After looking like two different teams on Sunday against Yale, the Penn State women's tennis team will try to put together two matches in which they compete solidly in both singles and doubles.

Against Yale, the Nittany Lions looked unprepared to compete with the Bulldogs in doubles, losing all three matches. In singles, though, a new Penn State team showed up, one that played strongly through all six matches before falling 4-3.

"It was like night and day in the level of competing," Penn State coach Buffy Baker said. "I think they were upset. We're expecting to go out and win the doubles point, so I think they're coming back pretty well and into a pretty fiery mentality of, 'Let's get it done in singles.' "

The team will need to get it done in both doubles and singles to be able to get wins this weekend when it hits the road to face Middle Tennessee State tomorrow and No. 63 Marshall on Sunday.

While Middle Tennessee State is an unfamiliar team for the Lions, they have had matches against Marshall the past couple of years. Last season, Marshall won easily against the Lions, 6-1.

"Marshall is always a feisty, gritty team," Baker said. "Both will be good matches."

As in last week's matches, the team will try new combinations at second and third doubles. The first doubles combo of No. 1 Maaria Husain and No. 2 Sarah Spence has played fairly well so far, and Baker will keep them together. That tandem will be especially tested this weekend because both of the doubles teams they will face are national ranked.

Practice this week has focused heavily on doubles and Baker said the team is beginning to move in the right direction.

"Tactically, we're starting to do really good things in doubles," she said. "We're starting to really open up the court and execute better."

The main key for the team will be getting to the point at which they compete at the same intensity in both singles and doubles.

"We need to start doubles in that fiery mentality and keep it throughout ... continue on that same energy level," Baker said.