CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Freshman Gabby Sullivan won a singles match, and the tandem of junior Christine Ordway and sophomore Ryann Young won the No. 2 match in doubles, but the Big Red women's tennis team fell to Harvard on Friday afternoon, 6-1.
 
The Crimson opened the match by taking the doubles point, despite the Ordway/Young 8-3 victory over Hannah Morrill and Kristin Norton. Harvard won the No. 1 match in a tiebreaker to clinch the opening point.
 
Sullivan's victory came at the No. 4 spot in singles over Natalie Blosser, 6-1, 6-2. She is now 9-4 in dual matches this season, including a dominating 6-1 from the No. 4 position. Five sets in the other singles matches required the victor to win seven games , but the Crimson won all of them en route to straight-set victories.
 
Harvard (8-4, 1-0 Ivy League) is now 16-0 all-time at home against Cornell (8-6, 0-2). The Big Red wraps up its stretch of six straight matches on the road at noon Saturday at Dartmouth.
 
HARVARD 6, CORNELL 1
Friday, April 6
At Beren Tennis Center; Cambridge, Mass.
Singles
1. Hideko Tachibana (H) def. Sarah O'Neil, 6-1, 6-0
2. Kristin Norton (H) def. Ryann Young, 6-1, 6-3
3. Camille Jania (H) def. Christine Ordway, 6-1, 7-6(6)                             
4. Gabby Sullivan (C) def. Natalie Blosser, 6-1, 6-2
5. Samantha Gridley (H) def. Lauren Frazier, 7-6(6), 7-5
6. Hannah Morrill (H) def. Courtney Malinchak, 7-5, 7-5
Doubles
1. Tachibana/Kelly Whelan (H) def. O'Neil/Frazier, 9-8(5)
2. Ordway/Young (C) def. Morrill/Norton, 8-3
3. Gridley/Jania (H) def. Rosemary Li/Sullivan, 8-6
Records
Cornell 8-6, 0-2 Ivy; Harvard 8-4, 1-0 Ivy