On Saturday afternoon at the Murr Center, the Harvard women's tennis team played host to No. 26 Miami.

And despite some gutsy, determined play, the Crimson (2-7, 1-1 Ivy) was unable to handle the Hurricanes in the singles portion of the meet, as Miami won five of six singles matches, clinching the victory before the doubles round began.

The Crimson fell to the Hurricanes by a final margin of 6-3.

But Miami's victory was not nearly as lopsided as the scoreboard would have you believe. Most of the matches were very highly contested.

"We really weren't that far away from them," said sophomore Roxanna Curto. "We played them very close, we just weren't able to pull out any of the matches."

Curto, playing in the No. 6 position, claimed the only victory for Harvard in the singles competition. She faced off against senior Sophie Cortina in high-tension, three-set contest,

Curto took the first set, 7-5. But plagued by some untimely unforced errors, she dropped the second to Cortina, 6-3. In the final set, however, Curto was able to pull her game together, using superior pace on her groundstrokes and serve to close out the match, 6-4.

"In the first two sets I was making a lot of mistakes and not doing my best, but in the third I felt like I was finally playing well," Curto said. "This was an important match for me, because I figured out a way to win despite making a lot of errors."

Unfortunately for Harvard, this was the only singles match that it would pull out.