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Chu’s day wasn’t done, though. As soon as he polished off Witten, the senior joined doubles partner Ashwin Kumar for the quarterfinals of the pairs draw. The duo had already won their first two matches in three sets each, and today would prove no...
Though Harvard did not make the NCAA team tournament—a major disappointment for the team that nearly knocked off then-No. 1 and undefeated Illinois in last year’s Sweet 16—the time off allowed Chu to focus on his singles play, rehabilitate his...
Seeded No. 30 out of 32 teams in the doubles draw, Chu and Kumar, pulled of a 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 upset over Tennessee’s Ben Rogers and Ockie Oosthuizen, the tournament’s ninth duo.
The defeat was followed by another—that of Chu and doubles partner Ashwin Kumar, again in the Final Four, again in three sets, and again to a top-seeded opponent in Georgia’s Antonio Ruiz and Alex Isner.
And after taking that first set, Chu must have been having fun. But eventually, the wearying process of making the Final Fours of both the singles and doubles draws took its toll.