DURHAM – The Duke women’s tennis doubles duo of Brianna Shvets and Iuliia Bryzgalova were tabbed the ACC Women’s Tennis Doubles Team of the Week on Tuesday as announced by the league office.
The Blue Devil tandem helped lead 15th-ranked Duke to a 5-2 victory over SMU inside the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center on Saturday in the season opener. It marked the 17th straight season-opening win in Durham and improved to 24-1 all-time in home season openers. Duke also collected its 15th-consecutive victory in Sheffield.
In doubles action on court three, Shvets and Bryzgalova were in a nailbiter against SMU’s Hadley Doyle and Drew Morris. After the Mustangs won the first game, Shvets and Bryzgalova came back to win three straight to take a 3-1 advantage. Doyle and Morris responded by winning four consecutive games to go ahead 5-3. Shvets and Bryzgalova fought off match points, while winning a key deuce point to cut the SMU lead to 5-4. The Blue Devils evened the score, 5-5, but once again fell behind, 6-5. Shvets and Bryzgalova continued battling and set the match into a tiebreaker, before winning 7-3.
The victory for Duke on court three clinched the much-needed doubles point for the Blue Devils and helped propel them to a season-opening win. Shvets and Bryzgalova, who are graduate students at the Fuqua School of Business, competed for the first time as a doubles team in a dual match.
Duke next hosts a pair of opponents on Thursday, Jan. 18 as the Blue Devils welcome NC Central at 9 a.m., and Charlotte at 5 p.m. Both matches will be played inside Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center.
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