Word: seed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With first seed Sands taking a rest because of overwhelming fatigue, Fish rearranged both his singles and doubles lineup. Second seed Grossman moved to the number one spot, while Beren made his first appearance in singles since Harvard defeated Navy. He played in the sixth position while the rest of the team was also moved up one position...
...really didn't know what to expect since everybody told us that they [Cornell] weren't very good, and that put a little pressure on us," said freshmen Roberta Hing, who won easily, 6-4, 6-3 as the netwomen's sixth seed. She later combined with sophomore Deanne Loonin to register a 10-5 pro-set victory over the Big Red's number two tandem...
Smith continued to have a field day as she trampled the Big Red's third seed, 6-0, 6-0. Junior Erica Schulman bounced back from illness to take her singles match easily; she then teamed up with junior Maria Pe and the two had the easiest time of any Harvard twosome by defeating Cornell's third doubles pair...
...other singles competition, top-seed sophomore Elizabeth Evans registered a 6-1, 6-2 victory while fifth seed Loonin took the first set, 6-2, before handing her opponent a 6-1 drubbing in the deciding second set. Pe, Harvard's second seed, had the toughest set of any Crimson netwoman as she edged Cornell's number two player, 7-6 in the first set; she followed that close call with a 6-0 second-set rout...
...inspired by Sands' play, the Eli then shifted his strategy his selfdirected cruelty to shots more dangerous to Sands. He became particularly fond of a frontcourt cross forehand drop that would roll immediately out of Sands' reach. His serve, though inconsistent, also plagued the recently unchallenged Crimson first seed. He got down in the third set early as Layendecker won, 6-4. And it was Sands who threw his racquet...