With just a sidewalk separating a tale of two ends, the women’s tennis team came out victorious, 5-4, while the men’s tennis team lost in 8-1 against Cerritos College Thursday.

The men and women tennis teams played in a doubleheader that had both teams playing on all courts at the same time. As some matches finished sooner than others, players would go to another court and root their fellow Warriors on.

“Well it’s more exciting, the whole family is together and you get to cheer each other on. When we’re all together we’re a family and we get root each other on,” Fulton said.

Freshman Shayla Fulton and Rose Sgolsutyator, doubles partners, dominated, 8-2, to score EC’c first point for the women.

“We did a lot of movement, and worked together which are important in doubles, so that’s what we did to win today,” Fulton said.

Fulton who is undefeated in her singles matches this year spoke on how her strengths in doubles translate to singles.

“My strength is my back hand, so when I put that toward my singles that makes my forehand even stronger,” Fulton said.

Freshman Apurva Sharma overcame a wrist injury as she and partner Sheila James bounced back in there doubles match after a shaky start to win, 8-6, to score a point for the Warriors.

Winning two of the three doubles matches the Lady Warriors put the pressure on Cerritos College to win four of the six singles matches.

The mens team felt they gave it a great effort today but Cerritos was just more aggressive and competitive.

“They had a lot more aggro when they played there doubles. They were very tough opponents but we tried our best,” sophomore tennis player, Anthony Ya said.

“They just finished better than us at the net today,” sophomore tennis player, Britton Henriksen said.

With both tennis teams playing at the same time, assistant coach Jaymie Baquero helped head coach Steve Van Kanegan rotate back-and-forth to support the Warriors in their matches.

“Pump ourselves up, always dismiss each others mistakes, and just keep playing our best,” Ya said.

Tennis is sport that requires silence out of it’s spectators, so coaches are present more for moral support.

“In tennis you can’t have a coach talk to in between points, but just having him looking over watch us really helps a lot,” Henriksen said.

Most matches have either than men at home while the women are away, but this doubleheader served as time for comradery between teammates.

“I enjoy this types of matches we have, it’s a little bonding between the guys and girls,” Ya said.