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...seems likely that Sullivan and Neely will meet again in the finals Sunday, but several players could change this. One is Bent Aasnaes of M.I.T., a tall Swedish lefthander who gave Sullivan a very close match last April. Bob Hetherington, Yale's number two man, went to the semifinals last year and could go as far again...
Only a few bad breaks kept the Crimson from taking the third set and the match. Hetherington served his way out of a match point at 7-6 and fought back from a 30-0 deficit to hold his serve four games later...
...plays for Yale came with Neely serving and the Elis trailing 9-8. Ripley and Niederhoffer had two match points during the game but Neely's big serve won one of the points. On the second Ripley's hard forehand forced Yale's Hetherington to half-hit his return. Ripley smashed at it, and his forehand volley landed out by six inches...
...came down to the last match, the number one doubles, with Yale's New England champions, Mike Neely and Bob Hetherington, opposing the Crimson's Frank Ripley and Vic Niederhoffer. The Harvard pair, who played doubles together for the first time two months ago, seemed sure to lose, especially when the Elis swept the first...
...suddenly, everything began working for Harvard. With Niederhoffer's hard serve and forehand scoring point after point and Ripley throwing up lobs that seemed to head for the base line like homing pigeons, the Crimson broke Hetherington's serve twice and took the second...