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...match that first took place on center court was the meeting between sophomore Nirasha Guruge and the Bantams’ Pamela Chua. Guruge had to battle her way through the first sets only to be halted in the second and third sets. Chua kept her cool, even after dropping the fourth game to a defiant but tired Guruge, and won the matchup in the fifth set, 9-11, 13-11, 11-9, 7-11, 11-7. This was the second day in a row that Guruge was forced to go to five games, but luck wasn?...
...think Nirasha would win that match next time—it’s not a match that she can’t win,” Bajwa said. “But she played a five-game match yesterday and she had to work very hard to win that match, and today she lost a little edge from having to play yesterday...
...tone for the Crimson, as she came out strong, defeating Cornell’s Jaime Laird 11-2 before finishing her off in a sweep, 11-8, 11-7. The rest of her teammates followed suit. At the number two spot, last year’s freshman phenom, sophomore Nirasha Guruge, took care of dismissing her opponent in three simple victories, 11-6, 11-6, 11-4. Junior June Tiong defeated Big Red’s Liza Stokes in three increasingly difficult matches...
Although she considered Sunday’s match “to be a tougher match than Friday’s” against Brown, sophomore phenom Nirasha Guruge was in fine form as well, handling Jennifer Coxe in three straight games. Junior June Tiong, who played No. 1 for Harvard last season, dominated her set against Williams’ Courtney Bogle...
...Crimson to settle for second place. Harvard was able to gain two victories at the No. 4 and No. 7 slots to attenuate the loss, 5-4. The Crimson capped off the season by sending junior Catherine O’Donnell, sophomore Alisha Mashruwala, and freshmen Emily Park and Nirasha Guruge to the CSA Individual Championships. Guruge was the most successful in the tournament, ranked at No. 7 and falling in the quaterfinals to the No. 2 seed. Snyder won the Holleran Cup—the “B” bracket of the CSA tournament. Five All-Americans...