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...Crimson’s first doubles team of freshman Celia Durkin and junior Melissa Anderson—ranked No. 32 in the nation—ran its record to 25-3 with an 8-4 win over Jayme Ahmed and Megan Zebroski. The second doubles team of sophomore Elsa O’Riain and freshman Stephanie Schnitter followed suit with an 8-1 win over Lindsay Winingham and Ann Scott. In the third doubles match, junior Eva Wang and sophomore Preethi Mukundan rounded out the perfect doubles score with an 8-5 triumph over Katie Jaxhemier and Maggie Suydam...
...singles, Durkin, filling in for injured co-captain Courtney Bergman, cruised to victory over Ahmed, a first team All-Ivy selection in 2004. After Durkin emphatically nailed an overhead slam for a commanding 3-0 first-set lead, Ahmed threw her hands up in visible frustration and looked to the sky for guidance. Ahmed regained her composure in the second set, driving to a 3-3 tie, but Durkin won the last three games...
...singles matches featured two returns from starting players to the lineup, as Durkin and O’Riain competed at the No. 2 and No. 3 positions. Both Durkin and O’Riain, however, had a difficult start to their respective matches as Yale’s Patil and Kim each claimed the first...
...definitely were not on our game,” Durkin said. “We were both down on the second set and lost the first and looked at each other and said, ‘let’s turn this around...
...Durkin fired back with a second-set victory and a 10-8 tiebreak win to prevail, 3-6, 6-4, 1-0 (8), but O’Riain, who had led 6-1 in the second set tiebreak, allowed that to slip away as Kim took the match by a score...