranked Kimchi closed the match with a 6-2, 6-2 win on court four against Williams.Kimchi, who is from Sdey Hemed, Israel, never trailed in her match as she won her 45th career contest.
When the match was clinched, Hovde, Yu and Codd had their matches abandoned.

Notes

Freshman Claire An collected her first collegiate dual match victory.
Shavit Kimchi is now 32-14 all-time in dual matches.
Kimchi and Katie Codd improved to 2-0 this season and 7-7 over their career together.
Irina Balus has now won four singles matches in a row and nine out of her last 11.
The win marked Duke's 15th-straight win at home.
The Blue Devils have registered a 71-3 record inside the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center over the last 10 years.

Quotes

"I really feel like this weekend, we kind of took a step backwards and we kind of rested on our laurels of, okay, we got into indoors.I just told them afterwards, we have to stay committed to getting better every single day and I think this past week of practice and that falls on us as coaches -- I don't think we did that.But we got through the two matches, which obviously is you have to be able to win when you're not playing great.But it's not the level we need to be to be able to compete with the best teams in the country. That's something that we have to work on and keep addressing every day."– Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth
"I just felt like we weren't invested in all three areas that we talked about -- emotional, physical and mental. I don't think that we were fully invested in those for the weekend with all three of those.I think for us to be at our best, we have to be a little bit more vocal than we are on the courts.Someone on our team, you know, we don't have a lot of huge outgoing personalities, but someone needs to come out of their comfort zone and take that role over. I told them, as coaches, we can only do so much. They're the ones playing, and we need someone to step up in that position." – Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth

Next Match

Duke will next travel to Evanston, Illinois, to compete in the ITA National Team Indoors Feb. 6-9.The full bracket will be released Tuesday.

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#7 Duke 4, James Madison 0
February 1, 2026
Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center * Durham, N.C.

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