Women’s Tennis: Navarro, Chervinsky earn ACC weekly honors

Courtesy UVA Media Relations

Virginia women’s tennis sophomore Emma Navarro (Charleston, S.C.) has been named the ACC Co-Player of the Week while Elaine Chervinsky (Baltimore, Md.) was named the ACC Freshman of the Week.

Navarro defeated No. 9 Connie Ma of Stanford at the No. 1 singles position (6-2, 6-7, 6-4) to help lead Virginia to a 4-3 victory over the Cardinal. Navarro broke Ma’s serve at 4-4 in the third set, going on to serve out a 6-4 victory in the clinching match.

NC State’s Jaeda Daniela was named the co-Player of the Week with Navarro.

Chervinsky went 2-0 in doubles (with Natasha Subhash) and 2-0 in singles during ITA Kick-Off Weekend to help lead UVA to wins over James Madison (4-0) and Stanford (4-3) to advance to the ITA National Team Indoor Championships. Chervinsky had a dominant win in the opener against JMU and then battled through a three-setter with Stanford’s Alexandra Yepifanova, picking up a late break to win the final set 7-5.

Navarro was named the ACC Player of the Week three times last season. This is Chervinsky’s first conference honor.