Both State’s men’s and women’s tennis teams saw their dreams of deep ACC Tournament runs come to an early halt Wednesday morning in Cary. Neither team advanced past the first round as Miami took out the men’s team, 4-1, and Wake Forest beat the women’s team, 4-2. Each team had its No. 1 singles player named to the All-Conference team after the first day concluded. Sophomore Jaime Pulgar, ranked No. 67, and Sandhya Nagaraj, also a sophomore and ranked No. 69 in the country, both received conference honors.  Pulgar, who went 14-9 and 6-5 in the ACC, ensured the men’s team landed a player on the All-ACC team for the fifth straight year. Nagaraj (19-9, 4-7 ACC) is the first women’s player to receive the honor since current Pack player Daria Petrovic did in 2007 as a freshman. Miami took the first two doubles matches to clinch the point. Akash Gujarati and Rob Lowe fell to Carl Sundberg and Ignacio Taboada, 8-5, and Pulgar and Dave Thomson lost 8-6 to their respective opponents. Frideric Prandecki and Dominic Hodgson were tied 7-7 but didn’t finish. ”In doubles, we went behind a little bit,” head coach Jon Choboy said. “We fell behind at two, and two has been really steady for us all year. We started to get chances to get back, but it’s too much of a hole to dig your way out of. That didn’t help us.” Thomson beat the Hurricanes’ David Simon, 6-2, 6-4, at No. 3. But Prandecki, who came back to beat his opponent on Senior Day after being reinserted into the singles rotation, dropped his match 6-3, 6-4 to Taboada. Gujarati and Hodgson both fell and secured the win for Miami, 4-1. ”[Miami] played pretty well in that situation,” Choboy said. “It wasn’t all my guys not playing well. We got our feet under us and started mounting a comeback, but it was too much.” Meanwhile, elsewhere in the Cary Tennis Center, the women’s team was fighting a grueling four-hour battle against Wake Forest. The Demon Deacons were seeded just below the Wolfpack, but according to senior Petrovic, the teams were evenly matched. ”At one point, there were four matches in the third set,” Petrovic said. “It was really really close. It could have gone either way.” The women’s team also dropped the doubles point after the pairs of Lenka Hojckova and Tana Illova and Berkeley Brock and Chloe Smith dropped 8-6 decisions. Nagaraj and Petrovic were tied when the point was clinched. Illova and Petrovic quickly dispatched their opponents and were the first two Pack players to finish. Petrovic beat Katarina Reveche, 6-2, 6-2, in what could be her final match with the Pack. Petrovic said while her team didn’t come out on top, a strong personal performance was a long time coming. ”I’ve worked hard on my serves and it finally paid off,” Petrovic said. “Personally, everything went my way today.” But the Deacons came roaring back and won the next three consecutive matches to clinch their advance. ”It was by far one of the best matches we’ve played,” Petrovic said. “The atmosphere was good, and everyone believed we could win. Even though we lost, we felt good about it.” Both the men’s and women’s teams will hear later this month whether they were selected for the NCAA tournament or if individual players will enter the tournament. ”We’re going to have to wait and see. This was a must-win situation,” Choboy said. “We needed it, but we’ll wait and see what happens as far as selection.”