CARY, N.C. (theACC.com) – The Pitt women recorded their first-ever ACC Women’s Tennis Championship victory, while Virginia Tech and Wake Forest also advanced during the first round of play on Wednesday.
 
Wednesday’s action began at the Cary Tennis Park but was halted following the doubles points of the Boston College-Pitt and Louisville-Virginia Tech matches due to rain. The remainder of the day’s schedule was played in its entirety on the indoor courts at Duke and North Carolina. Thursday’s forecast in Cary calls for clearing, and the tournament is slated to resume outdoors with second-round matches.
 
Pitt downed Boston College by a 4-2 score, while Virginia Tech defeated Louisville 4-1, and Wake Forest topped Notre Dame 4-2.
 
The winners moved on to Thursday’s second round, which features four women’s matches. No. 8 NC State faces No. 9 Clemson, while No. 5 Florida State meets No. 13 Virginia Tech in a pair of 9 a.m. matches. Two more matches follow at 11:30 a.m. with No. 6 Virginia meeting No, 11 Wake Forest, and No. 7 Syracuse taking on No. 15 Pitt.
 
Please see below for a capsule look at Wednesday’s matches. For more information regarding the championship, visit https://theacc.co/ACC2018.
 
No. 13 Virginia Tech 4, No. 12 Louisville 1
The final result was a mild upset in terms of seeding, but Virginia Tech took Wednesday’s first-round match in convincing fashion.
 
No. 1 Natalie Novotna, No. 4 Nika Kozar and No. 6 Nina Sorkin all posted straight-set singles wins to led the Hokies, who built a 3-0 lead in match scoring before Raven Neely’s straight-set victory at No. 5 gave the Cardinals a glimmer of hope. But Sorkin’s 6-1, 6-4 win over Sena Suswam put the match away.
 
Virginia Tech opened by taking the doubles point with 6-4 wins at the top two slots. Caroline Daxhelet and Natalie Novotna defeated Abbie Pahz and Mariana Humberg, while Kozar and Sorkin turned back Suswam nd Ariana Rodriguez.
 
The Hokies avenged a 4-3 regular-season loss to the Cardinals in Louisville on March 18.
 
No. 15 Pitt 4, No. 10 Boston College 2
The Panthers became the second lower seed to win in opening round, storming back after dropping the doubles points to down Boston College.
 
Camila Moreno won in straight sets at No. 2, downing Kylie Wilcox by a score of 6-2, 6-4. Callie Frey was also a straight-set winner on court No. 6, where she clipped Elene Tsokilauri by a 6-4, 6-4 score. Pitt’s Natsumi Okamato claimed the point on court No. 5 after the Eagles’ Maria Ross was forced to withdraw from the third set due to injury. Okamato led 3-0 in that final set when the match was called.
 
That left the Panthers in front 3-2, and Claudia Bartolome provided the clincher on court No. 4, defeating Jackie Urbanati 6-2, 7-5.
 
The Eagles took the doubles point with wins by its No. 2 and No. 3 duos. Tsokilauri and Urbinati teamed up for a 6-4 victory over Clara Lucas and Bartolome, while Asiya Dair and Natasha Irani defeated Okamoto and Gabriela Rezende, 6-2. Dair also accounted for Boston College’s lone singles point, downing Rezende 6-1, 6-4 at No. 1.
 
Pitt snapped a 10-match losing streak that included a 5-2 loss at Boston College on April 1. The Panthers joined the ACC prior to 2013-14 academic year and began competing in the ACC Women’s Tennis Championship in April of 2014.
 
No. 11 Wake Forest, No. 14 Notre Dame
Straight sets were the order of business in the early stages of singles play, with the Demon Deacons picking up points from Eliza Omirou at No. 2 and Chandler Carter at No. 3, while No. 5 Rachel Chong and No. 6 Caroline Dunleavy delivered for the Fighting Irish.
 
That four-match split, coupled with Wake Forest’s win in doubles, left the Demon Deacons leading 3-2 and left the match to be the decided by highly competitive singles matches at No. 1 and No. 4.
 
It ended on court 4, where the Demon Deacons prevailed thanks to Anna Ulyashchenko’s comeback 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 win over Ally Bojczuk. The No. 1 court match was also in the third set at the time (with Wake Forest’s Emma Davis holding a 4-2 edge over Allison Miller when play was called).
 
Wake Forest took the doubles point behind 6-2 wins by Davis and Carter on court No. 1 and Alexis Franco and Ulyashchenko on court No. 3.