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No. 9 Virginia Dominates Syracuse 6-1

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. –  The No. 9 Virginia women’s tennis team (10-1, 2-0 ACC) closed out the weekend with a 6-1 victory against Syracuse (8-3, 0-2 ACC) on Sunday (Feb. 27) at the Virginia Tennis Facility at the Boar’s Head Resort.

Virginia won the doubles point with a pair of 6-0 victories. The Cavaliers won five doubles matches in straight sets. Syracuse logged its lone point on a medical retirement on court three.

Seniors Sofia Munera and Amber O’Dell set the tone with a 6-0 victory on doubles court two. Junior Natasha Subhash and sophomore Sara Ziodato followed with another 6-0 win on court three to secure the point.

In singles, O’Dell raced through a 6-0, 6-1 victory on court four, finishing before the court three match had completed its first set. Ziodato and sophomore Hibah Shaikh were both simultaneously serving out victories on courts five and six, with Ziodato winning 6-2, 6-2 moments ahead of Shaikh’s 6-1, 6-2 clincher. Sophomore Emma Navarro finished off her 6-0, 6-2 victory on the top court minutes later to put UVA up 5-0. Subhash made it 6-0 with a win on court two.

Munera had battled through a tiebreaker to decide her first set against Polina Kozyreva on court three, winning it 7-5. The match was on serve 1-2 in the third set when Munera retired.

FROM HEAD COACH SARA O’LEARY

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MATCH NOTES

  • Syracuse is ranked No. 67 in the ITA computerized team rankings

ON THE HORIZON

  • The Cavaliers are on the road next week at Duke (March 4) and North Carolina (March 6) before returning home to host Florida State on Friday, March 18

#9 Virginia 6, Syracuse 1

Singles competition

  1. #28 Emma Navarro (VA) def. V. Kanapatskaya (SU) 6-0, 6-2
  2. #15 Natasha Subhash (VA) def. Miyuka Kimoto (SU) 6-3, 6-1
  3. Polina Kozyreva (SU) def. Sofia Munera (VA) 6-7 (5-7), 2-1, retired
  4. Amber O’Dell (VA) def. Zeynep Erman (SU) 6-0, 6-1
  5. Sara Ziodato (VA) def. Shiori Ito (SU) 6-2, 6-2
  6. Hibah Shaikh (VA) def. Ines Fonte (SU) 6-1, 6-2

Doubles competition

  1. Emma Navarro/Hibah Shaikh (VA) vs. Shiori Ito/Sofya Treshcheva (SU) 4-2, unfinished
  2. Sofia Munera/Amber O’Dell (VA) def. Polina Kozyreva/Miyuka Kimoto (SU) 6-0
  3. Natasha Subhash/Sara Ziodato (VA) def. V. Kanapatskaya/Ines Fonte (SU) 6-0

Order of finish: Doubles (2,3); Singles (4,5,6,1,2,3)

T-1:58 A-85

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