The No. 17 Harvard women’s tennis team (13-6, 4-0 Ivy) remained undefeated in the Ivy League and moved a step closer to its third consecutive league title after overpowering both Princeton and Penn by identical 7-0 scores.

“Penn and Princeton are two of the best Ivy League [teams],” junior Eva Wang said. “Everyone did really, really well.”

HARVARD 7, PRINCETON 0

Princeton (8-7, 3-2) fought Harvard right from the start Saturday but couldn’t overcome the Crimson’s superior talent, as Harvard combined power with finesse to shut out the Tigers and win its 20th-straight Ivy League match.

“Our team played tough mentally and was able to play out the important points,” sophomore Preethi Mukundan said.

Harvard won its first doubles match in only 30 minutes, as co-captain Susanna Lingman and Wang defeated Princeton’s Joanna Roth and Darcy Robertson 8-3 at the No. 2 position after getting off to a 3-0 start.

The Crimson’s No. 1 and No. 3 doubles pairs had a harder time finishing off their opponents. At one point, both matches were tied 5-5, but the No. 1 duo of co-captain Courtney Bergman and sophomore Elsa O’Riain made several crisp winners en route to an 8-6 win, clinching the doubles point. At the third spot, junior Melissa Anderson and freshman Stephanie Schnitter dug themselves out of a 7-5 hole to triumph, 9-7.

“We did a really good job but were shaky in doubles,” Harvard coach Gordon Graham said. “We made it harder on ourselves than we needed to.”

In singles, one Harvard player after another closed out her match without much difficulty, as no more than three games were given up in a set.

“We focused on finishing people off and not letting them back in matches,” Graham said.

Bergman at No. 1 and Lingman at No. 2 were the first to finish their matches against the Tigers’ Jessica Seibel and Robertson, winning by scores of 6-1, 6-1 and 6-2, 6-1, respectively.

Mukundan and Schnitter followed at the No. 5 and No. 6 spots, as Mukundan rolled over Princeton’s Roth 6-0, 6-3 while Schnitter prevailed against Laura Trimble 6-2, 6-0.

Senior Alexis Martire at the No. 3 position defeated Alison Hashmall 6-1, 6-3 and No. 4 Anderson wrapped up the match with her 6-3, 6-3 win over Ivana King.

Freshman Celia Durkin was missing from the court Saturday due to a wrist injury she sustained from the match against Penn. Wang and O’Riain sat out from singles play due to their respective foot and knee injuries.