GREENVILLE, S.C. - The Virginia Tech women's tennis team had a successful opening to the 2008 dual match season with a 6-1 victory over Georgia State. The match was held at the Minor Herndon Mickel Tennis Center on the Furman University campus.

Tech (1-0), ranked No. 60 in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association preseason national poll, swept through the three doubles matches for the first point of the day then took five of the six singles contests for the victory.

In singles, Inga Beermann (Jr., Bad Salzuflen, Germany) won a tight first set at No. 2 before winning, 7-6, 6-1, against Dariana Kozmina while Jessica Long (Sr., Elizabethtown, Pa.) had no trouble at No. 3 defeating Kiara Powell, 6-1, 6-4. Jessica Brouwer (Jr., Maarssen, Netherlands) posted a 6-2, 6-2, win at No. 4 versus Rachel Malina, Holly Johnson (Fr., Tallahassee, Fla.) beat Katerina Gresova, 6-0, 6-4, at No. 5, and J.J. Larson (Sr., Orchard Park, N.Y.) won her No. 6 match, 6-4, 6-1, over Kiera Strickland.

Tech's lone defeat of the match occurred at No. 1 as newcomer Yasmin Hamza (Fr., Cairo, Egypt) fell, 6-1, 6-2, at No. 1 to Martina Nitkova.

In doubles action, Brouwer/Hamza defeated Kozmina/Malina, 8-5, at No. 1 and Johnson/Long won their No. 2 match, 8-2, over Gresova/Powell. Tech completed the double sweep with an 8-4 victory in the No. 3 contest by Bethan James (Sr., Flintshire, UK)/Abbey Walker (Jr., Lancaster, S.C.) over Nitkova/Strickland.

The take on host Furman at 3 p.m. Saturday to conclude the season-opening twinbill.