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...John Bridgeland spent an hour this Thursday working on his groundstokes and volleys. It was a practice session like countless others: smooth, classical forehands and backhands, lofting topspin lobs, staccato volley winners. Confidently he guided ball after ball toward the opposite baseline, until the varsity arrived for its afternoon workout...
Three years ago, as a freshman, Bridgeland played varsity tennis for Harvard, before the arrival of All-American Howard Sands and other heavily recruited players who last season led the team to a berth in the NCAA championships. And as he left the Palmer Dixon courts on Thursday, Bridgeland paused for several silent minutes to watch the "A" squad warm up. Earlier, he had provided a perfect caption for the scene: "I keep playing for a lot of reasons, but I guess most of all there's a feeling that you could still be competitive and win a big match...
Tory Kiam and Martha Roberts lost in straight sets to a B.U. team in the "A" division finals, and John Bridgeland and Debbie Kalish also fell in the finals of the "C" division...
...other two divisions, the other Harvard entrants were not as fortunate. Playing in the B division, Abby Meiselman anbd John Bridgeland fell to the eventual champs from B.C., 3-6, 3-6. In the C division, the Harvard duo of Tory Kiam and Debbie Kalish dropped another semifinal match to Boston University...
...SINGLES--J. Low (P) def. J. Bridgeland, 7-6, (5-3 tie-breaker...