Word: match
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...visitors did it by winning four of the six singles matches--two after being down match point--and cruising home with a pair of victories in the doubles competition. All in all, an incredible total of eight sets came down to tiebreakers, and the men in red--voila--stole six of them...
...their appointed duties in the toughest of circumstances. And while it may not yet be the time to start talking championship for the 1978 Harvard tennis team, the Crimson netmen demonstrated that they are a pretty classy bunch by gutting out a 6-3 victory in an exceedingly close match on Columbia's home courts yesterday afternoon...
...unbelievable match," ecstatic coach Dave Fish said afterwards, and you can underscore unbelievable. You see, the Lions (now 4-2 in league play) are virtually unbeatable on their home surface, clay, while Harvard (2-0) favors very fast surfaces. And then there were the matches, classic cardiac-arrest affairs...
Freshman Don Pompan, playing at two in his first league match ever, turned in the most amazing performance of the day as he defeated Lion David Cooper by a gnat's eyelash--that translates to 3-6, 7-6 with a 5-4 tiebreaker (ulp), and 7-5. Pompan broke Cooper's service twice to win the last four games of the match, after fighting off two match points in the second set and charging back from 3-0 and 4-1 deficits in the third...
Yesterday another thrilling match took place over the hallowed fairways of The Country Club. Harvard walloped Yale and Princeton in the Big Three match, and the Crimson has Florence Boit to thank...