WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - Playing its second undefeated nationally-ranked opponent of the weekend, the William & Mary women's tennis team suffered a 6-1 loss to No. 64-ranked Wake Forest on Sunday afternoon at the McCormack-Nagelsen Tennis Center. The No. 42-ranked Tribe (5-3) won a hotly-contested doubles point, but the Demon Deacons responded winning all six singles spots to claim their seventh-straight win. On Saturday, W&M upset No. 28 South Carolina, 5-2, for its third top-50 win of the year.
 
Wake Forest took the lead in doubles with a win at No. 3, before W&M rallied with victories at the top two spots. Senior Elizaveta Nemchinov and junior Marie Faure evened things with a 6-4 triumph over Kimmy Guerin and Anna Ulyashchenko at the top spot. The Green and Gold duo improved to 3-1 on the year.
 
The initial point of the match came down to a tiebreaker clash at the No. 2. Sophomore Maria Groener and freshman Lauren Goodman outlasted Samantha Asch and Emma Davis, 7-6 (3), to give W&M a 1-0 lead. Groener and Goodman upped their season ledger to 4-1.
 
In singles, Wake Forest won a trio of matches in straight sets at No. 2, No. 5 and No. 6 to move in front of Tribe, 3-1. The balance of the contest came down to a trio of three-set tilts. After each dropped the opening set, Nemchinov (No. 1), Faure (No. 3) and Casselbury (No. 4) forced decisive third sets with victories in the second. At the top spot, Guerin held off Nemchinov's rally in the third set, clinching the Wake Forest victory with a 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 win. Faure fell to Ulyashchenko, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2, at No. 3, while Casselbury dropped a third-set super tiebreaker to Joanna Zalewski, 7-6 (1), 4-6, 10-7.
 
W&M returns to action when it travels to Lubbock, Texas for a pair of matches in two weeks. The Tribe faces BYU on Saturday, Feb. 20, at 1 p.m., before facing No. 17 Texas Tech on Sunday, Feb. 21, at 11 a.m.
 
#64 Wake Forest 6, #42 William & Mary 1
Singles
No. 1 – Kimmy Guerin (WF) def. #91 Elizaveta Nemchinov (W&M) – 6-4, 2-6, 6-4
No. 2 – Emma Davis (WF) def. Lauren Goodman (W&M) – 6-2, 6-0
No. 3 – Anna Ulyashchenko (WF) def. Marie Faure (W&M) – 6-3, 4-6, 6-2
No. 4 – Joanna Zalewski (WF) def. Julia Casselbury (W&M) – 7-6 (1), 4-6, 10-7
No. 5 – Samantha Asch (WF) def. Maria Groener (W&M) – 6-1, 6-1
No. 6 – Luisa Fernandez (WF) def. Cecily Wuenscher (W&M) – 6-4, 6-2
Finishing Order: 5, 2, 6, 1*, 3, 4
 
Doubles
No. 1 – Faure/Nemchinov (W&M) def. Guerin/Ulyashchenko (WF) – 6-4
No. 2 – Goodman/Groener (W&M) def. Asch/Davis (WF) – 7-6 (3)
No. 3 – #51 Retolaza/Fernandez (WF) def. Thaler/Wuenscher (W&M) – 6-2
Finishing Order: 3, 1, 2*