CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theACC.com) – Virginia senior duo of Elaine Chervinsky and Melodie Collard won the 2024-25 NCAA Division I Women’s Tennis Doubles Championship on Sunday, November 24, at the Hurd Tennis Center in Waco, Texas.
Chervinsky and Collard defeated UCLA’s team of Olivia Center and Kate Fakih 4-6, 6-3, 10-5 in the championship match to win the first NCAA Doubles title in Virginia women’s tennis program history.
In the first year that the NCAA Individual Championships were held in the fall instead of after the team championship in the spring, the Virginia duo won all five matches in the tournament via third-set 10-point super tiebreakers.
The Virginia doubles team added to the success of the ACC at the NCAA Women’s Tennis Championships, becoming the fourth ACC doubles team to win the championship in the last five years – Makenna Jones and Elizabeth Scotty of North Carolina (2021), Jaeda Daniel and Nell Miller of NC State (2022) and Fiona Crawley and Carson Tanguilig of North Carolina (2023).
The duo are the first NCAA individual champions for the ACC in 2024-25.
The ACC women’s tennis players earned 15 ITA All-American honors in either singles or doubles at the 2024-25 NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships. The complete list of All-American student-athletes will be announced at the conclusion of the 2024-25 season when all criteria have been exhausted.
The criteria for earning ITA All-America Singles honors include:
- ITA All-American Singles Champion
- Advancing to the Round of 16 at the NCAA Singles Championships (November)
- Finishing in the Top 20 of the Final ITA Singles Rankings (May)
The criteria for earning ITA All-America Doubles honors include:
- ITA All-American Doubles Champion
- Advancing to the Quarterfinals at the NCAA Doubles Championships (November)
- Finishing in the Top 10 of the Final ITA Doubles Rankings (May)
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