Word: breakers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...match, he obligingly served two double-faults and dropped his own serve. As a weak lowvolley and groundstroke game prevented Zimmerman from breaking Horne again, the players traded serves until the score reached 6-6. Horne then took all four of Zimmerman's serves in a 5-1 tie-breaker...
...match serving at 5-3 and 3-1 in the ninth game of the third set. But after Zimmerman missed a backhand volley, and double-faulted, Horne passed him down the line and the set moved to 5-4. At 6-6, Horne swept the tie-breaker, 5-0, the last point coming as Zimmerman netted an approach shot...
...SINGLES--B. Horne (H) def. J. Zimmerman, 7-6 (5-1 tie-breaker), 1-6, 7-6 (5-0 tie-breaker...
With Harvard 4-5, and facing set point at 3-3, Redman netted an overhead of a deep Horne lob to tie the set 5-5. In a tie-breaker at the end of that set, the Crimson pair fell behind, 3-2, before running off three straight points, the last on a Kirsch put-away of a high Hudson volley. The pair took the second set more easily, 6-4, as Kirsch continued hitting overpowering overheads and repeatedly putting the ball away...
...doubles semifinal, Pompan and Chaikovsky fought off four match points in the second set against Yale's Cary Leeds and Billy Brady before taking the set 7-6. At 4-4 of the tie-breaker, Pompan pummelled a Leeds serve cross-court which a poaching Brady could only nub with the end of his racket. The Yale tandem came back to capture a one-break third set 6-3. Brady led the way with outstanding reflex volleying from close...