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...thriller against Boston University. With the overall team score tied, 3-3, the final point came down to freshman Samantha Gridley’s match in the No. 5 singles position. The freshman dropped the first set, 7-6, but then forced a decisive final frame by taking the second set, 7-5. Despite a hard-fought battle, Gridley ultimately fell in the third-set tiebreaker. The defeat gave the Terriers a 4-3 victory over the Crimson. Although the loss was not the desired outcome, Harvard displayed potential in its showing, providing the Crimson players with reason for optimism...
...clinching match point with a sweeping cross-court half-volley. The Eagles snatched a consolation point at No. 6 before No. 4 freshman Alexei Chijoff-Evans came from three match points down in the second set to win, claiming the third-set tiebreaker 10-2 and the dual 3-6, 7-6, 1-0. HARVARD 5, BINGHAMTON 2 In the day’s earlier match, Harvard was made to work for victory by a capable Binghamton side still looking for its first win in February. “I was really proud of my guys,” head...
...pounced early on a Harvard team still reeling from a near collapse late in the previous day’s match. Playing outdoors at Princeton’s Lenz Tennis center, the Tigers (11-5, 4-1 Ivy) locked up their victory by winning one of two nearly simultaneous third-set tiebreaks over the Crimson to turn a 3-2 lead into a 4-3 win. Junior Dan Nguyen, playing at No. 3, saw three sets worth of work fade away in minutes along with Harvard’s hope of winning, as he dropped his tiebreak, 7-2.Playing two courts...
...ECAC Division I Championship semifinal, the Harvard men’s tennis team relinquished its three-year stranglehold on the title. The Crimson lost the doubles point—only its third pair of Dan Nguyen and Shantanu Dhaka won, 8-5—but knotted the score at 2-2 halfway through the singles competition. Freshman Sasha Ermakov surmounted a 4-1, 40-15, third-set deficit to win at No. 2 singles, giving Harvard a 3-2 edge. His classmate Chris Clayton then lost at No. 3, knotting the score and putting pressure...
...time in a week and a half, Blake’s personal cheering section, “The J-Block,” was drowned out rather than augmented by the Arthur Ashe crowd. Even after Blake collected his first two sets in 62 minutes and then notched a third-set break, the stands nearly collapsed every time Agassi won a point...