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After a shaky end to the 2006-07 season, the Harvard doubles duo of senior Ashwin Kumar and junior Sasha Ermakov took a resounding first step toward a strong 2007-08 campaign by winning the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s 2007 Summer Championships last week in Bloomington, Ind. With the tournament victory, Kumar and Ermakov qualify for a wild-card birth in the 2007 Polo Ralph Lauren All-American Tennis Championships in early October. On its way to victory, the Crimson pair beat opponents that gave the Harvard team as a whole—and this duo in particular?...
...Both Ermakov and Hayes confronted the daunting task of facing athletes in mid-year form while struggling to regain their strength...
Five members of the Harvard men’s tennis team earned spots on the All-Ivy League team annouced Tuesday. Sophomore Chris Clayton was one of four players voted unanimously onto the All-Ivy singles squad. The doubles duo of sophomore Sasha Ermakov and junior Ashwin Kumar made the doubles team. Co-captain Gideon Valkin and junior Dan Nguyen received second-team and honorable mention nods, respectively. Both Clayton and Ermakov and Kumar played at the Crimson’s No. 1 spots in their respective categories. Clayton’s 4-3 record in league belies the quality...
...after Hayes and Valkin demolished the Bears in pairs play, running away with an 8-2 win at No. 2 to clinch the doubles point. The length of the rallies on the No. 2 court meant that Harvard’s top pair, junior Ashwin Kumar and sophomore Sasha Ermakov, finished its 8-5 victory before Hayes and Valkin despite the smaller differential.Juniors Kieran Burke and Dan Nguyen completed the doubles sweep, winning in a tiebreak at No. 3, 8-7(3).“We lost the doubles point last year,” Clayton said...
...winners, and the way I generally lose is trying to go for too much and beating myself.”Harvard’s other two singles wins came from senior No. 4 and co-captain Gideon Valkin (6-1, 7-6) and No. 5 sophomore Sasha Ermakov, who won a trying three-setter (5-4, 6-7, 6-3), persevering in a pressure situation that would have tripped him up just weeks earlier.Valkin’s win boosts his current singles win streak to eight games.“I’m feeling very mentally strong...