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After struggling through most of this season, nothing has kept Bergman down. Three weeks ago, she beat No. 23 Alice Pirsu. Saturday’s victory at No. 5 was another giant leap...
When Bergman and Pirsu took the court on singles, Penn had already put the pressure on by winning the doubles point. Harvard dropped three of six first sets at singles as well, and the Quakers seemed in control of the match. University President Lawrence H. Summers was one of the 100-plus in attendance looking concerned...
...tide turned when Bergman closed out a dominant 6-4, 6-1 victory over Pirsu. The expedient demise of its formerly Ivy-unbeaten player at the hands of the supposedly struggling Bergman was a shock from which Penn never fully recovered...
Bergman defeated Pirsu, her highest-ranked victim this season, by pounding the ball deep and attacking the net aggressively and successfully...
...paper, Pirsu was the favorite as the nation’s No. 20 player, last year’s Ivy Player of the Year and winner of 14 of 16 matches this spring. Bergman was ranked No. 42 and had struggled this spring with six defeats in 15 matches. Pirsu’s sudden demise was crushing to the Quakers and uplifting to the Crimson across the other five courts...