No. 9 Miami goes 2,700 miles to ultimately end season to No. 8 Pepperdine in NCAA Sweet 16

The No. 9 Miami Hurricanes had the longest journey of any staff within the nation — almost 3,000 miles — to get to Malibu, California to face the No. 8 Pepperdine Waves within the Candy 16 spherical of the ladies’s NCAA tennis match.

The journey residence may appear longer.

Pepperdine defeated the Hurricanes 4-0 Friday to advance to the NCAA nationwide quarterfinals subsequent weekend in Urbana, Illinois, the place the Waves will meet No. 1 North Carolina subsequent Friday. UNC defeated the Florida Gators 4-0 Friday in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

“Clearly, they’re upset,’’ UM coach Paige Yaroshuk-Tews mentioned of the Hurricanes. “We flew throughout the nation for one match and for our season to finish like that is disappointing. However on the identical time they’re pleased with the whole lot they’ve completed and the way far we’ve come as a program.

“We took one large step ahead this 12 months. We’re going to finish top-10 within the nation. We hosted the primary two rounds of the NCAA match that we hadn’t had in a number of years. We’re again and we’re going to start out knocking on folks’s doorways. In the present day, Pepperdine was simply higher.”

The Hurricanes ended their season 19-6 general and 10-3 within the Atlantic Coast Convention. Pepperdine, a member of the West Coast Convention and the runner as much as Texas in final 12 months’s NCAA staff championship remaining, rose to 23-6. The Waves have seven ranked singles gamers and 4 ranked doubles groups.

This was the twenty sixth consecutive time the Hurricanes had certified for the NCAA staff match however the first time since 2013 they reached the quarterfinals. Miami’s all-time NCAA staff match file is now 57-36, good for the tenth most wins of any Division I program.

UM has made it to the nationwide championship remaining twice, dropping in 1985 to USC and to Stanford in 2006.

The Hurricanes have received two nationwide titles in singles. Estela Perez-Somarriba received the final championship in 2019 and Audra Cohen received in 2007.

Although UM’s staff season is over, the Canes nonetheless have two singles gamers — Thirty third-ranked Daevenia Achong and No. 37 Eden Richardson — who earned spots within the NCAA singles championship . Achong and Richardson will even symbolize the Hurricanes as a doubles staff.

“We’re hoping to make a run,’’ Yaroshuk-Tews mentioned.

The 64-player singles and doubles match is Might 23/24-28 on the Khan Outside Tennis Complicated in Urbana, Illinois.

Friday’s outcomes

Doubles: Savannah Broadus and Janice Tjen (Pepperdine) d. Tatyana Nikolenko and Maya Tahan 6-2; and Shiori Fukuda and Taisiya Pachkaleva (Pepperdine) d. Audrey Boch-Collins and Isabella Pfennig 6-3.

Singles: Shiori Fukuda (Pepperdine) d. Daevenia Achong 6-1, 6-1; Taisiya Pachkaleva (Pepperdine) d. Maya Tahan 7-6, 6-0; Savannah Broadus (Pepperdine) d. Audrey Boch-Collins 6-1, 6-0.

This story was initially revealed Might 13, 2022 6:46 PM.