Blue Devils Open Weekend with 4-0 Win Victory Over No. 55 Georgia Tech

Friday, April 3

Durham, N.C.

5:00 p.m.

Duke University

Georgia Tech

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Blue Devils Open Weekend with 4-0 Win Victory Over No. 55 Georgia Tech

4/3/2026 9:31:00 PM | Women's Tennis

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DURHAM, N.C. — The 24th-ranked Duke women's tennis team opened the weekend with a 4-0 victory over 55th-ranked Georgia Tech Friday evening at Ambler Tennis Stadium.

The Blue Devils won the doubles point and followed with singles wins by freshman Aspen Schuman, sophomore Liv Hovde and freshman Claire An. With the win, Duke improved to 13-6 overall and 7-2 in the ACC, while Georgia Tech fell to 10-10, 4-5.

How It Happened

On court three, Duke came out on fire as Liv Hovde and Aspen Schuman didn't drop a game en route to cruising to a 6-0 victory over Given Roach and Eleni Karantali. The match took only 23 minutes.
Georgia Tech jumped out to leads in doubles play on court one and two.
Duke's 84th-ranked tandem of Eleana Yu and Claire An faced a 3-0 and 4-1 deficit, but rallied to even the score, 5-5, against Sabritt Dozier and Taly Licht on court two. The Blue Devils then closed the match to clinch the doubles point by winning the next two games and taking the contest, 7-5.
On court one, Irina Balus and Shavit Kimchi won the first game against Alejandra Cruz and Seri Nayuki, but then dropped three in a row to face a 3-1 deficit. With Georgia Tech leading, 5-3, the Blue Devils mounted a rally to even the score, 5-5. Duke won its third game in a row to go ahead, 6-5, but dropped a match point and the contest was abandoned with a 6-6 score since the doubles point was clinched.
Duke carried the momentum into singles winning the first set on four of the six courts.
Schuman, a freshman from Menlo Park, California, continued her stellar play as she registered a 6-1, 6-2 win on court two against Licht. She cruised to a victory in the first set, but in the second after leading, 3-0, Licht rallied to cut into the lead, 3-2. Schuman was solid down the stretch finishing the match with a 6-2 win and putting a second Duke point on the board.
Shortly after Hovde gave Duke a 3-0 lead as she totaled a 6-2, 6-1 win on court three versus Roach.
An continued to impress for the Blue Devils as she went up against Nayuki on court four. An, who is from Boca Raton, Florida, won the first set, 6-1, and then trailed Nayuki, 2-1, in the second. An went on a run winning three games in a row to take a 4-2 lead. She registered a key deuce point to go ahead, 5-3, and clinched the Duke victory with a 6-4 victory.
When the match was clinched, Duke's 15th-ranked Balus was in a tight match against 66th-ranked Cruz. Balus struggled in the first set as she lost, 6-2, and had dropped five straight games into the second set. Trailing, 2-0, Balus regrouped and won the second set, 6-3, heading to a third set. Cruz was leading, 4-1, when it was abandoned.
Codd was trailing Dozier, 4-6, 4-3, on court six and Kimchi was leading Olivia Carneiro, 7-5, 5-1.
Kimchi was solid on court five for Duke as she fell behind, 2-1, against Carneiro, but won four out of the next five games to go ahead, 5-2. Carneiro came back to even the score, 5-5, but Kimchi closed the first set by winning the final two games, including a deuce point to win, 7-5. In the second set, Kimchi was at match point when the contest was clinched.

Notes

Liv Hovde and Aspen Schuman are now 3-0 playing together in doubles and 3-0 in ACC action.
Schuman moved to 11-3 overall and 7-1 in ACC play on the year in singles.
Hovde is now 13-12 overall and 4-0 in ACC singles action. She improved to 19-1 in doubles at the No. 3 slot.
Hovde and Schuman teamed to win the first doubles match and then won the first two singles matches of the evening.
Claire An totaled her third match-clinching win on the season.
An and Eleana Yu is now 5-4 in dual match play and 9-6 on the year in doubles.
Duke won its third match in a row against Georgia Tech and is now 20-3 in contests played in Durham.
The Blue Devils are now 134-18 in matches played in Ambler Tennis Stadium.

Quotes

"We accomplished really, everything we want to do tonight. First getting the win, being healthy moving forward tomorrow and doing it fairly quickly -- not a long, drawn out match. Clemson is a tough one for us as well. Yeah, Georgia Tech has always given us a little bit of trouble and we actually did address that in practice and talked about that a little bit. I thought we responded well." – Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth
"I think they definitely built off of the doubles in their singles. They're a tough team – Liv is tricky up at the net and in doubles. When Aspen is moving well and returning well, they're tough to beat in doubles. It was good for Liv. Liv hasn't had a lot of quick, easy matches. And so it was good for her confidence to get that match quickly as well." – Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth on Aspen and Liv's performance
"I thought we just came out flat, other than at three doubles, one and two just got off to such a slow start. They did a good job of battling back, competing and finding a way in those two matches to win one and keep the other one going. I think we can still be better and I think we just have to come out with a little bit more energy. I told them that's one thing you guys can control. Maybe you can't control wind, you can't control whatever the ball, but you can control that energy from the start of the match. The doubles are so quick. We've got to come out a little bit more fired up than we were today." – Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth on the doubles start

Next Match

Duke will host 20th-ranked Clemson Saturday, April 4 at 2 p.m., at Ambler Tennis Stadium. It will mark senior day for Katie Codd as she will be recognized prior to the match.

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#24 Duke 4, #55 Georgia Tech 0
April 3, 2026
Durham, N.C. * Ambler Tennis Stadium

Doubles
1. Irina Balus/Shavit Kimchi (DU) vs. Alejandra Cruz/Seri Nayuki (GT) 6-6, unfinished
2. #84 Eleana Yu/Claire An (DU) def. Sabritt Dozier/Taly Licht (GT) 7-5
3. Liv Hovde/Aspen Schuman (DU) def. Given Roach/Eleni Karantali (GT) 6-0

Singles
1. #15 Irina Balus (DU) vs. #66 Alejandra Cruz (GT) 2-6, 6-2, 1-4, unfinished
2. #77 Aspen Schuman(DU) def. Taly Licht (GT) 6-1, 6-2
3. Liv Hovde (DU) def. Given Roach (GT) 6-2, 6-1
4. Claire An (DU) def. Seri Nayuki (GT) 6-1, 6-4
5. Shavit Kimchi (DU) vs. Olivia Carneiro (GT) 7-5, 5-1, unfinished
6 Katie Codd (DU) vs. Sabritt Dozier (GT) 4-6, 4-3, unfinished

Order of Finish: Doubles (3,2*), Singles (2,3,4*)