Women’s Tennis Closes Home Slate with Georgia Tech, Clemson This Weekend

Friday, April 3

Durham, N.C.

5:00 p.m.

Duke University

Georgia Tech

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Women’s Tennis Closes Home Slate with Georgia Tech, Clemson This Weekend

4/2/2026 5:21:00 PM | Women's Tennis

#55 Georgia Tech (10-9, 4-4 ACC) at #24 Duke (12-6, 6-2 ACC)
Friday, April 3 * 5 p.m.
Durham, N.C. * Ambler Tennis Stadium
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#20 Clemson (16-4, 6-2 ACC) at #24 Duke (12-6, 6-2 ACC)
Saturday, April 4 * 2 p.m.
Durham, N.C. * Ambler Tennis Stadium
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DURHAM, N.C. – The 24th-ranked Duke women's tennis team will close its home portion of the regular season this weekend as the Blue Devils host 55th-ranked Georgia Tech Friday, April 3 at 5 p.m., and 20th-ranked Clemson Saturday, April 4 at 2 p.m. Both matches will be contested at Ambler Tennis Stadium.

Admission is free and parking will be available in the Blue Zone lot adjacent to the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center.

Saturday's match will mark senior day for Katie Codd, who has compiled a 41-30 overall record and 8-3 ACC ledger over the last four years with the Blue Devils. She will be recognized prior to the match against Clemson.

The Series with Georgia Tech
Duke and Georgia Tech will meet for the 55th time in program history with the Blue Devils leading the series, 40-14. In matches contested in Durham, Duke leads the series with a 19-3 ledger. The Blue Devils have won three out of the last four contests in Durham, but dropped the last meeting on March 10, 2024 with a 4-1 decision. Duke has won each of the last two meetings in the overall series. Head coach Jamie Ashworth holds a 23-13 record against the Yellow Jackets.

Irina Balus is 2-0 in her short career against the Yellow Jackets, while Shavit Kimchi is 2-1.

Scouting Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech enters the weekend with a 10-9 overall and 4-4 ACC ledger. The Yellow Jackets are 1-5 on the season in away matches. Georgia Tech has won three out of its last four matches with wins against Florida State (4-2), Kennesaw State (4-1) and Penn State (4-1). The Yellow Jackets feature Alejandra Cruz (#66) ranked in singles.

The Series with Clemson
Duke and Clemson will meet for the 61st time in program history with the Blue Devils leading the series, 39-21. In matches played in Durham, Duke holds a 16-8 ledger. The Blue Devils have won 13 matches in a row in the series with the Tigers, including five in a row at home in Durham. Head coach Jamie Ashworth holds a 24-9 record against Clemson.

Scouting Clemson
Clemson enters the weekend with a 16-4 overall and 6-2 ACC record. The Tigers have won three matches in a row against Miami, Florida State and Virginia Tech. In matches contested on the road, Clemson is 3-3 on the year. Clemson has Rinon Okuwaki (#53) ranked in singles, while Jade Groen/Okuwaki (#35) and Romana Cisovska/Talia Neilson-Gatenby (#90) are ranked in doubles. The Tigers will play at North Carolina Friday, April 3 prior to traveling to Durham.

Home Court Advantage
Since the 2000-01 season, the Blue Devils have posted an 182-28 combined home record between Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center (49-10) and Ambler Tennis Stadium (133-18). The program has also gone 72-3 at Sheffield over the past 11 years and recorded 14 undefeated outdoor seasons, most recently a 9-0 mark at Ambler in 2024-25.

Duke had its 19-match home winning streak snapped in its last match against North Carolina.

What is Next
Duke will next travel down the road to face NC State in a mid-week match Wednesday, April 8 at 4 p.m., in Cary.

ITA Rankings
Duke is currently No. 24 nationally in the ITA rankings as a team.

Head coach Jamie Ashworth has guided Duke to 21 top-10 preseason rankings in his 30 seasons as the head coach of the Blue Devils. Duke has been in the preseason top-16 nationally in each of the last 30 years under Ashworth.

In singles play, Irina Balus (#15) and Aspen Schuman (#77) are ranked. Duke features three doubles teams as well with Shavit Kimchi/Liv Hovde (#33), Hovde/Balus (#47) and Eleana Yu/Claire An (#84).

Duke Reaches 1,000 Wins as a Program
Duke registered its 1,000th victory as a program Sunday, March 29 as the Blue Devils posted a 4-0 victory over Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. The Blue Devils currently feature a 1000-308 ledger over the 49 years of the program. In NCAA history, Duke became the fourth program to collect 1,000 wins – Stanford, Florida and Georgia.

Various Duke Notes

Freshman Claire An recently registered both match-clinching wins against Boston College and Syracuse. They were the first two match-clinching victories of her career. She also notched her first win against a ranked singles opponent April 1 with a 6-1, 6-2 victory over No. 111 Anna Frey of North Carolina.
Katie Codd totaled her eighth career match-clinching win this past weekend against Virginia Tech. She has clinched three so far this season.
Shavit Kimchi owns 12 match-clinching wins in her career which ranks tied for 12th on Duke's all-time charts (Stats only available from 2005-06 to present)
Irina Balus (15), Liv Hovde (12), Claire An (11) and Aspen Schuman (10) lead Duke with double-digit singles wins on the season.
In just two seasons, Liv Hovde has totaled a 36-9 overall, 27-7 dual match and 16-2 ACC record in doubles play.
Freshman Aspen Schuman has opened her collegiate career with a 10-3 overall and 6-1 ACC ledger in singles action. In doubles play, Schuman is 8-4 overall and 5-1 in ACC play.
Duke sophomore Irina Balus registered a win over Texas' second-ranked Carmen Andreea Herea, 7-6 (7-3), 4-6, 6-4, in the National Team Indoors. It marked the highest ranked win of her collegiate career.

Freshmen Impact
Claire An and Aspen Schuman have combined to open their collegiate careers with a 17-4 dual match record and 21-7 overall ledger. They are 10-1 in ACC action.

Doubles Team Nets Honor
The Duke tandem of Liv Hovde and Shavit Kimchi were named the ACC Doubles Team of the Week on Feb. 10, following the National Team Indoors.

Hovde and Kimchi collected a 2-1 record at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) National Team Indoors at the Atkins Tennis Center in Urbana, Illinois. The duo registered their first two ranked wins as the Blue Devils defeated Ohio State's 13th-ranked Hephzibah Oluwadare and Teah Chavez, 7-6 (7-2), and also knocked off 59th-ranked Tess Bucher and Alice Xu, 7-6 (7-3).

Hovde and Kimchi also advanced to the round of 16 at the NCAA Doubles Championship in the fall.

Balus Earns PNC Achievers Award
Duke women's tennis sophomore Irina Balus and fencing junior Dayaal Singh were named PNC Achievers of the Year for the 2024-25 campaign and were recognized at the Duke men's basketball game Feb. 14.

Since arriving on campus, Balus has made an immediate impact on the Duke women's tennis team. She is coming off a 2025 campaign where she earned ITA All-America honors, received as high as a No. 8 national ranking in singles and No. 8 in doubles and advanced to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Singles Championship. Balus, a native of Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, helped lead Duke to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Team Championship this past May and owns 27 wins over her first two seasons with the Blue Devils.

Blue Devils Add Aspen Schuman for Dual Match Action
In November, Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth announced the signing of Aspen Schuman. A native of Menlo Park, California, Schuman joined the Blue Devils in January.

Schuman has an Intercollegiate Tennis Federation (ITF) career high ranking of No. 31 and a Women's Tennis Association (WTA) career-best ranking of No. 931. In the Tennis Recruiting Network rankings, Schuman is listed No. 4 nationally and she has been listed as high as No. 1 in the United States Tennis Association (USTA) Girls' 18s national rankings. A six-time Junior Grand Slam main draw competitor, Schuman has won five ITF junior singles titles and is a two-time ITF W15 Tournament finalist.

Balus Earns All-America Accolades Once Again
For the second year in a row, Duke sophomore Irina Balus has earned All-America honors as she advanced to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Singles Championship in the fall.

Balus became just the fourth Blue Devil to earn All-America accolades in each of their first two seasons in Durham – Amanda Johnson (2001, 2002), Kelly McCain (2002, 2023) and Vanessa Webb (1996, 1997).

Balus won five out of her final seven matches to conclude the fall and owns a career singles mark of 24-16.

The Head Coach
Head coach Jamie Ashworth is in his 30th season with the Blue Devils and owns an impressive 648-167 ledger. In 2024, Ashworth registered his 600th victory on Jan. 20 in a 4-2 win over Illinois. He accomplished this mark in only 747 matches, becoming the quickest coach to 600 wins.

Quickest to 600 Wins – 747 matches by Jamie Ashworth (Duke), 749 by Jeff Wallace (Georgia), 779 by Brian Kalbas (William & Mary/North Carolina), and 785 by Lin Loring (UC Santa Barbara/Indiana).

Ashworth became the seventh NCAA Division I coach to reach the 600-win ledger – Lin Loring (846), Jeff Wallace (818), Brian Kalbas (797), Jay Louderback (703), Geoff MacDonald (631), Gualberto Escudero (631) and Jamie Ashworth (636) (wins entering the 2026 season).

Among the winningest coaches of all time, Ashworth ranks 10th with a 79.5 winning percentage, sixth with 648 wins, third for winningest active coaches by percentage (79.5) and second for winningest active coaches by victories (648).

Big Sets for Little Hearts
The Duke men's and women's tennis programs announced a partnership with the Duke Children's Hospital Pediatric and Congenital Heart Center called Big Sets for Little Hearts in the fall of 2024.

Big Sets for Little Hearts pledges will be made based on the number of sets won by the men's and women's tennis programs.

If you are interested in supporting Blue Devil tennis' partnership with Duke Children's, you can pledge for each set won during the season or make a one-time donation. Pledges start at $0.10, $0.50, $1.00 and $2.50. Based on last year's results, the smallest pledged donation would be equal to $64.70. For more information or to donate, click here.

The Duke Children's Pediatric and Congenital Heart Center is the No. 2 ranked pediatric cardiology and heart surgery program in the United States for newborns and children with congenital and acquired heart disease. The Duke Pediatric and Congenital Heart Center strives to improve their patients' outcomes and the quality of their lives.

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