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...Tennis invitational, held from Friday through Sunday at the Murr Center tennis courts, the Crimson had dominated Rice in both singles and doubles competition, while splitting matches with the University of Virginia in both singles and doubles play. The duo of senior Elsa O’Riain and sophomore Beier Ko set the tone for the Crimson in its doubles matches with Rice, defeating the Owls’ Tiffany Lee and Julie Chao 8-2. Harvard would win three out the four doubles matches it played against Rice, with the tandem of sophomore Catriona Stewart and freshman Elizabeth Brook suffering...
...NCAA Tournament in 2006. Wang went 7-0 at No. 1 singles for the Crimson in Ivy play to earn Ivy League Player of the Year honors, becoming only the fourth woman in Harvard history to win the award. Co-captains Anderson and junior Elsa O’Riain went 31-7 at first doubles on the year, earning an All-Ivy nod and a No. 5 seed in the NCAA tournament. The successful senior seasons of Wang and Anderson were perfect capstones to stellar careers, as the two players graduated having won the Ivy title each of their four...
Last spring, senior Melissa Anderson and junior Elsa O’Riain were elected co-captains of the Harvard women’s tennis team. That partnership would not be in name only, as coach Gordon Graham named them Harvard’s No. 1 doubles team this fall, creating in the process a dual force that would take women’s collegiate tennis by storm. Anderson, who hails from Australia, and O’Riain, who is from Ireland, immediately formed a chemistry on the court. “We just clicked,” Anderson said...
...both went 7-0 in league singles play, were named Ivy Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year, respectively, earning spots on the All-Ivy singles first team. In addition, the No. 1 doubles tandem of co-captains Melissa Anderson and junior Elsa O’Riain went unbeaten in league play, earning a unanimous selection to the all-Ivy first doubles team. “Almost all of [the Ivy teams] play us now expecting to lose,” Anderson said. “Although they really, really want to beat us, they expect to lose...
...have been the storybook ending that she wanted, but a first-round loss in the doubles draw of the NCAA Championships this season didn’t take the luster off co-captain Melissa Anderson’s career accomplishments. In 2006, Anderson and junior Elsa O’Riain finished 31-7 and took a No. 3 ranking into the championship tournament, the highest ranking ever for a Crimson doubles team. Anderson finished 21-3 in singles matches during Harvard’s dual meets, earning her Second Team All-Ivy honors, and her performance as a student earned...