SEATTLE, Wash. – Duke women’s tennis graduate student Cameron Morra collected her 100th career singles win and the fourth-ranked Blue Devils closed the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) National Team Indoors on Sunday evening with a 4-1 victory over host Washington at the Nordstrom Tennis Center in Seattle, Wash.
The Blue Devils closed action with a 2-1 ledger, including a win over No. 6 Stanford, at the ITA Indoors to improve to 10-1. Morra, who hails from Rockville, Md., became the 28th Blue Devil to reach the 100-win mark.
How It Happened
• For the second time in three matches at the ITA National Team Indoors, the Blue Devils had to try to come from behind as Duke dropped the doubles point against Washington.
• On court three, Duke’s Emma Jackson and Iuliia Bryzgalova won the first point of their match against Jennifer Kerr and Sarah-Maude Fortin, but the Huskies won six straight to win, 6-1.
• Washington clinched the crucial doubles point with a 6-3 win on court two as Hikaru Sato and Zehra Suko notched a 6-3 win over Duke’s 25th-ranked Ellie Coleman and Karolina Berankova. The Blue Devils fell behind, 0-3, but cut the lead to 2-3 and trailed 3-4, but eventually dropped the match.
• Duke’s No. 14 ranked duo of Chloe Beck and Cameron Morra were leading, 5-3, over Astrid Olsen and Erika Matsuda when the point was clinched.
• The Blue Devils quickly turned the momentum in their favor in singles by winning the first set on all six courts.
• Bryzgalova, a graduate student from Duke, was impressive in singles for the second straight match as she got off court five quickly with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Melissa Sakar to even the score, 1-1.
• No. 21 Jackson gave the Blue Devils their first lead of the match as she registered a 6-3, 6-4 win on court three over Olsen. Jackson never trailed in the match and posted her fifth win of the season on court three.
• Morra also never trailed on court two against Fortin, which included four deuce point wins in the first set, which saw Morra winning 6-3. In the second set, Morra was rolling ahead, 3-0 and 5-3, before Fortin battled back to even the score, 5-5. Duke’s four-time All-American won the final two points to push through winning, 7-5, to give the Blue Devils a 3-1…
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