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Women's Tennis
at Kitty Harrison Invitational
Friday, January 24
Durham, N.C.
TBA
Duke University
6
vs
1
Pennsylvania
#4 Duke Women's Tennis Knocks Off #51 Penn, 6-1
1/24/2003 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
Jan. 24, 2003
DURHAM, N.C. - The fourth-ranked Duke women's tennis team downed 51st-ranked Pennsylvania, 6-1, on Friday evening at the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center in Durham. The Blue Devils improve to 2-0 overall, while Pennsylvania falls to 0-1.
The Blue Devils got the match started by sweeping all three doubles matches to take an 1-0 advantage. Duke received an 8-3 victory by 11th-ranked Amanda Johnson/Julie DeRoo as they defeated 14th-ranked Alice Pirsu/Sheila Chao. Duke's 13th-ranked tandem of Kelly McCain/Hillary Adams knocked off Raluca Ciochina/Raluca Ciulei (8-1) and 49th-ranked duo of Katie Granson/Julia Smith also defeated Nicole Ptak and Caroline Stanislawski (8-5).
Duke then built a 3-0 lead as Granson downed Ciochina (7-5, 6-1) at the fourth slot and 36th-ranked DeRoo defeated Ptak (6-3, 6-0) at No. 2. Pennsylvania cut the Blue Devil lead to 3-1 as 14th-ranked Pirsu knocked off 15th-ranked Johnson, 6-4, 6-4, at the top position.
Senior Prim Siripipat, a native of Mexico, Mo., battled back from being down 4-1 in the first set to bounce Stanislawski, 7-5, 6-1, which clinched the victory for the Blue Devils. Adams also came back after losing the first set, 4-6, to knock off Chao 7-5, 6-0. Smith finished off Kunovac, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 to finish off the match.
Duke will next host eighth-ranked Vanderbilt on Sunday at 12:00 PM in the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center. It will mark the homecoming of former Duke head coach Geoff MacDonald who coached the Blue Devils to a 64-12 record from 1992-94.
Singles 1. #14 Alice Pirsu (Penn) def. #15 Amanda Johnson (DU) 6-4, 6-4 2. #36 Julie DeRoo (DU) def. Nicole Ptak (Penn) 6-3, 6-0 3. #65 Julia Smith (DU) def. Sanela Kunovac (Penn) 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 4. Katie Granson (DU) def. Raluca Ciochina (Penn) 7-5, 6-1 5. Hillary Adams (DU) def. Shelah Chao (Penn) 4-6, 7-5, 6-0 6. Prim Siripipat (DU) def. Caroline Stanislawski (Penn) 7-5, 6-1Doubles 1. #11 Amanda Johnson/Julie DeRoo (DU) def. #14 Alice Pirsu/Shelah Chao (Penn) 8-3 2. #13 Kelly McCain/Hillary Adams (DU) def. Raluca Ciochina/Raluca Ciulei (Penn) 8-1 3. Julia Smith/Katie Granson (DU) def. Nicole Ptak/Caroline Stanislawski (Penn) 8-5
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