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Friday, May 12
Durham, N.C.
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Duke University
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Winthrop - First Round
Blue Devils Cruise Past Winthrop, 5-0, To Advance To NCAA Second Round
5/12/2006 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
DURHAM, N.C. ? The 10th-ranked and eighth-seeded Duke women's tennis team cruised through two doubles matches and only gave up five total games in the first singles sets on its way to posting a 5-0 win over Winthrop in the NCAA first round Friday at Duke's Ambler Tennis Stadium. The Blue Devils, who improve to 18-7 and 10-1 at home this year, will meet the winner of the 1 p.m. Virginia-Alabama contest Saturday at 4 p.m.
Two of Duke's doubles pairs jumped out to quick leads over their Winthrop opponents. The 33rd-ranked tandem of Daniela Bercek and Jennifer Zika at No. 1 and Tara Iyer and Jessi Robinson at No. 3 both led 5-0 before splitting the next two games and going up 6-1. Iyer and Robinson grabbed two more points to down Larisa Bekmetova and Alexandra Dyckman, 8-1. Bercek and Zika played to 7-2 and then 8-3, clinching the doubles point for the Blue Devils. With the score knotted at 3-3, play between Duke's Jackie Carleton and Melissa Mang and Winthrop's Paty Coimbra and Yolanda Araujo was abandoned.
Hot off the doubles victories, Duke carried its momentum into singles, where all six Blue Devils won the first set by a 6-2 margin or better, and no match lasted more than two sets. Robinson put the Blue Devils up 2-0 with the first win, topping Dyckman at No. 6, 6-2, 6-0, winning the first singles match for the second time this year.
Minutes later, No. 32 Carleton wrapped up a 6-1, 6-0 victory over Coimbra on court two, extending her career-best singles win streak to eight matches and improving her dual record to 18-3. Eighty-eighth ranked Iyer at No. 4 and sophomore 102nd-ranked Clelia Deltour at No. 5 followed almost in unison though Iyer finished just before to clinch the match. Iyer and Deltour each won 6-0, 6-3 with Iyer defeating Takahashi, and Deltour beating Bekmetova.
No. 4 Bercek led Ana Paula Novaes, 6-0, 3-1, at the top flight, and No. 71 Mang led, 6-1, 4-3, over Araujo at No. 3 when they stopped play after Duke won the match.
The Blue Devils return to the Ambler Tennis Stadium Saturday to face either Alabama or Virginia at 4 p.m. in the NCAA second round with the winner of that match heading to Palo Alto, Calif., for the final rounds of the 2006 NCAA Tournament.
Doubles
1. Daniela Bercek/Jennifer Zika (D) def. Ana Paula Novaes/Paula Takahashi (W), 8-3
2. Jackie Carleton/Melissa Mang (D) vs. Paty Coimbra/Yolanda Araujo (W), 3-3, dnf
3. Tara Iyer/Jessi Robinson (D) def. Larisa Bekmetova/Alexandra Dyckman (W), 8-1
Order: 3,1*
Singles
1. Daniela Bercek (D) vs. Ana Paula Novaes (W), 6-1, 3-0, dnf
2. Jackie Carleton (D) def. Paty Coimbra (W), 6-1, 6-0
3. Melissa Mang (D) vs. Yolanda Araujo (W), 6-1, 4-3, dnf
4. Tara Iyer (D) def. Paula Takahashi (W), 6-0, 6-3
5. Clelia Deltour (D) def. Larisa Bekmetova (W), 6-0, 6-3
6. Jessi Robinson (D) def. Alexandra Dyckman (W), 6-2, 6-0
Order: 6,2,4*,5
* indicates clinching match
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