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...easy.“Going down to their facility was going to be a bear of a challenge,” said Harvard coach Dave Fish ’72.That challenge grew harder when the decisive action moved away from court one and into the courts of No. 6 Chijoff-Evans and fellow freshman No. 5 Aba Omodele-Lucien. With Harvard up 3-2, Evans and No. 3 junior Sasha Ermakov were both locked in thrillers.As Chijoff-Evans described it, Ermakov broke his opponent’s serve and took the attention of the large and rowdy crowd...
...message, that it’s a wake-up call.” Although senior Ermakov and senior Ashwin Kumar took first doubles 8-2, senior Dan Nguyen and sophomore Mike Hayes dropped their match 8-6, as did the all-freshman team of Aba Omodele Lucien and Alexei Chijoff-Evans. Despite this disappointment, Nguyen and Kumar responded with authority, dispatching their singles opponents in straight sets to help the Crimson to a 2-1 lead. Nguyen and Saint John’s Asaf Honig both wore protective knee sleeves, but the Harvard captain showed no sign of ailing legs...
...there was a highlight of the day, it was the way Aba finished off his singles match,” Kumar said. “He just stayed calm, stayed really poised. I was very impressed.”Omodele-Lucien’s classmate, No. 6 Alexei Chijoff-Evans also showed his grit with an impressive 2-6, 6-2, 6-4 win, grabbing hold of the match after regaining his feel for outdoor play.“I knew that eventually I could get [my play going], it was just a matter of when and how well...
...level of play together for two or three sets, and that takes time.”Harvard’s other losses came at No. 3, where junior Sasha Ermakov lost, 6-2, 6-4 to Big Ten singles champion Jason Jung, and at No. 6 where freshman Alexei Chijoff-Evans lost, 6-3, 6-3.In doubles, Ermakov and Kumar at No.1, Nguyen and sophomore Michael Hayes at No. 2, and Chijoff-Evans and Omodele-Lucien at No.3 all lost by an 8-5 score.Harvard returns to action today at Clemson.—Staff writer Jonathan B. Steinman...
...wait for things to happen.” With East Tennessee State holding a 3-1 lead, Harvard had to win all three remaining contests to make a comeback with all three going to a third set. At No. 6, Crimson hopes were kindled by Alexei Chijoff-Evans, the freshman recording his third varsity victory in a 7-5, 2-6, 6-3 win. “In the third set, he [Chijoff-Evans] just kept going for the win, even when the pressure was on,” Rueb said. Unfortunately for Harvard, the Buccaneers swept to victory...