Virginia women's team beats Notre Dame 4-3!



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Virginia women's team beats Notre Dame 4-3!

The Virginia women's tennis team earned a 4-3 victory against Notre Dame yesterday, Friday, March 17, 2023, at the Virginia Tennis Facility at the Boar's Head Resort. Now, Virginia closes out the weekend by hosting Louisville Sunday at 10:30.

As reported by the Virginia University website, Notre Dame won the doubles run and took a 3-1 lead in the game, but the Cavaliers won the last three singles runs to secure the win on home court. Hibah Shaikh won the deciding test for the Cavaliers.

Virginia opened the doubles with a 6-2 win by Mélodie Collard and Julia Adams on upper court, but the Fighting Irish won 7-5 and 6-2 on courts two and three to secure the point. After Notre Dame picked up another run on singles field one, Natasha Subhash got the Cavaliers on the board with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over singles field two against Julia Andreach.

The Irish went up 3-1 with a win on court five before Elaine Chervinsky finished off a 7-6 (4), 6-2 win on court two. The final two singles camps went to concurrent tiebreakers to decide their second sets. Collard grabbed a 7-4 win on her break on court six to tie the game right before Shaikh won her tiebreaker on court four by the same score to secure victory for the Cavaliers.

About the University of Virginia

The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia and was founded by Thomas Jefferson. Conceived in 1800, and opened in 1819, it is important in the history of the United States for being the first to offer studies on subjects that are now common, such as architecture, astronomy and philosophy, as well as the first to divide school and church.

Its School of Engineering and Applied Sciences was the first engineering school in the United States associated with a university. Grape. it was officially included in The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. The University, along with Jefferson's Monticello House, was named a World Heritage Site, one of three modern American places to have been honored.

It was the first campus in the world to be included by UNESCO in this list. The University of Virginia sports program is a Division I-A member and, since 1953, has been a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. Photo Credits: UVA website