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“It was a tough loss,” Chiu said. “It’s always tough to lose the doubles point, especially decided by the tiebreak.”
Sophomores Scott Denenberg and Gideon Valkin, playing for the first time in the No. 3 doubles slot, traded shot for shot with SDSU’s Markus Dickhardt and Eugenio Romero, but eventually lost 9-8.
The Crimson’s top pairing of Chu and Chiu also competed fiercely against the Aztecs’ No. 1 pair before falling 8-6 to give SDSU the doubles point.
“Singles, on any given day, is a crapshoot,” Chu said. “That’s why the doubles point is so important. We knew we were going to be in a dogfight, and the doubles point can give you that initial boost...
Despite getting off to a great start and winning the doubles point, the Crimson was unable to muster much of a challenge against No. 35 San Diego, falling 6-1 to the Toreros on Monday afternoon at UCSB’s RecCen Courts in Santa Barbara, Calif.