Word: illingworth
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...Illingworth stormed back with seven consecutive points to even the match and then pulled ahead with a 9-2 win in the third game...
That continued Saturday, when Illingworth told Broadbent to “shut up” after one point...
Broadbent jumped ahead early, winning the first game 9-6 and controlling the front court to pull ahead 8-3 in the second as Illingworth became increasingly frustrated, spiking his racket even before he tinned at the end of a long point...
...When Illingworth took the first point of the fourth game, Broadbent—playing an opponent he hadn’t beaten during his college career, on Illingworth’s home court, in front of a hostile crowd—could easily have folded...
Then, in the fifth game, Broadbent dropped the first three points but recovered to take a 5-3 lead. After falling behind 6-5, Broadbent regained the serve by barely grazing the front wall as Illingworth prepared for a deep shot and ran the score to 8-5. Illingworth won a handout, but then lost the next point, throwing his racket and discrediting whispers in the crowd that he didn’t care about the outcome of the match because Harvard had already locked up the victory in the process...