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#9 NC State Women’s Tennis Falls to #21 Hurricanes in ACC Championship Quarterfinals
(PackInsider Note: Despite falling to Miami, the NC State Women’s Tennis team had the best season in program history. The #9 ranking, 22 overall wins, and #11 ACC wins are all program program records.)
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – The No. 9 NC State women’s tennis team fell to No. 21 Miami (Fla.) in the quarterfinals of the ACC Women’s Tennis Championship, 4-2, on Friday night.
The match was played indoors on UNC-CH’s campus at the Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center due to inclement weather, and doubles play was suspended for nearly an hour after severe weather entered the area.
The Pack drops to 22-6 and the Hurricanes improve to 18-6 on the season.
In doubles, NC State took an early lead on all three courts. That momentum was halted as severe weather in the area required teams to take shelter. After about an hour, doubles play was resumed.
In doubles, NC State took an early lead on all three courts. That momentum was halted as severe weather in the area required teams to take shelter. After about an hour, doubles play was resumed.
The Pack picked the momentum right back up, specifically on courts one and two, taking 4-1 and 4-0 leads respectively. Adriana Reami and Claudia Wiktorin took the first doubles match of the day with a dominant 6-1 victory over Estela Perez-Somarriba and Ulyana Shirokova.
Tallying their 12th ranked doubles win of the season, 10th–ranked duo Anna Rogers and Alana Smith defeated No. 16 Daniella Roldan and Daevenia Achong. The win marks the junior-freshman duo’s fourth top-20 win of the 2019 campaign.
With the 1-0 advantage heading into singles play, NC State took just two of six first sets (Reami and Liz Norman).
Norman was the first singles player to put the Pack on the board with a three-set victory over Roldan to even the match at 2-2.
With matches remaining on courts one, three, and five, Miami would take a 3-2 advantage after Shirokova took court five in three sets.
On court one, the top-10 battle lived up to the hype with the match on the line, as No. 10 Rogers and No. 2 Perez-Somarriba split sets to open singles play to force a third set again, as three sets were required for Rogers’ victory over the second-ranked player in the previous matchup. Perez-Somarriba claimed the third set, 6-3, to clinch the match.
NC STATE 2, MIAMI (FLA.) 4
Doubles (order of finish: 2,1)
1. No. 10 Anna Rogers/Alana Smith def. No. 16 Daniella Roldan/Daevenia Achong: 6-3
2. Adriana Reami/Claudia Wiktorin def. Estela Perez-Somarriba/Ulyana Shirokova: 6-1
3. Bianca Moldovan/Liz Norman vs. Ana Madcur/Yuna Ito: halted at 4-4
Singles (order of finish: 2,6,4,5,1)
1. No. 2 Estela Perez-Somarriba def. No. 10 Anna Rogers: 6-2, 4-6, 6-3
2. Daevenia Achong def. No 68 Alana Smith: 6-3, 6-2
3. Adriana Reami vs. Yuna Ito: halted at 6-4, 6-7 (5), 0-1
4. Liz Norman def. Daniella Roldan: 6-3, 4-6, 6-2
5. Ulyana Shirokova def. Bianca Moldovan: 6-2, 2-6, 6-3
6. Lucia Marzal def. Amanda Rebol: 6-3, 6-2
Up Next
The No. 9 NC State women’s tennis team will await its fate ahead of the NCAA Women’s Tennis Division I Championship selection show on Monday, April 29 at 6:30 p.m.