The Harvard women’s tennis team continued to roll this weekend, as the Crimson pushed its home win streak to five matches with victories over Boston University and Syracuse. The win over the Orange also marked the 100th victory in head coach Traci Green’s career.
This weekend saw dominant performances from the Harvard women (4-1), as the match against BU (3-2) was called after four matches to give the Crimson a 4-0 win, and the team took a 6-1 decision over Syracuse (0-5). In both matches, Harvard was boosted by the strong play of the 34th-ranked doubles team of freshmen Spencer Liang and Monica Lin, who dispatched their opponents in one set on both days.
“I think we had a really successful weekend,” Liang said. “Everyone fought really hard, and of course we got the results that we wanted—we won both matches, which was exciting to see.”
HARVARD 6, SYRACUSE 1
After playing a shortened match against BU, the Crimson proved it could still fight through a full set of matches when it took down Syracuse by a sizeable 6-1 tally on Sunday. The team took two of three doubles matches and five of six singles to come away with the victory.
Liang and Lin started the match off strong, as the team took down the Syracuse duo of Maddie Kobelt and Valeria Salazar in a 6-2 decision. The Orange quickly tied the match up, as senior Hannah Morrill and freshman June Lee fell to Amanda Rodgers and Komal Safdar in a close 6-4 set at second doubles.
“Mentally and physically, [your mindset] is just different in the longer matches,” Lee said. “With BU, we knew that we stopped after four matches, but mentally we still had to fight for every point and know that it could go either way at any time in the match. Today we obviously had to play it out, and it was going to be more tiring physically, but we also tried to stay really tough mentally.”
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