Word: mukundanã
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...Mary Beth Winingham in singles 6-1, 6-2 for her third straight win since a painful third set tiebreak loss against Yale.Mukundan displayed her clinical precision and extensive repertoire of shots throughout the match. In the second set, Winingham hit a high bouncing second serve to Mukundan??s backhand. Mukundan??s sharply angled slice backhand return hit the intersection of the service line and the singles sideline, forcing Winingham hopelessly out of position and giving her no choice other than to come to net. Mukundan??s next shot, a topspin winner that...
...sets to clinch the match in Yale’s favor.With the match already decided, Mukundan and Brook battled on in the top two singles positions. Mukundan defeated Lederhandler, 6-3, 6-1, for the Crimson’s only singles win of the day. The singles win was Mukundan??s first since moving up to No. 2 singles in Ko’s absence.Meanwhile, Litvak dropped a lengthy three-set struggle with Janet Kim in a super tiebreak, 10-4.—Staff writer Tyler D. Sipprelle can be reached at sipprell@fas.harvard.edu...
...leaving the program this summer after 17 seasons at the helm and nine Ivy League championships. This year’s squad has already faced a great amount of uncertainty and turmoil, as it came into the spring season with only one player—senior captain Preethi Mukundan??who had previously played a match for the Crimson. Graham’s announcement came only three days before the young team began the crucial Ivy League schedule, a slate of matches that began with Harvard’s first-ever loss to Cornell. Asked if his announcement affected...
...next four games, winning the second set and taking a 1-0 lead in the third. At that point, the effect of six and a half hours of tennis caught up with Mukundan, and she began struggling with cramps. As the Harvard and BU teams looked on, Mukundan??s hand cramped up, leaving her gasping in pain between points. Mukundan fought on, winning two more games, but the cramps proved too much to overcome, as she lost the third set, 6-2. “We want to be a team that fights hard for everything and battles...
...victory in the last match of singles play. “We didn’t really have a lot of confidence-boosting going into the first match—we just did our normal routine,” Wang said. “It came down to [Mukundan??s] match. She played amazingly and we pulled out the win.”Though Harvard’s top doubles pair of O’Riain and Anderson avenged a defeat in the fall with an 8-2 win against the Bulldogs’ Shadisha Robinson and Caroline...