The Harvard women’s tennis team closed out its home season in style yesterday, crushing Brown 7-0. The Crimson also won 6-1 at Yale on Friday.
Yesterday marked the last home matches of the Harvard seniors’ careers. All four of the seniors who played, co-captain Fleur Broughton, Sarah McGinty, Jennie Timoney and advanced standing senior Lara Naqushbandi, were victorious.
Senior Andrea Magyera did not play due to injury.
“It was a storybook way to end it,” Harvard Coach Gordon Graham said. “Especially with all of them moving up two spots.”
All the Harvard seniors moved up two spots as freshman Courtney Bergman and junior Sanja Bajin did not play singles due to injury.
Freshmen Susanna Lingman and Alexis Martire were also singles winners.
In doubles, the top team of Lingman and Bergman was upset by Brown’s Alex Arlak and Victoria Beck, 8-6.
“It was a rough day, very windy,” Bergman said. “We couldn’t get our rhythm going.”
Bergman, the Crimson’s top player, is suffering from shin splints and did not play singles.
With Bajin out, freshman Ashley Hyotte joined Martire on the No. 2 doubles team. The new partners struggled early, dropping the first game, but won three games in a row at 4-4, and then closed it out, 8-5.
“They were steady at the beginning but then we overpowered them,” Martire said. “We started focusing more, hitting a lot of low balls to their feet and then closing in.”
The third doubles match was even more decisive. McGinty and Broughton steamrolled over Brown’s Kerry Meath and Caroline Casey, 8-0.
In singles play, the freshman Crimson showed little trouble with their opposition. Lingman, playing at No. 1 singles and ranked 68th in the nation, beat Beck 6-0, 6-1.
Martire, now at No. 2, was equally dominant but even more dramatic. Of Italian, Greek and Lebanese origin, Martire played like a spicy Mediterranean stew, hitting heavy, consistent shots to overpower Brown freshman Adriana Marianella.
Martire showed some of that spice late in the match. Up 6-1, 3-0, Martire exploded when Marianella simply raised up her hand to call a let.
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