The women’s tennis team started out the weekend with a 2-5 loss to No. 31 South Carolina on Friday. After dropping the doubles point, the Wolfpack would lose four singles matches — giving the Gamecocks the win.

Despite the loss, coach Hans Olsen said his team played well.

“The only matches that didn’t go our way, opponents had to be exceptional,” Olsen said. “I think that this team is doing a good job with that. Every match we play, if our opponent is going to win a court, they are going to really have to earn it.”

The team would react to the loss on Friday with a 6-1 win against Princeton on Sunday. State began by winning the doubles’ point, and would go on to win five out of its six singles matches. The loss came when No. 1 Daria Petrovic was defeated 6-4, 6-1.

Olsen said despite Petrovic’s loss, her importance to the team helped in the win.

“In match situations, she plays with so much intensity and so much fire; that match didn’t go in her favor but she was an important part in today’s win,” Olsen said. “She won the doubles, and just fighting out there was contagious to the other courts.”

Sophomore Berkeley Brock’s win at No. 2 clinched the team’s victory. Brock lost her first set 2-6, then would take her last two sets 6-4, 6-3. Brock said she had a hard time focusing in the first set.

Brock’s sharpening up her concentration late into the first set, according to Olsen, was a big reason of why she won.

“She was kind of up and down with her focus,” Olsen said. “She just needed to concentrate a little bit more when she was hitting ground strokes, so she can get in and use her volley’s and she served really well at the end of the match.”

Freshman Lenka Hojckova, was first to finish her singles match, won 6-4, 6-0. Hojckova, who was one of only two players that won their single’s match on Friday, said that Sunday’s match wasn’t easy at first.

“First set wasn’t so easy,” Hojckova said. “She was playing good but I found a way to win the points against her and in the second set, I just continued.”