CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard women's tennis (10-8, 0-3 Ivy) will host Brown (14-6, 1-2 Ivy) and travel to No. 58 Yale (15-3, 2-1 Ivy) in its penultimate Ivy League weekend of the season. The Crimson will open a two-match weekend with its first conference home contest against the Bears on Friday, April 10 at 2:00 p.m. ET before returning to the road against Yale on Sunday, April 12 at 1:00 p.m. ET.

The Last Time Out

• Last weekend, the Crimson dropped a pair of matches to Princeton and Penn.
• Despite the loss to the Tigers, Harvard battled closely. The Crimson won the doubles point and received victories from Kavya Karra and Natalie Block in singles.
• Harvard was inches from a win as the deciding match went to three sets on court one.
• The following day, the Crimson forced three sets on four of six singles courts and got a point from Claire Shao on court two.

Individual Notes

• Kavya Karra has accumulated the most singles and doubles wins of any Harvard player this season with 19 and 24, respectively.
• Karra's 24 doubles wins tie Stephanie Yakoff for the most in a season in program history since at least 2009.
• Karra and Yakoff have totaled 17 wins as a duo, also marking a new program best since at least 2009.
• The duo is undefeated with 11 wins in the dual season and currently ranks No. 40 nationally.
• In singles, Yakoff has a record of 18-5 and checks in at No. 86 in the ITA Division I Women's Singles Rankings.
• Claire Shao has had a strong start to her time in Cambridge, accumulating 14 singles victories and 12 doubles wins in 2025-26. The first-year has primarily played at the No. 3 singles spot and the No. 2 doubles position.

For the Foes

• The Brown Bears are 14-6 overall and 1-2 in the Ivy League this season.
• The Bears fell to Yale and Columbia before picking up its first win of the season against Cornell most recently.
• Harvard is 41-14 all-time against Brown. The Crimson narrowly fell, 4-3, to the Bears in the ECAC Championships earlier this season but defeated Brown in the previous two seasons.
• The Crimson leads 34-25 in the all-time series versus the Bulldogs.
• Harvard will look to win its third straight against Yale after defeating them in both the 2024 and 2025 meetings.
• The Bulldogs are having a strong season with a 15-3 overall record and are currently ranked No. 58 in the ITA team rankings.
• Yale is also 2-1 in Ivy League play with wins against Brown and Cornell and a loss to Columbia most recently.

Next Up

The Crimson will conclude its regular season next weekend with two home matches against Columbia and Cornell on Saturday, April 18 and Sunday, April 19 at 1:00 p.m. ET.