SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Santa Clara women's tennis earned a hard fought 4-3 victory over San Francisco to pick up their first West Coast Conference match of the season on Saturday at the Degheri Tennis Center. 

HOW IT HAPPENED:

• Gabriela Tevez clinched the victory for Santa Clara (5-10, 1-2 WCC) defeating Azaria Hayes in three sets, 2-6, 6-3, 6-3 on court four as she also had a hand in clinching the doubles point. 
• The Broncos got off to a good start picking up the doubles point after splitting the first two matches.  The tandem of Tevez and Kacey Feng beat Qianer Qiu and Julia Visaya on court three to put SCU up 1-0 on the team scoreboard.
• Varya Zlotnik made it 2-0 in favor of the Broncos as she made quick work on court five, 6-1, 6-2 over Visaya.
• San Francisco (3-11, 0-3 WCC) evened the match with two-straight singles wins on courts six and two by Qiu and Hana Gamracy.
• With the match all squared at 2-all, Velizara Fileva delivered a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Alicia Yue to put the Broncos up, 3-2.
• Tevez then delivered the match clincher.
• The match was played out on court one where Katerina Filip won over JennaMarie Gordon for the final margin of score in a match that took over three and a half hours to complete.

• Santa Clara heads to Stockton to face Pacific in a West Coast Conference match next Saturday.