PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. – No. 2 James Madison dropped a tough 4-0 decision top-seeded Old Dominion on Sunday afternoon in the title match of the Sun Belt Conference Women’s Tennis Championship at the Peachtree City Tennis Center.

The Dukes ended their season with a 15-8 overall record, having advanced to a championship final for the fifth time out of a possible six seasons since 2016. The Monarchs improved to 18-4 and won their 13th straight match to move on to the NCAA Women’s Tennis Championship.

The Monarchs won the doubles point with a pair of victories and claimed singles victories on courts one, two and five to secure the win. JMU senior Daniela Voloh was the lone Duke to capture a set, as she led on court three.

HOW IT HAPPENED
Doubles Play
• ODU took the 1-0 lead with wins on courts one and three.

• The Monarchs gained the advantage on court one, as Sofia Johnson and Tatsiana Sasnouskaya defeated Kylie Moulin and Ines Oliveira, 6-2.

• After a back-and-forth battle on court three, the ODU tandem of Shahar Biran and Alesya Yakubovich slid past Daria Afanasyeva and Reka Matko, 6-4, to secure the doubles point.

• On court two, the match between Daria Munteanu and Daniela Voloh and ODU’s Allison Isaacs and Alexandra Viktorovich went unfinished, at 3-4.

Singles Play
• ODU doubled its lead to 2-0 on court five, where Viktorovich downed Oliveira, 6-1, 6-1.

• Minutes later, the Monarch lead grew to 3-0, as Sasnouskaya defeated Kylie Moulin, 6-1, 6-1.

• The Monarchs clinched the championship on court two, as Johnson bested Afanasyeva, 6-2, 6-3.

• Voloh came back to win a big first-set tiebreak on court three, as she led Biran 7-6 (2) at the conclusion of the match.

• Two other bouts went unfinished, with ODU led on courts four and six.

THANK YOU, BIG THREE!
• Sunday marked the final match of the collegiate careers for seniors Daria Afanasyeva, Kylie Moulin and Daniela Voloh.

• The trio combined for 442 total victories, including 228 singles and 214 doubles matches.

• Voloh set a school record with 91 singles victories and tied Jona Roka (2016-21) for the most combined wins, at 165. She also ranks fourth with 74 doubles triumphs.

• For Moulin, she concludes her career ranking eighth in both singles (70) and doubles (61) victories and seventh in total triumphs (131).

• Afanasyeva leaves the Dukes ranked ninth in singles victories (67), third in doubles wins (79) and fourth in total triumphs (146).

• Voloh and Afanasyeva guided the Dukes to two conference titles, while Moulin was part of the program’s second in 2021.

— JMU Athletics —