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After their Harvard men's tennis team was bounced from the NCAA tournament by San Diego in the first round, sophomores Mike Shyjan and Mike Zimmerman were left to carry the Crimson banner in the individual tourney in Indian Wells, Calif...
...serve-and-volley specialist, Shyjan upset the defending national champion, LSU's Donni Leaycraft, 3-6, 7-6 (7-1), 7-5, in Harvard's 5-3 loss to the fourth-ranked Tigers in the second round of the tournament...
...Shyjan did not have an extremely successful year--he was hurt in early March and missed a couple of weeks at the end of the regular season with a nagging back injury. But the Crimson's rise to national prominence started in February at the national indoor championships in Louisville, Kent., where the unranked Crimson upset three of its four opponents to forge its way into the top 10. And it was Shyjan, the Harvard Crimson sophomore of the year, who started the momentum by winning the two biggest single matches of the Crimson's season in February...
Chang's three-set victory in singles and a pair of doubles wins pulled Harvard even, 4-4, and Shyjan teamed up with Zimmerman to ice the victory with another three-set win over Simian and David Hopper at first doubles...
While the 13th-ranked Crimson's season ended abruptly last Friday, upset by San Diego, 5-3, in the opening round of the tournament, Harvard has no plans for leaving the top 20, at least while Shyjan and Co. are around. Despite his injuries, Shyjan has remained as one of the top 16 singles players in the nation throughout the season, and he will be competing today in the NCAA individual tournament...