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Talk about bad timing. Just like that—only a week before the No. 21 Harvard men’s tennis team was to take on top-ranked, top-seeded and undefeated-in-two-years Illinois in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament—junior Martin Wetzel felt the return of the nagging groin injury which had already hobbled him from mid-October to mid-April. But he wasn’t about to let it sideline him twice...
...Rather, Wetzel won his singles match against Illinois in runaway fashion, allowing Harvard to stave off elimination and bringing the dual match to a 3-3 tie with just one individual contest remaining...
...Wetzel was aware of the injury—one which the German re-aggravated in the Round of 32 against Tulane—throughout his entire match. However, with Crimson co-captain Cliff Nguyen battling for a three-set match on the court next to him, Wetzel knew that his contest meant something...
...When I was finishing my match,” Wetzel explained, “Cliffy had just started his third set, so I knew it was totally open and either [team] could...
Things evened up once again—now 3-3—when Martin Wetzel capped off a runaway 2-6, 6-2, 6-1 victory...