The Harvard women had been looking toward Friday's Yale match ever since their loss to Princeton in early April.

"We really wanted to beat them," Parker said.

Emotion carried the Crimson through the doubles matches. Parker and Passant beat their opponents 6-4, 6-7, 7-6 (the last two sets in tie-breakers) and McNabb and Katy Harber also won in three sets.

Harvard was up 2-1, but then Yale asserted itself.

McNabb and Roiter both pulled out of the singles line-up, moving everyone up two places. That, combined with rain which moved the match inside, were enough to prevent any further victories.

"Yale just beat us straight down," said Parker.

"It's been a rough season," said Granat. "We've had our ups and downs."

The Men

Playing at home against an easy opponent, the men walloped a passive Brown team 7-0.

The first point against Brown was scored with the near-perfect victories of all three Harvard doubles teams. The first doubles team of sophomores Andrew Rueb and Umesha Wallooppillai won 8-2 and the other two teams won 8-0.

"It was the worst beating we gave all year," Rueb said.

After the doubles demolition derby, Rueb and Wallooppillai decided to rest during the singles. Junior Marshall Burroughs played first singles and beat his opponent 6-0, 6-3.

"He played into my groove. The way he played gave me a lot of confidence," said Burroughs.

Meringoff won in the second singles slot 6-2, 6-3, and the victories continued on down the line, with freshman Daniel Chung, freshman Howard Kim, and juniors Chris Laitala and Sudhakar Kosaraju all winning by comfortable margins.

The men have had a tremendously strong undefeated season this year, and coming off the Friday 7-0 trouncing of a supposedly tough Yale it seems that Brown was even easier fare.