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...spring—21-6 overall for the year—and was a perfect 7-0 in conference play, winning the Ivy title. The team won its first two matches in NCAA Tournament play, and despite losing 4-3 in the Sweet 16 to the Fighting Illini, No. 21 Harvard nearly mounted one of the great shockers in recent history...
Obvious favorites in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tourament, the Fighting Illini had not lost in 62 matches and had dropped just one dual match point in the last seven contests...
...Fighting Illini had not lost in 62 tries. The team claimed the No. 1 singles player in the nation, Brian Wilson, and he and fellow senior Phil Stolt also comprised the No. 5 doubles team...
Nguyen faced a similar situation against Illinois, with all the pressure of an entire day’s competition resting on his shoulders. And though the ball did not bounce Nguyen’s way against the Illini, the co-captain has consistently performed under pressure throughout the season...
...Tournament was disappointing to say the least—and yet, as the match wore on and the Harvard men’s tennis team watched co-captains David Lingman and Cliff Nguyen embattled in almost simultaneous second-set tiebreaks, both struggling to propel the Crimson past a Fighting Illini squad which had not lost in more than two years, the scenario was strangely appropriate...