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...tough, because they're pretty fair teams, and the guys are still recovering from a really big effort out west," coach Dave Fish said this week. "But I think we have a very good team, and I'd like to see us go down there and get two wins...
Today's match will mark the first time a Harvard team has ever played Maryland, a result of Fish's beefed-up scheduling program. Perennial contenders in the tough Atlantic Coast Conference, the Terrapins rate as slight favorites to defeat the visiting Crimson...
Maryland features a solid trio of doubles teams and a good deal of depth in the middle of their six-man singles ladder, but Harvard matches up well in both categories. The Crimson racquetmen have two factors on their side going into the match--momentum from a 5-4 early April win over another ACC team, Virginia, and the fact that Maryland tennis players have a history of squandering their talent...
Fish is still uncertain about the singles roster, but sophomore Don Pompan has established himself as a fixture at number one. The doubles pairings, while also far from cemented, look like a growing strength for the Crimson. The third team of sophomore Bob Horne and recently-resurrected junior Greg Kirsch has played brilliantly of late, and the top duos of Pompan and Chaikovsky and Captain Kevin Shaw and Walker have developed into first-rate number two teams if unproven number one teams...
...best team we've had here in four years," Shaw said this week, "but Princeton has the best team they've had in a while, too. I think we can definitely beat everybody in the league, but we'll have to pull off an upset to take Princeton down there...