Word: clay
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Harvard will be hoping the weather stays dry for the match today, because precipitation would move the match from the clay courts outside to the hard courts inside. Dartmouth's clay courts are still unplayable, and the Indians have yet to play a match on clay. Harvard played Columbia on clay and has been practicing on clay for the last two weeks...
Harvard has been bothered this season by its lack of practice on clay. It's one win was inside, and it has been practicing inside on the hard courts of Palmer Dixon building. However the match this afternoon will be on hard courts--to the Crimson's advantage...
Unlike their encounters of the past three years, this one was not a battle for the league championship. Columbia had taken care of that Friday, shutting out the Crimson 9-0 on the Lions' clay courts...
...team went into the match with only two days of outside practice, and it was unable to adjust to the rain-soaked clay courts. The high winds coming off of the East River were also a factor, but coach Jack Barnaby has a simple explanation for the disaster, " they were better than us, and they were lucky...
...another year, but the bad court conditions will give the Lions a distinct advantage. Last year Tom Loring stole victory from the jaws of defeat by upsetting Ace Baumgold at number six, but with the sudden switch from the hard surface of the Palmer-Dixon indoor courts to soggy clay, he will have trouble holding his own at number four...