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Harvard had to 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...
...Jain also played a valiant match, taking Saranga Sangakkara, ranked No. 57 nationally, to three sets, although she eventually fell...
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...
...This was our first time playing together," Jain said. "And we were facing one of Brown's top teams. The first doubles match together is always tough, and I'm real impressed with how we did together. We were closing well, playing aggressively, and being tough...
Injuries were a factor even for the Harvard players that were able to make the trip. Already without freshman Jennie Timoney and junior Sinead Walsh, who both had wrist injuries, Harvard lost Jain, who was forced to withdraw after her first doubles match with a hurt shoulder. Magyera was unable to play singles because of a recurrent quadriceps injury...