Michigan
North Carolina
Michigan Sees Win Streak End at No. 4 UNC
4/6/2017 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
April 6, 2017
» Michigan had its six-match winning streak snapped in the loss; three of Michigan's four losses on the season have come to teams ranked in the top five (No. 1 Florida, No. 3 Ohio State, No. 4 North Carolina).
» Trailing 2-0 in the team match, U-M got first-set wins from Kate Fahey, Chiara Lommer and Alex Najarian, with Mira Ruder-Hook heading to a third set at the same time. Michigan could not complete the comeback as UNC took wins at No. 1 and No. 5 to seal the match.
» The match began outside but was forced indoors at 2:30 p.m. due to rain. The match concluded indoors.
Site: Chapel Hill, N.C. (Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center)
Score: #4 North Carolina 4, #8 Michigan 0
Records: U-M (13-4), UNC (21-2)
Next U-M Event: Friday, April 7 -- at Rutgers (New Brunswick, N.J.), 1 p.m.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- The No. 8-ranked University of Michigan women's tennis team started to turn the match in singles play but could not complete the comeback, falling, 4-0, to No. 4 North Carolina on Thursday afternoon (April 6) at the Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center.
Michigan fell behind early on all three doubles courts, dropping the match's first point when UNC took a pair of 6-1 wins at No. 1 and No. 3.
Rain began to fall around 2:30 p.m., forcing the match indoors.
UNC extended its lead to 2-0 with a straight-set win at No. 6 right after the match moved inside.
U-M continued to hang in there, winning three first sets courtesy of sophomore Kate Fahey, freshman Chiara Lommer and junior Alex Najarian. At the same time, junior Mira Ruder-Hook recovered from a 6-0 first-set loss to send her match to a third at No. 5.
Sophomore Brienne Minor was up a break late in her second set against No. 3 Hayley Carter, but Carter won three of the final four games to send the set to a tiebreaker. Carter came away with a 7-5 in the breaker, putting UNC up 3-0.
Ruder-Hook took a 1-0 lead in the third set, but No. 100-ranked Makenna Jones won six of the next seven games to seal the match's fourth point with a 6-0, 3-6, 6-2 win.
Fahey, who won the first set at No. 2, had jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the second set of her match against No. 6 Sara Daavettila, but the Tarheel came back to win five straight games, before the match was abandoned.
Najarian was in a third set at No. 4, and Lommer was up a break with a set in hand at No. 4 when the match was ended.
Michigan returns to Big Ten action tomorrow (Friday, April 7) at Rutgers. The match is set for 1 p.m.
Following are match-by-match results:
Singles
No. 1 -- No. 3 Hayley Carter (UNC) d. No. 22 Brienne Minor (U-M), 6-2, 7-6 (5)
No. 2 -- No. 21 Kate Fahey (U-M) vs. No. 6 Sara Daavettila (UNC), 6-3, 4-5 abandoned
No. 3 -- Alex Najarian (U-M) vs. No. 26 Jessie Aney (UNC), 6-4, 5-7, 3-2 abandoned
No. 4 -- Chiara Lommer (U-M) vs. No. 46 Alexa Graham (UNC), 7-6 (7), 4-2 abandoned
No. 5 -- No. 100 Makenna Jones (UNC) d. Mira Ruder-Hook (U-M), 6-0, 3-6, 6-2
No. 6 -- Chloe Ouellet-Pizer (UNC) d. Annie Wierda (U-M), 6-2, 6-3
Doubles
No. 1 -- No. 87 Hayley Carter/Sara Daavettila (UNC) d. No. 27 Mira Ruder-Hook/Brienne Minor (U-M), 6-1
No. 2 -- Alex Najarian/Valeria Patiuk (U-M) vs. Cassandra Vazquez/Alexa Graham (UNC), 2-5 abandoned
No. 3 -- Rachael James-Baker/Jessie Aney (UNC) d. Kate Fahey/Chiara Lommer (U-M), 6-1
Order of Completion: Doubles 1-3, Singles 6-1-5
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