MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Duke women’s tennis closed the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) National Summer Championships Tuesday in impressive fashion as the Blue Devils took home a pair of titles. Sophomore Eleana Yu claimed the singles championship, while Yu and senior Emma Jackson won the doubles title at the Leftwich Tennis Center in Memphis, Tennessee.
Yu, who hails from Mason, Ohio, opened action in the round of 32 against Tyra Richardson of UC Santa Barbara and posted a 6-4, 6-2 victory. In the round of 32, Yu collected a 6-2, 6-4 win over Wisconsin’s Ariel Johnson and then in the round of 16 collected a 6-1, 6-1 victory over Kaitlyn Carnicella of Auburn. Yu totaled a 7-6 (7-3), 6-1 win against Michigan’s Lily Jones in the semifinals to move on to the championship on Tuesday.
In the title match, Yu collected posted a 6-0 win in the first set versus Taylor Cataldi of Wisconsin and then totaled a 7-5 second set victory to win the championship.
The victory marked her second win of the summer as she also won the ITA Summer Masters Series at Wake Forest in July.
In the doubles competition, Yu and Jackson received a bye in the round of 16 and then teamed together in the quarterfinals to defeat Baylor’s Kennedy Gibbs and Sierra Berry, 6-2, 6-2. In the semifinals against Cataldi and Tianna Rangan from Wisconsin, the Blue Devils notched a 6-1, 7-6 (7-5) win to move on to the championship.
Yu and Jackson faced Wisconsin’s Johnson and Ellison Reynoldson in the title match and registered a 6-3, 6-3 win to claim the championship.
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