The UNC women’s tennis team hosted the 13th annual Kitty Harrison Invitational this weekend. North Carolina performed well in doubles play — winning four of its six matches — but disappointed in singles.
What happened?
On the first day of competition, the Tar Heels won two doubles matches. Sophomore Chloe Ouellet-Pizer and redshirt senior Rachael James-Baker had a commanding 8-1 win over Elon. Later on, juniors Cassandra Vasquez and Maggie Kane defeated Penn State 8-3.
UNC struggled in singles, however. North Carolina dropped three of its four singles matches on Friday — with the team’s only win coming from James-Baker.
Saturday brought similar results. UNC won both of its doubles matches, but again struggled in singles play. Oullet-Pizer and James-Baker beat Texas Tech’s Felicity Maltby and Gabriel Talaba 8-7(5) in a back-and-forth match decided by a tiebreaker.
Vasquez and Kane won in doubles, and Ouellet-Pizer was the only Tar Heel to win a singles match that day, defeating Maryland’s Ekaterina Tour (6-4, 5-7, 1-0 (12-10)).
Four Tar Heels competed in singles matches against the University of Virginia on Sunday. It was UNC’s best day of singles play — as James-Baker won her second singles match (6-1, 6-3) and Cassandra Vasquez won her first of the weekend (6-3, 6-1).
Ouellet-Pizer and Kane both lost their singles matches on Sunday.