Three Cavaliers Win ACC Weekly Honors
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Virginia women’s tennis juniors Mélodie Collard and Elaine Chervinsky were named the ACC Doubles Team of the Week while sophomore Annabelle Xu was named the ACC Player of the week in honors announced Tuesday (April 16) by the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Collard and Chervinsky closed out the regular season with a pair of impressive victories on the top doubles court. In last Friday’s match against No. 19 Miami, the tandem opened the pivotal contest with an emphatic 6-0 victory on the top court over the No. 29 team of Isabella Pfennig and Xinyi Nong. In Sunday’s finale, they clinched the doubles point with a 7-5 win against No. 30 Vic Allen and Millie Bissett of Florida State.
On Friday, Xu logged the highest-ranked singles victory of her collegiate career, defeating No. 9 Alexa Noel of Miami 6-2, 0-6, 10-7, on the top court.
This is the third ACC Doubles Team of the Week honor this season for Collard and Chervinsky and the first honor for Xu.