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...didn’t have a bad start—[Yale] just came out firing and went up on him.” With the score tied, Brown defeated Harvard’s Sasha Ermakov at No. 4 and Brian Wan at No. 6 to clinch the match. No. 5 Chiu knocked off his opponent 7-6, 6-4, for Harvard’s final point. “I had a lot of fun out there,” Chiu said of his match. “It was pretty close all the way through the first set?...
...overall record with an 8-3 win in the first court over the Tigers’ Jessica Siebel and Ivana King. Senior Eva Wang and sophomore Stephanie Schnitter defeated Christine Kansky and Rankin Williams by a score of 8-2 in the second position to clinch the doubles point for the Crimson. O’Riain, ranked 115th nationally among singles players, led the way for Harvard with a 6-3, 6-0 victory over Siebel in the second position. Anderson, ranked 72nd and playing in the fourth spot, followed with...
...over Connecticut College Saturday afternoon in New London. For the Crimson (11-11, 3-5 CWPA Northern Division), it was the final game before returning home for the crucial Northern Division Championships to be held next weekend. With at least a second-place finish at that tournament, Harvard will clinch a spot at the Eastern Championships a week later in Providence. “It is always good to go into a big important tournament coming off a positive experience,” freshman driver Julia Lam said. Senior 2M-O Molly Mehaffey, who is also a Crimson editor, scored...
...Friday, Harvard came out of the gate swinging as it swept all three doubles matches against Penn. Chiu and Savage defeated John Stetson and Brandon O’Gara of the Quakers at No. 3, 8-6. Denenberg and Valkin, playing at the second position, won 9-7 to clinch the doubles point. Kumar and Ermakov also won at the first position, 8-4. In the singles, Denenberg picked up a 6-1, 6-4 win at the sixth position over O’Gara, but Penn secured wins at No. 1 and No. 3—defeating Kumar...
...Lower House, and the race for the vital control of the Senate in a virtual deadlock-awaiting the final six seats to be determined by votes to be counted of Italians living abroad (it appeared later Tuesday that with support of those outside of Italy the center-left had clinched the Senate by two votes). Prodi?s appearance "in piazza" was a media moment that the center-left hopes will clinch him the Prime Minister?s job, even as Berlusconi?s allies scurried to demand a recount in a race that looks to have been decided by some...