Virginia Opens Play on Friday at the ACC Championship

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. –  The Virginia girls’s tennis staff (17-5, 10-3 ACC) begins the postseason by competing on the 2023 ACC Girls’s Tennis Championship at Cary Tennis Park in Cary, N.C.

The Cavaliers earned the No. 4 seed within the championship and have a double-bye into the quarterfinals. The Cavaliers will face 5-seed Miami on Friday, April 21 at 10 a.m.

TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE

• Quarterfinals – Friday, April 21, 10 a.m.
• Semifinals, Saturday, April 22, 10 a.m.
• Closing, Sunday, April 23, 10 a.m.

MATCH INFORMATION

• Dwell scoring can be obtainable for all the matches
• Dwell court docket streams can be obtainable for Friday’s quarterfinal match
• ACCNX broadcasts can be obtainable for Saturday’s semifinal match and Sunday’s championship. ACCNX is accessible to stream by means of the ESPN app. It’s obtainable by means of collaborating TV suppliers that carry ACC Community

NOTING THE CAVALIERS

• Virginia is No. 10 on this week’s ITA staff rankings
• Virginia has gained 11 of its final 13 matches
• Virginia has gained the doubles level in 12 of its final 15 matches
• Sara O’Leary closed out the common season by selecting up the 100^th win in her Virginia profession, turning into the third coach in program historical past to achieve the milestone
• Sara Ziodato comes into the event having gained her final six singles matches and is 8-2 in her final 10. She leads the staff with 25 singles wins this season
• Natasha Subhash has additionally handed the 20-win mark in singles, going 20-7
• Annabelle Xu got here again from a virtually two-month absence on account of damage. She returned to motion by partnering with Sara Ziodato in doubles in opposition to Virginia Tech on April 6 and returned to singles play with a win in opposition to Abigail Rencheli of NC State on April 14. Xu is 12-2 in singles general and 7-0 in twin matches
• Julia Adams paces the staff in doubles victories with 28. She comes into the weekend with 99 profession victories in doubles. Adams performed 4 years at Furman earlier than coming to UVA as a grad pupil this season
• Adams and Mélodie Collard are 17-3 at No. 1 doubles this season and went 11-2 in convention play
• Subhash and Elaine Chervinsky are on the lookout for their 20^th win of the season as a doubles staff with a 19-6 document. They went 9-2 in ACC play
• Miami is No. 13 on this week’s ITA staff rankings. North Carolina stays No. 1
• The ACC has eight groups presently ranked within the prime 25 of the ITA staff rankings

VIRGINIA & ACC CHAMPIONSHIP

• That is the third-straight 12 months UVA has been the No. 4 seed within the event. UVA was additionally the No. 4 seed in 2015 when it final gained the title
• Final season, the Cavaliers upset No. 1 North Carolina 4-2 within the semifinals to advance to the championship match the place they fell 4-1 in opposition to Duke
• Virginia has made three journeys to the finals since 1990 (the current format for the championship) successful the title in 2014 and 2015
• UVA additionally has two runner-up finishes in earlier event codecs in 1978 and 1989
• Sara O’Leary is on the lookout for her first convention championship as a head coach. Her Davidson Wildcats made the convention last in her second of three seasons there (2016)
• Previous to taking up the Davidson program, O’Leary was an assistant coach at North Carolina, her alma mater, from August 2008 to June 2014. In 2011, O’Leary was named ITA Nationwide Assistant Coach of the 12 months after North Carolina gained its first ACC title in 9 years and reached the quarterfinals of the NCAA Championships. UNC was the ACC runner-up in 2010 and 2012 whereas O’Leary was there