The two opposing teams lined up on either side of the net on the empty tennis court at Northwood Club in Dallas, intently watching the action of the last match in the chilly afternoon.

No. 40 SMU women’s tennis team lost their first match on Sunday in a 5-2 decision against the No. 43 ranked North Carolina State.

The Mustangs lost the doubles point to the Wolfpack. At No. 3 doubles, sophomores Monica Neveklovska and Kristen Reid lost to Berkeley Brock and Catherine Grotz 8-4.

At No. 1 doubles, North Carolina’s Alejandra Guerra and Daria Petrovic periodically tried an Australian doubles strategy in which the serving team’s net player is on the same side of the court as the server. SMU’s Natalia Bubien and Claire Rietsch managed to shut down the Wolfpack duo 8-5.

NC State’s Julia Roach and Kate Green beat SMU’s No. 2 doubles team of Pavi Frances and Jennifer Chay, 8-5.

Down 1-0, SMU could not rally back. Reid, playing No. 5, lost first 6-0, 6-1 to Roach. Chay, at No. 2 singles, won a lobbing match against Grotz 6-2, 6-2.

At No. 1, Bubien could not hold off the grunting, hard-hitting Petrovic, losing 6-4, 6-1.

NC State’s No. 6 singles player Green clinched her team’s win over Neveklovska with a 6-4, 6-3 showing. Her team defeated at 4-1, Longbotham did not call off the final two matches, allowing Reich and Frances to finish their No. 3 and No. 4 singles matches, respectively.

Frances questioned Guerra on at least one call in the first set and straightened out the game’s score during the second set, but she lost 7-6 (10-8), 3-6, 10-4.

Reich closed out the tough, up-and-down three-set match 6-4, 2-6, 7-5.

The Mustangs won a six-hour match against Harvard on Saturday, 4-3.

The Mustangs also hosted Texas State yesterday, defeating the visitors 7-0. The women’s tennis team improves to 5-1 for the season and is back in action against Lamar in Tulsa, Okla., on Friday.