Eagles to Host No. 10 Duke and No. 11 Georgia Tech in ACC Play

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – No. 49 Boston College is set for a tough weekend playing No. 10 Duke on Friday (Feb. 21) at 4 p.m. The Eagles will have a quick recovery day before going on to play No. 11 Georgia Tech on Sunday (Feb. 23) at 11 a.m. Both matches will be played at the Manchester Athletic Club (8 Atwater Avenue, Manchester by the Sea, MA 01944).

RECAPPING SYRACUSE
• Syracuse pulled out a 4-3 win over the Eagles last Saturday at Drumlins Country Club
• BC won the doubles point with Yufei Long / Kylie Wilcox and Elene Tsokilauri / Laura Lopez claiming victories over their Orange opponents
• Both K. Wilcox and Lopez claimed their singles point against Sofya Golubovskaya and Sofya Treshcheva, respectively
• Long and Hailey Wilcox fought into the third set, but Syracuse ultimately edged them out for the deciding point

RECAPPING CORNELL
• The Eagles rebounded for a 6-1 victory against Cornell last Sunday in Binghamton
• Elene Tsokilauri / Lopez defeated Valerie Ho / Michelle Deng (6-4) and Loren Haukova / H. Wilcox beat Sarah Campbell / Fatima El Asram (7-5), securing the doubles point
• K. Wilcox, Tsokilauri, and Maria Ross drove their opponents into third sets before claiming their singles matchups
• H. Wilcox and Lopez won their singles matches in straight sets
• The match left Long ranked 90th in singles and Long / Wilcox ranked 35th in doubles

SCOUTING DUKE
• Overall, Duke is 7-2 in its season and ranked No. 10 in the nation
• The Blue Devils' last match resulted in a 4-0 loss to rival No. 2 North Carolina
• Duke's Kelly Chen is ranked seventh in the ITA Singles Rankings, with Chloe Beck ranked 30th, Margartya Bilokin 48th, and Meible Chi 80th
• In doubles, Beck and Chi are ranked 44th in the nation as a pair

SCOUTING GEORGIA TECH
• The Yellow Jackets' last match was against Northwestern, resulting in a 4-2 win on the road
• Georgia Tech's Victoria Flores and Kenya Jones are ranked 17th in doubles
• Jones is ranked 23rd in singles while Flores is 71st; teammate Gia Cohen is 110th in the singles rankings
• BC suffered a 5-2 loss to the Yellow Jackets on the road in Atlanta in 2019

UP NEXT
• BC looks forward to hosting Wake Forest on Friday, March 13 and Louisville on Sunday, March 15 to continue its slate of ACC opponents

Eagles to Host No. 10 Duke and No. 11 Georgia Tech in ACC Play

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Players Mentioned

Loren Haukova

Yufei Long

Laura Lopez

Maria Ross

Elene Tsokilauri

Hailey Wilcox

Kylie Wilcox