When New York University junior Jaclyn Manning hit the final shot of her No. 4 singles match against Ariana Sanai '10 long and out of play, Sanai shook her opponent's hand, then turned to her teammates on the sideline and mouthed, "We just beat NYU."Sanai's 6-2, 6-2 win clinched the women's tennis team's comeback victory, as the Judges defeated the Violets 6-3 last Sunday by taking all six singles matches after dropping all three doubles matches. They are now 9-6 on the season after falling to No. 14 Wellesley College at home 9-0 last Thursday. A game against Connecticut College yesterday ended too late for this edition.

The women's 6-3 victory avenged the men's home loss to the Violets the previous day. The men fell 5-4, dropping its record to 5-9 this season.

The women lost all three doubles matches by the same 8-4 score while playing outdoors but moved inside during singles play when it started raining.

Though the move indoors coincided with the comeback, coach Ben Lamanna said changing courts was not the overriding factor for the rally.

"Coming inside is a tough adjustment, and that obviously helped us out, but I think we would've done real well in singles anyway had we been outdoors the whole time," Lamanna said. "We had some fire in us after losing those doubles. We knew we didn't play well, and we weren't done yet."

Rachel Rosman '11 and Colleen Donnelly '08 again paced the Judges' singles lineup. Rosman won 0-6, 6-4, 6-1 over junior Holly Smith, taking the last two sets while playing inside.

Leading 5-4 in the second set, Rosman won four straight points on Smith's serve. After Rosman put away the first point on a forehand volley winner, Smith committed three straight unforced errors to give Rosman the set. Smith slapped her legs in disgust and could not recover.

"[Smith] played really strong in the first set, and I just needed to raise my mental toughness a lot, and it took me a while to get there," Rosman said. "I really had to focus on closing and wanted to come into the net, and I did."

Last Sunday also marked the final home match of Donnelly's career. In the final point of her No. 2 singles match, she smacked a forehand volley past sophomore Stephanie Tu to close out a 6-1, 6-3 win.

"I hadn't been serving so great, and once I [broke serve] to go up 5-3, I said 'You know what, I'm going to win; I'm going to have fun in this last game and not get nervous,'" Donnelly said. "In the last point, there was no way I was missing that overhead."

On the men's side, the Judges' top doubles pair of Scott Schulman '09 and Steven Nieman '11 had just won on the serve of New York University's senior Mikhail Gurevich and junior Brett Levin to go up 5-4, but after Schulman double faulted three times, they lost the break of serve and eventually fell 9-7.

"I really messed up badly," Schulman said. "I really don't know what happened; it was my fault. I usually never get my serve broken indoors, and if we had won that game, it would've been easy for us to win the match."

Brandeis split the remaining doubles matches, but was unable to recover from the early deficit. Steven Nieman '11 got the call at No. 1 singles, but Gurevich defeated him 6-0, 6-2.

"He put on quite an exhibition," Nieman said, "He made it clear that he'd be the aggressor."

Simon Miller '11, who normally competes at No. 1 singles, played No. 2 singles last Saturday after missing the previous three matches with an ankle injury.

He trailed 5-2 in the first set, but rallied to defeat junior Craig Berger 7-5, 6-0.

" [Playing second singles] doesn't bother me that much because I'm not 100 percent," Miller said. "I think if I played No. 1 it wouldn't have turned out as good, but I'm good enough to play No. 2, so you could call it a rehab start, I guess."

The women's team will travel to St. Louis for the University Athletic Association championships starting April 17th, while the men's team plays tomorrow at home against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at 3:30 p.m.