Word: yadav
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...most competitive match came at the No. 9 spot. With the rest of the day’s action complete, both teams crowded around the court to watch senior Gaurav Yadav play a five-game thriller against Cornell’s Geoff Fong...
...Yadav experimented with some new strategies through the first three games and found himself facing a 2-1 deficit heading into the fourth game after dropping the first two games Harvard had lost all season. But halfway through the fourth game, Yadav picked up his play and squeezed out a 9-7 victory to push the match to a deciding fifth game...
...that game, Yadav took command. With both players fatigued, Yadav controlled the middle of the court and forced Fong to expend energy chasing down balls in the corners. Fong, visibly exhausted, often bent over or leaned against the back wall between points in order to catch his breath. Meanwhile, Yadav just got stronger as he closed in on victory, eventually taking the match with an impressive 9-0 win in the fifth game...
...When I was down 2-1, I [was making] a lot of errors,” Yadav said. “The shots were on but they weren’t falling in the right place. And in the final game the same shots I had been playing all game all fell...
Such is life for the guys in the Bell Tower—a life of hospitality, lights, music and sticky floors which, surprisingly, none of them really complain about. Except that Gaurav Yadav ’04-’05 does admit, “It is a little problematic when people bump and grind their way into my room and start making out, but that’s the price I pay and the responsibility I accept in the off-common room bedroom...