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Shorthanded W. Tennis Falls to Yale at ECACs

The freshman pairing of Lyly Cao Minh and Moira Finicane were down 5-3 when their match was stopped after Harvard secured the doubles point by winning the previous two matches.

In No. 3 singles, Hyotte defeated Noble 6-1, 6-2. Soon after Hyotte’s victory, Bajin defeated Collier 6-0, 6-2.

This victory was Bajin’s first action in her senior season after coming off numerous injuries.

Ajilore won in straight sets 6-3, 6-3 to give Harvard the fourth and final point needed for victory.

Martire, ranked as the nation’s No. 56 player, did not finish her match against sophomore Marissa Limsiaco in the No. 1 slot. She was leading 6-4, 5-3 when the game was pulled. Freshmen Cao Minh and Chen were also winning their matches when Harvard declared victory over Army.

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Harvard squeaked out a victory over Ivy league rival Columbia 4-3 in the second match of the day.

Martire defeated Kristin Martinez 6-3, 6-4; Bajin defeated Shelly Mittel 6-4, 6-3; and Cao Minh edged Iana Dimkova 6-3, 6-5.

In doubles play, the teams of Bajin-Martire and Hyotte-Ajilore both posted victories.

ITA All-Americans

Both Bergman and Wang saw their runs in singles competition cut short this weekend.

Bergman defeated junior Urska Jurich of Missouri 6-2, 5-7, 6-3, to advance to the tournament’s round of 16.

The second-year phenom faced off against the No. 5 seeded Sara Walker, a UCLA senior. Walker won two close sets from Bergman, 6-4, 6-4, to advance to the next round, eliminating Bergman. Walker also bounced Bergman out of last year’s NCAA Championships.

“It was a matter of a couple of big points,” Bergman said. “I didn’t capitalize on enough and she [Walker] did.”

After defeating Amy Trefefen of Kentucky 7-5, 5-7 and 6-4, Wang cruised to a 6-2, 6-2 victory over freshman Daria Panova of Oregon.

In her ninth match in six days of tournament action, Wang lost to Jien Jacobs, a sophomore from California, 6-1, 1-0 (ret.). Wang retired in the second set due to a back injury.

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