The No. 59 Washington State women’s tennis team (11-2) split a pair of matches Friday on the Simmelink Tennis Courts at Hollingberry Fieldhouse.

WSU’s 5-2 defeat at the hands of No. 64 Houston in the first match of the day ended an eight-match winning streak.

Houston snagged the opening doubles point from a WSU squad that has experienced success doing just that this season.

WSU’s duo of Maria Biryukova and Olga Musilovich started doubles play by defeating Maria Andrea Cardenas and Tina Rupert 8-3 at No. 2.

Houston evened the match after Charlotte Phillips and Celia Fraser took down Charlotte Koning and Dajana Ognjenovic 8-3 at No. 3.

With the score all knotted up, the decisive final doubles point came down to WSU’s No. 1 pair consisting of reigning Pac-12 Player of the Week Elizaveta Luzina and Lize Leenknecht.

The duo managed to power their way back from a 4-1 deficit and saved three match points before Houston’s Despoina Vogasari and Elena Kordolaimi rallied ahead for the 8-6 victory.

In singles, Biryukova beat Kordolaimi 7-5, 6-0 at No. 2 and recorded the first point.

Leenknecht helped WSU pull ahead for a 2-1 lead after besting Fraser 6-1, 6-4 at No. 3.

At No. 4, Cardenas rallied from a set down for a 3-6, 6-1, 6-2 win over Musilovich.

Houston then went ahead 3-2 when Vogasari record a 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 win over Luzina at No. 1 and then clinched the road victory as Rupert posted a 6-3, 6-4 win over Ognjenovic.

Koning and Phillips split sets at No. 6 and played to a 10-point tiebreaker for the third, with Phillips emerging victorious with a 6-4, 3-6, 1-0 (13-11) to earn the final 5-2 score.

Against Missouri-Kansas City, WSU never trailed after capturing the opening doubles en route to a 6-1 victory.

At No. 1 doubles, Luzina and Leenknecht posted an 8-1 win over UMKC’s Dimitra Stavrianakou and Linda Ammar Mouhoub. Biryukova and Musilovich followed suit shortly after with an 8-2 win over Maddie Schulte and Gaby Pintos at No. 2.

In No. 3 play, Ognjenovic and Koning lead the ‘Roo’s pairing of Raquel Argenal and Amelie Amsallem 5-1 before the match was stopped with the doubles point already decided.

WSU rolled in singles play to clinch the match in quick order. Biryukova beat Amsallem 6-1, 6-2 at No. 3, and Luzina won by identical scores at No. 1.

Leenknecht then took down Argenal 6-0, 6-2 at No. 2 for a big 4-0 Cougars’ lead.

Ognjenovic played in the No. 4 slot for the first time this season and performed well with a straight-set win over Schulte, 7-5, 6-1.

WSU had already clinched the match so the final two matches were contested as 8-game pro sets.

Musilovich defeated Mariam Kurasbediani 8-5 at No. 5 while Pintos got UMKC on the board for their only point with an 8-4 win over Emily Funabiki.