Junior intercollegiate No. 9 Lindsey Wilkins fell to lefty No. 5 Amy Gross at No. 2 in a match refereed by Yale freshman Catherine McLeod. Gross took a marathon first game—which featured separate stretches of three, four and five consecutive lets—9-4.

“[Gross] is a really hard girl to play against because she calls a lot of unnecessary lets,” Hall said. “There were a lot of questionable calls and that’s a hard thing to play through.”

Wilkins, who fell 3-0 to Gross during the regular season, came back to win the second game 9-4, but was blanked in the third.

PRINCETON 5, HARVARD 4

The Crimson was unable to avenge its Feb. 8 5-4 loss to the Tigers, which snapped Harvard’s four-year Ivy winning streak, again falling 5-4.

Hendricks beat intercollegiate No. 36 Franny McKay 2-9, 9-6, 9-3, 10-9 at No. 8 two weeks after falling to her.

After dropping the first game, Hendricks removed the brace on her ankle—which will require offseason surgery to fix a ligament—and proceeded to win the next three games and the match.

“I decided that either playing better or blowing out my ankle was better than playing bad,” Hendricks said.

Since the Crimson’s top four players won against Princeton during the regular season, Hendricks assumed her turnaround might give Harvard the victory.

But Wilkins dropped a five-game match 9-4, 3-9, 9-7, 8-10, 9-2 to intercollegiate No. 15 Ali Pearson at No. 2 while the results from the other matches remained the same.

Williams needed five games to recover from a 2-0 deficit and beat Patricia Gadsden 8-10, 6-9, 9-1, 9-4, 9-3 after having dispatched her in four games during the regular season.

“I just started off really tired and lethargic because of playing so many games in so little time,” Williams said.

HARVARD 6, PENN 3

The Crimson opened the tournament with a 6-3 quarterfinal victory over the Quakers on Friday afternoon.

Williams avenged her regular-season, three-game defeat at the hands of intercollegiate No. 23 Radhika Ahluwalia with a 9-1, 1-9, 6-9, 9-4, 9-4 victory.

Freshman intercollegiate No. 12 Audrey Duboc cruised to a 9-3, 9-6, 9-5 win over No. 22 Dafna Wegner at No. 3.

Harvard got wins from its top four players as well as junior co-captain Hilary Thorndike and intercollegiate No. 57 Fast at No. 6 and No. 7, respectively.

—Staff writer Alan G. Ginsberg can be reached at aginsber@fas.harvard.edu.