Women’s Tennis: No. 9 UVA closes regular season with 6-1 victory at Wake Forest

Courtesy UVA Media Relations

The No. 9 Virginia women’s tennis team closed out the regular season with a 6-1 victory at Wake Forest on Sunday in Winston-Salem.

The victory was win No. 100 at Virginia for head coach Sara O’Leary. She has a record of 100-47 at UVA and becomes the third coach in program history to win 100 matches with the Cavaliers.

The Cavaliers (17-5, 10-3 ACC) dropped the doubles point before taking all six singles matches.

Sara Ziodato tied the match with a 6-3, 6-1 win on court five. Mélodie Collard followed with a 6-2, 6-2 win on six. Elaine Chervinsky clinched the victory with a 7-5, 6-3 victory on court three. Hibah Shaikh rebounded from dropping her second set against Neyena Carton on court four by winning the final set 6-0. Natasha Subhash won a tiebreaker 7-4 to take her second set against No. 39 Casie Wooten and close out her victory. Julia Adams won a tiebreaker 9-7 to break a 6-6 tie in her third set against Anna Brylin to finish off the singles sweep.

Wake Forest (15-12, 5-8) is ranked No. 28 in the ITA team rankings.

With the victory, the Cavaliers earn the No. 4 seed in the 2023 ACC Women’s Tennis Championship being held April 19-23 at Cary Tennis Park in Cary, N.C. Virginia has a double bye and will begins play on Friday at 10 a.m. with the opponent to be determined.

NO. 9 VIRGINIA 6, WAKE FOREST 1
Singles
1. #60 Natasha Subhash (VA) def. #49 Casie Wooten (WF) 6-4, 7-6 (4)
2. #55 Julia Adams (VA) def. #58 Anna Brylin (WF) 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (7)
3. Elaine Chervinsky (VA) def. Brooke Killingsworth (WF) 7-5, 6-3
4. #82 Hibah Shaikh (VA) def. Nevena Carton (WF) 6-1, 3-6, 6-0
5. Sara Ziodato (VA) def. Maddie Lynch (WF) 6-3, 6-1
6. Melodie Collard (VA) def. Whitley Pate (WF) 6-2, 6-2

Doubles
1. #21 Melodie Collard/Julia Adams (VA) def. #14 Anna Brylin/Brooke Killingsworth (WF) 6-4
2. Mia Ahmad/Casie Wooten (WF) def. #23 Natasha Subhash/Elaine Chervinsky (VA) 6-3
3. Nevena Carton/Whitley Pate (WF) def. Sara Ziodato/Annabelle Xu (VA) 7-5
Order of finish: Doubles (1,2,3); Singles (5,6,3,4,1,2)