“I pulled my back muscle two rounds earlier in my match against Roels [from Kentucky] when I went for a drop shot,” Wang said. “I fell again the next day, which reinjured it. I was able to pull through until my last match. I lost my footwork in he first set, and in the second I had to stop.”
For the rising sophomore, the end result of the tournament was a disappointment, but nonetheless a satisfying overall performance.
“I would have liked to have done a lot better,” Bergman said, “but considering this was my first tournament back from knee surgery over the summer, I’m not terribly disappointed.”
For Wang, it marks another solid performance in only her second tournament.
Bergman and Wang will spend this week in Cambridge, resting up for the Omni Hotels Regional Championships, where they will reunite with their teammates. The tournament, hosted by Harvard at the Murr Center, runs from Friday the 25th to Sunday the 29th.
—Contributing writer John R. Hein can be reached at hein@fas.harvard.edu.