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Both players had trouble holding their serves in the fast-paced first set, as the wind wreaked havoc with their shots. Although he is considered primarily an aggressive serve-and-volleyer, Shyjan exhibited solid groundstrokes yesterday, consistently nailing his passing shots...
Equally impressive was Shyjan's composure. After gaining a set point in the tiebreaker with a beautifully finessed crosscourt passing shot, Shyjan lost the next point when he hit the ball long. However, he responded by hitting a volley that Gollob could not handle to make the score...
...exuberance Shyjan emphatically slammed the ball back to his opponent's side of the court, earning a code violation (a loss of one point) for abuse of ball. Shyjan did not appear the least bit fazed, eventually wrapping up the set with a sharply-angled crosscourt return of serve. He cruised through the second set, winning the last four games...
Harvard's number-one singles player, freshman Michael Zimmerman succumbed in straight sets to last year's Rookie of the Year, Craig Kennedy, after dropping the tiebreaker in the first. At the number three spot Brown, who seemed to be having problems with both his timing and the wind, still managed to take a set before falling to Yale's Bill Sibold...
Yale evened the score when Kennedy and Gollob rallied to take the first-doubles match from Zimmerman and Berry. The Harvard pair dominated the first set with a masterful display of volleying prowess, winning 6-1, but the duo dropped the next two sets...