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Against Miami on Feb. 28, Syracuse needed Anastasia Sysoeva and Shiori Ito to pick up victories to overturn a 3-2 deficit but fell short. Two days later, versus Florida State, SU was tasked with a similar scenario but prevailed.

Facing Stanford on the road Friday, the Orange never put themselves in a position to win the match.

Syracuse (8-4, 1-4 Atlantic Coast) fell to the Cardinal (8-2, 1-0 Atlantic Coast) 4-1, failing to win back-to-back matches after snapping a three-game losing streak versus FSU. At the Taube Tennis Center, SU fell flat, losing the doubles point and only winning five games between the No. 1 and No. 2 singles matches. This victory is Stanford’s fourth straight and notched the program’s first-ever Atlantic Coast Conference win.

The Orange’s most consistent doubles pairing this season has come from Monika Wojcik and Serafima Shastova in the No. 3 doubles. The pair won their first two ACC doubles matches but struggled against Stanford.

After losing the first game to Chidimma Okpara and Morgan Shaffer, Wojcik and Shastova took a 40-love lead in the second game, propelling them to tie the match 1-1. But after that, Wojcik and Shastova didn’t win another game, culminating in a 6-1 loss.

A crucial Stanford point at deuce in the sixth game didn’t allow SU’s No. 2 pair, Sysoeva and Constance Levivier, to get within one of winning its double match.

Last Sunday, head coach Younes Limam included Levivier, who hadn’t appeared in a match since losing in the No. 5 singles to Boston University’s Emily Zhao on Feb. 8 in the No. 2 doubles. Against FSU, the tinkering worked. Friday, it worked again.

After SU led 40-0, Stanford’s Caroline Driscoll and Valencia Xu returned it to deuce. Yet, SU failed to get within one game of winning the match. A ninth-game victory left SU needing Miyuka Kimoto and Nelly Knezkova to pull through in the No. 1 doubles.

The pair of Kimoto and Knezkova won ACC Doubles of the Week on Feb. 25 after beating then-No. 10 Duke’s doubles pairing of No. 11 Ellie Coleman and Irina Balus, 6-3 for SU’s first-ranked doubles win of the season.

But after that, they dropped the No. 1 doubles to Miami, their first loss on the season as a pairing. Their match against the Seminoles last Sunday went unfinished after Wojcik and Shastova clinched the match-sealing doubles point. But they fell 6-1 to Stanford’s Valeria Glozman and Connie Ma.

Stanford carried its momentum to singles, especially in the No. 1 and No. 2 singles.

The Cardinal have No. 6 Glozman and No. 20 Ma, who dominated Knezkova and Kimoto, respectively. Glozman, who primarily features in the No. 1 singles, moved down to the No. 2 singles and excelled.

Leading 40-love, Glozman, an Intercollegiate Tennis Association All-American in singles, extended her lead to two in the first set after winning the fourth game. The freshman then won the next three games to win the second set. Ma followed suit in the first set, winning 6-1.

Glozman took the first five games in the first set, while Ma took the first three games. At deuce in the sixth game, Knezkova won her first game in the second set. But that didn’t stop Glozman, who won the sixth game to give Stanford a two-point team lead.

Stanford’s lead shrunk to one when Ito, who lost both of her matches last weekend, beat Shaffer, 6-1, 6-2. Quickly after, the Cardinal re-established their two-point lead as Ma secured her second win in the No. 1 singles in a commanding performance against Kimoto.

Sysoeva, who struggled in the No. 3 singles to begin ACC play, found new life in her win against Miami’s Raquel Gonzalez. Against Xu, she struggled again.

Xu’s lead extended to three after winning the sixth and seventh games. An eight-game victory gave her a first-set triumph, which she carried into the second set. Leading 5-0 in the second set, Xu won the sixth game at deuce to give Stanford the win.