So far this season, the Bakersfield College women’s tennis team has not been dealt a backhand.

On Feb. 28, the team beat Santa Barbara 6-3. The team has won six meets and has lost only two during the season.

On March 2, the team played against Cuesta at BC, winning 7-2. March 7, the team lost 7-2 to Ventura Community College playing at Ventura. However, on March 9 the team played Allan Hancock at BC, winning 8-1.

Gary Perreira, the BC coach, said the team’s greatest strength is the team’s doubles. However, according to Perreira, the doubles have been “stronger than in the past.”

Perreira pointed out that the team’s weakness lies in a lack of patience.

“We like to end the point too quickly,” Perreira stated.

Veteran player Sarah Ramirez said of the team, “We’ve all played well.” She stated that she believed that her greatest strength is her forehand. However, she conceded that her “weakest stroke is my serve.”

Perreira said Ramirez is the team’s top player.

The No. 2 player player on the team, Jamie Mitchell, Ramirez’s doubles partner, said that Santa Barbara College’s women’s tennis team was “very good.”

“They were a deep team,” Mitchell said. Mitchell and her fellow teammates agreed that Mitchell’s strength is her forehand.

Ramirez said the Santa Barbara College’s women’s tennis team had an extremely formidable player with a “strong one-handed backhand.” Santa Barbara was a challenge the teammates felt.

According to Perreira, veteran player Christina Audelo is currently the No. 3 player after having served in the No. 4 position last year. Veteran player Liz Carnal is in the No. 7 position this year.

Perreira, who is in his first year as BC’s coach, was a professional tennis player performing at Rio Bravo in Bakersfield.

He coached men’s tennis at Cal State Bakersfield from 1989 to 1992 until the Cal State men’s tennis team program was dropped.