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The last time the Crimson (9-10, 1-1 Ivy) lost in league play? April 21, 2002—a 4-3 loss to Brown. Chu, the only freshman in the lineup that day, played his team’s top singles and doubles matches.
With its doubles combinations not yet fixed and its best singles players nagged by injury—Chu with a torn abdominal muscle and senior Martin Wetzel with a shoulder injury—Harvard struggled at the Beren Tennis Center, dropping the doubles point both days and overcoming this initial...
Though the duo of Chu and freshman Dan Nguyen was first to fall to the No. 72 Lions (13-2, 3-0), dropping the top doubles match by an 8-2 count, the next two doubles contests were tight, give-and-take affairs.
Win both matches, and Harvard would take the doubles point and an early, 1-0 lead—lose but one of the contests, though, and Columbia would grab the edge.
“Being down 1-0 is very different,” said Chu, adding, “we’re used to just rolling guys in doubles.”