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Freedman has the enviable record of having defeated all his Crimson opponents during four years of racquet wielding for the Blue. In the spring of 1940, Harris Weston, Harvard's number six singles player, took him to 14-12, 10-8 before succumbling. And in '41, Crimson Captain Sonny Lyle had two match points on the Ell player, but Freedman came through in three sets...
...Freedman of the Business School, seeded number one, had a slight scare in the second round when Gene Sands, last year's Freshman tournament winner, split sets with him before a broken string in Sands' racquet halted the match. But in the reply Freedman won with ease and then went on to defeat Lin Burton, 6-2, 6-2, to emerge into the quarter-finals...
...broken racquet string forced Sands to call a halt to the match after Freedman took the second set 6-3, and the contestants will replay the contest sometime this week...
Sands used an extra racquet of Freedman's after this string broke, but, finding the new racquet unsatisfactory, asked to postpone the match until he could have his string replaced...
...more players reached the semi-final round of the University Tennis Tournament this week, first seeded Al Everts, Varsity number one man, and Mal Moley, Freshman racquet-wielder, who has been blazing a phenomenal trail in this tournament...