200 victories.

Head coach Lele Forood of the No. 6 Stanford women’s tennis team reached this major milestone in wins yesterday after the team’s 5-2 victory over No. 26 William & Mary.

With a career record of 200-8 for a .962 win percentage, Forood has set the bar of excellence in her eight years as head coach of the program.

“I guess I’m happy about that,” Forood said of her feat. “I look forward to 200 more.”

After a rough five-game road swing up-and-down the West Coast, the Cardinal found itself at home for the first time since Valentine’s Day.

Fortunately, Stanford was able to secure the victory for Forood in front of the home crowd.

“It was a lot of fun to be back on our courts,” Forood said. “It was definitely nice to play at home.”

The victory also pushed Stanford’s home win streak to 98 straight dual matches.

On the day, Stanford heeded Forood’s guide to success and took the doubles point early with wins at the No. 2 and No. 3 spots. However, sophomore Lindsay Burdette was lost to injury and was replaced by senior Celia Durkin at court three.

In singles, Durkin and freshman Carolyn McVeigh quickly won their matches for a 3-0 lead and junior Jessica Nguyen clinched the match with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Katarina Zoricic at the No. 2 spot.

With the match already won, freshman Hilary Barte put the icing on the cake for her squad.

After losing the first set 6-1, Barte came back from a 5-2 deficit in the third set to take the match 2-6, 6-1, 7-5.

“A very gutsy win,” Forood said of Barte’s match. “She lost the first set pretty handily and didn’t play very well. She found her game in that second set and it was a great effort.

“She got more aggressive on her play and it was a really good effort for her to fight back in the third set,” Forood said.

After dominating at the top spot for the entire road trip, William & Mary’s Megan Moulton-Levy appeared to have found a chink in Barte’s armor.

But Barte battled back to take her fifth consecutive victory, all of which have been against No. 1 players. Moulton-Levy is ranked 11th in the latest ITA polls.

William & Mary secured its two wins at the four and six positions in tiebreaker wins over senior Whitney Deason and freshman Jennifer Yen.

According to Forood, there is much to be taken from the match.

“The positives were that in the matches we won, we really problem-solved and turned them into wins,” Forood said. “The ones we lost, we have to do a better job at doing that.”

Fortunately, despite its weekend loss to then-No. 11 UCLA, Stanford remained sixth in the last ITA polls.

However, Southern California, California, and UCLA now precariously linger behind the Cardinal in the rankings.

USC closely trails at seventh after upsetting Cal and nearly defeating Stanford over the weekend while California and UCLA fall in at eighth and ninth, respectively.

This weekend, Stanford will face fellow Pac-10 foes No. 63 Arizona and No. 13 Arizona State.

“They’re both pretty solid teams,” Forood said. “ASU has beaten UCLA and Arizona usually has some players with different styles that present a challenge as well.”

With the next three matches at home, the Cardinal will try to regain its championship form that has eluded it this season.

“We’re continuing to find the answer to get us to a point where we’re playing really consistently,” Forood said. “Hopefully we keep moving this weekend in that direction.”