March 19, 2009

Duke Opens ACC Play With 5-2 Win Over NC State

The Blue Devils got off to a good start in the 2009 ACC season with a 5-2 victory over No. 42 NC State at home on Wednesday.

Duke played their first outdoors home match of the year and improved to 8-3 with their fifth consecutive win. The Wolfpack fell to 7-7 overall with the loss. The Blue Devils have now won 36 straight meetings with N.C. State dating back to 1980.

The Blue Devils used a tiebreaker win in the deciding doubles match to fuel the 5-2 win. Kiril Dimitrov and Alain Michel knocked off No. 79 Jaime Pulgar and Jay Weinacker at the top spot in doubles to give Duke the doubles point. This came after David Holland and Jared Pinsky tied the score at 1-1 with an 8-4 win over Justin Jendruch and Rob Lowe.

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No. 13 Kentucky Too Much for No. 45 Miami, 5-2

No. 13 Kentucky (12-4) took five-of-six singles matches after falling in all three doubles spots, earning a 5-2 victory over the No. 45 Miami Hurricanes (6-6) in a non-conference men's tennis matchup Wednesday evening at the Neil Schiff Tennis Center in Coral Gables, Fla.

Miami opened up the match with a sweep of all three doubles matches. With the Hurricanes leading 1-0 after the doubles point, the overcast skies of South Florida started to open up a bit as the rain delayed the start of singles play for 1 hour and 20 minutes. When the rain departed, Kentucky did not seemed phased as the Wildcats took three quick straight-set wins to begin, earning a 3-1 advantage.