After wrapping up its winter quarter competition this past weekend, the women’s tennis team has just one hope: that Finals come just as easily as this season’s matches have thus far.

After all, the squad currently boasts a perfect record and a No. 1 national ranking. This weekend, they easily dispensed with their latest victims — No. 20 William & Mary and No. 8 California .

Under extremely windy conditions that affected everyone’s game, the Cardinal (15-0, 5-0 Pac-10) trampled the Tribe (9-4) Thursday afternoon at home, 6-1. After sweeping doubles, Stanford went on to win five of its singles matches.

Sophomore Whitney Deason blanked Lingda Yang at the No. 5 position, 6-0, 6-0. Senior Alice Barnes and sophomore Celia Durkin also won in two games, while juniors Theresa Logar and Anne Yelsey each took three games to down their opponents. Senior Amber Liu, currently ranked 15 in the ITA rankings, was the sole Card to fall, losing at No. 1, 7-6, 4-6, 0-1 (10-6), to William & Mary’s astoundingly strong 30-ranked Megan Moulton-Levy.

“William & Mary was not an easy match,” Deason said. “Not only was our competition tough, but the conditions were awful. It was freezing and windy. But everyone did a great job of dealing with the less-than-perfect conditions, and we came out with a decisive win.”

On Saturday, the team traveled across the Bay to battle the Bears (10-4, 4-1), and handed its rival both its first Pac-10 loss and its first home loss of the season with a 6-1 campaign. Stanford again swept doubles and won all but one singles match.

“I think as a team we had a really dominating performance in the doubles against Cal,” Liu said. “This was crucial for our confidence going into the second half of the season. I’m glad we were all able to keep our focus before rallying for Theresa’s 21st [birthday] Saturday night.”

This time, it was Barnes, currently ranked fifth and playing at the No. 2 position, who lost in singles. Barnes put up a good fight against 29-ranked Suzi Babos but ultimately lost in the tiebreaker, 7-6 (7-4), 3-6 (9-11).

Liu displayed some impressive tennis, upsetting ninth-ranked Suzi Fodor, 6-3, 6-4. Yelsey and Durkin also each won in two games, on the fourth and sixth courts respectively.

“We beat a good Cal team,” Barnes said. “Obviously we always love to beat Cal, and to do it so convincingly made it even more fun.”

The team now takes a two-week break during before playing three matches over Spring Break. It hosts Cal Poly on March 26 at noon, before visiting Pepperdine on March 29 and at Pac-10 foe Oregon on March 31.

“We’re all hitting some good form now and we’ll try to keep that up through spring break and into next quarter,” Barnes said. “It’s important at this midway stage to keep our focus because the NCAAs can seem a long way off, but we know that each match we play is getting us better and more prepared.”