Word: match
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Johns Hopkins made a better offer, although Harvard did what it could to match it, Walker said yesterday...
Chaikovsky, moving up two spots in the lineup due to a challenge match win, played brilliantly in the first set to win 6-3 before slipping to a 6-3 second-set loss. "Chaik" then got his game together in the third, breaking Maglathlin's service at 6-5 to force a tiebreaker...
Maglathlin sent the match to one final point by fighting off a match point with the tiebreaker score at 3-4. On the decisive rally, Chaikovsky returned two backhands, then decided to go for a forehand winner to his right. The gamble failed when the stroke fell no more than two inches outside the white line...
...Chaikovsky's offering fell wide, Pompan seemed on the verge of capping a brilliant performance. Playing with a bold, penetrating style, the frosh split sets with the talented Steel, then led 4-2 in the third-set tiebreaker and had three serves left to close out the match...
Steel sent it to four-all with two excellent shots, then stole the match with an incredible crosscourt backhand winner from behind the baseline...