The No. 43 Washington women’s tennis team faced its toughest opponents yet this season No. 3 Stanford and No. 11 California at the Nordstrom Tennis Center this past weekend.

Even though Stanford swept the match 7-0 and ended Washington’s eight-match winning streak, the Huskies kept every match played on Friday close.

“We knew it was going to be a good fight,” Washington coach Jill Hultquist said. “Of course I’d like to win, but there were some really good matches and the girls fought hard. In the last two years we’ve struggled with Stanford and they just really rolled over us, but the girls weren’t rolled over today. In that way, I was really proud of them for fighting hard.”

Freshman Venise Chan, who played at the top singles spot, had her own 12-match streak end on Friday, but didn’t go without a fight. Chan lost the first set 6-1, but came back in the second by winning the tiebreak, at 6-6. However, the 49th-ranked Cardinal freshman, Hilary Barte, prevailed in the third set’s super-tiebreak, 10-5.

On Saturday morning, the Huskies had their hands full once again with the California Golden Bears.

This time around though, Chan earned one of the biggest wins of her career against seventh-ranked Susie Babos. Chan convincingly dominated the entire match winning 11 games in a row before Babos could get one on the scoreboard. Chan was also the first off the courts on Saturday after winning 6-0 and 6-1.

The only other win on Saturday came from senior Tara Simpson, who came back from behind to upset 41st-ranked Cristina Visico, 2-6, 7-5 and 16-14.

With Cal taking the match 5-2, Washington dropped to 0-2 in Pac-10 play this season, but still has an 8-3 record overall.

Right after the women’s match ended, the No. 27 Washington men’s team took to the courts for their match against No. 62 Arkansas.

The men easily dominated the Razorbacks in this primetime matchup winning 6-1.

Again, junior Ryo Sekiguchi rolled over his opponent, getting a doublebagel by winning 6-0 and 6-0.

“I just try to play my game from the baseline and make my opponent run, and it worked,” Sekiguchi said.

Finishing not long after Sekiguchi was sophomore Derek Drabble, who also overpowered his opponent 6-2 and 6-0.

“It was pretty tough in the beginning,” Drabble commented. “The guy was playing pretty well, but when I got a break and got up the guy tripped up a lot and made it easier for me.”

This week, junior Patrik Fischer was tested at the No. 2 singles spot and was able to cruise past his opponent 6-2 and 6-3, thereby clinching the match for Washington.

“It was kind of different to play a serve and volley player,” Fischer added. “He didn’t really give me any rhythm, but I thought I did pretty well.”

Freshman Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan had the challenge of playing at the top singles spot for the first time in his career. He was able to take down 95th-ranked Blake Strode of Arkansas in just two sets, winning 6-1 and 7-6 (2).

“It’s been a while since we’ve had a freshman play at number one,” Washington coach Matt Anger commented. “He did well, and that’s not an easy thing for guys to do in college.”

Washington is now 6-4 and will be getting ready for their second road trip this season, against Oregon next weekend.

[Reach reporter Sheena Nguyen at sports@thedaily.washington.edu.]