CARY, N.C. – After nearly three-and-a-half hours of back-and-forth action, the fifth-seeded University of Miami women’s tennis team dropped a 4-3 decision Friday against fourth-seeded Virginia.
No. 13 Miami (15-7, 9-4 ACC) faced a 3-1 deficit before leveling the score, but the Cavaliers, ranked No. 10 in the country, came away with a narrow victory in the top-15 showdown.
“I just felt like it was extremely lopsided in terms of who showed up and played the type of tennis we needed to play and had the type of emptions we needed to have, and those that clearly didn’t,” Miami head coach Paige Yaroshuk-Tews said. “It’s unfortunate because it’s not fair to the kids that do [have that]. So, overall, we didn’t play the type of tennis we needed to against a team [of that caliber and] we barely lose the match. We, I think, didn’t get a great start in doubles, which obviously could’ve been the difference.
“We didn’t get a great start in three of the singles matches,” Yaroshuk-Tews continued. “It’s tough to beat a team that’s top-10 in the country when you’re losing sets the way we did. We’ve just got to get back on the horse and get ready for NCAAs.”
Virginia (18-5, 10-3 ACC) won both completed doubles matches to take the opening point of the contest. Its first victory came from Annabelle Xu and Sara Ziodato, who topped junior Audrey Boch-Collins and freshman Mia Mack, 6-3.
Two minutes later, No. 34 Elaine Chervinsky and Natasha Subhash record a 6-3 decision against redshirt sophomore Alexa Noel and junior Isabella Pfennig, together ranked No. 29, to give the Cavaliers a 1-0 lead.
The incomplete match ended at 5-5, after No. 13 Julia Adams and Melodie Collard of Virginia rallied back from a 2-5 deficit and fought off a match point in the 10th game against fifth-year senior Daevenia Achong and fourth-year junior Maya Tahan, the country’s No. 44 duo.
Ziodato doubled the lead to 2-0 with a 6-1, 6-0 victory over Tahan, but Miami then began to climb back.
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