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...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 over, No. 1 sophomore...
...captain Scott Denenberg lost, 7-6, 6-7, 7-5, in a match that he seemed to control early on before a controversial call derailed his momentum. At No. 6, sophomore Sasha Ermakov lost the super tiebreak to fall...
...tightly before matches that it puts extra pressure on the knee because it can’t bend.” Forgie and Curto remained on the court for two hours, struggling to defeat their Lions counterparts. Forgie fought off several match points and eventually prevailed in the super tiebreak, 12-10, while Curto fought off a triple set point in a 7-5, 6-3 win. “It was a great day for our five and six players,” Graham said. “They won at Davis and UMass, but this was their first...
...Fresno State’s trickiest players. The Crimson’s two victories in singles came on the third and fifth courts. At No. 3, junior Ashwin Kumar, whose swagger has returned after a difficult early-season slump, overcame some adversity to take the first set in a tiebreak and held his composure in the second set, breaking his opponent at 5-5 and winning 7-5. “Ashwin was playing beautifully,” Fish said. “He showed really good resilience against a very strong opponent.” Co-captain Gideon Valkin...
...seed Josh Churella of Michigan in the quarterfinals and lost 6-3. After coming up short, O’Connor recomposed himself and came back to win two more matches, solidifying his All-American status. The freshman defeated eighth seed Aaron Martin of Chattanooga, 6-3, and took a tiebreak win over Matt Coughlin of Indiana, 4-2, which guaranteed All-American honors. O’Connor then challenged the top seed in the tournament for third place, losing a close match, 5-4, before defeating Tyler Turner of Wisconsin, 6-4, to finish fifth. “The tournament...