The North Carolina women’s tennis team (14-1, 3-0 ACC) breezed past Syracuse (9-2, 2-2 ACC) on Sunday morning, winning 6-1 in Chapel Hill.
What happened?
The No. 1 Tar Heels saw everything go right from the beginning, winning the first six points of the match.
UNC won two out of the three double matches, as No. 9 Jessie Aney and Alexa Graham beat No. 19 Gabriela Knutson and Miranda Ramirez, 6-2 and No. 20 Sara Daavettila and Alle Sanford crushed Dina Hegab and Maria Tritou, 6-0 to earn the one doubles point of the day. The third doubles match did not finish.
Continuing on the same winning trend, junior Chloe Ouellet-Pizer defeated Higab 6-4, 6-3. No. 32 Jessie Aney followed by beating Libi Mesh 6-2, 6-3 and No. 93 Graham dominated Anna Shkudun 6-0, 6-0 to give the Tar Heels the next three points of the day.
No. 15 Makenna Jones faced some trouble in her match against Sofya Golubovskaya, dropping the first set 6-2. However, Jones bounced back, winning the second set 7-5 and winning the tiebreaker to bring home the Tar Heels’ fifth point.
The second to last match of the day didn’t provide much excitement as the outcome of the day was sealed with UNC’s commanding 4-0 lead. Also, Daavettila dropped just one set throughout the entire match winning 6-1, 6-0 over Ramirez.
But Syracuse did not come with away with nothing.
In what was the surprise of the day, No. 18 Knutson defeated No. 8 Sanford in two nail-biting sets 7-6, 7-6 in the first and only Orange win of the day.
