Duke tennis begins season in Cary
The men’s and women’s tennis teams will kick off their preseason with the third annual Fab Four Invitational in Cary, N.C., hoping to set the tone for the coming season.
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The men’s and women’s tennis teams will kick off their preseason with the third annual Fab Four Invitational in Cary, N.C., hoping to set the tone for the coming season.
Last year Duke had Beatrice Capra, this year it has Michael Redlicki.
Duke heads into its final weekend before ACC play, carrying the momentum from the team’s USC Futbol Classic win last weekend. The No. 4 Blue Devils kick off the Duke Nike Classic at Koskinen Stadium with San Diego on Friday at 7:30 p.m. followed by No. 12 Marquette on Sunday at 1:30 p.m.
No. 4 Duke travelled to Los Angeles, Ca. for the USC Futbol Classic this weekend looking to notch a pair of wins after falling to Florida last week.
For the third straight year, Duke suffered a heartbreaking loss in the ACC championship match against Virginia.
Duke senior Torsten Wietoska is finally healthy—only suffering a blister this season—and is in the prime of his college career.
For nearly five hours on a windy afternoon, Duke and North Carolina were stuck in a back-and-forth battle for rivalry bragging rights.
At Duke’s second-to-last home match, the Blue Devils powered through long matches to gain two solid victories.
When she committed to Duke four years ago, Becca Ward all but retired from international fencing.
The end of last season saw the break-up of the former No. 1 doubles team in the NCAA. The graduation of Reid Carleton left the nation’s No. 7 singles player, junior Henrique Cunha, without a partner at the start of the year.
Duke faced its toughest competition of the season last weekend, going 2-1 against three of the top eight teams in the country at the ITA National Team Indoor Championship.
After defeating Illinois for the first time in 10 years, Duke looks to avenge its two losses to Tennessee last season. The No. 10 Blue Devils (6-0) will travel to Knoxville to face the No. 12 Volunteers (4-2) Saturday at 1 p.m. in their final match before the ITA National Team Indoor Championships in Virginia.
Coming off a 22-win season and its first NCAA tournament victory in 14 years, Clemson enters a rebuilding year. Head coach Brad Brownell, in his second year with the Tigers, returns three starters—Andre Young, Devin Booker and Tanner Smith—and will try to figure out how to work his six freshmen into the rotation.
In his second year at Boston College, head coach Steve Donahue has his work cut out for him.
Last year’s Duke team often fell back on its senior leader Jasmine Thomas to take the game into her own hands. The graduation of Thomas and two other seniors will leave the Blue Devils without that same level of veteran leadership, or even many veteran players at all. But with the arrival of four talented freshmen, in addition to a strong corps of sophomores, the team remains poised to contend on the national stage.
Last weekend, Duke took on the nation’s No. 2 team, facing Old Dominion at home. A hard-fought effort resulted in heartbreak for the Blue Devils, who dropped a 1-0 decision in double overtime.
The Blue Devils may have had only one week of official practice, but they are more than ready to take the court on Friday.