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...going to be a bear of a challenge,” said Harvard coach Dave Fish ’72.That challenge grew harder when the decisive action moved away from court one and into the courts of No. 6 Chijoff-Evans and fellow freshman No. 5 Aba Omodele-Lucien. With Harvard up 3-2, Evans and No. 3 junior Sasha Ermakov were both locked in thrillers.As Chijoff-Evans described it, Ermakov broke his opponent’s serve and took the attention of the large and rowdy crowd off him just long enough for the freshman to break...
...Founded in 1917 by electrical pioneer Lucien L. Nunn, the small college on the Nevada-California border is known for giving students an active role in hiring their own professors, required ranch work, and sending what one Deep Springs alum called “a consistent flow” of its graduates to Harvard...
...same message, that it’s a wake-up call.” Although senior Ermakov and senior Ashwin Kumar took first doubles 8-2, senior Dan Nguyen and sophomore Mike Hayes dropped their match 8-6, as did the all-freshman team of Aba Omodele Lucien and Alexei Chijoff-Evans. Despite this disappointment, Nguyen and Kumar responded with authority, dispatching their singles opponents in straight sets to help the Crimson to a 2-1 lead. Nguyen and Saint John’s Asaf Honig both wore protective knee sleeves, but the Harvard captain showed no sign of ailing...
...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 players use for focusing on fundamental play. “I didn?...
...ready to break through,” said assistant coach Andrew Rueb ’95.It seemed for a moment, though, that Harvard would break through in the match itself. Down 1-3 overall, three Crimson players—co-captain Dan Nguyen at No. 4, freshman Aba Omodele-Lucien at No. 5, and senior Ashwin Kumar at No.1—appeared to have the momentum they would need to earn match-winning singles victories.But when co-captain Dan Nguyen, playing at No. 4, got broken in the third set, Harvard abruptly found its back against the wall. Though...