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...crowding the net.Next, Nguyen broke through in his match at No. 4, winning 6-7, 6-2, 7-5.“Dan threw everything but the kitchen sink in the marathon third set,” Rueb said. “He was ripping groundstrokes, hitting those deep crosscourt backhands that allowed him to move his opponent around. That got him the match.”A reconfigured doubles lineup won Harvard’s other point.SANTA BARBARA 4, HARVARD 3With Clayton out due to a severe blister on his foot, a modified Harvard lineup could not hold...
Hall then led 8-4 in the second game, but twice caught the top of the tin as Quibell pulled to 8-7. Quibell hit a drop shot off Hall’s crosscourt return on the next point to tie the game and then won it with a pair of strokes...
...Summers backcourt game: Summers has a crosscourt shot and a slice that will leave players scrambling. Don’t expect him to make deftly placed drop-shots that land near the net, but if it’s anywhere within a few steps of his position, Summers will respond with extreme prejudice. As with his serve, Summers can place his groundstrokes with impressive accuracy...
...from beating Steffi Graf in straight sets, or the 1981 U.S. Open, which she lost to Tracy Austin in two tie breakers after winning the first set 6-1. She blames mostly her shotmaking, not her nerves. "If I had had a backhand down the line instead of only crosscourt," she says, "I would have won two more French Opens." In her mind, she is getting better -- craftier at her game plan, defter at her execution. On court, the story is the same old sad one, the fluttering fall of an autumn leaf, glinting brightly and waving in the wind...
...sharp assists to guard John Paxson, not his 30 spectacular points, that won the day and the series. Jordan's passing violates two sacrosanct rules: don't go up in the air unless you know what you're going to do there, and don't throw the ball crosscourt. Jordan invariably found the open man because he has a map of the court and all its players inside his head (he majored in geography at North Carolina). He knows that a pass to someone less strong can make the team stronger...