Drummy Sends Duke Back to National Team Indoors

DURHAM – The first dual match victory for senior Georgia Drummy of the 2023 campaign proved to be pivotal as it sent the fifth-ranked Duke women’s tennis team to the National Team Indoors for the 30th time in school history and the first time since 2020.  Drummy registered the clinching singles victory as the fifth-ranked Blue Devils upended Wisconsin, 4-1, on Sunday afternoon inside the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center in Durham, N.C.

Duke (5-0) advanced to the National Team Indoors, which will take place Feb. 10-13 in Seattle, Wash.

How It Happened

•    After dropping the first point on court No. 3, Duke’s team of Iuliia Bryzgalova and Emma Jackson won six out of the next seven points to win, 6-2, over Ava Markham and Maria Sholokhova to open doubles play.

•    On court No. 2, Ellie Coleman and Karolina Berankova took a 2-1 lead, but the Wisconsin duo of Alina Murkhortova and Xinyu Cai responded by winning five out of the next six points to take a 6-3 win.  

•    The doubles point came down to court No. 1 with 13th-ranked Chloe Beck and Cameron Morra against Ava Markham and Maria Sholokhova.  The Blue Devils went ahead, 2-0, but the Badgers came back to even the ledger, 2-2.  Beck/Morra went on a run of their own winning three straight points to take a 5-3 advantage.  Wisconsin tried to rally, but Duke was able to clinch the key doubles point by winning, 6-4.  

•    In singles, Duke came out and won the first set on five of the six courts.

•    Wisconsin (3-2) mounted a rally in the second set holding early leads on all six courts, before Morra took a 2-1 lead over Sholokhova.  

•    The Blue Devils took a 2-0 lead as 28th-ranked Morra registered a 6-4, 6-1 victory over No. 59 Sholokhova on court No. 2.  Morra went ahead, 3-1, in the first set and led 5-4, before claiming the first set, 6-4.  In the second set, Sholokhova won the first point and then Morra won six straight to take the victory.  

•    On court No. 5, Wisconsin got on the board as Bryzgalova dropped a 6-3, 6-4 decision to Cai.   In the second set, Bryzgalova trailed 4-1, but battled back to even the score, 4-4, before falling.  

•    Duke took a 3-1 lead as third-ranked Beck captured a 6-3, 7-5 win over 82nd-ranked Markham on court No. 1.  Beck dropped the first point of the second…