CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard women's tennis returned home for the first time this fall to host Boston College, Boston University, and Stony Brook at the Harvard Fall Classic.

Across three days, the Crimson accumulated four doubles wins and 12 singles victories.

On day one, the Crimson competed against student-athletes from Stony Brook. Harvard opened the day with victories in two of three doubles matches. Elizabeth Evans and Claire Shao won, 6-2, while Natasha Rajaram and Natalie Block continued their success from last season with a 6-3 victory.

Harvard went on to dominate in singles against the Seawolves. Shao, Block, Evans, and Amina Zeghlouli all won in straight sets. For Evans and Zeghlouli, it was the first victories of their collegiate careers.

Anna-Raphaëlle Serghi posted the final victory of the day with a gritty win in a third-set tiebreaker against Sanjana Devineni of Stony Brook.

The next day, Harvard faced opponents from Boston University and started by adding two more doubles victories. Block and Rajaram earned their second win in as many days, defeating Gabby Sadowski and Ellie Gyuro of Boston University, 6-3. Evans then recorded her second collegiate doubles win, this time teaming up with sophomore Andra Braicu. The pair pulled out a 7-6 (2) victory in a tiebreaker.

In singles, Shao, Block, Anna Tabunschchyk, and Kavya Karra tallied victories against the Terriers. Three of those victories came in straight sets, including Tabunschchyk's first collegiate win, in which she dropped just two games.

On the final day of action, Tabunschchyk added another individual victory by defeating Olivia Benton of Boston College, 7-5, 6-3.

Serghi and Kate Kim also tallied wins against Boston College, defeating their opponents in straight sets. Kim lost just a single game in her first win of the season.

Results

Day One
Doubles
Elizabeth Evans/Claire Shao (Harvard) def. Elena Lobo-Corral/Mia Palladino (Stony Brook), 6-2
Paisha Douglas/Ladina Bruhin (Stony Brook) def. Anna-Raphaëlle Serghi/Amina Zeghlouli (Harvard), 7-6 (4)
Natasha Rajaram/Natalie Block (Harvard) def. Yasmin Vavrova/Sanjana Devineni (Stony Brook), 6-3
Singles
Claire Shao (Harvard) def. Elena Lobo-Corral (Stony Brook), 6-4, 6-2
Paisha Douglas (Stony Brook) def. Kate Kim (Harvard), 7-5, 6-2
Natalie Block (Harvard) def. Mia Palladino (Stony Brook), 6-1, 7-6 (1)
Anna-Raphaëlle Serghi (Harvard) def. Sanjana Devineni (Stony Brook), 6-3, 1-6, 10-5
Elizabeth Evans (Harvard) def. Ladina Bruhin (Stony Brook), 6-2, 6-3
Amina Zeghlouli (Harvard) def. Cornelia Bruu-Syversen (Stony Brook), 6-2, 6-3
 
Day Two
Doubles
Gabriella Mikaul/Nancy Liu (Boston University) def. Claire Shao/Anna Tabunschchyk (Harvard), 6-4
Natalie Block/Natasha Rajaram (Harvard) def. Gabby Sadowski/Ellie Gyuro (Boston University), 6-3
Vailisa Borisova/Blanka DeMicheli (Boston University) def. Anna-Raphaëlle Serghi/Amina Zeghlouli (Harvard), 6-4
Andra Braicu/Elizabeth Evans (Harvard) def. Madison Liu/C. Shen (Boston University), 7-6 (2)
Singles
Kavya Karra (Harvard) def. Gabriella Mikaul (Boston University) 6-7 (2), 6-2, 5-3 ret.
Claire Shao (Harvard) def. Nancy Liu (Boston University), 6-4, 6-2
Anna Tabunschchyk (Harvard) def. Ellie Gyuro (Boston University), 6-2, 6-0
Natalie Block (Harvard) def. Gabby Sadowski (Boston University), 6-3, 6-3
Lauren Kettlewell (Boston University) def. Amina Zeghlouli (Harvard), 6-4, 0-1 ret.
Catherine Shen (Boston University) def. Anna-Raphaëlle Serghi (Harvard), 6-4, 4-6, 10-4
Madison Liu (Boston University) def. Elizabeth Evans (Harvard), 6-4, 6-2
Blanka DeMicheli (Boston Univeristy) def. Isabella Ohr (Harvard), 6-2, 6-1
Vailisa Borisova (Boston University) def. Elsie Ragatz (Harvard), 6-0, 6-0
 
Day Three
Doubles
Tola Glowacka/Isabella Camacho (Boston College) def. Claire Shao/Anna Tabunschchyk (Harvard), 6-1
Olivia Benton/Olivia Cutone (Boston College) def. Andra Braicu/Elizabeth Evans (Harvard), 6-4
Gian Octa/Jackie Soloveychik (Boston College) def. Anna-Raphaëlle Serghi/Kate Kim (Harvard), 6-2
Singles
Anna Tabunschchyk (Harvard) def. Olivia Benton (Boston College), 7-5, 6-3
Isabella Camacho (Boston College) def. Natalie Block (Harvard), 6-2, 6-2
Tola Glowacka (Boston College) def. Claire Shao (Harvard), 7-6 (3), 6-3
Anna-Raphaëlle Serghi (Harvard) def. Jackie Soloveychik (Boston College), 6-2, 7-5
Olivia Cutone (Boston College) def. Natasha Rajaram (Harvard), 6-1, 6-2
Kate Kim (Harvard) def. Lucy King (Boston College), 6-0, 6-1

Next Up

The Crimson will travel to New Haven, Conn. to compete in the ITA New England Regionals beginning Thursday, October. 8.