ORLANDO, Fla. – Naz Karagoz earned her first victory as a member of the Norfolk State women's tennis team in the Spartans' (0-4) 6-1 defeat at the hands of Hampton on Friday at the USTA National Complex in Orlando, Florida.
 
The Lady Pirates (2-8) took two out of three doubles matches to go ahead 1-0.
 
At No. 1 doubles, Kiah Turner and Cherise Slocombe topped Karagoz and Zoe Fraser, 7-5. The second-seeded doubles flight went in NSU's favor. Joyce Fields and Paula Fortuno defeated Viktoria Ljungman and Yulia Kapitanova, 6-4. Lastly, Haley Mullins and Julia D'Auvergne bested Bruna Goncalves and Adriana Strode by a 6-4 score.
 
Hampton won the first four singles matches to secure the win. Mullins started singles play with a 6-2, 6-2 straight-sets win against fields before Slocombe emerged with a 6-1, 6-4 victory over Fortuno on the second court.
 
D'Auvergne clinched the match for the Lady Pirates on the sixth court – defeating Strode with 6-1 results in both sets.
 
Turner pushed HU's lead to 5-1 on the third court, where she topped Fraser by a 6-2, 6-4 margin.
 
Karagoz secured her first win at NSU with a 6-3, 6-3 sweep of Kapitanova in the top-flight match. A three-year contributor at Tulane, Karagoz now has 23 dual victories in her career.
 
Goncalves pushed Ljungman to a tiebreaking superset in the fifth-seeded match. The junior from Governador Valadares, Brazil won 7-6 in the first set before falling 6-4. Ljungman then won the race to 10 points in the tiebreaker for Hampton's sixth and final point of the match.
 
The Spartans take one day off before visiting Savannah State on Sunday at 3 p.m.