The Washington men’s and women’s tennis teams both made big notches in the win column last weekend against ranked opponents.

The No. 27 men’s team started their weekend play early as they embarked on their second road trip of the season to face the University of Oregon on Friday. Prior to this match, the Huskies were still in search of their first road win of the season. They didn’t have to look any further as their road win drought was ended when Washington earned a close 4-3 victory over the Ducks.

Washington’s improving doubles play was once again successful as the Huskies swept all three doubles matches to get on the scoreboard first.

The doubles point was soon followed by senior Andy Kuharszky putting away his opponent quickly, 6-1 and 6-2, at the number 3 singles spot.

Oregon came right back, though, as they won the next match over Husky sophomore Derek Drabble 6-2 and 6-4, at the number five singles spot.

The back-and-forth battle continued through the evening with junior Patrik Fischer winning 6-3 and 6-1, at the top singles spot, but junior Ryo Sekiguchi dropping his match at the fourth position 7-5 and 6-1.

The clinching match for the Huskies came when freshman Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan fought back after losing the first set 4-6 and took the next two 6-3 and 6-2, at the No. 2 spot.

Freshman Tobi Obenaus also endured a hard-fought three-setter, but was not able to keep his momentum after winning the first set and lost the last match of the night 2-6, 6-7 and 4-6.

“Oregon kind of caught us off guard,” Nedunchezhiyan said. “But the team really came together and played much better against Denver.”

On Saturday, when the Huskies remained in Eugene to play against the 59th-ranked Pioneers, they once again exerted their dominance, earning another road win.

Although Drabble was out due to an ankle injury, redshirt freshman Brad Bator stepped in to play doubles with Kuharszky and won 8-2. The doubles point was clinched this time by the number three team of freshman Martin Kildahl and Obenaus (8-6), since the top doubles team of Fischer and Nedunchezhiyan dropped their match 8-2, to the seventh-best doubles team in the nation.

In singles, junior David Chu, Kildahl, Kuharszky and Nedunchezhiyan all had wins that resulted in Washington’s 5-2 victory over Denver.

Back at the Nordstrom Tennis Center on Saturday, the 42nd-ranked Washington women’s tennis team had to battle it out against the No. 46 Oregon Ducks.

Although closely matched in the rankings with Washington, the Ducks were only able to win a signle point off the Huskies at the number four singles position against sophomore Joyce Ardies.

The Huskies won every other match of the day, including the number one singles match played by freshman Venise Chan, who was battling a cold but still came out on top 7-5 and 6-1, for a 6-1 Washington victory.

“Today was a tough match because Oregon is ranked so closely behind us and everyone on their team fights hard, but we came out strong and everyone played well,” sophomore Lauren Summers commented. “Vania [Radunovic] especially fought through nerves to clinch the first singles win of the day and Kelsey [Anonsen] battled in a three set match with a beautiful winning dropshot at the end to help us win 6-1.”

The Husky women have now improved to 9-3, while the men have also improved their margin to 8-4.

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