Blue Devils Defeat Charleston Southern, 4-0, on Sunday Morning

DURHAM – In the first of two dual matches on Sunday for the Duke women’s tennis team, the sixth-ranked Blue Devils collected a 4-0 victory over Charleston Southern in the morning inside the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center.   

Duke improved to 2-0 on the season, while Charleston Southern dropped to 0-1 in its season opener.

How It Happened

•    Duke jumped out to hot starts on all three doubles courts.

•    On court No. 2, Emma Jackson and Iuliia Bryzgalova won a quick, 6-0, match against Marina Skegro and Luiza Fullana in only 23 minutes.  

•    A minute later, the Blue Devils clinched the doubles point with a 6-1 win on court No. 3 as Ellie Coleman and Karolina Berankova defeated Tiffany Pyritz and Zoe Cauthen.  

•    Duke’s 13th-ranked duo of Chloe Beck and Cameron Morra closed doubles play with a 6-2 win on court No. 1 over Noah Boyd and Amila Jusufbegovic.   

•    For the second straight match, Duke won the first singles set on all six courts.

•    Brianna Shvets, a graduate student, gave the Blue Devils a 2-0 lead quickly as she collected a 6-1, 6-0 victory on court No. 5 in just 54 minutes over Pyritz.  

•    Graduate student Cameron Morra totaled Duke’s third point of the day on court No. 3 as she registered a 6-3, 6-2 win over Skegro.

•    Blue Devil sophomore Ellie Coleman clinched the Duke victory on court No. 4 with a 6-1, 6-2 win over Cauthen.  

•    The final three singles matches were unfinished with Duke’s third-ranked Beck leading on court one, 6-1, 5-3, against Boyd, 22nd-ranked Jackson was leading, 7-5, 0-2, versus Jusufbegovic and freshman Katie Codd led, 6-2, 5-2, against Khyanna Singh when the match was clinched.

Notes

•    Duke and Charleston Southern met for the first time in school history.

•    The Blue Devils improved to 2-0 all-time against the Big South Conference.

•    Duke registered its 13th-straight home victory.

•    Cameron Morra notched her 96th career singles victory and is only three away from reaching her 100th win.  

•    Freshman Katie Codd made her dual match debut on the day in singles action.

Quotes

“We are not in a situation where we play two matches in a day very often and we haven’t done it in a long time.  I talked to them about trying to focus on every single point that…