After securing the practice schedule, it was only a matter of time before Petrovic secured a number of players to attend those weekly practice slots.

With strategically placed posters about the Radcliffe Tennis Club peppering the Yard and the Houses, interest in the organization began to mount.

She also made table tents to put out in the dining halls to the same effect, all encouraging interested athletes to contact her via e-mail.

All of these tactics proved to be hugely successful as interested women athletes contacted Petrovic in droves about the club.

"The club membership has now grown to include over 60 dedicated members," Petrovic said. "Furthermore, the club also has a 20-person competitive ladder who compete intra- and intercollegiately."

Petrovic credits the exponential increase in membership in part to her tireless advertising and also to the heavy recruitment of incoming freshmen that played high school varsity tennis. Gordon Graham, the women's varsity coach, also referred many potential athletes to the Radcliffe Tennis Club as a possible alternative to varsity athletics.

"Coming to Harvard, I didn't have the time or the ability to devote to varsity-level athletics. I missed the competition and camaraderie of high school tennis," Wilkinson said. "I can go out and play tennis with a friend, but it's not the same as traveling with a team to play a rival school."

Wilkinson has earned herself a spot on the competitive ladder of intercollegiate competition. Competing in two matches this year, she has proven herself a formidable opponent.

Although she fell at No. 4 singles against MIT earlier this year, and No. 1 singles most recently against Winsor Academy, she was able to take the top spots in both her doubles matches.

Against Tufts, she and Erica Michelstein, who is also a Crimson editor, took the top position.

Wilkinson repeated this feat with Sarah Doernberg against Winsor.

The fact that the Radcliffe Tennis Club is a low-stress organization that sees commitment as a function of how much effort each participant wants to put in to the club is not the only tempting feature that attracted 50 new members.

It certainly didn't hurt that the club was offering inter-collegiate competition for the first time ever.

"While the club is open to women of all tennis abilities, many members are JV and varsity-level players, who, whether due to time constraints or other reasons, want to compete intercollegiately but not on the regimented schedule of a varsity team," Petrovic said. "As a result, the club just completed its inaugural year of intercollegiate competition with wins over the JV women's teams of MIT and Tufts."

Now that the team is an established organization at Harvard, junior varsity-level and club teams from other colleges and preparatory schools in the area expressed significant interest in competing against the organization in the future.