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...fight hard to escape the first round. It was matched against Brown, a team it had seen at the Brown Invitational the previous weekend. It split the six singles matches: sophomore Sanaz Ghazal, freshman Andrea Magyera and junior Aparna Ravi won their matches, while junior Vedica Jain, freshman Fleur Broughton and junior Roxanna Curto fell to their Brown counterparts...
With the singles tied, the match was decided in the doubles. Jain and Magyera, playing number one, upset Sangakkara and senior Julie Martynova, 9-7. Ghazal and Broughton dropped their match, 8-4, to senior Leela Raju and Young, tying the overall score at 4-4 and leaving the match to the number three doubles combo of freshman Sarah McGinty and junior Roxanna Curto. They fell behind 7-3 but came back to win in the tiebreaker...
Freshman Fleur Broughton, who came to Harvard from Christchurch, New Zealand, started off the weekend well for the team, knocking off Dart-mouth's Allison Taff, the number-two seed in the B flight. Broughton squeaked through the first set in a tiebreaker, 7-3, then dropped the second 1-6. After some words of wisdom from Coach Gordon Graham, she smoked Taff 6-0 in the third...
...really came together and refocused in the third set," Broughton said. "That's what I needed to do to beat a player of her caliber...
...also teamed with sophomore Sanaz Ghazal to win the second draw of the B-Flight doubles. They clinched the final with a well-executed 8-6 victory over Brown's Leela Raju and Heather Young. Ghazal's strong serving and Broughton's flawless volleying were too much for the Brown...