No. 7 North Carolina State defeated No. 19 Tennessee, 4-3, on Saturday at Goodfriend Tennis Center.
The Lady Vols won the doubles point against North Carolina State.
“The message I want to make sure our team understands is that we keep knocking on the door against great opponents, and now we have to barge our way through it,” Tennessee head coach Alison Ojeda said. “We gave ourselves a fantastic advantage by winning the doubles point. In my opinion, NC State is easily one of the best doubles teams in the country. They prove it year after year. There’s a very clear plan on how to defend what they do and I thought our girls did a fantastic job with that to win the point and give us a head start going into singles. We know they’re a big serving, big ball-striking team. We know that they’re used to being a top-five team in the country, and they strongly believe in everything they’re doing at every spot.
“I still think that our team came out ready to win. We competed hard, put ourselves in a great situation and came up a bit short.”
Below are photos of the Tennessee-North Carolina State tennis match.