ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The UNM women’s tennis team heads to California for a pair of matches at Santa Clara and at San Francisco, bringing with them a six-match winning streak. UNM, which has just one loss on the season, sits at 9-1 as they face Santa Clara on Saturday at noon and San Francisco on Monday at noon as well.
The squad is rolling, having won 19 of 21 singles matches over the last four, and eight straight doubles matches over the last three. The Lobos only loss was on February 4, a 5-2 loss at home over a month ago. Santa Clara enters the match 4-3 having won three straight including a 4-3 win over San Jose State, and San Francisco is 4-4 (entering Friday’s match with Sacramento State), and they ironically have a 4-2 win in their current two-game winning streak over San Jose State.
For UNM, even with a switch in the doubles pairings, the Lobos are firing on all cylinders. UNM is 24-5 in doubles in its 10 spring matches, and 43-12 in singles. Those are winning percentages of .828 and .782 respectively. Yue Lin “Polly” Chen and Myu Kageyama have played the No. 1 slot all spring and are 8-1 overall.
In singles, UNM’s Hsuan Huang is a perfect 8-0 in the spring, and she is tied with Hsiang-Wen “Albie” Huang and Kageyama with eight spring wins. It’s Kageyama who leads overall with 17 wins and a 17-6 record, with Albie’s 14-3 right behind. UNM also hasn’t given up a match at No. 4 singles as three players have combined to go 9-0 there. In fact, the bottom four slots in the order have been nothing short of magnificent with the team combining for a ridiculous 32-5 mark over those four flights.
That’s what UNM will take into the weekend, looking for a little more momentum as the team finishes conference play.