Smoking is supposed to be bad for your health. But in the case of the red-hot San Diego State women’s tennis team (11-6; 2-2 Western Athletic Conference), they are not smoking cigarettes.

They are smoking the competition.

The Aztecs decisively rolled and lit the Princeton Tigers (1-2; 0-0 Ivy League) at the East Courts yesterday by a score of 8-1 and increased their winning streak to four.

SDSU dropped only one singles set on the day when SDSU senior Tamara Bridges was victimized in the first set by Princeton’s Amanda Hastings-Phillips but stormed back to win 1-6, 6-4, 6-2.

The only other close match was when Princeton’s No. 5 player, Stephanie Alpert, challenged freshman Lisa Papi by winning four games in each set. But Alpert eventually lost 6-4, 6-4.

“I was flat on my feet,” Papi said. “She was a little bit inconsistent; all that I really needed to do was keep one more ball in play than she did. That’s what helped me to win.”

The Aztecs took advantage of a less experienced, weaker Tiger team.

“We’re very much in the early part of our season,” Princeton head coach Louise Gengoer said. “We have a young team. Today we had freshmen at the No. 1, 2 and 6 spots. We were actually playing without two other starters today.”

SDSU head coach Peter Mattera did his job to make sure the Aztecs did not suffer a letdown. After their big win over 14th-ranked Notre Dame last Saturday, the Aztecs showed no signs of a letdown.

“I really tried to get them to concentrate today from the first point to the last point and have as few mental lapses as possible.” Mattera said. “This was the type of match where they really haven’t a lot to gain but everything to lose. Those are sometimes dangerous situations.”

SDSU’s No. 2 singles player Molly Lindahl was just one of many Aztecs who took Mattera’s words to heart.

“It was really important for us to stay focused,” Lindahl said. “It’s easy to slack a little bit and take for granted that you’re going to win the next match because you did well before.”

The Aztecs are winners of their last four matches and will use this victory as a building block for their upcoming tough match against the University of California Berkeley on Friday.

“The purpose of today was to work on the things that would make them better for this upcoming weekend,” Mattera said. “We have three tough matches coming up.”