Top 10 Women's Battle & A Look Ahead to Tuesday's Rankings

With the Illinois/Notre Dame match getting postponed due to bad weather the only action on the courts today was on the women's side in Charlottesville where #10 Virginia hosted #9 Georgia. 

Virginia happily welcomed back its top 2 players (Elbaba, Collins) who had been out ill with the flu but Georgia came out strong and swept all 3 doubles courts to grab the early 1-0 lead.  Each team claimed 3 1st sets but while Virginia was able to close out each of its 3 in straight sets, Georgia was getting more pushback.  With Virginia leading 3-1, Georgia's Lauren Herring was up 7-5, 5-2 on Julia Elbaba at #1, UGA's Ellen Perez led Danielle Collins 4-1 in the 3rd at #2, and the match at #6 singles had just split sets and was going to a 3rd set.  So it appeared that the match would come down to that 3rd set at #6 however the defending NCAA singles champion, Danielle Collins, had a different idea and she took 4 straight games over Perez and actually served for it up 5-4.  After Perez broke to get it back on serve at 5 all, Collins would break right back and would then serve it out 40-30 to put the Hoos back in the winner's circle and bump their record up to 4-1; Georgia would fall to 3-2.