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Syracuse extends win streak to four games with 4-3 victory over Louisville

No. 32 Syracuse (12-6, 6-6 Atlantic Coast) beat Louisville (8-14, 0-11 Atlantic Coast), 4-3, at the Bass-Rudd Tennis Center in Louisville, Kentucky on Sunday.

Like its last game against Pittsburgh, Syracuse got the first point by winning two of three doubles matches. Gabriella Knutson and Valeria Salazar won their game, 6-2. Nicole Mitchell and Maria Tritou won their game, 6-4. Dina Hegab and Anna Shkudun lost their match, 5-4, before it could be completed.

Salazar paced Syracuse by winning her singles match in back-to-back sets by scores of 6-2 and 6-3. However, Knutson, who has been one of Syracuse’s most successful players in the last month, lost her match in two sets, 6-4 and 7-5. Tritou lost her match in two identical sets of 6-4 and 6-4. Hegab lost her match in two sets, 6-4 and 6-3.

With two of the team’s best performers losing, Syracuse was found a way to win with individual victories from Libi Mesh, who helped Syracuse beat Wake Forest, and Shkudun, who won last week for the first time in almost a month.

Mesh won the last two games in her match, 6-4 and 6-3, after losing the first set, 7-6.



With Syracuse tied, 3-3, against Louisville, Shkudun was able to seal the win with another three-set game. She won the final two sets 7-5 and 6-3 after also losing her first set, 6-4.

Syracuse continues on its three-game road trip at No. 6 Miami on Friday at 11 a.m.





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