Tar Heels Start Strong At Kitty Harrison Invitational

CHAPEL HILL, N.C.—Tar Heels won two of three doubles matches and five of six singles matches on Friday as the defending ACC champion Carolina women's tennis team opened its fall season at the 2024 Kitty Harrison Invitational at the Chewning Tennis Center in Chapel Hill.

Carson Tanguilig, Thea Rabman, Tatum Evans, Alana Boyce and Susanna Maltby all won their singles matches in straight sets for UNC. The duos of Tanguilig and Evans and Maltby and Lindsay Zink won their doubles matches.

Due to rain in Chapel Hill throughout the day, Friday's action moved to the Cone-Kenfield Indoor Courts, delaying the start times of Tar Heel singles and doubles matches by over 90 minutes.

Other teams in action on Friday in the Kitty Harrison Invitational included Duke, Penn State, Old Dominion, Florida, Virginia and Purdue.

For complete results from the 2024 Kitty Harrison Invitational, click here.

The tournament is held in honor of Kitty Harrison, the longtime head coach of the Carolina women's tennis team from 1976 to 1998. Eight of Harrison's 22 teams were ranked among the top 25 nationally and, under her direction, Carolina won four ACC championships in a row from 1977 to 1980 and finished as the league runner-up four other times.

Harrison retired after the 1997-98 season as the winningest tennis coach in ACC history in terms of dual-match victories with a 22-year record of 351-224. She was inducted into the North Carolina Tennis Hall of Fame in 2004.

Admission is free all weekend.

Carolina's Friday Results
Doubles
Carson Tanguilig/Tatum Evans (UNC) def. Sara Suchankova/Shona Nakono (Charlotte), 6-1
Amira Badawi/Ni Xi (Charlotte) def. Thea Rabman/Alana Boyce (UNC), 6-4
Susanna Maltby/Lindsay Zink (UNC) def. Lucia Aranda/Paula Dougherty (Charlotte), 6-2

Singles
Carson Tanguilig (UNC) def. Lucia Aranda (Charlotte) 6-2, 6-2
Thea Rabman (UNC) def. Armira Badawi (Charlotte) 6-3, 6-1
Tatum Evans (UNC) def. Sara Suchankova (Charlotte) 6-4, 6-2
Ni Xi (Charlotte) def. Lindsay Zink (UNC) 2-6, 7-5, 1-0 (6)
Alana Boyce (UNC) def. Paula Dougherty (Charlotte) 6-3, 6-4
Susanna Maltby (UNC) def. Prisca Abbas (Charlotte) 6-2, 6-3

Up Next
The Tar Heels will return to action on Saturday and Sunday mornings in the Kitty Harrison Invitational this weekend. Carolina players will begin play at 9:30 a.m. each day at the Chewning Tennis Center.

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Players Mentioned

Alana Boyce

Tatum Evans

Susanna Maltby

Theadora Rabman

Carson Tanguilig

Lindsay Zink