Word: alexei
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...started to display real talent in the last few rounds,” coach Dave Fish ’72 said. “He started to really light it up and play an all-court game.” Junior Sasha Ermakov and freshmen Will Guzick and Alexei Chijoff-Evans also competed at the ITA Regionals. Ermakov, who was seeded 20th, defeated his second-round opponent from Fairleigh Dickinson, 6-0, 6-4, after a first-round bye, then lost in the third round, 6-7(6), 6-4, 6-3, to eighth-seeded Mark Clemente of Columbia despite...
...seeded Penn State, 5-2, in a match that was much closer than the final score indicated. Harvard’s players took their opponents to three sets in five of the six singles matches against the Nittany Lions, though only co-captain Dan Nguyen and freshman Alexei Chijoff-Evans managed to squeeze out victories. This tournament was the first this season in which Harvard’s players competed as a team, and the strong performance up and down the lineup—including at least one victory from three freshmen—sent a strong message that...
Capitalizing on momentum from strong preseason tournament performances, the Harvard men’s tennis team opened its season with an impressive showing at the University of Virginia’s Fall Invitational tournament. Leading the Crimson charge was freshman Alexei Chijoff-Evans, who, in his first collegiate tennis experience, won his singles bracket with three consecutive three-set victories. The Crimson was a strong presence among the tournament’s nine separate singles brackets and four separate doubles brackets, an unusual format in which no ultimate champion was determined and 16-player brackets were labeled by color...
...Russia's most intriguing mysteries has added yet another chapter. On July 29 archaeologists announced that they had discovered near Yekaterinburg in the Urals the remains of a young boy and adolescent woman thought to be the 13-year-old Crown Prince Alexei, son of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas Romanov, and Alexei's sister, believed to be 19-year-old Maria. The remains -bone fragments, teeth, bullets and fragments of ceramic bottles supposedly used by the executioners to carry sulfuric acid to mutilate the bodies beyond recognition - have pushed Russian state prosecutors to re-launch a probe to investigate...
...Back in July 1918, Lenin feared that the deposed Emperor Nicholas would re-emerge as a rallying symbol for anti-Bolshevik forces and secretly ordered the entire family executed. The Emperor, the Empresses Alexandra, Alexei and his four sisters, lovingly called "OTMA" by the family - Olga, Tatyana, Maria, Anastasia - all were brutally shot in the basement of the Ipatyev House in Yekaterinburg, where they were kept in exile. The bodies were thought to be covered in sulphuric acid and buried in secret graves nearby. They were exhumed in 1991, but two were missing - the boy and one of the girls...