Word: ashwin
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...distinction to the 1980 squad and retake the Ivy League championship with a brilliant first performance of the spring tennis season at the Columbia Classic last weekend.The eight Harvard players at the tournament amassed a 16-8 collective record, with three—junior co-captain Chris Clayton, senior Ashwin Kumar, and junior Sasha Ermakov—reaching the semifinals of the 16 player A-singles main draw. Clayton won the A singles draw, outlasting his leg-weary teammate and roommate Ermakov 6-3, 6-3.“This was a very promising start...
...Koniecko’s spinless lasers, Nguyen was bageled, 6-0, in the first set. He bounced back to win the second set, 7-5, but could not hang onto his momentum, and lost the third set, 6-2. Meanwhile, in Tallahassee, junior co-captain Chris Clayton, senior Ashwin Kumar, and junior Sasha Ermakov powered the Crimson to a strong showing in the Seminole Invitational. Despite arriving at their hotel very early Friday morning, all three Harvard players ground their way to wins through long opening matches. Kumar and Clayton made it into the quarterfinals of the 32-player tournament...
...Harvard men’s tennis doubles duo of senior Ashwin Kumar and junior Sasha Ermakov reached the quarterfinals of the prestigious Polo Ralph Lauren All-American Tennis Championship at the University of Tulsa on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of last week, advancing two rounds past top-flight opponents in the 32-team, single-elimination tournament. The 38th-ranked pair, which usually plays at No. 1 doubles for the Crimson, earned a spot in the tournament by winning the ITA National Summer Championships in early August. In Kumar and Ermakov’s first match, they faced No. 12 Blake...
...early complacency against Penn State—which finished last season ranked No. 43—was perhaps understandable. But even the doubles point wasn’t as lopsided as it seemed, as two Harvard pairs lost by a single break. At No. 1, senior Ashwin Kumar and junior Sasha Ermakov lost, 8-6, after holding a 5-4 lead, while at No. 2, Nguyen and Chijoff-Evans lost, 8-7, after leading by two breaks early on. Clayton and freshman Will Guzick, playing at No. 3, lost by a score of 8-3. Having lost the doubles point...
...protracted first tiebreaker by a score of 11-9 after having been up, 6-3. Nguyen, who was also in the blue bracket, won the consolation bracket after losing his opening-round match, not allowing his opponents more than two games a set in his last two matches. Senior Ashwin Kumar lost in the consolation finals of the yellow bracket, while junior Sasha Ermakov lost in the semifinals of the white bracket. Sophomore Michael Hayes made it to the consolation semifinals of the orange bracket. The Crimson’s two other freshmen, Will Guzick and Aba Omedele-Lucien, each...