The Tennessee women’s tennis team won seven matches on the first day of the Tar Heel Invitational in Chapel Hill, North Carolina Friday.
One match of opening day featured a pair of Lady Vols squaring off against each other in singles play. Callie Creath outlasted teammate Kylie Duckworth, 3-6, 7-5. 1-0. Creath clinched the match by winning a tiebreaker, 10-6.
Tennessee swept the doubles competition.
Daria Kuczer and Tenika McGriffin, playing only their second match as a doubles tandem, defeated the top-ranked doubles team in the country when they took down North Carolina’s Fiona Crawley and Elizabeth Scotty, 7-5.
Crawley and Scotty, are ranked No. 1 by the ITA and were undefeated before Friday.
Also in doubles, the Lady Vols’ Elza Tomase and Rebeka Mertena defeated UNC’s team of Anika Yarlagadda and Lindsay Zink, 6-2.
Tennessee’s tandem of Eleonora Molinaro and Esther Adishina also won in doubles.
Adeshina, Molinaro and Kuczer also captured wins in singles in the event, which concludes Sunday.