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Syracuse closed out the regular season Sunday with a 4-3 win over Florida State on the road. The Orange finished the season with an even 10-10 record, and the conference tournament begins later this week.

Despite being Syracuse’s most impressive single season player throughout this season, Polina Kozyreva starred in the doubles competition on Sunday, working with Miyuka Kimoto to take down Florida State pair Petra Hule and Anna Arkadianou 6-4, securing the doubles point for the Orange.

Syracuse’s doubles play had started with a loss, though, as sophomore duo Viktoriya Kanapatskaya and Ines Fonte fell to FSU’s Olympe Lancelot and Lesedi Jacobs 6-1.

Senior Sofya Treshcheva and freshman Shiori Ito won their No. 2 doubles matchup against Victoria Allen and Kianah Motosono with relative ease. A 6-2 victory put the pair back in the win column after a disappointing 6-0 loss to Miami’s Daevenia Achong and Eden Richardson just two days ago.

After clinching the doubles point, Syracuse carried its hot start into the singles competition as Kimoto continued her dominance in the No. 2 singles matchup. The Japanese native downed Allen 6-2, 6-1 to obtain her 21st win of the season and her 10th win in the top two singles positions.

Ito then recorded a win in straight sets 6-3, 6-1 over Motosono. Ito’s win allowed her to join Kimoto and Kozyreva as the only three players on the team to have at least 20 wins this season.

FSU roared back from a 3-0 deficit in the next three singles matches, though. Kozyreva was unable to reach her 22nd win of the season, losing to Jacobs 7-5, 6-4.

Zeynep Erman was the next Syracuse player to drop a potential point in the singles competition as she won the opening set against Arkadianou before losing the last two 6-2, 6-3.

Kanapatskaya finished her match similarly, winning the first set but losing the final two against Hule, the seventh-ranked singles player in the country. The loss left the overall dual score at three points apiece for the Orange and the Seminoles.

The matchup ended up falling on the shoulders of the No. 6 singles matchup between Fonte and FSU’s Lancelot. Fonte ended up winning the first and the third sets in thrilling tiebreaker fashion to help propel Syracuse to the win.

Splitting their third conference road trip of the season with one win and one loss, SU now returns home before heading to Rome, Georgia, for the ACC Tournament, which starts on Wednesday.

Published on April 17, 2022 at 9:06 pm

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