Alabama's Routliffe and Pothoff Advance to the Round of 16 in the NCAA Doubles Bracket
5/25/2017 6:35:00 PM | Women's Tennis
Erin Routliffe and Maddie Pothoff topped Stanford's Emily Arbuthnott and Taylor Davidson in a 6-1, 6-3 decision
ATHENS, Ga. – Alabama's No. 5 ranked doubles tandem in senior Erin Routliffe and freshman Maddie Pothoff claimed a 6-1, 6-3 decision over Stanford's No. 39 ranked doubles pair Emily Arbuthnott and Taylor Davidson in the first round of the 2017 NCAA Women's Tennis Doubles Championships at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex on the campus of the University of Georgia.
Routliffe and Pothoff were brilliant in the first frame, as the tandem won the first four points of the contest to take an early 4-0 lead. Arbuthnott and Davidson were able to break a serve trimming the Tide's lead to 4-1, but it wasn't enough as Routliffe and Pothoff went on to win back-to-back points to take the first set in a 6-1 decision.
In the second frame, both doubles team held their first two serves, which put the score tied at 2-2. Routliffe and Pothoff broke Stanford's next serve, before holding a serve of their own to earn a 4-2 advantage. Arbuthnott and Davidson held their next serve cutting Alabama's lead to 4-3. Routliffe and Pothoff went on to collect back-to-back points to win the set 6-3 and the match 6-1, 6-3.
The Tide's dynamic duo will take on the winner between Florida's Anna Danilina and Ingrid Neel and Georgia Tech's Paige Hourigan and Kenya Jones in the round of 16 on Friday at a time to be determined.
The Tide has been represented in the NCAA individual tournament each of the last eight years and in both the singles and doubles tournament in the same season seven times.
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