Blue Devils untested in NCAA openers
By Tom Gieryn | May 19, 2011It’s always nice to be the favorites, but anything can happen after three weeks without competition.
It’s always nice to be the favorites, but anything can happen after three weeks without competition.
Last year, Duke secured its first Round of 16 berth in four years.
Retribution was not in the cards for Duke at the ACC championship this weekend.
CARY, N.C. — In a way, the doubles point seems like a lot of effort for not much payoff. Six players play three doubles matches, and from that, a team can earn a grand total of one point.
The Blue Devils will make the short 20-minute commute to Cary, N.C., this weekend to participate in the ACC tournament.
On the way to the No. 3 seed in the ACC Tournament, Duke lost only two conference matchups. Those losses were to No. 1 Virginia and then-No. 19 North Carolina, and it is these two squads that lie...
It was a bittersweet ending of the regular season for No. 3 Duke, as the Blue Devils clinched the ACC title but were defeated in a road contest Sunday by Florida State 4-2.
At the close of their regular season Sunday, seniors Reid Carelton, Alain Michel and Jared Pinsky achieved the only outcome acceptable for their senior match: victory.
No. 10 Duke (16-8, 7-2 in the ACC) came into this season with the No. 1 recruiting class in the nation. And if you ask people around the courts, they’ll tell you the Blue Devil freshmen haven’t...
The Tobacco Road rivalry never fails to host intensely close matchups, and yesterday’s match in Chapel Hill was no different.
After their first conference loss against top-ranked Virginia last weekend, the No. 11 Blue Devils (16-7, 7-1 in the ACC) knew that they needed two wins against ACC rivals Georgia Tech and Clemson...
It was Senior Day at Ambler Stadium yesterday, and while Nadine Fahoum has spent a relatively short amount of four-year career playing at Duke, the senior made the most of the occasion.
The Blue Devils hit the road this weekend for a pair of key ACC matches.
After nearly three hours of play, senior Reka Zsilinszka pumped her fist in the air as she slammed a winner past her opponent to clinch a 4-3 upset for No. 4 Duke over third-ranked North Carolina.
Friday, the Blue Devils saw their undefeated ACC record blemished. Sunday, they bounced back in style.
After coming up with a definitive 7-0 win against Virginia Tech Saturday, No. 4 Duke pulled away with a 5-2 win against No. 17 Virginia Sunday at Ambler Stadium thanks to two late singles victories.
Cecil is back on campus. Enrolled in classes as a sophomore, she also deals with the responsibility of being a volunteer assistant coach for her former team, including some of her old teammates.
The ball hit the let cord, bounced up, hit the cord again...and rolled onto the court for match point.
It’s that time of year again: flowers are blooming—and Duke is winning.