Every match these two players have played in intercollegiate competition the past two years has been a thriller. In last season’s matchup against Yale for the Ivy title, the Hall-Quibell contest turned out to be the deciding match as Hall knocked out her younger opponent in four tight games. One week before, Quibell had stunned Hall at the Howe Cup 3-1 as the Bulldogs cut short Harvard’s quest for a second straight national title.

This year the Howe Cup falls after the annual Harvard-Yale meeting, but Hall denies that she will have revenge in mind.

“I’ve played [Quibell] eight times this past year, and maybe 40 times in my life,” Hall said, adding that playing someone that many times made it difficult to get motivated from just one loss.

Weigel, however, believes that there are scores to settle.

“We want to take this and turn it around the same way we did last year, in reverse order,” Weigel said. “This upcoming weekend is even bigger than last weekend—every college team is going to be there.”

Reclaiming the ground lost in the defeat to its Ivy rival will not be easy for the Crimson. Aside from the two wins and Hall’s valiant showing, the other team members were all swept 3-0.

“I feel like we could have won more, that some of those matches were close,” Hall said. “But no one expected us to win, so we’re not overly disappointed that we didn’t.”

—Staff writer Lisa J. Kennelly can be reached at kennell@fas.harvard.edu.