The No. 2 North Carolina women’s tennis team defeated East Carolina on Wednesday, with a score of 7-0. Competing in Chapel Hill at the Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center, UNC continued its undefeated season and junior Alexa Graham continued playing with the same energy that led her to win a USTA Women’s National Open Championship in December.
What happened?
UNC (3-0) and ECU (0-2) played a total of six singles matches and three doubles matches. The Tar Heels dominated the court in both singles and doubles, and in singles alone didn’t allow the Pirates to win a single set.
Singles
In the first singles match of the evening, junior Makenna Jones beat Lisa Hofbauer by a score of 6-4, 6-1. Similarly, Graham won against Alisa Diercksen, 6-1, 6-4. Additionally, senior Jessie Aney beat Nastja Rettich, 6-3, 6-2, and senior Chloe Ouellet-Pizer won against Hsia Ho Chiao, 6-1, 6-4.
However, first-year Cameron Morra and sophomore Alle Sanford both won their matches without allowing their opponents from ECU to win any games in the second set. Morra defeated Minette Van Vreden, 6-2, 6-0, and Sanford beat Martina Paladini-Jennings, 6-3, 6-0.
Doubles
During the doubles matches, UNC showed high levels of endurance and teamwork. The match between Jones and Morra and Hofbauer and Diercksen saw the Tar Heels come out on top with a score of 7-6 (7-3). Also, Graham and junior Sara Daavettila defeated Van Vreden and Paladini-Jennings, 6-0.
In a doubles match that ended in an unfinished tie, Aney and Sanford kept competing against Rettich and Ho Chiao until the match was called after UNC clinched the doubles point by winning the other two matches. The match ended unfinished, and in a deadlock at 6-6 (6-6).
