Junior co-captains Hideko Tachibana and Kristin Norton led the way for the Harvard women’s tennis team in 2011-12. The pair finished second in the Ivy League Doubles Tournament and received All-Ivy recognition for their work on the singles court.

Going into Saturday’s match against Dartmouth, the Harvard women’s tennis team was out of contention for the Ivy League title, and it knew its contest against the Big Green was going to be its last of the year.

The Harvard women’s tennis team entered this past weekend’s matchups with an outside shot at winning the Ivy League title. But Harvard’s chances were cut short by first-place Yale on Friday.

Coming into this weekend, the Harvard women’s tennis team was 2-0 in Ivy play with a solid shot at the league title.

In its opening weekend of Ivy League play, the Harvard women’s tennis team came out strong, defeating Cornell, 6-1, on Friday before mustering out a win over Columbia, 4-3, on Saturday at Beren Tennis Center.

Being forced to move indoors after the rain cancelled original plans to play outside, the Harvard women’s tennis team (7-4) showed no signs of struggle this weekend, defeating both William and Mary (4-14) and Old Dominion (9-7, 2-2 CAA) on its road trip to Virginia.

The Crimson began Saturday with a 5-2 victory over the Hawkeyes, but its four-game winning streak came to an end Sunday afternoon when the Knights beat Harvard by the same score, 5-2.

The Harvard women's tennis team beat St. John's University, 4-3, Saturday afternoon at the Murr Center. The Crimson won seven straight matches—three in doubles, four in singles—before the Red Storm tallied its three points of the day.

Since its victory on Jan. 29 against the University of Massachusetts to open the spring season, the No. 67 Harvard women’s tennis team had struggled to pull out a win.