{"id":209024,"date":"2026-03-27T23:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T23:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/209024\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T23:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T23:41:08","slug":"womens-tennis-drops-close-match-to-miami-friday-womens-tennis-georgia-tech-yellow-jackets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/209024\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Tennis Drops Close Match to Miami Friday \u2013 Women&#8217;s Tennis \u2014 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>THE FLATS\u202f\u2013\u00a0Georgia Tech women\u2019s tennis\u00a0battled but came up short to Miami Friday afternoon at the Ken Byers Tennis Complex, 4-2.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Yellow Jackets (9-9, 3-4 ACC) earned their fourth-straight doubles point in ACC action to get an early 1-0 lead. The Hurricanes (11-3, 7-1 ACC) used three quick singles wins to gain an advantage and captured one more to close out the match.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Taly Licht\u00a0and\u00a0Sabritt\u00a0Dozier\u00a0cruised on court two with a 6-0 victory. After fighting off a Miami rally,\u00a0Given Roach\u00a0and\u00a0Eleni\u00a0Karantali\u00a0won 6-4\u00a0to earn the doubles point.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After Miami took the first three singles decisions, Roach grinded out a 7-6 (7-2), 6-4 win on court three to put the Jackets back within one, 3-2.\u00a0The Hurricanes secured a win on court four to seal the match.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Doubles\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No. 77 Alejandra Cruz\/Seri\u00a0Nayuki\u00a0(GT) vs. Sofia\u00a0Rocchetti\/Sebastianna\u00a0Scilipoti\u00a0(UM) 5-5\u00a0Taly Licht\/Sabritt\u00a0Dozier (GT) def.\u00a0Aely\u00a0Arai\/Dominika\u00a0Podhajecka\u00a0(UM) 6-0\u00a0Given Roach\/Eleni\u00a0Karantali\u00a0(GT) def. Maria Vargas\/Daria\u00a0Volosova\u00a0(UM) 6-4\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Order of finish:\u00a02,3\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Singles\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No. 101\u00a0Sofia\u00a0Rocchetti\u00a0(UM) def. No. 66\u00a0Alejandra\u00a0Cruz (GT) 6-3, 6-4\u00a0Taly\u00a0Licht (GT) vs.\u00a0Sebastianna\u00a0Scilipoti\u00a0(UM) 7-6, 4-6, 5-6,\u00a0unfinished\u00a0Given Roach (GT) def. Aely Arai (UM) 7-6 (7-2), 6-4\u00a0Jaquelyn\u00a0Ogunwale\u00a0(UM) def. Seri\u00a0Nayuki\u00a0(GT) 5-7, 6-4, 6-3\u00a0Dominika\u00a0Podhajecka\u00a0(UM) def. Olivia Carneiro (GT) 6-4, 6-3\u00a0Daria\u00a0Volosova\u00a0(UM) def.\u00a0Sabritt\u00a0Dozier (GT) 6-2, 6-3\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Order of finish:\u00a06,5,1,3,4\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tech wraps up the home regular season slate Sunday, March 29 at 12 p.m. against Florida State. Senior\u00a0Alejandra Cruz\u00a0will be\u00a0honored\u00a0pregame. Admission is free to all 2026 home women\u2019s tennis matches.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Full Steam Ahead\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Full Steam Ahead is a $500 million fundraising initiative to achieve Georgia Tech athletics\u2019 goal of competing for championships at the highest level in the next era of intercollegiate athletics. The initiative will fund transformative projects for Tech athletics,\u00a0including renovations of Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field (the historic home of Georgia Tech football), the\u00a0Zelnak\u00a0Basketball Center (the practice and training facility for Tech basketball) and O\u2019Keefe Gymnasium (the venerable home of Yellow Jackets volleyball), as well as additional projects and initiatives to further advance Georgia Tech athletics through program wide-operational support. All members of the Georgia Tech community are invited to visit\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atfund.org\/full-steam-ahead\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">atfund.org\/FullSteamAhead<\/a>\u202ffor full details and renderings of the renovation projects, as well as to learn about opportunities to contribute online.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For the latest information on the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, follow us on X (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gt_wten?lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@GT_WTEN<\/a>), Instagram (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/gt_wten\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GT_WTEN<\/a>), Facebook (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GTwomenstennis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Georgia Tech Women\u2019s Tennis<\/a>) or visit us at\u202f<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ramblinwreck.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.ramblinwreck.com<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE FLATS\u202f\u2013\u00a0Georgia Tech women\u2019s tennis\u00a0battled but came up short to Miami Friday afternoon at the Ken Byers Tennis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[589,10086,11785,4683,11786,11784,11781,11782,11783,13769,123,125,124,11789,11787,11790,9248,11791,31909,11788],"class_list":["post-209024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-featured","tag-georgia-tech-football","tag-georgia-tech-sports","tag-georgia-tech-yellow-jackets","tag-georgia-tech-yellow-jackets-news","tag-georgia-tech-yellow-jackets-sports","tag-georgia-tech-yellow-jackets-tickets","tag-gt","tag-gt-tickets","tag-headlines","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-official-gear-georgia-tech-yellow-jackets","tag-official-georgia-tech-yellow-jackets-sports","tag-schedules","tag-scores","tag-stats","tag-women-s-tennis","tag-yellow-jackets-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}