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That’s all that separated Courtney Bergman and Susanna Lingman from the most impressive doubles win of their Harvard careers.
“It was a tough one to lose,” Bergman said. “We played really good doubles, but the other team came up with some really good shots.”
In the doubles, Chu and junior Brandon Chiu had the misfortune of drawing the top-seeded doubles duo from Stanford in the first round. Undaunted, Chu and Chiu put up a great fight, again regrouping after an early break and almost pulling a victory out of the bag.
In the doubles consolation draw the next day, Chu and Chiu won their first match but then lost to the No. 5 seed pair from Virginia, 8-4, in another match closer than the final score suggested.
Harvard took the doubles point, but the Nittany Lions didn’t give in. Sophomores Gideon Valkin and Shantanu Dhaka took their match 8-6, while freshman Ashwin Kumar and senior Martin Wetzel won 8-5. But the final match—that of captain Jonathan Chu and junior...