CARY, N.C. – Sein Myoung clinched for the fourth time this season and No. 9 seed Stanford beat No. 17 seed Virginia Tech 4-2 in the second round of the ACC Championship on Wednesday afternoon.
With the victory, the Cardinal advances to Thursday’s third round where it will face No. 8 seed SMU at 12:30 p.m. PT/3:30 p.m. ET.
Stanford needed four singles wins after dropping the doubles point and got them from the middle of its lineup. Alyssa Ahn, Caroline Driscoll and Tianmei Wang were dominant on courts two, three and four.
Ahn was a 6-1, 6-1 winner over Arina Gamretkaia at No. 2, Driscoll beat Mila Mulready at No. 3 6-2, 6-2 and Wang dispatched Elizaveta Castillo at No. 4 6-2, 6-1.
On court five, Myoung was down a break in the first set before reeling off three straight games to win it 7-5. She was down 3-0 in the second before coming back to tie it 3-3 and eventually took it 6-4 with a backhanded winner down the line against Alston Myatt.
Stanford will be playing SMU for the second time in a week. The Mustangs beat the Cardinal 4-1 on Sunday in Dallas to close out the regular season.
No. 33 Stanford 4 – Virginia Tech 2
DOUBLES
1) #54 Arina Gamretkaia/Ozlem Uslu (VT) d. Caroline Driscoll/Monika Ekstrand (STAN) 6-2
2) Alyssa Ahn/Tianmei Wang (STAN) d. Mila Mulready/Linda Ziets-Segura (VT) 6-2
3) Elizaveta Castillo/Alston Myatt (VT) d. Sein Myoung/Morgan Shaffer (STAN) 6-2
Order of finish: 3, 2, 1
SINGLES
1) Ozlem Uslu (VT) d. #25 Monika Ekstrand (STAN) 6-0, 6-1
2) #56 Alyssa Ahn (STAN) d. Arina Gamretkaia (VT) 6-1, 6-1
3) Caroline Driscoll (STAN) d. Mila Mulready (VT) 6-2, 6-2
4) Tianmei Wang (STAN) d. Elizaveta Castillo (VT) 6-2, 6-1
5) Sein Myoung (STAN) d. Alston Myatt (VT) 7-5, 6-4
6) Emma Sun (STAN) led Linda Ziets-Segura (VT) 6-2, 3-6, 1-0 unf.
Order of finish: 1, 2, 4, 3, 5