The UA women's tennis team won its first Pacific 10 Conference match of the season this past weekend only to lose one of the team's best players to off-court disputes.

Junior Lindsay Blau, the team's No. 1 singles player, left the team permanently, citing differences with her coaches.

"Lindsay has decided to quit the team," UA head coach Brad Dancer said. "We really don't want to go into it much more."

When reached yesterday, Blau said her decision to leave the team was due to a personality conflict with Dancer, who took over for Stephanie London last season.

"We hadn't met on a middle ground since he got here," she said. "He wasn't the coach that recruited me. I didn't come here to play for him."