Miami women’s tennis record second consecutive sweep against No. 71 Syracuse

After a quick downpour soaked the courts minutes earlier than match time, a crew of individuals – full with leaf blowers, rollers and different varieties of gear – labored tirelessly to dry the realm.

Seems, they obtained a much bigger exercise than the Canes, who breezed previous No. 71 Syracuse, 4-0, after a two-and-a-half-hour rain delay on the Neil Schiff Tennis Middle on Friday night for his or her second consecutive sweep. No. 14 Miami didn’t drop a set all day.

“I’m simply proud of the power, proud of the best way we struck the ball,” Miami head coach Paige Yaroshuk-Tews mentioned. “We took care of enterprise in a well timed vogue and did what we wanted to do.”

The Orange (9-10, 3-9 Atlantic Coast Convention) featured two top-100 doubles pairs, however the Hurricanes (15-4, 9-3 ACC) made fast work of them.

On Courtroom 1, fourth-year junior Daevenia Achong and fifth-year senior Eden Richardson, collectively ranked No. 28, took lower than 20 minutes to beat No. 86 Shiori Ito and Sofya Treshcheva 6-0.

Third-year sophomore Maya Tahan, who usually varieties the No. 59 doubles duo with Diana Khodan, was paired with freshman Tatyana Nikolenko for the third straight match after the Ukrainian tore her ACL a number of weeks again. Tahan’s stellar internet play proved to be the deciding think about a tightly contested match, as they secured their first-ever ranked win as a doubles pair – and Nikolenko’s first ranked win as a collegian – by downing No. 40 Miyuka Kimoto and Polina Kozyreva, 6-4, to clinch the doubles level.

The opposite match was left unfinished, with sophomores Audrey Boch-Collins and Isabella Pfennig main Ines Fonte and Viktoriya Kanapatskaya, 4-3.

In singles, Miami swiftly clinched the match.

Tahan continued her spectacular outing on Courtroom 4, taking the primary 10 video games of a 6-0, 6-1 overcome Kozyreva.

Moments later, No. 31 Achong put the Canes up 3-0, besting Kimoto 6-2, 6-0 in certainly one of her most dominant shows of the yr. Her lethal serve racked up ace after ace, together with one sport the place she hit 4 in a row to win.

Along with her mother and father in attendance after coming from Germany, No. 80 Pfennig sealed the match, dominating Zeynep Erman 6-1, 6-1.

With darkish clouds within the sky, all remaining matches had been suspended. The victory moved Miami to 13-1 all-time towards Syracuse and marked the 159th shutout of Yaroshuk-Tews’s 21-year head teaching profession.

Miami returns to the Neil Schiff Tennis Middle on Sunday for Senior Day, the place Eden Richardson will likely be honored earlier than the Canes face Boston School of their final common season match of the yr.

“I’m actually excited,” Richardson mentioned forward of Sunday’s contest. “It’s a bit nerve-wracking, too. An entire new chapter of my life is arising … so blended feelings.”

After the festivities, the match will start at 11 a.m.