No. 3 Duke Tallies 4-0 Win Against Florida State to Remain Undefeated in the ACC

Saturday, April 12

Durham, N.C.

11:00 AM

Duke University

Florida State

Photo by: Bri Shaw, Duke Athletics

No. 3 Duke Tallies 4-0 Win Against Florida State to Remain Undefeated in the ACC

4/12/2025 3:40:00 PM | Women's Tennis

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DURHAM, N.C. – The third-ranked Duke women's tennis team remained undefeated in the ACC with a 4-0 victory against 64th-ranked Florida State on Saturday at Ambler Tennis Stadium.

The Blue Devils moved to 19-2 overall and 11-0 in the ACC. Duke clinched at least a share of the ACC regular season title heading into Sunday's regular season finale against 55th-ranked Miami. The Seminoles dropped to 13-8, 4-7 in the ACC.

Duke earned the doubles point and then received singles victories by Eleana Yu, Ellie Coleman and Liv Hovde.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Duke jumped out to a solid start by taking the doubles point as the Blue Devils won on courts two and three.
The Blue Devil tandem of Shavit Kimchi and Ava Krug dropped the first game against Tina Li and Millie Bissett, but came back to win five games in a row to go ahead, 5-1. Duke eventually won the match, 6-2.
On court one, Duke's 17th-ranked tandem of Irina Balus and Ellie Coleman dropped a 6-2 decision to 76th-ranked Maria Juliana Parra Romero and Evan Shaw.
The Blue Devils clinched the doubles point as Liv Hovde and Emma Jackson posted a 6-3 victory against Laura Putz and Maelie Monfils. Duke won the first two games and led, 3-1, before FSU cut into the lead, 3-2. The Blue Devils then pulled away and clinched the point, 6-3.
Florida State came out and took leads on three courts early in the first set, but the Blue Devils came back to win the first set on four of the six courts.
Sophomore Eleana Yu never trailed in her match with Mary Boyce Deatherage on court four as she registered a 6-3, 6-1 victory to put Duke ahead, 2-0.
On court six, Coleman continued her solid play by taking the first set against Putz, 6-0. After falling behind, 0-2, in the second set, Coleman came back to win the match with a 6-4 second set victory to give Duke a 3-0 advantage.
Duke received the clinching point on court two as 54th-ranked Hovde collected a 6-4, 7-6 victory over Bissett. Hovde never trailed in the first set winning 6-4 and came back from being down 4-3 in the second to send the match to a tiebreaker. She took the tiebreaker, 7-3, to clinch the match for the Blue Devils.
When the match was clinched, Duke's Balus was in a battle with Shaw on court one, 0-6, 6-4, 5-5, while Jackson was in a tiebreaker with Lavickova, 6-4, 6-6, on court three. Kimchi was trailing, 4-6, 4-5, versus Romero on court five.

NOTES

Emma Jackson and Liv Hovde won their 10th-consecutive match to move to 11-1 on the season and 9-1 in ACC action in doubles.
Duke's doubles team of Shavit Kimchi and Ava Krug moved to 6-4 on the season and 3-3 in ACC action.
Eleana Yu improved to 17-7 overall on the year, 5-3 in the ACC.
Ellie Coleman won her 11th-straight singles match to move to 21-6 overall, 9-0 in the ACC and 79-38 overall in her career. She now owns 26 ACC singles wins over her career to move into a tie for 17th in Duke history.
Liv Hovde moved to 6-4 on the season and 4-4 in the ACC in singles action. The match-clinching win was the first of her career.
Duke won its 14th-straight match on the season.
The Blue Devils moved the series history to 39-7 in favor of Duke and 17-1 at home, including eight wins in a row.

QUOTES

"Well, the biggest thing in the match -- it's kind of different. Irina not losing that match at one singles.She loses a quick first set, but finds a way to stay in there, finds a way to battle and compete. I told her after the match, I don't think you realize in a dual match setting how big that is.Your teammates see that fight, you see that fight, the other team sees that fight and it doesn't even up the match quickly after the doubles. So, I thought she did a good job of staying in there, competing after playing honestly an awful first set.That was huge for our team and huge lift for our team.We keep relying on different people, which is good.We are not relying on the same people to win matches every time.Obviously, we need everybody to come out and play their best and win matches. But I just think it shows what kind of team we are.We have a lot of players in our lineup that are winning matches."--Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth
"We haven't played a lot of back-to-back matches. Last weekend was the second time all year we've played back-to-back matches. We did it last week and we got caught in a couple of long matches. It's just good to get out [off the court]. Obviously, we have a tough match tomorrow against Miami and they're going to compete and fight. So, if we can recover and be rested that's definitely a bonus for us." --Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth

NEXT MATCH

Duke closes the regular season Sunday, April 12 as the Blue Devils host 55th-ranked Miami at 11 a.m.It will mark senior day for both Emma Jackson and Ellie Coleman.The duo will be recognized prior to the match.It will also mark Canines at the Court so bring your dogs out to the match.

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#3 Duke 4, #64 Florida State 0
April 12, 2025
Ambler Tennis Stadium * Durham, N.C.

Doubles
1. #76 Maria Juliana Parra Romero/Eva Shaw (FSU) def. #17 Irina Balus/Ellie Coleman (DUKE)
2. Shavit Kimchi/Ava Krug (DUKE) def. Tina Li/Millie Bissett (FSU) 6-2
3. Liv Hovde/Emma Jackson (DUKE) def. Laura Putz/Maelie Monfils (FSU) 6-3

Singles
1. #18 Irina Balus (DUKE) vs. Eva Shaw (FSU) 0-6, 6-4, 5-5 unfinished
2. #54 Liv Hovde (DUKE) def. Millie Bissett (FSU) 6-4, 7-6 (7-3)
3. #24 Emma Jackson (DUKE) vs. Kristyna Lavickova (FSU) 6-4, 6-6 unfinished
4. #60 Eleana Yu (DUKE) def. Mary Boyce Deatherage (FSU) 6-3, 6-1
5. #83 Shavit Kimchi (DUKE) vs. Maria Juliana Parra Romero (FSU) 4-6, 4-5 unifinished
6. #118 Ellie Coleman (DUKE) def. Laura Putz (FSU) 6-0, 6-4
Order of Finish: Doubles (2,1,3*), Singles (4,6,2*)