CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – The No. 20 Virginia women’s tennis team (6-3, 0-1 ACC) opened conference play with a 4-1 loss against No. 1 North Carolina (14-1, 0-0 ACC) on Friday (Feb. 24) at the Virginia Tennis Facility at the Boar’s Head Resort.
The Cavaliers picked up two big victories on the doubles courts. Natasha Subhash and Elaine Chervinsky, who went 9-2 as a doubles team in the fall, rising to as high as a No. 3 ranking in doubles, played together for the first time in a dual match this year, topping Reese Brantmeier and Elizabeth Scotty 6-3 on court one. Mélodie Collard and Julia Adams clinched the point with a 6-3 victory against Fiona Crawley and Carson Tanguilig on court two. Crawley and Tanguilig were ranked No. 1 in doubles in the final rankings of the fall and the first individual rankings of the spring but fell to No. 4 in this week’s updated computer rankings.
The Tar Heels evened the score in singles with a straight-set victory on court four. They went up 3-0 with two more straight-set wins on courts five and one. Elaine Chervinsky had taken her first set 6-3 against Tanguilig, who is ranked No. 7 in singles, on court three, but Tanguilig battled back to win 6-1, 6-2 in the final two sets to clinch the match.
Subhash was in a tiebreaker to…
