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...threatens to stop Niederhoffer--Henri Salaun. Salaun is on the other side of the draw from Niederhoffer, so the two will clash dramatically late in the tournament. National champion four times--more than any other player--Salaun beat the Harvard junior 3-1 in their only encounter this year, at the Middlesex Bowl tournament in December. But since then Niederhoffer, in the Massachusetts competition, beat Zug shortly after the Princeton graduate had upset Salaun, indicating that the Salaun-Niederhoffer match should be fantastic...
After the match Henri Salaun, one of the country's top players, easily defeated Morris and Paul Sullivan in practice games. Salaun is masterful at not letting his opponents guess where he will hit the ball, and hardly had to exert himself in the practice games...
Heckscher, who played at his best, ranks as one of the two top U.S. contenders. The other is Henri Salaun, who lost in the semi-finals to Jim Zug (Princeton '62), who lost to Niederhoffer...
...previously beaten Salaun, the national singles champion; Azam Khan, defending U.S. open champion; and Niederhoffer on two occasions, by convincing scores. This time Niederhoffer crushed Zug, giving the capacity crowd at Homenway a demonstration of perhaps the finest squash seen at Harvard. In an all-court match, Niederhoffer made several beautiful saves at crucial moments...
...Niederhoffer, junior star of the Crimson squash team, yesterday handily defeated the second ranked player in the U.S., Ben Hockscher '57. Niederhoffer is now slated to play Henri Salaun, generally considered best in the country, in the finals of the Middlesex Bowl Tournament at the Harvard Club of Boston, 2 p.m. tomorrow...