Though the first round match pitted former Crimson teammates and close friends Hall and Elias against one another, both shrugged off any fuss about the match-up.

“We’ve been playing each other since we were about ten,” Hall said. “It’s not like some emotional, life-changing event.”

“I’d rather play her than a lot of people,” Elias said.”

While Hall’s career at Harvard may be over, she has no plans to stop playing squash any time soon. Both she and Elias tried out for the US Women’s National team for a chance to play in Amsterdam. Hall has also considered playing for the Pan-American team in Mexico.

“Either way, I want to keep playing squash competitively,” Hall said.

Hall was also recently named to this winter’s Ivy All-Academic team. Though she was the only women’s squash member taken, James Bullock from the men’s squad was selected too.

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