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Though he and classmate Mark Riddell contributed to Harvard’s doubles point victory as the pair streamrolled its way to an 8-1 victory, it was Lingman’s singles match against the Green Wave’s top player, No. 11 Michael Kogan, which made the...
Kogan, also a senior, had not lost in his past 12 matches. The 26-year old Israeli native, a two-time All-American in both singles and doubles, had been ranked as high as No. 9 earlier this spring.
Down 5-3 in No. 2 doubles, sophomore Eva Wang and junior Alexis Martire were rallying, slowly erasing the lead they had surrendered with shaky play early thanks to aggressive poaching at the net and preternatural court coverage.
With co-captains Courtney Bergman and Susanna Lingman routing their opponents at No. 1 and freshman Preethi Mukundan and sophomore Melissa Anderson in trouble at No. 3, the fate of the doubles point rested squarely on Wang and Martire’s comeback effort.
“I really though I could make it through,” Wang said, “but shots are completely unpredictable. I had to be sprinting for balls, and this one crucial point I completely went for one. I went all out for it and it hurt...