Blue Devils Suffer Road Loss at No. 20 Virginia, 4-3

Sunday, February 26

Charlottesville, VA

1 p.m.

Duke University

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Blue Devils Suffer Road Loss at No. 20 Virginia, 4-3

2/26/2023 5:15:00 PM | Women's Tennis

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – The 10th-ranked Duke women's tennis team concluded its weekend trip to the state of Virginia with a 4-3 loss on the road at 20th-ranked Virginia on Sunday afternoon at the Boar's Head Sports Club in Charlottesville, Va.

The loss for the Blue Devils (11-2, 1-1 ACC) snapped a 10-match winning streak against ACC opponents dating back to last season. The Cavaliers improved to 7-3, 1-1 on the year. Duke senior Chloe Beck, who is ranked No. 2 nationally, continued her solid play earning her 17th straight ACC regular season singles win.

How It Happened
•   In the second straight outdoor match of the season, the Blue Devils had to come-from-behind after dropping the doubles point on the road.
•   Duke's Iuliia Bryzgalova and Georgia Drummy lost the first game against Hibah Shaikh and Ziodata on court three, but won three straight to lead 3-1. The Blue Devils ended up taking the match, 6-2.
•   On court two, No. 7 ranked Elaine Chervinsky and Natasha Subhash defeated Duke's Emma Jackson and Ellie Coleman, 6-2.
•   It all came down to court one with Duke's 18th-ranked Chloe Beck and Cameron Morra against 41st-ranked Julia Adams and Melodia Collard. After dropping the first game, Beck/Morra won three straight to take a 3-1 lead. Duke broke the Cavaliers serve to lead 4-3, but Virginia would win come back to win three straight games to take the doubles point.
•   Each team won three first sets out of the six singles matches, but Virginia won key tiebreakers on two of those courts.
•   Duke evened the match, 1-1, with a quick win on court one by second-ranked Beck over 38th-ranked Adams, 6-2, 6-1. Beck never trailed in the match.
•   The Blue Devils went ahead, 2-1, as Duke's 26th-ranked Jackson registered a 6-4, 6-4 win over Chervinsky. Jackson trailed 3-4 in the first set, before storming back to win, 6-4. In the second set, Jackson dropped the first game and trailed 1-3, but made another impressive comeback to give Duke another point on the board.
•   Virginia evened the match, 2-2, as 110th-ranked Subhash defeated 47th-ranked Morra of Duke, 6-1, 6-4.
•   The Cavaliers were able to regain the lead with a 7-6, 6-3 win on court five as 92nd-ranked Shaikh totaled a 7-6, 6-3 win over Bryzgalova. Shaikh went ahead 5-1 in the first set, but Bryzgalova battled back to send the match to a tiebreaker, before falling 6-2. Bryzgalova found herself down, 5-2, in the second set and went on to fall, 6-3.
•   Duke graduate student Brianna Shvets continued her great singles play by putting the third point on the board for the Blue Devils on court six. She jumped out to a 4-2 lead against Collard, but found herself down 4-5 in the first set. Shvets battled back to win the first set, 7-5. Collard took control in the second set winning 6-1. In the third set, Collard led 3-0 and 4-2, but Shvets was able to break Collard's serve to cut the lead to 4-3 and win five straight points to take the match, 7-5.
•   It all came down to court No. 4 with Duke's Coleman against Ziodato. Coleman jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first set and led 4-1, but Ziodato stormed back to win the first set, 7-6 (7-5). The set was even, 5-5, and Coleman dropped a key deuce point to tail 6-5. In the second set, Coleman led 3-0, but Ziodato mounted another comeback to take the match, 6-4.

Notes
•   Iuliia Bryzgalova and Georgia Drummy are now 3-0 this season and 2-0 in dual match play in doubles.
•   Chloe Beck registered her 14th straight singles win to improve to 94-23 over her career. She is 10-0 this season in dual match play. Beck notched her seventh win this season and 23rd of her career against a nationally ranked opponent.
•   Brianna Shvets posted her 10th straight singles victory and improved to 8-0 in dual match action this season.

Quotes
"I told them afterwards I thought that Virginia played the big points better than we did. We put ourselves in positions and I thought when we were in those positions and when we were up, we didn't do a good job of finishing. But I think across the board, Virginia played deuce points and the three-all points tougher than we did. I thought we just backed off a little bit in those situations. I told them we just need to be tougher, we need to be better and we need to be smarter. When we are in those situations, we can't give away points, which I thought we did across the board starting with the doubles. And that carried over into singles. We were up in some games, had some momentum and then we would give it away with some free points. When it got tight, Virginia did a good job of stepping up. We just have to be a little bit better than that. These matches are so close, no matter who you play. It's a matter of three or four points here and there and the match was completely different. Two different points in doubles, we win the doubles point and the whole result is different. A couple of points in singles and the whole thing is different. So, we have to value every point that we play and play those points smart." -- Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth

Next Match
Duke will return home for the first home match in nearly a month as the Blue Devils host Notre Dame on Friday, March 3 at 5 p.m., and Louisville on Sunday, March 5 at 11 a.m.

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#20 Virginia 4, #10 Duke 3
February 26, 2023
Charlottesville, Va. (Boar's Head Sports Club )

Doubles
1. #41 Julia Adams/Melodia Collard (VA) def. #18 Chloe Beck/Cameron Morra (DU) 6-4
2. #7 Elaine Chervinsky/Natasha Subhash (VA) def. Emma Jackson/Ellie Coleman (DU) 6-2
3. Iuliia Bryzgalova/Georgia Drummy (DU) def. Hibah Shaikh/Sara Ziodato (VA) 6-2

Singles
1. #2 Chloe Beck (DU) def. #38 Julia Adams (VA) 6-2, 6-1
2. #110 Natasha Subhash (VA) def. #47 Cameron Morra (DU) 6-1, 6-4
3. #26 Emma Jackson (DU) def. Elaine Chervinsky (VA) 6-4, 6-4
4. Sara Ziodato (VA) def. Ellie Coleman (DU) 7-6 (7-5), 6-4
5. #92 Hibah Shaikh (VA) def. Iuliia Bryzgalova (DU) 7-6 (6-2), 6-3
6. Brianna Shvets (DU) def. Melodia Collard (VA) 7-5, 1-6, 7-5
Order of Finish: Doubles (3,2,1), Singles (1,3,2,5,6,4)