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Sunday, March 28
Tallahasee, Fla.
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Duke University
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Florida State
Duke Upends Florida State, 4-3, In Women's Tennis Action
3/28/2004 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
March 28, 2004
TALLAHASSEE, FLA. - The third-ranked Duke women's tennis team picked up its 11th straight victory on Sunday with a 4-3 win over 35th-ranked Florida State in Tallahassee, Fla. The Blue Devils improve to 12-1 overall and 3-0 in the ACC, while Florida State lost its first ACC contest dropping to 19-4, 5-1.
"Florida State is a tough place to play and the crowd was very good," said Duke Head Coach Jamie Ashworth. "This was the best doubles we have played all year and it was good for us to pull out a close match today. Florida State will end up being in the top-20 of the rankings by the end of the year as they are a very good team."
Duke set the tone early going up 4-0 in all three doubles matches and ended up notching wins in all three to take a 1-0 lead in the match.
At the first position, Tory Zawacki and Julia Smith registered an 8-5 win over Mihhaela Moldovan and Roxanne Clarke, at No. 2 Amanda Johnson and Saras Arasu defeated Anca Dumitrescu and Lindsay Deason, 8-6, and at the third slot Jennifer Zika and Kristin Cargill knocked off Brooke Cordell and Christine Denny, 8-3.
In singles play, Duke picked up two quick wins as Cargill, a freshman from Atlanta, Ga., won 6-2, 6-2 over Cordell at the sixth slot and Smith, a sophomore from Windlesham, England, defeated Deason, 6-4, 6-1, at No. 4.
With a 3-0 advantage, Florida State's Moldovan picked up a 6-2, 7-5 victory over 89th-ranked Zika at No. 2 to cut the Blue Devil lead to 3-1, but 93rd-ranked Arasu, a junior from Tampa, Fla., clinched the Duke victory with a 7-6, 7-6 win over Clarke at the fifth position.
After the Blue Devils clinched the win, Zawacki and Johnson fell at the No. 3 and No. 1 positions, respectively to finish the match with a 4-3 score. Zawacki lost 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 to Denny and Johnson fell, 5-7, 6-4, 7-6, to Dumitrescu.
The Blue Devils have won 31 straight ACC regular season contests. Duke will next host 33rd-ranked Wake Forest on Wednesday at 5:00 p.m.
Doubles
Order of Finish: 3, 1, 2
Singles No. 1 Anca Dumitrescu d. Amanda Johnson (DU) 5-7, 6-4, 7-6(2) No. 2 Mihaela Moldovan d. Jennifer Zika (DU) 6-2, 7-5 No. 3 Christine Denny d. Tory Zawacki (DU) 4-6, 6-4, 7-6(5) No. 4 Julia Smith (DU) d. Lindsay Deason (FSU) 6-4, 6-1 No. 5 Saras Arasu (DU) d. Roxanne Clarke (FSU) 7-6(3), 7-6(3) No. 6 Kristin Cargill (DU) d. Brooke Cordell (FSU) 6-2, 6-2
Order of finish: 6, 4, 2, 5, 1, 3
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