Harvard entered the main draw of doubles with three teams, all of which advanced after first round victories, crushing their respective opponents.

Junior co-captains Norton and Hideko Tachibana—the top-seeded duo in the tournament—trumped Jamila Paul and Erin Colton of Army, 8-4, while Jania and junior classmate Alexandra Lehman went unanswered in an 8-0 victory over Abby Liu and Katina Zampas of Hartford.

Freshman Kelly Whelan and sophomore Hannah Morrill tallied a third win for the Crimson with an 8-1 match against sisters Della Taylor and Elle Taylor of Army.

Norton and Tachibana breezed through the second round in an 8-3 win against Dartmouth’s Janet Liu and Rachel Decker-Sadowiski.

“[Norton and Tachibana] have been playing doubles together for a long time and there is a lot of chemistry,” Li said. “They really know what they are doing on the court.”

Likewise, Whelen and Morrill also continued on to the round-of-sixteen after a decisive win over Lauren Frazier and Gabby Sullivan of Cornell, 8-1.

But the round-of-sixteen put an end to both doubles teams’ winning streak. The No. 6-seed Vicky Brook and Hanna Yu of Yale ousted Norton and Tachibana in a 9-8 upset.

The Bulldogs also forced Whelen and Morrill out of the tournament, with Yale’s Annie Sullivan and Amber Li defeating the duo in an 8-6 decision.

“Even though we didn’t have anybody extending to the finals of the tournament, we made a strong showing as a team holistically—in singles and in doubles,” Gridley said. “I think that it is really good to ... show other teams that we are going to fight really hard in all of our matches because they will remember that and be a little bit nervous the next time they play us."