Syracuse drops to 1-5 in ACC play after 7-0 loss to No. 5 Duke
Emily Steinberger | Editor-in-Chief
Syracuse has now lost five of its six conference matchups after falling against Duke.
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Syracuse was shut out 7-0 for the second time this weekend, against No. 5 Duke on Sunday to close out its two-game road trip. The Orange lost by the same scoreline against No. 1 North Carolina on Friday, and they will return for a five-game Atlantic Coast Conference home stretch after the losses to the two top five squads.
SU featured a new doubles pair in freshman Shiori Ito and senior Sofya Treshcheva, but Duke’s Margaryta Bilokin and Eliza Omirou shut them out 6-0. Meanwhile, Syracuse’s No. 1 doubles pair, juniors Viktoriya Kanapatskaya and Ines Fonte, put up a fight against Chloe Beck and Ellie Coleman, but they ultimately fell 5-3.
Beck and Bilokin have won nine of their 13 matches and are the 35th-ranked national doubles pair, while Karolina Berankova and Georgia Drummy sit at 79th with a 7-6 record, according to the Intercollegiate Tennis Association.
Syracuse played equally poorly in its singles matches, winning only one set. Kanapatskaya battled with Beck, the No. 8 singles player in the country, but came up short in both sets 6-4, 6-2.
In the second slot, freshman Miyuka Kimoto dropped both sets 6-1 against senior Kelly Chen. Ito, a fellow freshman, took on one of Duke’s first-year’s in Coleman but lost 6-3, 6-2 in straight sets. Meanwhile, Treshcheva was shut out 6-0 in both of her No. 3 singles sets against Bilokin.
Duke’s Omirou was the only Duke player to drop a set when Fonte took the first set 6-3. Omirou countered by winning the next set 6-3, too. Ultimately, Omirou won the tiebreaker 9-5 to keep the shutout against the Orange intact.
The last singles match was abandoned, meaning junior Polina Kozyreva didn’t appear. Kozyreva has the best singles record on the team with nine wins in 11 matches.
The Orange will be back home next Friday to take on Wake Forest at 4 p.m. with just seven ACC matches left to play before the conference tournament begins.
Published on March 20, 2022 at 5:49 pm
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