CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard women's tennis team (9-7, 0-0 Ivy League) will open conference play this weekend when it travels to Hanover, N.H., for a matchup with the Big Green of Dartmouth. The match will be broadcast on ESPN+.
 
The Crimson has not played an Ivy League contest since April 21, 2019, a span of 1,077 days.
 
Harvard took on Dartmouth (6-7, 0-0 Ivy League) in the first round of the ECAC Championships at Cornell University in February, resulting in a 5-0 Crimson win.
 
In the all-time series, Harvard holds a 35-12 advantage dating back to the first meeting in 1976 and has won four consecutive matchups.
 
Harvard enters the contest on a three-match win streak and winners of four out of its last five. The Crimson bested UMass (4-3) and Hofstra (7-0) last weekend to head into league play on the right foot.
 
Dartmouth enters the contest after a trip to California in which the Big Green posted a 1-3 record against the competition out west.
 
The Crimson was 5-2 the last time through the full Ivy League slate in 2019, and last won the title in 2017 as tri-champions. The Crimson is looking to claim its first outright championship since 2006.
 
What to Know

• The Crimson comes into Ivy League play on a three-match win streak and is looking to march towards its season-long winning streak of five. Earlier this year, Harvard defeated Quinnipiac, Boston University, Sacred Heart, Dartmouth and Penn.
• Four athletes have six singles wins in the spring to this point in Mihaela Marculescu (6-1), Sany Gawande (6-4), Angel You (6-3), and Maxi Duncan (6-3).
• The Crimson hold a 44-35 overall singles record throughout the spring.

 
At the Helm
Traci Green, The Sheila Kelly Palandijan Head Coach for Harvard Women's Tennis and the Ragatz Family Harvard Women's Coach of Excellence, is in her 15th season at the helm of the program. She has a career coaching record of 189-147, including a 156-119 mark at Harvard
 
Up Next
Harvard returns home to play host to Columbia and Cornell on April 9 and 10, respectively. Both matches are slated for 1 p.m. ET starts.