Sunday, April 14
Atlanta, Ga.
12 p.m.
Wake Forest University
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Georgia Tech
No. 36 Wake Forest Drops Final Regular Season Finale, Turns Attention to ACC Tournament
4/14/2024 5:08:00 PM | Women's Tennis
The Demon Deacons are slated to take on the Duke Blue Devils Thursday at 3:30 p.m.
ATLANTA, Ga. - In the final match until postseason play, the No. 36-ranked Wake Forest women's tennis team fell to No. 24 Georgia Tech, 6-1, at the Byers Tennis Complex in Atlanta Sunday afternoon.
The Demon Deacons (15-12, 6-7 ACC) dropped the doubles point as the Yellow Jackets (13-8, 9-4 ACC) claimed courts one and three. Senior Casie Wooten and sophomore Krystal Blanch earned their seventh win as a partnership as they took down Georgia Tech's Cruz/Roach in second doubles, 6-3.
Freshman Sankavi Gownder notched her 14th singles victory in dual play so far this season as she defeated Mahak Jain, 6-3, 7-6(5), in fifth singles. Her 14 wins rank second on the team and her six conference victories are tied for the most with Killingsworth and sophomore Whitley Pate.
2024 ACC Championships
After earning a first-round bye and the No. 9 seed, the Demon Deacons will open postseason play against Big Four rival and No. 8 seed Duke on Thursday, April 18 at 3:30 p.m. All matches throughout the tournament will take place at Cary Tennis Park in Cary, N.C. and will run from Wednesday, April 17 to Sunday, April 21.
The winner of the match between the Demon Deacons and the Blue Devils will go on to face No. 1 seed North Carolina on Friday at 3:30 p.m.
Single day tickets are priced at $10 for adults (ages 18 and older) and $7 for youth ages 17 and under. Admission is free for children 9 and under. ACC college students get in free with a school ID. A full championship pass for all five days is priced at $25. All seating for the tournament is General Admission.
Tickets may be purchased online here.
How It Happened
Singles Results:
From Coach Wyshner
"Four hour battle today. We haven't won down here in a long time, but today was a much better effort than we've had the last few times. Good job from Sankavi getting that win in straight sets. A couple tough three-setters, but I'm proud of how hard we've played match-in and match-out this year. We'll have to get home and get ready for postseason play starting on Thursday. We're opening up against another top 25 opponent in the 8/9 match. Nothing is ever easy in the ACC, but we're ready and better in April than we were in January and February."
Next Up
The Demon Deacons will open postseason play against Big Four rival and No. 8 seed Duke on Thursday, April 18, at 3:30 p.m. at Cary Tennis Park in Cary, N.C.
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The Demon Deacons (15-12, 6-7 ACC) dropped the doubles point as the Yellow Jackets (13-8, 9-4 ACC) claimed courts one and three. Senior Casie Wooten and sophomore Krystal Blanch earned their seventh win as a partnership as they took down Georgia Tech's Cruz/Roach in second doubles, 6-3.
Freshman Sankavi Gownder notched her 14th singles victory in dual play so far this season as she defeated Mahak Jain, 6-3, 7-6(5), in fifth singles. Her 14 wins rank second on the team and her six conference victories are tied for the most with Killingsworth and sophomore Whitley Pate.
2024 ACC Championships
After earning a first-round bye and the No. 9 seed, the Demon Deacons will open postseason play against Big Four rival and No. 8 seed Duke on Thursday, April 18 at 3:30 p.m. All matches throughout the tournament will take place at Cary Tennis Park in Cary, N.C. and will run from Wednesday, April 17 to Sunday, April 21.
The winner of the match between the Demon Deacons and the Blue Devils will go on to face No. 1 seed North Carolina on Friday at 3:30 p.m.
Single day tickets are priced at $10 for adults (ages 18 and older) and $7 for youth ages 17 and under. Admission is free for children 9 and under. ACC college students get in free with a school ID. A full championship pass for all five days is priced at $25. All seating for the tournament is General Admission.
Tickets may be purchased online here.
How It Happened
- Early on in doubles, Blanch and Wooten went up two breaks on court two and took firm control of the match.
- Ahmad/Gownder remained on-serve in third doubles and Killingsworth/Cruz trailed on court one.
- Shortly after the Yellow Jackets took court one, Blanch/Wooten earned a 6-3 victory in second doubles.
- Gownder and Ahmad dropped a hard-fought battle on court three, 7-5, as Georgia Tech claimed the doubles point.
- In singles, Gownder was the first Demon Deacon to take a set (6-3) on court five.
- Georgia Tech took the first set on courts one and six, but courts two-through-four were on-serve through the first nine games.
- Cruz took the first set in third singles (6-4)
- The Yellow Jackets went up a set on courts two and four.
- Georgia Tech took a 2-0 advantage after a 6-3, 6-1 victory in first singles.
- Shortly after, it moved to within a win away from clinching the match after a 6-4, 6-2 win on court two.
- Blanch forced a third set (3-6, 6-4) in sixth singles.
- Cruz also went into a third on court three.
- Georgia Tech clinched the match with a victory on court four.
- The two teams agreed to play out the remaining matches.
- Gownder earned a 6-3, 7-6(5) victory over Mahak Jain in fifth singles and got one back for the Deacs.
- The Yellow Jackets took the final match on court three and defeated the Demon Deacons, 6-1.
- No. 11 Lee/Sharabura (GT) def. No. 82 Cruz/Killingsworth (WFU) 6-2
- Blanch/Wooten (WFU) def. Cruz/Roach (GT) 6-3
- Bilchev/Nicholson (GT) def. Gownder/Ahmad (WFU) 7-5
Singles Results:
- No. 60 Carol Lee (GT) def. No. 30 Casie Wooten (WFU) 6-3, 6-1
- Kylie Bilchev (GT) def. Brooke Killingsworth (WFU) 6-4, 6-2
- Alejandra Cruz (GT) def. Marcella Cruz (WFU) 4-6, 6-3, 7-6(3)
- Scarlett Nicholson (GT) def. Nevena Carton (WFU) 7-5, 6-4
- Sankavi Gownder (WFU) def. Mahak Jain (GT) 6-3, 7-6(5)
- Kate Sharabura (GT) def. Krystal Blanch (WFU) 6-3, 4-6, 6-3
From Coach Wyshner
"Four hour battle today. We haven't won down here in a long time, but today was a much better effort than we've had the last few times. Good job from Sankavi getting that win in straight sets. A couple tough three-setters, but I'm proud of how hard we've played match-in and match-out this year. We'll have to get home and get ready for postseason play starting on Thursday. We're opening up against another top 25 opponent in the 8/9 match. Nothing is ever easy in the ACC, but we're ready and better in April than we were in January and February."
Next Up
The Demon Deacons will open postseason play against Big Four rival and No. 8 seed Duke on Thursday, April 18, at 3:30 p.m. at Cary Tennis Park in Cary, N.C.
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Team Stats
#1 Doubles Match
#2 Doubles Match
#3 Doubles Match
Order of Finish:
1,2,3
#1 Singles Match
12
31
Carol Lee / 0 (60/-) [GT]
66
#2 Singles Match
12
42
Kylie Bilchev / 0 [GT]
66
#3 Singles Match
123
636
Alejandra Cruz / 0 [GT]
467
#4 Singles Match
12
54
Scarlett Nicholson / 0 [GT]
76
#5 Singles Match
12
67
Mahak Jain / 0 [GT]
36
#6 Singles Match
123
363
Kate Sharabura / 0 [GT]
646
Order of Finish:
1,2,4,5,6,3
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