Women's Tennis Roars Into ACC Title Match

Saturday, April 24

Rome, Ga.

9 AM

North Carolina

Virginia

April 24, 2021 | Women's Tennis

ROME, Georgia - Top seed North Carolina will play for a fifth-consecutive Atlantic Coast Conference Women's Tennis Championship after a 4-1 victory over Virginia in a semifinals match on Saturday morning from the indoor courts at the Rome Tennis Center.

Saturday's win was the 14th straight at the ACC Women's Tennis Championship for UNC (25-0), which has reached at least the semifinals of the event every year since 2009. The Tar Heels earned a spot in Sunday's 10 a.m. championship match versus No. 6 seed Georgia Tech (18-9), who knocked off No. 7 seed Miami (14-8) by a 4-3 scoreline in Saturday's other semifinal.

Sunday will be the third time that Carolina and Georgia Tech have faced each other in the championship match. The Yellow Jackets won 4-3 in 2010, while the Tar Heels won 4-3 in 2017 in Rome, Ga.

Due to a weather forecast of heavy rain throughout the day, all of Saturday's women's semifinal matches have been moved indoors.

Carolina dominated all three doubles courts to gain an early 1-0 edge over the Cavaliers. After No. 3 Sara Daavettila and Cameron Morra secured a 6-2 win on court two, it was No. 32 Alle Sanford and Reilly Tran that cliched the opening point on court three for the Tar Heels.

The rookie dynamic duo of No. 31 Fiona Crawley and Reilly Tran quickly made it 3-0 in favor of Carolina with singles wins on courts five and six. The freshmen are a combined 41-0 in singles play this spring.

No. 34 Alexa Graham, who clinched yesterday's quarterfinal win over Wake Forest, was one point away from doing the same on Saturday but ultimately lost a marathon second-set tiebreaker by a 13-11 margin to send the court three match with No. 100 Rosie Johanson to a third set.

That setup No. 23 Makenna Jones to clinch the match from court four. She outlasted Hibah Shaikh in a first-set tiebreaker, 8-6, and notched a 6-4 win in the second set.

The matchup between UNC's top-ranked Sara Daavettila and UVA's No. 2-ranked Emma Navarro went unfinished. The pair split the first two sets, and Navarro led 5-4 in the third when the match was called.

No. 9-ranked Natasha Subhash defeated No. 24 Cameron Morra 7-6 (7-4), 6-3 at No. 2 to account for the lone point for Virginia (14-6).

Doubles
1. #3 Sara Daavettila/Cameron Morra (UNC) def. #29 Emma Navarro/Rosie Johanson (UVA) 6-2
2. #12 Makenna Jones/Elizabeth Scotty (UNC) def. #16 Natasha Subhash/Sofia Munera (UVA) 6-4
3. #32 Alle Sanford/Reilly Tran (UNC) def. Vivian Glozman/Hibah Shaikh (UVA) 6-4

Order of Finish: 1, 3, 2, 4

Singles
1. #1 Sara Daavettila (UNC) vs. #2 Emma Navarro (UVA) 6-3, 2-6, 4-5, unfinished
2. #9 Natasha Subhash (UVA) def. #24 Cameron Morra (UNC) 6-7 (4), 3-6
3. #34 Alexa Graham (UNC) vs. #100 Rosie Johanson (UVA) 6-3, 6-7 (11), 3-0, unfinished
4. #23 Makenna Jones (UNC) def. Hibah Shaikh (UVA) 7-6 (6), 6-4
5. #31 Fiona Crawley (UNC) def. Amber O'Dell (UVA) 6-2, 6-1
6. Reilly Tran (UNC) def. Sofia Munera (UVA) 6-3, 6-0

Order of Finish: 6, 5, 2, 4