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W. Tennis Storms Past Ninth-Ranked Virginia, 6-1 – University of Miami Athletics

W. Tennis Storms Past Ninth-Ranked Virginia, 6-1 – University of Miami Athletics

CORAL GABLES, Fla. The University of Miami women’s tennis team rolled to a stellar 6-1 victory Friday afternoon over ninth-ranked Virginia at the Neil Schiff Tennis Center.

No. 13 Miami (10-3, 5-1 ACC) earned the first five points of the match and registered its second top-10 win of the year.

“I thought we played incredibly clean doubles and we [had to] against a really good not just entire team, but a really good doubles team. So, I was really happy with the way we played doubles,” Miami head coach Paige Yaroshuk-Tews said. “And then, obviously, we dominated at 1-2-3 [in singles]. When you’re able to do that and go up 4-0 early in the match, that’s huge. We were able to get two done down low.”

The Hurricanes turned in a dazzling performance in doubles, dropping just four games across the three matches and winning each of them, with two of the victories against top-15 pairs.

Redshirt sophomore Alexa Noel and junior Isabella Pfennig, together ranked No. 53, set the tone with an unblemished 6-0 defeat of No. 11 Julia Adams and Melodie Collard. Junior Audrey Boch-Collins and freshman Mia Mack followed that with a 6-1 win versus Hibah Shaikh and Sara Ziodato, giving Miami the opening point.

Fifth-year senior Daevenia Achong and fourth-year junior Maya Tahan made it a clan sweep of Virginia (12-4, 5-2 ACC) in doubles by knocking off ninth-ranked Elaine Chervinsky and Natsha Subhash, 6-3.

In singles, the Hurricanes won three opening sets in dominant fashion, took another in a tiebreaker and narrowly dropped the other two.

No. 118 Achong claimed the first singles win, logging a stellar 6-2, 6-1 triumph against No. 43 Adams for her highest-ranked victory of the 2022-23 campaign.

Minutes later, in another raked matchup, No. 116 Pfennig finished off an equal 6-2, 6-1 win versus No. 89 Shaikh to extend Miami’s advantage to 3-0.

The Hurricanes made it a 3-for-3 day in ranked showdowns when No. 11 Noel took down No. 98 Subhash, 6-1, 6-3. In doing so, she gave her team a resounding 4-0 lead and clinched the top-10 triumph.

Miami, though, was not done there. Each of the three remaining matches were played to completion, with two of the, going to the home side.

Tahan posted a 4-6, 6-4, 1-0 (10-8) comeback against Collard to give Miami an impressive 5-0 advantage.

After Chervinsky edged Boch-Collins, 7-5, 7-5, to give the Cavaliers their lone point of the day, Mack ended the contest with a 7-6…

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