Women’s Tennis Nets First ACC Win; Defeats Syracuse

Friday, March 1

Durham, N.C.

6 p.m.

Duke University

Syracuse

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Women’s Tennis Nets First ACC Win; Defeats Syracuse

3/1/2024 9:25:00 PM | Women's Tennis

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DURHAM – The 18th-ranked Duke women's tennis team returned home Friday and registered an impressive 6-1 victory over 46th-ranked Syracuse inside the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center in Durham, N.C.

The Blue Devils moved to 7-4 overall and 1-2 in ACC action, while the Orange dropped to 7-3, 2-2.

How It Happened

Syracuse jumped out to a hot start in doubles as the Orange held a 2-1 lead on all three courts.
The Blue Devils were able to turn it around on courts two and three though with big runs.
On court two, Duke's tandem of Emma Jackson and Karolina Berankova won five straight games against Emilie Elde and Shiori to take the match, 6-2.
After dropping a controversial deuce point to open the match on court three, Duke's Iuliia Bryzgalova and Brianna Shvets trailed 0-2 at the start against Anastasia Sysoevea and Constance Levivier.After winning back-to-back games, the Blue Devil duo won two straight deuce points to take a 4-2 lead and eventually clinched the doubles point with a 6-2 victory.
Shavit Kimchi and Katie Codd were in a tight match on the first court with Miyuka Kimoto and Viktoryia Kanapatskaya when the doubles point was clinched.
The Blue Devils kept the momentum in singles by winning the first set on five of the six courts.
Shvets, who is ranked No. 109 nationally, didn't give up a game and cruised to a 6-0, 6-0 victory on court five against Ito to put Duke ahead, 2-0.
On court one, Kimchi registered her first collegiate ACC singles win with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Elde.No. 80 Kimchi trailed, 1-0, in the first set and then won a key deuce point as she broke Elde to take a 2-1 lead and never looked back.
With Duke leading 3-0, Syracuse was able to get on the board with a win on court six.Sysoevea posted a 6-2, 6-4 win over Duke's Berankova.
The Blue Devils clinched the team win with a 6-4, 6-0 victory on court four by 76th-ranked Codd over Polina Kozyreva.After trailing 2-1 in the first set, Codd took a 3-2 lead, but then dropped a tight deuce point to even the score again, 3-3.Codd then took control and won three out of the next four games to take the first set.
Jackson totaled her second ranked win out of her last three matches as she defeated 100th-ranked Kimoto, 7-5, 6-3, on court two as the Blue Devils led 5-1.
To close out the match, Duke's Bryzgalova posted a 6-4, 6-4 win on court three.

Notes

Duke played its third straight match without junior Ellie Coleman, who is ranked No. 81 nationally in singles.
The Blue Devils played their first of four straight home matches in Durham.
Duke improved to 14-0 all-time in the series with Syracuse.
Brianna Shvets registered her 94th all-time singles victory and is now 11-2 in ACC action over her two-year Duke career.
Junior Emma Jackson collected her seventh win this season against a ranked opponent to improve to 13-9 on the year.
With her win on court four, sophomore Katie Codd totaled her first collegiate ACC win.She is now 5-0 on the season when playing on court four.
Codd clinched the win for Duke for the first time in her career.
Iuliia Bryzgalova posted her 96th career singles win and is now 14-1 all-time in ACC doubles matches.

Quotes

"I was proud of our all-around effort with the energy level and the emotional level. I told them before the match and even after the doubles that a team like this [Syracuse], we've got to just stay on top of them emotionally and mentally.You don't want to give a team like that anything to get any confidence and so I thought we did a good job with that.The doubles, we got off to a little bit of a slow start, but once we started [to get going] you could feel the momentum carry from court to court.I just thought as a whole we did a good job in singles." – Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth
"It was great [to get the win].We had a tough last weekend so coming out with a lot of energy and grabbing that doubles point really quick gave the momentum for us in singles.It was super fun."– Duke junior Emma Jackson

Next Match

Duke remains at home Sunday, March 3 as the Blue Devils host 55th-ranked Boston College for a 2 p.m., at Ambler Tennis Stadium.

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#18 Duke 6, #46 Syracuse 1
March 1, 2024
Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center * Durham, N.C.

Doubles
1. Shavit Kimchi/Katie Codd (DU) vs. Miyuka Kimoto/Viktoryia Kanapatskaya (SU) 3-4, unfinished
2. Emma Jackson/Karolina Berankova (DU) def. Emilie Elde/Shiori Ito (SU) 6-2
3. Iuliia Bryzgalova/Brianna Shvets (DU) def. Anastasia Sysoevea/Constance Levivier (SU) 6-2

Singles
1. #80 Shavit Kimchi (DU) def. Emilie Elde (SU) 6-2, 6-2
2. Emma Jackson (DU) def. #100 Miyuka Kimoto (SU) 7-5, 6-3
3. Iuliia Bryzgalova (DU) def. Viktoryia Kanapatskaya (SU) 6-4, 6-4
4. #76 Katie Codd (DU) def. Polina Kozyreva (SU) 6-4, 6-0
5. #109 Brianna Shvets (DU) def. Shiori Ito (SU) 6-0, 6-0
6. Anastasia Sysoevea (SU) def. Karolina Berankova (DU) 6-2, 6-4

Order of Finish: Doubles (2,3*), Singles (5,1,6,4*,2,3)