The top-ranked women’s tennis team continued its domination of the Pac-10 with two home shutouts over the weekend. Stanford (13-0, 4-0 Pac-10) kept both Arizona State and Arizona winless in the Pac-10, defeating the southern schools 4-0 and 7-0 respectively.
Friday’s match against the No. 17 Sun Devils (6-3, 0-3) was complicated by heavy rain that forced the teams to skip doubles play and begin with singles. Playing through the downpour, seniors Amber Liu and Alice Barnes, junior Anne Yelsey and sophomore Celia Durkin all won their singles matches, at the No. 1, No. 2, No. 4 and No. 6 positions respectively. These wins earned four points, clinching the dual-match victory for the Cardinal.
“There was a brief delay during the matches, but it was fairly short, so people went back on and finished up four of the singles,” senior Joanna Kao said. “Then with Whitney [Deason, a sophomore] and Theresa [Logar, a junior] the only ones on court, it started pouring. We waited around for a little bit, and then the coaches decided to call the match.”
The sun came out on Saturday for the match against the Wildcats (9-4, 0-4). Stanford took the doubles point with easy wins on all three doubles courts. Sophomore Lejla Hodzic and freshman Jessica Nguyen continued their success as a new doubles team, winning 8-1 at the No. 3 position.
“It has been great playing with Lejla,” Nguyen said. “I think our games complement each other well and we’re getting more and more comfortable with one another on the court.”
The Cardinal also swept singles play. Logar’s match went to three sets
after she dropped the first set to Juliette Mavrolean and won the second.
Logar won the tiebreaker to take the match, 5-7, 6-4, 1-0 (11-9). All other
Stanford players won their matches in two sets.
“U of A came out strong in the singles after the quick doubles sets,”
Nguyen said. “They raised their level and played tough to get into a lot of the matches. Mavrolean especially was on fire with all her shots, but Theresa was amazing and pulled through.”
Next up for the Card is a home match against William and Mary on Thursday at 1:30 p.m. On Saturday, the team travels to Berkeley to play Cal at noon.

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