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Wooten Falls in Round of 64 at 2024 NCAA Singles Championships
5/20/2024 1:46:00 PM | Women's Tennis
The senior accumulated 80 singles wins over the course of her Wake Forest career.
STILLWATER, Okla. - Rounding off another stellar campaign, Wake Forest senior Casie Wooten dropped her round of 64 clash at the 2024 NCAA Singles Championships on Monday in Stillwater, Okla.
Wooten, the No. 36-ranked singles player in the nation, fought hard against No. 11 Ayana Akli of South Carolina at the Greenwood Tennis Center, but ultimately fell 6-0, 6-1.
It marked her second-consecutive appearance at the NCAA Singles Championships. Additionally, it was her third-straight appearance in postseason play, as she made the NCAA Doubles Championships in 2022 with Samantha Martinelli.
This season, Wooten led Wake Forest with 15 singles wins in dual play with 22 total victories since the start of the fall.
The Torrance, Calif.-native racked up seven wins over ranked opponents, including the highest ranked win over her career against Akli (ranked No. 3 at the time) the first time the two met on Feb. 17.
2024 NCAA Singles Championship Results
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Wooten, the No. 36-ranked singles player in the nation, fought hard against No. 11 Ayana Akli of South Carolina at the Greenwood Tennis Center, but ultimately fell 6-0, 6-1.
It marked her second-consecutive appearance at the NCAA Singles Championships. Additionally, it was her third-straight appearance in postseason play, as she made the NCAA Doubles Championships in 2022 with Samantha Martinelli.
This season, Wooten led Wake Forest with 15 singles wins in dual play with 22 total victories since the start of the fall.
The Torrance, Calif.-native racked up seven wins over ranked opponents, including the highest ranked win over her career against Akli (ranked No. 3 at the time) the first time the two met on Feb. 17.
2024 NCAA Singles Championship Results
- Round of 64
- No. 11 Ayana Akli (SC) def. No. 36 Casie Wooten (WFU) 6-0, 6-1
- The Demon Deacons compiled 15 wins throughout the spring and have now earned double-digit victories in 10-consecutive seasons (excluding the COVID-shortened 202 season).
- Seven of the 15 victories came against ranked teams, with three coming against teams inside the top 30.
- The Deacs have now made eight-consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances under head coach Jeffrey Wyshner. Wake Forest is one of just 21 schools to accomplish this feat as well as one of six ACC institutions to do so.
- Individually, the Deacs were led by senior captain Casie Wooten, who finished with a team-best 15-wins in dual play (22 overall).
- The Torrance, Calif.-native racked up seven wins over ranked opponents, including the highest ranked win over her career with a three-set victory over South Carolina's Ayana Akli (No. 3) on Feb. 17.
- The senior also made her second-consecutive appearance at the NCAA Singles Championships in Stillwater, Okla.
- In doubles, Wake Forest once again held one of the top pairings in the country with senior Brooke Killingsworth and graduate student Marcella Cruz.
- The duo earned 12 wins in first doubles during the spring, which also helped the Demon Deacons secure 12 doubles points.
- Killingsworth not only got it done in doubles, but she also had the most successful singles campaign of her career, racking up 12 wins while competing in second singles.
- She picked up four ranked wins this season, including the highest ranked win over her career over No. 37 Abigail Rencheli of NC State.
- Freshman Sankavi Gownder wrapped up an stellar first year in the Old Gold & Black, as she finished second on the team in dual play with 14 wins, including her first-career ranked victory against Tennessee's Eleonora Molinaro (No. 100).
- In total, the Demon Deacons had six players record double-digit singles victories in dual play this campaign.
- Casie Wooten - 15 wins
- Sankavi Gownder - 14 wins
- Brooke Killingsworth - 12 wins
- Whitley Pate - 10 wins
- Marcella Cruz - 10 wins
- Nevena Carton - 10 wins
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