It was a rough weekend for the women’s tennis team as the University of Arizona Wildcats secured their first Pac-12 win this season.

Seniors Lize Leenknecht and Trang Huynh were first to finish their doubles match, winning 6-3. Senior Maria Biryukova and freshman Aneta Miksovska were next to finish and lost 6-3. The doubles point came down to sophomore Donika Bashota and junior Victoria Matejevic, who narrowly lost to No. 53 Lauren Marker and Shayne Austin, 7-5.

After the Wildcats took the one point advantage into singles competition, there was no stopping them. In the first match to finish, freshman Barbora Michalkova lost 6-2, 6-1 to Devin Chypyha. Bashota then lost to Marker, 6-3, 6-2. By this point in the day, the Cougars were trailing 3-0, which meant they needed the next four players to all win their matches.

That did not come to fruition as Biryukova lost to Austin in a thrilling match. Biryukova won the first set 6-4, but lost in the second set, 6-4. It then came down to a third set superbreaker where Austin prevailed and won, 6-1. This meant that the Wildcats had officially won the match, but the Cougars didn’t stop just because they lost.

Leenknecht beat Sophia Thomas, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 and Miksovska won 7-6, 6-4 against Samantha Czarniak to give the Cougars two points.

In the final match of the day, Huynh lost in three sets after winning the first set, 6-3. Then Huynh’s opponent, Camila Wesbrooks won, 6-2, 7-6 in the next two sets and just like that, the Wildcats won their first Pac-12 match.

On Saturday the Cougars were back at it again to face Arizona State.

Bashota and Matejevic lost the first match of the day to No. 22 nationally ranked Ebony Panoho and Alexandra Osborne, 6-3. Biryukova and Miksovska also lost 6-3 to Kassidy Jump and Sammi Hampton.

After Biryukova won her singles match against No. 66 Jump, the Cougars failed to win another match. Matejevic lost, 6-1, 6-2. Then Miksovska lost, 6-2, 6-3. By then the Cougars were down 3-1 so they again needed every player to win their match if they wanted to beat the Sun Devils.

Once more that didn’t play out as Leenknecht was defeated in the superbreaker, 6-0. Leenknecht lost the first set, 6-3, and won the second, 7-5, before the superbreaker.

No. 24 Desirae Krawczyk defeated Bashota but not without a fight from Bashota. Bashota was able to win the first set, 6-2, but lost in the second set, 6-2. The superbreaker once again proved to be the Cougars’ Achilles heel, as Krawczyk won, 6-2.

Huynh was once again the last match of the day and forced the superbreaker and lost on the final point, 6-4.

The Cougars return to Pullman this weekend to face California at 1:30 p.m. on Friday and Stanford at 10 a.m. on Saturday. Both matches will be played at Hollingbery Fieldhouse.

Reporting by Alex Payton