The final home matches of the 2024 regular season will be played this weekend at the J.W. Isenhour Tennis Center. NC State will welcome No. 19 Miami on Friday, March 5th, and No. 28 Florida State on March 7th at noon.
Sunday is Senior Day, and Before the match with the Seminoles, the Wolfpack will honor four seniors for their time and contributions to NC State women's tennis.
Sophie Abrams,
Gina Dittmann,
Amelia Rajecki, and
Abigail Rencheli will all be recognized before the first serve on Sunday.
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Live ResultsLive StreamingAmelia Rajecki: From Nottingham, England, one of the most decorated Wolfpack women's tennis players, Rajecki will be looking to become just the fourth player in Wolfpack history to reach 100 career singles wins at NC State this weekend. Posting a 40-11 record in singles and a 34-14 record in doubles during last season, she shattered the program record for most single-season wins and had the fourth most double-season wins in program history. Last year, she was one of three Wolfpack NCAA individual participants. She played in both the doubles and singles NCAA tournaments, where she advanced to the Singles Semifinal match and became the first player in program history to progress that far. Her quarterfinal win came against Fiona Crawley, the #1 seed in the tournament and the top-ranked player in the nation.
An ITA All-American in both singles and doubles, Rajecki has received All-ACC, ACC All-Academic, and Academic Honor Roll honors in her career. This season, she was ranked third in the nation in the ITA singles rankings, earning the highest ranking ever by a Wolfpack player in program history.
Sophie Abrams: Sophie Abrams clinched the program's first-ever ACC Championship last season when she won in straight sets over North Carolina's No. 95 Elizabeth Scotty (7-5, 6-1). All-ACC Academic Team, ACC Academic Honor Roll, and ITA Scholar-Athlete. To begin the 2023-24 season, The Germantown, Tennessee native set the program record with 16 singles wins in the fall and was ranked as high as No. 9. She sits among the top 10 in program history in both singles and doubles wins and has over 90 singles wins across her career.
Gina Dittmann: After a successful career at Northern Arizona
, where she was named the Big Sky Conference MVP and Freshman of the Year, the first player to be named to both in the same season, she followed it up with being Named the Big Sky Conference MVP for the second straight season, the first two-time conference MVP in Northern Arizona history.
Joining NC State before the 2022-23 season, she finished the season 28-11 overall, 20-6 in duals, and 9-3 in the ACC with the second-most single wins on the team. The Essen, Germany native was named an ITA All-American Scholar last and has 95 career singles wins across both programs.
Abigail Rencheli: After becoming the second player in program history to advance to the NCAA Singles Championships quarterfinal,
Abigail Rencheli was named a 2022 ITA All-American. With a career-best ranking of No. 24 in singles, she Defeated a team-leading 16 ranked singles opponents during the 2022 season, including taking down top-seeded and defending NCAA champion Emma Navarro in the national round of 16. She led the team that season with 30 singles wins on the year to become the seventh player in team history to hit that mark in a single season.
Honored with All-ACC Academic second team and ACC All-Academic honors, Rencheli ranks fifth all-time in both career singles and doubles wins.
It's not just the seniors who have been playing well this season. Freshman
Maddy Zampardo is coming off her second ACC Freshman of the Week honor. Zampardo posted a 2-0 weekend, defeating Virginia's No. 76 Elaine Chervinsky at No. 5 singles in a three-set tiebreaker, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (9-7). She also recorded another win on Court 5 over Erika Cheng of Virginia Tech and a doubles win over the Hokies on Court 1. The Detroit native has won four straight singles matches and is now 7-1 in ACC play, seeing just one loss in her last 11 matches.
Her ranked win over Chervinsky was the first in her career. On March 5th, Zampardo won her first Freshman of the Week honor. She is one of four ACC freshmen to win the award at least once this season.
In the latest ITA rankings, Zampardo and her doubles partner Rajecki are ranked 15th in the nation. The doubles pairing has yet to be ranked outside the top 15 all season. Coming in at No. 11 are Abrams and
Anna Zyryanova.
In singles play, Rajacki leads the way at No. 5 in the nation, with Zyryanova checking in at No. 45 and Rencheli at No. 54.
Miami enters the match-up ahead of the Wolfpack in the standings, while Florida State comes to Raleigh tied with NC State in the ACC standings.
The Hurricanes lead the series 18-3 overall, with the Wolfpack winning three of the last five meetings. The Wolfpack will be looking for their fourth straight win over the Seminoles.
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