Dropping just one point in its weekend trip to No. 7 Cal and No. 21 Stanford, No. 27 NC State women\u2019s tennis proved its recent drop in the ITA rankings had no basis in reality.<\/p>\n
After No. 60 senior Anna Zyryanova fell on the singles courts in the Friday match versus Cal, the Pack (9-4) secured seven straight points en route to dominations of the Golden Bears (5-1) and the Cardinal (6-5). These results came after NC State dropped from the Feb. 11 ranking of No. 8 to No. 27 on Feb. 19, as it lost four of five matches in that stretch, with all five matchups being against top-10 teams.<\/p>\n
No. 7 Cal 4-1<\/p>\n
Sweeping on the doubles courts, NC State got out to an early 1-0 lead. The No. 4 ranked pairing of junior Gabriella Broadfoot and freshman Victoria Osuigwe battled to a 7-5 win over Cal\u2019s Mao Mushika and Johanne Svendsen on Court 1. On Courts 2 and 3, No. 29 junior Jasmine Conway and Zyryanova won 6-4, and freshman Lavinia Tanasie and sophomore Mia Slama made quick work, winning 6-1.<\/p>\n
After Zyryanova fell on Court 3 to No. 55 Mushika 6-2, 7-5, the Pack swept Courts 4 through 6 in dominant fashion. No. 106 Conway picked up the first singles win in straight sets 7-6, 6-4 defeating Cal\u2019s Anya Murthy. Then, No. 2 2025 recruit Osuigwe picked up the win on Court 5 versus Mille Johanna Moerk 6-4, 7-6. To finish it out, No. 28 Tanasie blanked Laura Cilekova in the final set after dropping the Set 2 tiebreak which prolonged the match.<\/p>\n
On Courts 1 and 2, No. 31 Slama and No. 38 Broadfoot were in three-set battles and both had solid footing, but did not finish their matches as the Pack closed it out on the back courts.<\/p>\n
No. 21 Stanford 4-0<\/p>\n
The Pack took a very similar route to victory over Stanford, winning the doubles point and taking Courts 4 through 6.<\/p>\n
Broadfoot and Osuigwe took on reigning ACC Co-Doubles Team of the Week in Monika Ekstrand and Caroline Driscoll, and came out on top in their battle 7-6. Conway and Zyryanova fell 6-4 on Court 2, but Slama and Tanasie dominated 6-1 to put the Pack ahead.<\/p>\n
On Courts 1 through 3, Broadfoot, Slama and Zyryanova were in tightly contested matches with Stanford\u2019s best. All three dropped their first sets, but battled back in the second as Broadfoot forced a third set versus No. 29 Alyssa Ahn and Slama extended the match versus No. 62 Monika Ekstrand.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, on the lower courts, the Pack dropped a total of eight games as Osuigwe, Conway and Tanasie won in straight sets, making quick work of the Cardinal, securing NC State\u2019s fifth ranked win this season.<\/p>\n
After a month-long road trip, the Pack will play its first home match since Jan. 27 as it hosts Florida State March 6 at 2 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dropping just one point in its weekend trip to No. 7 Cal and No. 21 Stanford, No. 27…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-513400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}