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...step slow to every ball,” Nguyen said of his 6-3, 6-7, 10-8 supertiebreaker loss. “I’m just going to say it was one of those days when I couldn’t find the court.”Kumar??s match at No. 1 appeared to be in the bag, with Kumar serving at 5-4 in the second set with three match points. But then Kumar careened off the rails, hitting four straight double faults. He never recovered his swagger from that dry spell, eventually losing...
...going to be a slaughter into a match that ended with a dizzying super-tiebreaker. “He was running around on the baseline, [and] that’s not anything close to his game,” Harvard coach Dave Fish ’72 said of Kumar??s listless 6-1 first set loss. “He’s so dangerous when he starts taking forehands and putting away vollies.”But in the second set, Kumar unleashed the game that he is known and feared for, punching shots...
...confidence in his teammates. “Chris is a warrior,” Kumar said. “Even when he has lost the first set, he’s the one guy who I still believe will come back and win under any circumstance.” Kumar??s faith proved well placed as “Colonel” Clayton roared back from a 2-6 first set to take the second 6-4. With opponent Artem Vlasenko changing his shirt due to perspiration, the Crimson captain stayed calm and focused, launching blistering serves...
...doubles point by winning two out of three matches, the Crimson was clearly still adjusting in the opening sets of its singles matches, as was evident from the results of those sets: only one firm win—off the red hot racket of No. 2 senior Ashwin Kumar??and another win, by No. 5 freshman Aba Omodele-Lucien, that required a heroic comeback in the tiebreaker.Down 2-5 in the tiebreaker, Omodele-Lucien changed his strategy.“I just decided to focus on hitting out,” said Omodele-lucien, using the term tennis...
...about hitting the ball 10 feet out.”He rolled to a 6-2 second-set victory by angling groundstroke after groundstroke out of his opponent’s reach and hammering home a fair share of aces.Though the Crimson’s loss had been sealed, Kumar??s match at No. 1 continued in fine—often dramatic—form. Kumar and his opponent, Matko Maravic, looked to be at each other’s throats—even from across the court—after a series of disputed calls early...