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Yesterday’s first singles match started off badly for Chu, as he dropped the first set to Hofstra’s Nikola Djordjevic. But he won the second-set tiebreak 7-4, and carried this momentum into the third set to take the match 4-6, 7-6 (4), 7-5. Chu then topped Princeton’s No. 1 player Darius Craton in straight sets to advance to the quarterfinals...
...loss to No. 1 Illinois in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament was disappointing to say the least—and yet, as the match wore on and the Harvard men’s tennis team watched co-captains David Lingman and Cliff Nguyen embattled in almost simultaneous second-set tiebreaks, both struggling to propel the Crimson past a Fighting Illini squad which had not lost in more than two years, the scenario was strangely appropriate...
Lingman battled back from a second-set 5-1 deficit against the No. 1 player in the nation, Brian Wilson, before ultimately losing his tiebreak...
When Bergman stepped off the court, Chu led her third set 4-3, Martire was rallying in hers and Mukundan had just forced a final frame with a 6-3 second-set...
...Harvard still took the courts for singles play holding a 1-0 advantage, and that lead only grew. No. 35 Lingman defeated the Bronco’s No. 48 Guillaume Bouvier 6-4, 2-6, 6-4, and Li rolled to a 6-0 second-set victory after a 7-5 first...