“This was a good tournament to get playing together,” Bergman said. “We played a really solid match. We played really aggressively and we were serving well.”

But Bergman and Lingman hit an unexpected bump in the road during the semifinal round. The Gophers’ doubles team of Buergis and Nischela Reddy exacted a measure of revenge for Bergman’s three-set semifinal victory over Buergis, rubbing out the favorites 8-5.

“It was closer than [the score indicated],” Bergman said. “We were down 5-2 at one point and we came back.”

The Minnesota tandem took the initiative from the beginning of the match, forcing Harvard to respond rather than dictate the pace of play.

“We could’ve attacked a little more [and] not played from the baseline as much,” Bergman said. “A lot of the time [Buergis] was hitting very heavy forehands, and it was hard for me to cross when Susanna was in a rally with her.”

Eighth seeds Martire and sophomore Eva Wang rolled through their first two round as well, dropping two and three games, respectively, along the way.

But the duo would advance no further, upended by eventual champions Tulane’s Smekodub and Darya Ivanov, 8-3.

Anderson, who teamed with freshman Preethia Mukundan, came out with a full head of steam in the opening round, defeating a clearly overmatched Northwestern squad, 8-2. But Buergis and Reddy were next in the draw and took that match 8-3.

“I guess with our doubles just being a new pair we have to learn to work well

together, be more aggressive against the top teams, take every opportunity,” Anderson said. “I think that’ll come through the fall season.”

—Crimson staff writer Timothy J. McGinn can be reached at mcginn@fas.harvard.edu.