Drummy Sends Duke Back to National Team Indoors

Sunday, January 29

Durham, N.C.

2 p.m.

Duke University

Wisconsin - Championship Match

Photo by: Duke Athletics

Drummy Sends Duke Back to National Team Indoors

1/29/2023 7:33:00 PM | Women's Tennis

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DURHAM – The first dual match victory for senior Georgia Drummy of the 2023 campaign proved to be pivotal as it sent the fifth-ranked Duke women's tennis team to the National Team Indoors for the 30th time in school history and the first time since 2020. Drummy registered the clinching singles victory as the fifth-ranked Blue Devils upended Wisconsin, 4-1, on Sunday afternoon inside the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center in Durham, N.C.

Duke (5-0) advanced to the National Team Indoors, which will take place Feb. 10-13 in Seattle, Wash.

How It Happened
•   After dropping the first game on court No. 3, Duke's team of Iuliia Bryzgalova and Emma Jackson won six out of the next seven games to win, 6-2, over Ava Markham and Maria Sholokhova to open doubles play.
•   On court No. 2, Ellie Coleman and Karolina Berankova took a 2-1 lead, but the Wisconsin duo of Alina Murkhortova and Xinyu Cai responded by winning five out of the next six games to take a 6-3 win.
•   The doubles point came down to court No. 1 with 13th-ranked Chloe Beck and Cameron Morra against Ava Markham and Maria Sholokhova. The Blue Devils went ahead, 2-0, but the Badgers came back to even the ledger, 2-2. Beck/Morra went on a run of their own winning three straight games to take a 5-3 advantage. Wisconsin tried to rally, but Duke was able to clinch the key doubles point by winning, 6-4.
•   In singles, Duke came out and won the first set on five of the six courts.
•   Wisconsin (3-2) mounted a rally in the second set holding early leads on all six courts, before Morra took a 2-1 lead over Sholokhova.
•   The Blue Devils took a 2-0 lead as 28th-ranked Morra registered a 6-4, 6-1 victory over No. 59 Sholokhova on court No. 2. Morra went ahead, 3-1, in the first set and led 5-4, before claiming the first set, 6-4. In the second set, Sholokhova won the first game and then Morra won six straight to take the victory.
•   On court No. 5, Wisconsin got on the board as Bryzgalova dropped a 6-3, 6-4 decision to Cai.   In the second set, Bryzgalova trailed 4-1, but battled back to even the score, 4-4, before falling.
•   Duke took a 3-1 lead as third-ranked Beck captured a 6-3, 7-5 win over 82nd-ranked Markham on court No. 1. Beck dropped the first game of the second set and trailed 5-4, before battling back to even the ledger at 5-5. She captured a key win at deuce to take her first lead, 6-5, and then won.
•   After winning the first set on court No. 4 by a 6-4 ledger, Georgia Drummy dropped the second by a 6-3 score. She trailed 3-1 and 4-3 in the third and final set, before storming back to take a 5-4 advantage. Drummy clinched the win on a deuce point that gave Duke the 4-1 victory.
•   Jackson held a 5-4 lead in the third set on court No. 3 when the match was clinched, while Coleman was leading 3-0 in the third set as well.

Notes
•   The Blue Devils improved to 28-2 overall in ITA Kickoff Weekend matches played at Duke.
•   Duke won its 31st consecutive match when winning the doubles point.
•   Chloe Beck and Cameron Morra improved to 17-3 on the season and 4-0 in dual match action with the doubles win on court No. 1.
•   The doubles loss for Ellie Coleman and Karolina Berankova snapped a four-match winning streak and dropped the Blue Devils to 8-2 on the year.
•   Morra improved to 11-5 on the season and 3-0 in dual match action. She now owns a 97-39 career singles mark, including 43 wins against ranked foes.
•   Beck registered her seventh straight singles win to improve to 87-23 over her career, including 21-9 against ranked opponents.
•   Georgia Drummy won her ninth straight singles dual match and improved to 59-19 over her career in dual matches.
•   Duke registered its 16th-straight home victory, which is tied for the eighth-longest in school history.

Quotes
"Yeah, it was a good win. It's the first time that we've had any pressure on us [this season]. And so it's interesting to see how we reacted under pressure. We've had a couple of matches earlier in the year and this weekend, but it's the first time where people kind of punched back and hit back at us. It was great to get through it. We haven't been at indoors in the last couple of years. So, it's a great step for our team." -- Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth

"It was an amazing feeling to clinch. I know everyone was out here working hard. And I saw that it was close on court two and court six. So, I was just hoping that we'd keep the momentum and stay positive. But no, it was an amazing experience being able to clinch that ticket to Seattle." -- Duke senior Georgia Drummy

Next Match
The Blue Devils will close an eight-match homestand next weekend as Duke hosts Harvard (Feb. 4 at 12 p.m.), Georgetown (Feb. 5 at 2 p.m.) and North Carolina Central (Feb. 5 at 6:30 p.m.).

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Duke 4, Wisconsin 1
Jan. 29, 2023
Durham, N.C. (Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center)

Doubles
1. #13 Chloe Beck/Cameron Morra (DU) def. Ava Markham/Maria Sholokhova (WISC) 6-4
2. Alina Murkhortova/Xinyu Cai (WISC) def. Ellie Coleman/Karolina Berankova (DU) 6-3
3. Emma Jackson/Iuliia Bryzgalova (DU) def. Taylor Cataldi/Ariel Johnson (WISC) 6-2

Singles
1. #3 Chloe Beck (DU) def. #82 Ava Markham (WISC) 6-3, 7-5
2. #28 Cameron Morra (DU) def. #59 Maria Sholokhova (WISC) 6-4, 6-1
3. #22 Emma Jackson (DU) vs. Alina Mukhortova (WISC) 6-4, 0-6, 5-4, unfinished
4. Georgia Drummy (DU) def. Taylor Cataldi (WISC) 6-4, 3-6, 6-4
5. Xinyu Cai (WISC) def. Iuliia Bryzgalova (DU) 6-3, 6-4
6. Ellie Coleman (DU) vs. Charmaine Seah (WISC) 6-1, 5-7, 3-0, unfinished
Order of Finish: Doubles (3, 2, 1), Singles (2, 5, 1, 4)