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...sophomore Jon Wong by a score of 6-4, 4-6, 6-1. Even before beating Crimson co-captain Dan Nguyen in three sets in the quarterfinal, Wong was a thorn in Harvard’s side. Last year he defeated then co-captain Scott Denenbergy in a two-tiebreak three-setter, but this season he could not defeat Ermakov’s relentless tenacity.Kumar played himself into the semifinals through mounting pain in his back. In the opening round he handily defeated Yale’s No. 1 player, Mike Caldwell, who had defeated him the previous year...
...Harvard was undoubtedly its captain, Mukundan. She played second doubles with Brook, winning 8-4 to clinch the doubles point for the Crimson. Mukundan then annihilated Dartmouth’s Mary Beth Winingham in singles 6-1, 6-2 for her third straight win since a painful third set tiebreak loss against Yale.Mukundan displayed her clinical precision and extensive repertoire of shots throughout the match. In the second set, Winingham hit a high bouncing second serve to Mukundan’s backhand. Mukundan’s sharply angled slice backhand return hit the intersection of the service line...
...first set 4-6, but dropped the next two to give Brown the match.With the overall match already decided and Forgie and her opponent Alexa Baggio tied at one set apiece, and more than two hours into their match, the two coaches agreed to end the match in a tiebreak if the game score was tied at any point in the third set. Forgie quickly fell behind 3-1 in games, and for a while it seemed the condition for the tiebreak would not be met. But Forgie rallied to 3-3, then won the tiebreak...
...length of the rallies on the No. 2 court meant that Harvard’s top pair, junior Ashwin Kumar and sophomore Sasha Ermakov, finished its 8-5 victory before Hayes and Valkin despite the smaller differential.Juniors Kieran Burke and Dan Nguyen completed the doubles sweep, winning in a tiebreak at No. 3, 8-7(3).“We lost the doubles point last year,” Clayton said. “So, this year, we wanted to come out and take the doubles point to give us a little bit of a head start and take some...
...clinched the victory for Princeton with a 6-2, 6-1 win over junior Vilsa Curto. With the match already lost, Litvak and Mukundan battled for individual victories in the top two spots. Both lost the first set, 7-5, but rallied. Litvak won the second set in a tiebreak before falling 10-7 in the deciding super tiebreak. Mukundan won the second set, 6-3, but fell in the super tiebreak as well by a score of 13-11. PENN 7, HARVARD 0 Penn, coming in undefeated in the Ivy League, had little trouble with the depleted Harvard lineup...