Volume 115 >> Issue 19 : Friday, April 21, 1995

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Women's Tennis Victorious over Harvard

The women's tennis team ended its season in winning style by defeating the Harvard University junior varsity for the first time ever, by a 7­2 score.

MIT went into this match focused on playing good, solid tennis in this last team match of the season. For seniors Miranda Fan '95, Sejal Shah '95, and Carol Matsuzaki '95, it was their last team match of their MIT tennis careers.

At the top singles position, Matsuzaki completely dominated her opponent and went on to win easily, 6­2, 6­2. At second singles, Lily Koo '97 barely edged out her opponent 7­5 in the first set, and then went on to crush her 6­1 in the second set.

Nora Humphrey '98 kept the score close in the first set, but fell 6­4, 6­1 at the third singles position. After being down a set and 1­4 in the second set, Seetha Ramnath '96 played with controlled intensity and patience to take the match 4­6, 7­6(8­6), 6­2.

Fan was also involved in quite a battle at the number five position, barely losing the match, 7­5, 4­6, 6­4. Shah played magnificent tennis and took the match handily 6­0, 6­4. Thus, the Engineers were up 4­2 going into the doubles portion of the dual match.

MIT dominated all aspects of doubles play as it out-served, out-volleyed, and simply crushed its opponents at all three doubles positions.

First doubles pair Matsuzaki and Humphrey won 8­4; Koo and Ramnath were victorious at the number two position with a score of 8­4; the third doubles pair of Fan and Shah defeated their opponents 8­6.

The final event of the season is the New England Showcase to be held at Wellesley College. Humphrey, Koo, and Matsuzaki will compete.