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...tough match against No. 1 seed Ville Liukko, who was once ranked 117th in the world. The No. 4 seed got down early in the first set against the defending tournament champion and eventual runner-up but appeared rejuvenated in the second set, opening with two winners and an ace...
...even Choi was no match for MIT’s ace, a skinny fourth-year grad student by the name of Ching-Hwa Eu, who said that he specialized in representation theory, but—with bulging calves framed between Nike running shoes and Adidas shorts—looked every bit the dancer who, to this point, has released four YouTube videos...
...better after he went on.” The opening frame was close throughout. Neither team led by more than two points until Endicott set up a game point at 29-26. But the Crimson rallied to tie the score at 29, taking the following three points on an ace by Weissbourd and kills by Nelson and co-captain Laurence Favrot. The teams battled back and forth, but Harvard finally converted on its third match point, taking the frame, 34-32. “We had rough start in the first game,” Weitzen said...
...team that way.”All three doubles squads opened tentatively. Kumar and freshman Michael Hayes faced the 29th-ranked doubles duo in the country at No. 1 and played them dead even for 16 games, but lost 9-8 in the tiebreaker after a seeming second-serve ace by Hayes was called out.Senior co-captains Scott Denenberg and Gideon Valkin lost, 8-6, at No. 2, while the newly formed duo of Clayton and Nguyen saved Harvard’s doubles teams from being swept by winning, 8-4, at No. 3 despite being broken three times.Harvard took...
...Federer has said of Nadal's ferocious left-handed topspin, "but he does that so well." The Spaniard also appears the slightly mentally stronger of the two. True, it's been on clay where he's tended to sting Federer. But in recent years Melbourne Park's Rebound Ace courts haven't played a lot faster than the red stuff - and despite noises to the contrary they're apparently playing more or less the same this year. Nadal, at 20 five years younger than Federer, went off the boil in the second half of last year and hasn't started...