The Oregon tennis teams continue to roll.
The women breezed through their three opponents over the weekend to stay undefeated through the first six matches of the dual match season.
The 41st-ranked Ducks (6-0 overall) routed No. 40 Minnesota, 6-1, at home despite losing their first doubles match of the dual season on Sunday. The women are continuing their strong play in both doubles and singles and are happy with the way things are going before conference play begins this week.
“The girls are expecting to win,” Oregon head coach Nils Schyllander said. “The team believes they should win every time out.”
At the No. 1 singles position, junior Daria Panova prevailed against senior Angela Buergis in straight sets, 6-3, 7-5. Behind a raucous crowd, Panova, ranked No. 8 in the country, finally took care of her opponent on her fifth match point when Buergis hit the ball long along the baseline.
“I just tried to fight for every point,” Panova said. “I think I was playing good. I tried to play as fast as I can.”
The only blemishes of the day were Panova and senior Courtney Nagle’s doubles loss to Buergis and sophomore Nischela Reddy, 8-5, and freshman Dominika Dieskova’s singles loss to Reddy, 7-5, 6-4. However, Oregon’s doubles record improved to 17-1 for the season.
On Friday, the Ducks took care of Portland in a 7-0 sweep, which saw the women lose only one set the entire dual match. Oregon also triumphed over No. 61 Boise State with a 6-1 victory.
“We knew Boise would be tough,” Schyllander said. “I was very proud of our effort. The girls came ready to play and did not make any mistakes.”
The Oregon women will continue action as they open up the Pacific-10 Conference season at home against Arizona State on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in the Student Tennis Center.

Men continue streak
The Oregon men (5-0 overall) handed Idaho its first loss of the season with a 7-0 victory Saturday.
Junior Manuel Kost beat senior Fabian Dummett in a little over half an hour to win, 6-0, 6-0. Kost continued to play on Dummett’s backhand, which he struggled to hit all match long.
“I didn’t miss (and) I served well,” Kost said.
Sophomore Markus Schiller racked up another singles win against junior Hector Mucharraz, 6-2, 6-3, to take his overall record to 10-2 in his first year at Oregon.
“I executed pretty well,” Schiller said. “I went to the net a lot and kept my legs moving. It worked out well this week.”
In the most thrilling match of the day, sophomore Arron Spencer came back in a third set tiebreaker after being down one match point to win, 7-5, 6-7 (3), (12-10).
The men will next play at Boise State on Friday at 6:30 p.m.