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Boasting a No. 4 national ranking in doubles, it’s no surprise that team co-captains Elsa O’Riain and Melissa Anderson have paced No. 13 Harvard women’s tennis to a surprising and fast start this season. On Sunday at the Murr Center Courts, it was a surprise the doubles team waited so long to show it. O’Riain and Anderson keyed a hard-fought 4-3 over No. 24 South Carolina (6-2), but it was not until the seventh game of the pair’s opening doubles round...
...Pavilion. “They were a really tough team, and definitely a rising team,” junior Cindy Chu said. “Hopefully we’ll be able to challenge them again in the future in the NCAAs.”In doubles, co-captains Elsa O’Riain and Melissa Anderson, ranked sixth in the nation, came close to pulling an upset against the country’s No. 1 pair of Catrina and Christian Thompson, as the duo led, 6-5, late in the match. The All-American twins came back...
...South Alabama on Saturday, Harvard convincingly won all three doubles matches to secure the crucial first point. Preethi Mukundan and Cindy Chu finished first, defeating Dijana Stanic and Jelena Krivacevic, 8-6, in the No. 3 match. The nation’s No. 6-ranked team of Elsa O’Riain and Melissa Anderson then defeated Sylvanie Spangenberg and Maria Zivicova, 8-6, in the No. 1 slot. Finally, after trailing 4-1, the team of Eva Wang and Stephanie Schnitter rallied to win seven straight games and give the Crimson the sweep in the doubles matches...
...become the tournament’s three-time champion.“Obviously we knew that they were No. 1 and we were the underdogs,” freshman Beier Ko said, “but I thought we gave them a pretty good fight.”Junior Elsa O’Riain and senior Melissa Anderson lost for just the third time this year against the Cardinal’s Alice Barnes and Anne Yelsey by an 8-5 margin. In No. 2 doubles, Wang and sophomore Stephanie Schnitter went from being down 7-2 to narrowing...
...Harvard had little difficulty claiming the first point of the match in doubles competition, starting with an 8-1 win by Wang and sophomore Stephanie Schnitter at the No. 2 spot against BU’s Danielle Abraham and Cori Lefkowith. Following them was the duo of junior Elsa O’Riain and senior Melissa Anderson, whose dominance on the court during the fall has earned them a No. 6 ranking in the nation. The No. 1 Crimson pair triumphed 8-3 over the Terriers’ Gina Sabatino and Monica Shepherd, and junior Preethi Mukundan and freshman Laura...