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...glad to be home," Harvard Coach Gordon Graham said. "It was a horrible trip. Playing Brown was very demanding. There was a lot of match pressure and tension outside of the extraneous stuff. The kids were drained physically and mentally...
...didn't fight and pull out the matches like we should have," Graham said. "We started with a doubles team [deLone and Henikoff] that should beat everyone in the East, and they lost in straight sets...
...would have been in our best interests to have Erika play at number five," Graham said. "Now we just have to wait and see the result...
Taylor is accusing Graham of purposefully starting the Elmuts match, and then inserting Pollock in an effort to stack Harvard's lineup. Taylor's reasoning is that Graham substituted a weak player, Pollock, at number-five in an attempt to let Elmuts win at number-six, rather than have both players move up a position and lose to higher-caliber players...
Because number-six Erika Elmuts already had started her match when Graham made the decision to rest Minkus, Pollock had to jump two positions to play at number-five. The rule states that once a player starts her match, she must play it out to the very end. Under normal circumstances, Elmuts would move up one position from number-six to number-five, and Pollock would move to number...